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    Kinda Review, Satelite by Toshiba, interesting find.

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by xDaishix, Mar 18, 2006.

  1. xDaishix

    xDaishix Newbie

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    I posted this in the graphics section but I think it should be upfront also.

    Letting you all know the Toshiba Satelite series has many interesting gaming possibilities. I don't know about the newer Satelites but the A60-S1662's and ones around that area have an old Radeon card in them. They also have 2.56mhz celeron. The Radeon is a IGP version of the 7000 but for whatever reason the frame buffer full supports a full 256mb ram (you need to do this from registry side, you can do 128mb in the frame buffer control by right clicking desktop) and can be overclocked. If your lucky you can get one of the newer ones Radeon's that starts with 533 MHz CPU FSB and can be overclocked up to SAFELY! You can also get the celeron up to 2.7mhz without having any heating worries! Average STRESSED cpu temp is 56. A little on the high side but deffinetly stable.

    79.2 fps on cs:s video stress test
    1028 @ 65
    settings on medium
    no aa or vert sync or that stuff

    When everything is put on low I can actually play on wireless internet in 64 person servers and as long as theres no smoke nades to mess up the poor Radeon's performance you can play the game lag free.

    After fresh format and with no other programs running (I even killed svchost thing that governs the sound card) I could actually play a 20 person Avalanch server on DOD:S and maintaining 40-60 fps throughout gameplay.

    I bought a Toshiba Satelite on ebay used for $350. I'm sure you can find one out there in the same price range, from my perspective its the best Cost :performance option out there today, desktops included.

    3dmark05 2032!!!
    (Everything end task'd that I could with the thing still running, windows options set to "adjust for best performance") check this!

    http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1665293,00.asp
    shows relative 3dmark05 tests, 5950 with 64amd 3400 got lower score than my laptop!

    Shows what celerons can do!
    http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/celeron-d_10.html
     
    xDaishix, Mar 18, 2006
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  2. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    Interesting indeed. CS:S is running under DirectX 7 on an IGP Radeon as you have, but still, impressive that it is that playable. Yeah, the temperature is a bit high on your CPU, but it is a desktop CPU. My Pentium M 1.86 is a bit under 50* most of the time.

    Nice job.

    Chaz
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Mar 18, 2006
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