M51Sn: Review & Owners' Lounge

[terek]

great review!! i was hoping to find which notebook to replace my lil bro asus X51R (M51sn, same number.. kinda ironic :P ) ... and i think i will get this one since the graphic card are very good as well as can play latest games and the looks are simple but cool... wonder where could i get it in US.. is xoticpc a good place??

[jvmoore1]

1toppc.com and newegg both have it at a great price

[sighman]

How did you overclock the 9500M GS? Because I tried both rivatuner and ATI tool. I am not sure how to get it overclocked though with them.

[GenTechPC]

How did you overclock the 9500M GS? Because I tried both rivatuner and ATI tool. I am not sure how to get it overclocked though with them.

I use RivaTuner, at driver settings click: Customize>System Settings and check Enable Driver-Level Hardware Overclocking and choose Performance 3D at the dropdown menu.

[Elijah Flowers]

Can someone post pictures of it in their home?

[terek]

second that

[Elijah Flowers]

Does anyone know why the 9500 gs destroyed the A7K-A1's Raedon hd 2600 gddr3 card in the 3dmark scores? The raedon hd 2600 GDDR3 card only scored 3234 compare to the 3693 score the 9500 gs ddr2 had with neither card being overclocked. This is strange, and im concerned because i was really considering the A7K-A1 especially when I saw the price was only 1,050 for a 17 inch screen and gddr3 card. Anyone know whats up with this?

[scooberdoober]

It may be that the benchmarks were ran at different resolutions on each system. As in a higher res on the A7K-A1 than the other.

[Elijah Flowers]

It may be that the benchmarks were ran at different resolutions on each system. As in a higher res on the A7K-A1 than the other.

the resolution ran on the a7k-a1 was 1280x900

the resolution ran on the m51sn-a1 was at 1280x800...

i dont really understand how the resolution works with 3dmark scores... so the high the res the lower the score will be? does higher resolution affect gameplay as well?

[scooberdoober]

Yes, the higher the res, the harder the GPU has to work to keep the screen filled with pixels. So all things being equal, lower es will often perform better.