MSI MS-1651 Montevina BTO Notebook Barebone

mine shipped today as well from xotic

 

Am i the only one that doesn't have it shipped?
When did you get the shipped message? (time of day)

 

Hi sxusteven,

Nice Picture. P9500 ... boy that machine will be smoking!

G!

 

Mine still hasn't shipped. I'm getting killed here. The first week of school wasn't too strenuous, I got by. I really do need it now.

I guess mine will ship either Monday or Tuesday.

 

You're not alone. I didn't get any notice (at all) either.

 

Thanks.. just tested out my photoshop skills after several years without use >_<.

With your change of avatar, I thought you were someone else .

At least I'm not the only one that hasn't gotten it shipped yet . Guess I shouldn't be complaining since mines only move to phase 2 a day after someguyoverthere.
Congrats to those who did get theirs shipped . If any of you has time to review/take pics, it would be greatly appreciated

Edit: added a Canada flag onto the sig .. Canada Pride!!

 

Yes, look at my quote of him, it says i quoted myself!!

 

Hi, guys. I received mine today from PNB and it's freaking fast. Mind you, I was using a 6 year old laptop before this so my thoughts about the speed is relative. Vista installation was a breeze .5and I was up and running in no time.

Vista gave the 2.53 Ghz processor a score of 5.4 and the graphics card a score of 5.5. All others were maxed out(4GB CL4 RAM; 160 GB 7200 RPM HD.

I had one glitch so far when the screen went blank followed by the appearance of a matrix of colors. The problem went away upon rebooting and I haven't had a problem since.

My initial opinion is that, this is a great machine which will please most users who aren't avid gamers.

Cheers,

Sushel R

 

In what order did you install drivers? Also, isn't this built to please avid gamers too?

 

Pictures please if possible
Also, how do you feel about the quality of the lappy?
CL4 Ram? You have PC2-5300 ram? May I ask why?

Depends on what you would call an avid gamer.
Clevo m860tu is the one to please crazy hardcores

Thanks

 

I just went down the list of drivers provided on the accompanying disc and installed each one. I also went to the MSI website to download and install the latest VGA driver.

I take that back about the gaming stuff.

 

Quality is excellent. The screen is BRIGHT without a hint of grain. This baby is very responsive and doesn't seem to flinch.

 

which screen do you have? Do you by any chance have a camera to take some pics? Would be much appreciated

 

I have the WSXGA. I don't have a camera, sorry. I'm getting used to the new layout of the keyboard. Some genius decided to cram in the 10 key number pad and I'm not happy with it, but a few days of getting used to the layout should solve that.

I didn't quite understand what you were getting at with the memory part. I just

 

Since you said you had CL4 ram, I was asking if you had DDR2-667 ram.
CL4 DDR2-800 ram doesn't exist to date.

 

Hmmm, I'm positive that I chose 800 Mhz CL4 RAM. It must be a typo in the choices listed at PNB.

 

Seems like they corrected it now

If it once said CL4, you might want to contact Donald about this. You aren't getting what you paid for..
I searched all over the web for DDR2-800 CL4, and it just doesn't exist. I have a feeling it will be existing soon though

The Kingston HyperX Pc2-6400 runs the same speed any other ram will run, so it's sorta a rip right now

 

My initial invoice says CL4 but the invoice that I received today says CL5, so it looks like I have what I paid for. It must have been a typo that they later fixed.

 

out of curiosity, what dies it say in really small print on the lid?

 

Susheelr,

Since you have the higher rez screen, can you please run a 3Dmark06 test...it will default to the appropriate resolution at 1280x1024.

Here is a link to download the free version:

http://www.futuremark.com/download/3dmark06/

I am very interested to see how the MSI with the 9600GT DDR3 compares to the DDR2 in the HP DV5T.

Thanks!

BTW Gratz on the new lappy-I'm working on a 6 year old laptop and really need to pull the trigger on a new one very soon.

 

I think it was 15.4" widescreen, I asked that earlier on in the thread. If you want to find Rob's reply, look back 10 pages or so

 

Mine is scheduled to be delivered the 18th. I was hoping it would ship faster. Its a Saturday though,so I'll have plenty of time to play with it during the weekend

 

I still have hope to beat you to getting the laptop then ..
1-3 business day shipping ftw

 

Mine shipped the 12th on 3-6 day shipping. As it usually happens to me, its always 6.

 

Just out of curiosity, when did you place your order?

 

I placed my order the 22nd of August. My laptop was stolen and I have been borrowing my roommate's crappy decrepit gateway in the meantime. It takes 15 minutes to load windows, so you can imagine the agony.

 

?! 15 minutes to load windows?
May I ask for the specs?

 

See you made me curious so I ran SiSoft Sandra and got this:

Processor
Model : Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2060 @ 1.60GHz
Speed : 1.60GHz
Cores per Processor : 2 Unit(s)
Threads per Core : 1 Unit(s)
Type : Mobile, Dual-Core
Internal Data Cache : 2x 32kB, Synchronous, Write-Thru, 8-way, 64 byte line size
L2 On-board Cache : 1MB, ECC, Synchronous, ATC, 4-way, 64 byte line size, 2 threads sharing

System : Gateway MT6705
Mainboard : Gateway
Bus(es) : ISA PCI PCIe IMB PCMCIA CardBus USB FireWire/1394 i2c/SMBus
Multi-Processor (MP) Support : No
Multi-Processor Advanced PIC (APIC) : Yes
System BIOS : Phoenix Technologies LTD 77.09
Total Memory : 1016MB DDR2 SO-DIMM

Chipset
Model : Gateway 2000 955XM/945GM/PM/GMS/940GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller
Front Side Bus Speed : 4x 133MHz (532MHz)
Total Memory : 1GB DDR2 SO-DIMM
Shared Memory : 8MB
Memory Bus Speed : 4x 133MHz (532MHz)

Video System
Adapter : Mobile Intel(R) 945GM Express Chipset Family (PCI, PS2.0)

Storage Devices
WDC WD1200BEVS-22LAT0 120GB (SATA150, 2.5", 5400rpm, NCQ, 8MB Cache) : 112GB (C (D
Optiarc DVD RW AD-7530A (ATA33, DVD+-RW, CD-RW, 2MB Cache) : 656MB (E
RKJKHYF BCLQFW1UF01U (SCSI, BD-R, HD-DVD-R, DVD+-R-DL, CD-R) : 3GB (F

Network Services
Network Adapter : Marvell Yukon 88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
Wireless Adapter 1 : Realtek RTL8187 Wireless 802.11b/g 54Mbps USB 2.0 Network Adapter (802.11g (ERP), TKIP, 54Mbps)

Operating System(s)
Windows System : Microsoft Windows Vista Home 6.00.6001 (Service Pack 1)
Platform Compliance : x86

It really takes like 10 minutes to boot. I said 15 because I tend to get dramatic when it comes to notebook performances

Its a borrowed laptop so I have to stick with the owners config. It would run much better with XP

 

Hmm.. Specs aren't bad at all! My dad's Inspiron 6400 has very similar specs except a better processor (Vista Ultimate x86), and boots up in around a minute.
There is something in there that is slowing it down . At least the Inspiron 6400 is somewhat acceptable. Not uber fast, but not 10 minutes boot up . Wondering how long it takes you to open an internet window?

 

I think its the fact that the hard disk is almost full, it has 1GB of ram and its running vista. It takes like 1 minute to open a firefox window (with the basic add-ons). It gets better if I do a hard-reboot though.

If it was mine I'd format everything, install XP, run it in performance mode, update/tweak the drivers, and get a resource-light antivirus. Or just use Ubuntu.

 

Ahh...

Life is going to be so much better once your MSI arrives

 

It runs Duke Nukem 3d though

 

I don't mean to sound like a problem customer here, but I ordered mine from Xotic on August 6th. Why did yours ship first? I am greatly annoyed.

 

It may depend on the parts you ordered.

 

The part they had problems with was the hi res displays, which I didn't get (he did).

 

lol only the 3-4 same person is posting in here

oh and by the way... ive won the lottery yesterday, 1000$ CAD with Triplex. luckiest man alive here

i might reconsider going for the Sager NP8660 haha

 

I'm sure they have a good reason for the delay. It seems to me they are doing their best. They returned some of my calls after office-hours and must be maxed-out with a ton of pending orders. I wouldn't be surprised if your order ships on Mon. Best of lucks.

 

Do it, you might as well. Make sure you actually need mobile gaming power though. For $2500 you could get a desktop which is much much more powerful than the 8660, as well as a good 13.3-14" laptop.

 

yea... or a bomb desktop + a msi wind something like that.

 

IMO, getting a desktop + a mini laptop such as the Wind is a better idea than dumping all the cash on Np8660 unless you are almost always on the go. From what I noticed, most people who purchase the NP8660 don't care about portability too much (battery life sucks anyways ), and say most of the time, it will be resting on a desk. For $2000 ($500 for mini lappy), a desktop can be running circles upon circles around the NP8660.

BTW.. grats on winning the lottery

 

I just downloaded 3Dmark06 and ran it. I got a whopping 982! I don't know why that is. I had to transfer a bunch of files from my old hard drive and now it is full. I will run the test again when I free up space by moving the files to a new external hard drive.

Also, the program was using DirectX 9.0 which didn't make any sense to me because Vista runs 9.0. If you guys have any suggestions then I'm all eyes.

Cheers,

Susheel R

 

What drivers are you using?

 

Vista has some really crappy power management, in my opinion. Check the following:

1) Start --> Control Panel --> Power Settings. Then make sure you change it to performance mode. It is probably set to 'balanced' currently. Also, if the MSI version overrides Vista, then make sure that is set to maximum performance.

2) Make sure you have it plugged into the outlet.

3) Check the driver and update it. A good source is www.laptopvideo2go.com - Be sure to download the modded INF so that your mobile chip will be supported.

If those three are not the problem, I'd say you have a defective GPU, or that you really have a X4500 Intel chip in there and not a 9600M GT

 

Did anyone here order a 250GB 7200rpm instead of a 320gb 5400rpm HDD? Is there any distinct advantages? Will it run hotter? Drain the battery more?
Are the two merely just comparable?

Would really appreciate the feedback???

ThankS!
-r

 

The driver version is 7.15.11.7597 and the driver date is 06/09/2008. This is the latest driver published on the MSI website. I went to the laptopvideo2go website and downloaded the driver form there, but the driver wouldn't take because apparently it is incompatible with the version of the card I have.

I changed the power options and I'll run the 3dMarks one more time. Any other suggestions are welcome.

Susheel R