somewhat dissapointed with my IFL90

[vctr]

I agree 169.04 works best so far. Did updating to bios 113 help ? I'm still on 112 and don't know which method of flashing to use. Let us know how the Realtek drivers go.

$1745.00 for specs below.

[jurassicjet]

GenMatrix Wow... You paid that much? I got mine for 1004$... and the only thing different is hard drive, and I have the t7500.... >_>

Hmmmm....well.... I just check the powernotebooks website and my configuration comes to about $1550. $1000 seems awfully cheap.

vctr I agree 169.04 works best so far. Did updating to bios 113 help ? I'm still on 112 and don't know which method of flashing to use. Let us know how the Realtek drivers go.

I haven't updated the bios to 113 eithe VCTR because I am afraid of fouling that procedure up. I may give it a shot this weekend though.
Will let you know about the Realtec drivers.

[GenMatrix]

I guess the extra bucks comes from the warrenty and the brand name. **Shrug**

[Mippoose]

He has a faster and much larger hard drive than you, Windows XP, and a 3 year warranty from powernotebooks.com.

The 3 year warranty is superb.

And if you think 1700 is expensive, think of the poor fellows buying the repainted IFL90's from voodoo PC as their 15.4" Envys for 3500$.

[TC03]

Run 3D Mark and see what your scores are (3D Mark 05 and 3D Mark 06).

Different drivers will influence your performance by a few percent, but it won't make your card twice as fast. Everyone who thinks you can cure afwul performance by new drivers is just stupid.

What I think is that jurassicjet should try running CoD on the same resolution as his desktop, 1680x1050 is a lot more pixels than 1024x768 or 1280x1024.

[InterFace]

emh... i even didnt think for 1 second that someone would play in that resolution. that pretty stupid to think that u can play games with good grafix @ that kind of high resolution with a laptop (im not talking about those 4+ kg desktop replacements).

i play everything 800x600 like i allways do

[By ToR]

I do play some games (Day Of Defeat) in 1680x1050...but BF2 and recently MOHA in 1400x900 or so. The idea IS to go for better resolution if your laaptop is capable...o not?

[TC03]

emh... i even didnt think for 1 second that someone would play in that resolution. that pretty stupid to think that u can play games with good grafix @ that kind of high resolution with a laptop (im not talking about those 4+ kg desktop replacements).

i play everything 800x600 like i allways do

Call of Duty is from 2003... The fact that it's a laptop doesn't matter, spec-wise it should beat an old AMD desktop WITH EASE.

[jurassicjet]

Updated the Realtec driver and basically it didn't do anything, at least no performance boost and still hangs occasionally.

As far as resolution, I am playing COD at 800x600 (in game setting). This thing should smoke right along, but it is WAY worse than my 6600gt in my desktop.

I tried overclocking too which helps but it only works for a few minutes. As soon as the action gets intense it starts to stutter and then it hangs. The ONLY way that I can get out of that situation is to hold the power button down until it quits. Don't like doing that.
Is there a overclock ratio that I should be observing? Like a 1 to 1.3 or 1 to 1.25 or something magic like that (400 memory, 500 core).

All the game patches are up to date too.

Also, is there a program that could be utilized to trace the system or at least see what processor/memory is doing? I am using ATI tool and the temps are real good with that. (61-65 or so).

Maybe I got a bad video card. Or maybe this thing is not anywhere near as good as I hoped.

[floridaroxx]

i got a similar config from ZZF for $1000. put it together myself and hop

i am still waiting to install some games and run test, but i am a big COD player too - so i will report back !