D830 Owner's Lounge

Mine took that long the first time after the bios flash. Now it's back to normal speed.

What do you have your boot settings in the bios set on? Auto, minimal, or thorough (I think those are the options).

Commander Wolf: I'm waiting for them to release a bios update that will allow the memory to run at 800mhz. The CPU has the capability and so does the mother board from what I read. Why they wont allow it to run at 800mhz (If you have 800mhz ram), is beyond me.

 

Okay, to be honest, it might actually be going faster now. With A02, it took a consistent and steady pace to advance the progress bar. With A04, it zooms to 3/4 in three or so seconds... and takes about 20 plus seconds for the rest. But it looks like it might actually be speeding up.

My BIOS settings are currently on minimal - I only put them on thorough when I'm doing system checks, such as for the Memory.

 

I updated the BIOS to enable a virtualization. VPC's are performing great with virtualization turned on. No performance issues noticed.

I forgot to mention that the virtualization is supported by A02 revision, I have no experience with A04 yet.

 

Can anyone tell me what the difference is between the nvidia quadro nvs 135M and the 140m ?
Nvidia's site mentions the specs, and it seems they're exactly the same.

the latitude 630 has the 135M and the 830 has the 140M, I'm trying to decide weather this is a big deal or not.

 

Double-post!

As I said in your dedicated thread:

The memory on the 135M is only 128MB (256 Turbocached). The 140M is 256MB (512MB Turbocached in XP, but up 1GB in Vista.) I'm not entirely sure how much system memory the 135M is allowed to take, but if you're looking for anything remotely multimedia (especially games), go for the 140M. That is, if you MUST have a Latitude. But if you want to play games, choose an XPS or an Inspiron.

Gaming is doable on the D830... but apparently not so much on the D630.

 

I have a strange sound problem. Sound interrupts from time to time when new application is started or when scrolling window. I have reproduces the problem in Winamp, media player.

Does anybody experience similar problems?

 

Has someone gotten suspend to RAM to work under Linux (Ubuntu 7.10 in my case)?

 

Laptopvideo2go's posted a new version, 156.55. Anyone try this yet?

 

What about the best driver series for D830's Quadro NVS 140M ?
10x.xx series, 15x.xx series, 16x.xx series or the original drivers from the dell.com website?

What scores are you guys getting in 3dmark05 with the 140M ?
Are you playing games well ? I tried some games with no anti-aliasing and medium resolution and they behave well, however when I go to native resolution in games, things go slow.

One more thing, is it normal to get maximum of 10MB/s of transfer with 7200rpm USB harddrive ?

Last, if anyone on this thread is dealing with audio software, latency and stuff, please contact me in PM, I have a couple of questions. Thanks!

 

Yay! My review is up.