**OFFICIAL M860TU/ETU Owners Lounge**

It did? I didn't think Windows was that kind! Nice to know.
I have my updates set to automatic checks, but not for automatic installation. I've set it so that I can chose whether I want to install them or not. I've not really checked what it actually does. I rarely check the list of things that the fix or update has done. I guess I should really. I might be surprised.

 

Hmmm... I might have to try Driver Agent. You're right in that it's frustrating to have a program get a driver and install it from an unknown location for you. It would be nice to know where the program is getting it from, wouldn't it. If you find a good program, please let me know. Well... let us all know.

 

hey all,
since this is the thread I visit the most, i though i'd just wish everyone a Happy New Years! All the best to everyone in 2009, and hope you all have a great night. Cheers!
-Aly H

 

Happy New Year back at ya AlyH and to everyone else on the forum.

 

Happy tidings too all too!

Now where were we?..

Well, I was thinking of hoarding all the information to myself but I'll keep you clued in then...

 

Reached 10633 3dmarks in 06 with the specs in my sig! Whoo!

 

Nice! It is possible to get above 10000 with a GTS?

 

Wow nice man (assuming you're male here)! What driver are you using? I've hit 10107 @ 610/1525/945, and my upcoming T9800 might put me over the 11k mark.

But 620/1035/1550!? Whoa have you tested an hour on ATI Tool or Furmark? That's crazy high on a 9800GT's memory clock!

Well, hmm, yeah it's possible with a powerful processor. Not with a P9500 or lower.

 

I'm stable with those clocks, yeah. For some reason thought I crash instantly in any benchmark if I do even a touch over 620, i.e. 625.

I'm using official Nvidia, but only because I'm on windows 7. I don't really want to try unofficial drivers while running a Beta OS as my primary.

Oh and my temps never hit above 75 with my NC2000 going on full speed.

If only there was a way to lock the PCI bus... I'd overclock my processor too. I know it can hit 2.8 for a fact.


edit!: Ahhh! My mistakes, all post and sig will now be edited. The clock was 945, not 1035. 1035 was my crashed one that BSOD'd haha.

My bad =]. But yes, the 3dmark score is still the same, since that was the correct value it was tested with.

 

I think I have the same specs as you, so how are you managing to hit that score? Are you running 06 on the default settings and default resolution?

 

He's overclocked his 9800M GT to get those scores. So no, not quite the defaults...

 

Come to think of it, I haven't overclocked yet. I hear the new nvidia drivers let you software oc, has anyone tried it yet?

What about processor? I think oc'ing my P9500 would be more beneficial than oc'ing my 9800M GT.

 

Nah, CPU overclock with give a great boost to your 3dmark06 score, but in-game you'll barely gain a couple of frames per second, whereas with the GPU OC you'll see a massive boost.

 

When i removed my eksternal keyboard from the usb-port, my m860 keyboard got totally ed up. Is there a way to fix it? Reboot didnt solve.

EDIT: Never mind. Solved it. When I used the eksternal keyboard, I put on num lock. Apparently that stayed on for the m860 keyboard when I took it out of the port.

 

Oh snap. Just put in my T9800, and things are running well.
First 3dmark06 score:

 

holy thats nice, how much t9800 cost you?

and for god sake change that hdd xD lol

 

nice score kevin

 

how hard was it to change the processor?

 

very simple.

- remove the heatsink/pipe
- swap CPUs
- re-apply thermal compound
- re-secure the heatsink/pipe

 

Pretty much this. The only thing to note is that the user and service manuals are both incorrect on the location of the fan. Each depicts the fan as being attached to the bay cover, when it's actually fastened directly into the bay, in front of the heatsink; I found this out when adding a 2GB stick of RAM to my system. Thus you'll have to unscrew the fan to give the heatsink enough clearance to come out completely. It really is a ten minute process, and if anyone is looking to change out their processor in the future, feel free to contact me if you need a walkthrough. This was my first CPU installation, and it couldn't have been any easier.

I did update to the very recent 1.01.12 BIOS and 1.00.10 kb/ec first, which requires the 1.00.08 BIOS and kbc/ec updates to be run first. If anyone wants instructions on how to do these, I'll give them to you, 100% guaranteed to work safely. The .12 BIOS fixes the whining sound!

1. $365 for a QS model, which I got from someone who knows someone. The price will be hard to match. Maxes at 60C after over an hour of Orthos, only two degrees higher than my P8600. It's an awesome chip. Being a final spec chip, it's recognized by Windows and all harware monitoring software. I play lots of RTS, and I needed to eliminate the bottleneck I was feeling from the 2.4Ghz. Hell, I bought it out of anticipation for Dawn Of War II mainly.

2. I KNOW RIGHT!? lol, I'll get around to it one of these days man. I'm waiting for the new Seagate 500GB 7200RPM drives to come out, which should be within the next month or so. This clunky old Fujitsu drive is killing me dude.

EDIT: I just found out that two BIOS updates have been issued recently:

1. System BIOS version 1.01.12.
2. Solve “some machines issue high pitch by AC power” issue.

1. System BIOS version 1.01.13.
2. Solve “system has high pitch problem by DC power” issue.

I do have a USB bootable, non-ISO version of .13, but I need to verify a few things before I'll flash it. The latest KBC/EC is the 1.00.10 though, so it should be safe to go with.

 

A CPU overclock would give me more than just a few more fps in supreme commander right? I'm pretty sure my CPU is the bottleneck in that game.

Wouldn't a 500GB 7200 drive run pretty hot?Without my cooler, my dive runs up to the high 50's about an hour or so after startup.

Kevin_jack, could you pm me that guide for flashing BIOS? I've stayed away from BIOS because I've seen no reason update it till now; that CPU whine is getting annoying.

 

An update on the whole Windows 7 thing:

Battery life is overall improved on the M860TU. I'm getting about 2.7 hours with power saver now, without undervolting my processor with RMClock. I should be able to hit 3 hours with a good undervolt.

Also, sleep mode doesn't seems to work. When I shut my lid my computer shuts off, and when I start up again it tells me that windows has recovered from a serious error.

 

Is there any downside by undervolting? What components do you undervolt?

 

glad you are enjoying that t9800

that is a great chip i ran them through every test i could and they were great chips passed everything i could throw at them!!! i was really shocked at how well the t9800's did vs the x9100 they are so close in performance for those that cant overclock the x9100 the t9800 is def worth it..!!

 

Hey all,

My Intel ICH9 version is currently 9.0.0.1011 (which I found out today when Windows told me that I needed to update to fix a problem... and then told me when I tried to update that its update was actually older than the aforementioned version!)

Is the above ICH9 version the latest? Or am I behind?

 

I did an upgrade of the bios in stages from .06S all the way up to .13 successfully. However, it appears to me that the CPU whinning has actually gotten louder. Is it possible to downgrade a BIOS update? It appears Kevin_Jack had no more CPU whinning on Bios update .12 and I'd like to try that one out.

 

this is the latest:
http://rapidshare.com/files/175553110/Intel_Chipsatz_9.1.0.1012.7z

 

yes you can go to the older one. simply reflash with the older one. but make sure to have the corresponding keyboard firmware as well.

 

Thanks man. I reflashed it. Sounds softer now but its still obviously there.

I guess my only hope is for RMclock to update so I can disable c4 mode.

 

Hahaha, I've been waiting two pages for someone to post these. Thanks zfactor, they are the latest. This has updated a few of the controllers for the ICH9 set but not all of them. Got anything for the latest Universal Serial Bus controllers and MS & SD Host Controllers too?

 

how hard is it tp update my BIOS? what do I need to do?

 

Has anyone a bios with multipliers unlocked? I've a NP8660 with a p8400, I'd really like to try my hands on overclocking this processor

 

Here's the data you requested Deathwinger. Sorry for the wait.

 

The multipliers will only ever be unlocked if you have an extreme edition processor (one starting with an x or qx) otherwise they are locked on the processor anyway, so even with an unlocked bios, you can't change them.

 

So the total time took about 17 minutes to do the same stuff I'd do within 20-25 minutes. Hmmm, I'll have to think about it and based on the price I could possibly get the T9800 for, then I'd consider it.


Thanks for the benchmark Kevin_jack.

 

I finally updated to the official nvidia notebook drivers, but restarting after the installation took 15 minutes. This has never happened with any of my other driver installations. Has this happened to anyone else?

EDIT: Oh, and my 3DMark06 score is only 9004 now.

SM2.0: 4106
HDR/SM3.0: 3911
CPU: 2285

 

Well, I've got myself my new Clevo M860TU a couple of days back, and after some loooong nights i've finally comfortable with the lappy now

I did some oc on the 9800M GT and ended up with these results:



Temps are really good actually with my zalman nc-1000, 86 degrees as max isn't so bad for a 620/930/1550 clock!

 

That sure is nice, especially with Windows 7 (What score are you getting with default clocks, if you can?)

 

My Windows 7 stock:


Overclock:

 

I have a Clevo M860TU and am very very impressed with it. Straight out the box it was extremely powerful and snappy. Still is today.

 

Clevo M860TU
15.4" WXGA+ (1440x900)
P8400 2.26GHz
NVidia 9600M GT
Samsung 160GB 7200RPM SATA Harddrive

 

My score on default clocks are about 9200~

Kevin_Jack2.0: Wow! Nice score! But thank your cpu for that, the t9800 is blazing fast. I'm considering X9100 in my lappy soon.

 

Erling
What do you mean Clevo M860tu Overclocked edition?
Is your CPU overclocked?
If so let me know how you did this?
Through multiplier or Setfsb?
I have the X9100 but have yet to find a way to OC. If you have a BIOS that supports OCing please let me know. I am Extremely interested.

 

I'm sorry if anyone misunderstood my signature there. The meaning of "Overclocked Edition" is just that the 9800M GT card is Oc'ed =) Nothing more..

But I'm also very interested in Oc'ing the M860TU's CPU, it's just to bad that the developers of SetFSB have said that there's going to be no support of the PM45 chipset. So I'll guess we have to wait a little longer to see if anything happens...

 

get rid of 'overclocked edition'

thats annoying.

 

lol, it's done guys

 

So, I've had my lappy since sept last year been using it daily for everything you can imagine;Gaming, Vid editing,Hosting servers,Photoshop, School ectra ectra.

Anyway I wanted to say I'm still inlove with my laptop, and I'm still blown away at the sheer power packed into a 15" lappy, absolutly no buyers remorse what so ever.

Only gripe I have is that the place where I rest my palm started to leave a mark, but I covered it up with some razer stickers that I got with my mouse, they look like they came with the laptop so its no biggy

In the near future I want to upgrade the CPU, so I was wondering do the mobile Q's that are out now fit on the P socket? or are they designed for a entire new socket/mobo ?

 

+1.

Great laptop, still running great

 

Yes they fit.

The Q9000 is the safest bet. I haven't heard anything about the Q9100, but it was said that someone tested out the QX9300, and that piece ran way too hot.

 

+2 for sure.