ACER 6935G, My Own Complete Review

The only notebooks i have seen with turbo memory are the ones from Clevo (Sager, MySn, Alienware, and 1200 other Marketing names).
Those Notebooks are barebones and they can be configured to your desires and can contain turbo memory.

On the other hand i haven't read 1 single article yet in which they state that the extra memory actually improves performance dramaticly.
So in other words i don't think we are missing out.

 

does that thing about defective nvidia cards affect this laptop?

cus im a lucky dell notebook (warranty ended) owner... with a useless nvidia card...

 

No, not that i've heard of. But in the end you'll be screwed if you have a taste of bad luck no matter how expensive your laptop is or what brand/model it is.
But once again, i have not read anything about Nvidia problems with this model.

Also i'd like to add that i find this notebook very quite, even while gaming !
It's a relieve compared to my previous Clevo that sounded like it was ready for take off.

Are there any negative aspects to this notebook ? So far i have found 1.
I find it sometimes a clumsy to open the notebook lid, it does require a bit of force and the edge is hard to grip.
On the positive side, eventhough the lid is not secured with a locking mechanism it will NOT just open by itself.

 

i have watched a youtube video of some #$%#$& (lolol) unboxing is new acer 6935G.. and when he opened the lid he used the corner and it bended like crazy... i mean.. isnt it comon knowledge to use the middle of the lid to push it open... so it doesnt bend.. i mean.. i may not know much about the monitor technology and its treshhold to curvature but better not bend and keep safe then to bend and risc damaging some pixels..

either way after extensive market review i deceided to buy one Acer Aspire 6935G-864G32MN (P8600 WXGA 4GB-DDR3 9600GT-512DDR3 320-7200rpm) tomorrow...

ps: I will be putting a BOMB in any store here in my country that starts selling this laptop with WUXGA and better CPU.

 

Here's my GPU-Z:

It's a 9600M GT 512MB DDR3.

 

hmm mine is the 1 GB card.. i donno if acer to cut costs increased the memory but used slower cheaper DDR2 RAM

 

1GB is useless for the card... you got cheaped out :S

 

I know that a card with a 128-bit bus width has not much use for 1 GB memory.. but the reasons I bought this model was for the other features (2.53 C2D, 4 GB DDR3 RAM, 500 GB HDD, Full HD Screen, Blu-Ray).. the model with the 9600M GT 512 MB GDDR3 is lower specced in singapore (2.16 Ghz C2D, 2 GB DDR3, 320 GB HDD, 1366x768 display, DVD+RW).. not to mention that Acer advertised this card as 1 GB GDDR3... only when I ran GPU-Z did I notice that this was being shown as DDR2 and the memory clock was also at 400 Mhz..

 

Mine has all the same specs except mine has 9600mGT 512mb GDDR3.

 

aah but that model isnt available in singapore.. i had 2 get a laptop soon.. so bought this..

 

and yaa urs is not the same urs has the T9400 (a better processor with 6MB L2 cache but a higher TDP of 35W), mine is the P8700(25W TDP but 3MB L2 cache).. and I have a 500 GB 5400 rpm HDD whilst urs is a 320GB 7200 rpm one

 

I read for the new 8930G with Quad Core CPU, they have also integrated a 9600M GT with 1GB of Ram. When I've read the test, the 3D Mark score (1024x768) was quite low compared to mine. If it's GDDR2, the performances may be much lower than the same GPU with GDDR3. It's quite a surprise when you can see the performances with the previous 8930G (with a 9700M GT) or 6935G (with a 9600M GT and CPU less powerful)
Sorry the tests are in French but you will understand the graphics for sure.

So the question is : Does the GDDR2 make the 9600M GT much more slower than with GGDDR3? It's almost 50% less powerful!!! Waiting for other tests from other websites...

 

lol.. I follow french Acer seriously needs to be taken to task for incorrectly advertising the GPU as GDDR3 on the website and also on the offer brochures being distributed locally here... the GDDR3 9600M GT is practically speaking abt 20-30% faster than the GDDR2 version in games and other 3D intensive apps

 

Great review! I'm seriously considering nabbing one of these if they go on sale sometime soon.

 

The price has already been down. When I bought it, it was about 49 500 Bahts (1080 Euros) 5 months ago. Today, the price is about 42 900 Bahts (930 Euros) The price is very interesting I think. Even the Higher Model is at 55 900 Bahts today (1200 Euros). I don't think it's expensive

 

I just wish it had space for two physical HDD's

 

Yes, mee too I use only my notebook when I'm moving, because at home, I'm using my desktop which is much more powerful. By the way I'm thinkg to buy a new external HD with e-sata. The good point is the Gemstone 6935G has one e-sata port

 

Well last week i tried installing the new wifi and ethernet drivers again and I haven't had any problems since. So yay

I actually got the high end model for £850 (€920) in the UK in jan, and laptops aren't really that cheap over here. Not selling this model anymore where i got it though.

The only feature missing for the laptop that i kinda wanted was the 2 HDDs. I got too used to it with my old laptop and stream video data on the same HDD makes everything else go slow.
Also a couple of other small problems like lose keyboard key, starting up problems, weird display drive issues when uninstalling, useless volume controls, audio can glitch, unable to install nTune and difficult to overclock but since i rarely game with high end games not much of an issue. Not too sure about the 3 usb ports all being together on same side either and also not too used to having my ethernet and AC input on the side instead of being at the back.

Other than that this laptop is awesome for the price.

 

I've got a bug problem recently and I think it's useful that you all has to be aware of it. It could look like as a big problem, but at the end it's not.

The problem is about the console media pad. I couldn't use it at all. It didn't feel any touch. I could see the volume light moving when I use directly the volume control on windows but wasn't able to interact directly by touching the media panel. I reboot many times, but it didn't solve anything.

I've been looking too many forum until some said to go to the Bios Setting by reloading the default settings, but it was useless.

Later I found someone said that we have just need to unplug the power supply and removing the battery for about 5mn. So I did it and everything worked back to normal.

This bug exist since the 6920G model. Not a really big problem, but I was almost ready to bring my notebook to the service support. If you meet this bug, you know now you won't need to bring your notebook to the service support.

I've added this problem to my review

 

I have to do that too but for another problem. Sometimes when my laptop restarts nothing comes up on the screen and it fails to do anything. I notice that the HDD light never flashes like it should do before booting up when this problem occurs. Its solved also by unplugging the power supply for about 10 seconds then switch it on and it should all be fine.

My media pad is always on hold for the fact that volume 15+ is normally too loud from my laptop speakers so volume controls aren't accurate enough to select what volume I want below 15.
However that changes when i use Headphones, then i need to turn it up to 60+ to get a normal volume so controls are good enough then. Kinda strange.

 

btw.. I add a ACER 6935G, I returned it because the HDD was 5400rpm instead of 7200rpm as it was specified in the model
The sad thing is.. I bet all others that buy that model dont know about it...
Every single shop in my country shows the model with a 7200rpm HDD... and its a 5400rpm... so I sugest you guys actually check all the hardware.

 

I Just bought the 6935G-734G32Bn (I'm on a limited budget, so I had to settle for the 2,0 GHz P7350). I have not yet recieved it, but everyone including Acer swears it's the DDR3 512 variant of G9600M GT in it, which was what I was looking for.

I have not seen this model number a lot outside Scandinavia, (it is not listed on Acer's own page). It is supposed to have the 1366x768 resolution screen, Vista 32bit, 4GB DDR3 ram.

The harddrive is actually listed as 5400rpm but everyone I know that has bought one from the same place as I have say they were pleasently surprised to see a 7200rpm drive actually installed.

 

My Hard drive was listed has 5400rpm, so I knew what I would get. Anyway, the 5400rpm has good performances.

 

...I still haven't recieved mine, despite PCCity saying they shipped it.
I... Can't... Wait...!

On a more serious note: Darika, I love your cooler; I am going to buy one next week but up here (Sweden) they are much more expensive. I get a far less stylish one (at least it is in aluminium) for about $30

 

noob here, I want to know where/how can i get those GPU-Z appear on my screen?

 

anyway, this is spec I got on mine (base on the sticker):

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=363504

 

You have NVIDIA Geforce 9600M GT turbocache 1024Mb.
Is it with GDDR2 or GDDR3?

 

that's what I really need to check out but didn't know how to get those GPU-Z appear on my screen...

 

got GPU-Z and here we go:

 

compare with yours:



so, did you upgrade your memory or it's already there when you purchase it?
how did you get bigger bandwidth?
your driver version also seem like higher than mine? updated?
your memory also bigger than mine (800mhz), is that because you're using DDR3?

well, I need to do somehthing on mine

 

Someone has already reported lower performance with this new 9600M GT DDR2 than the one with GDDR3.
For the driver I got them on internet, don't reme,ber where exactly. Maybe on Laptopvideo2go. It seems they used DDR2 memory to reduce the cost.
Can you run a 3DMARK06 Benchmark?

 

this is result i got base on GAME-O-METER

 

On which resolution 3DMARK06 was configured? Looking the results, you seem quite low if it was 1024x768... if you can tell what was the score, it will help more

 

i set it on highest resolution, 1920x1080 pixels

 

Well, it doesn't help at all... try do as I did, screenshots of your 3DMARK06 results.
Do it in 1024x768 (default), 1366x768 to compare to my score and native resolution of your screen.

The score is most useful than the screen you've posted. It doesn't show if DDR2 is less efficient or not than GDDR3.

 

Hi guys.

Congratulations for your great review, darika

I have bought this laptop one month ago.
Now, it's running Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bits.
It works very fine (with every drivers updated correctly), but I have a troubleshooting with Realtek HD drivers.
I have installed the last version of Realtek's drivers for Vista 32 / 64 (2.19, posted few days ago).

By the way, I installed the Acer Empowering posted in this thread (3.0.3006).
When windows starts, a windows appears notifying there´s a problem with Realtek try icon and eAudio.exe ("Notification tool for RealTek audio stops working")

I want to know if it's strictly necessary to install Audio eAudio Management to use correctly the Subwoofer of Aspire 6935G.
If affirmative, ¿anybody can teach me how to install the latest version of Empowering Technology for Acer?. I cant't find it in Acer's website

Thank you

 

I will recommend you to install the realtek driver HERE provided by acer for Vista 64bits, I use this one and everything is working fine.

 

I have used them but didn´t work with eAudio.

You can use eAudio with these drivers?

EDIT:
Subwoofer WORKS (I tested it with a dvd and I can turn on / off it), but it still appears the error I comment in last post.

 

For me, there's no problem... don't know what it could be...

 

Hi there,

Got this same issues with you on Realtek, what I did was browsed into the device manager and look through the installed audio devices and found out that there is also an Nvidia audio device along side with the Realtek one, so I disabled the Nvidia device and since then, Realtek seemed to work properly.

Anyway, thanks Darika for your great and informative review. Really helped a lot in my buying decision.

 

hey darika.....can u tell me which driver version are u using....i m using 181.22.
what u think about this driver....

my 6935G spec is totaly same with wandyhee...... haizzz 9600m gt ddr2 1GB haizzzz

 

The best specs in the world won't make up for having to ship the unit overseas for service if need be. No certified service centers in the USA

 

I'm using 182.05 but as I do not really play games so often, I can't say it's better than the previous versions... I don't see any difference.

 

has anyone using window 7 on their 6935g here? would like to know the performance compare to vista.

 

I'm waiting for the official release to test it
We can't really compare with an unfinsihed O.S.

 

hi wandyhee, i also just realized it when u mention about the VRAM DDR and make the comparison with the daria's. yet i also get DDR2 as the GPU Z result so when i bought it to ACER service center singapore they told me "the hardware itself supposed to be DDR3 and it's only written as DDR2" and they expect me to believe that and live with it. so i insist on showing me the hard proof, so they tried to swap the graphic card on my laptop, try to look up on the manufacturer based on my Graphic card serial number, etc. after 2 long hours of waiting it produces nothing. so in the end they asked the manager to convince me that the problem lies within the firmware and they'll "contact" me back later after they get it. what a bunch of nonesense, my 3d mark 06 is lower than daria's 9600m GT 512mb GDDR3 while mine supposed to be 9600m GT 1GB "supposed to be" GDDR3?? new way of acer scam? sighh....

 

The 1GB version is DDR2 I believe. Which unfortunately is slower than the 512MB GDDR3 version. It's not the memory amount, but rather the type that makes the big difference.

 

yeah... but on the ad's and the brochure they put a GDDR3 on it. don't think this kind of action can be taken into court?? sigh... when this happens because i wont listen of my friends not to get ACER.

 

The Acer is still a solid laptop. The DDR2 model should still be sufficient for most games.

 

Hi, just got my 6935G yesterday.

when i tested the speakers with eAudio management, the subwoofer is not emitting any sound, is this normal?