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Try playing with Extreme settings, it ran really well actually. At least for me that is.

 

Glad to hear that. Would you happen to know the upgrade price of it from 460M?

 

Sorry, I wasn't clear. Texture quality was set to Ultra (the highest possible) while the graphics quality was set to Extreme. It runs smooth usually at 60fps. Just got into an instance of heavy action and it dipped down to 40. But when I run Fraps video recording, the FPS drops to 30, even if it was running at 60 before enabling it.

 

Damn, that 485M is a powerful little beast! Sometimes I catch myself wondering if I should have gone for the 8150 instead, lol. Just for the pure ability to be able to upgrade in the future, you know?

Mr. Mysterious

 

Go for the 8150 just because its gives you the flexibility to do

 

Ah okay haha .

I should put videos of mine too...been at least 3-4weeks since I've got the system, and nothing out of the ordinary to report. Just recently got my 750GB drive, and let the games begin!

 

what 750gb drive did you get?

 

Nope, you can order from some sites, including your reseller. However, they cost a pretty penny, and it makes more sense to buy what you want NOW and think about upgrading latter when something (that still fits) more powerful comes around.

 

The Seagate Momentus 7200RPM. Nothing too fancy. It loads pretty fast though.

 

I just got a .5 tb WD Black 7200RPM for the caddy that costs a significant amount more than the eBay ones. At least I know I'm getting the right caddy.

 

i ll receive my p150hm at wednesday .can i put my current hdd in the new pc with the same installation of windows 7 without do a clean install?thx..

 

.5 TB meaning 500GB you mean? Haha very confusing again

Actually, I don't suggest you do this...it's better with a clean install.

 

i have so many programms and games in my hdd.i dont want to lose them.
there will be a problem If i do that?

 

it could work but there could be compatibility issues. best to do a clean instal as lamp suggests

 

thx for the advice but what compatibility issues?

 

Means that the old HDD is filled with different drivers and software programs that probably will cause issues if you place it in the new laptop with an entirely different hardware config. Just do a clean install of Windows and transfer the data from your old HDD over to the new one.

 

what win7 said
and do note that the chipset and cpu have drivers themselves. come to think of it, i dont see any way it could work without hitches because this alone. you may get it to start but you will definitely run into issues. now add to that the two or three dozen other drivers you will need and as you see it would be a minor miracle if youre computer actually boots.

 

and all my games???

 

Hmm...back up your save games, is all I can say...

Reinstall them later on.

 

damn this is bad......

 

I would try to boot from old hdd and with win7 disk repair windows and install the new drivers, backup your data and setings first ofc.

 

Best thing to do to make a fresh install less painful is to copy your entire "users" folder over. You get saved games, bookmarks, etc. It's not that bad. Any time I've had to do a fresh install there's never been anything that I felt was a total heartbreaker to have lost. And many games will still play without being officially installed, so you can often copy the game directory over to a new drive and just click the exe file.

 

thx all for the advices!!i have 54 games installed....

 

OMG! package just arrived, my hands are shaking!!!!

 

Hope you don't drop it lol

 

How muc do you guys think the 6970 will cost? i know eurocom is selling it for 66$. what are the chances other resellers will match that price?

 

Only 100 euro, approx. 140 dollars.

So, in my opinion, the 460M and 485M are not interesting any more. Does anyone disagree?

 

i do, because i dont wanna have early buyer´s remorse! but thats aight, since the 485m still outperforms the 6970 by like 5-15%, depending on the scenario

 

It's actually looking like $250-300 from what I heard. And yes, I think the 485m is still worth it. It's a better card (albeit only slightly), but from past experience, Nvidia does great work with drivers for performance gains. It'll be hard to say until they release the official support though. Also, from the benchmarks on Anandtech, the 6970m is harder on battery life which is already not fantastic (though on par for gaming notebooks)

 

I do! The 460M is still very much relevant to everyone except the most bleeding-edge fanatics.

Mr. Mysterious

 

Just ordered myself a sager! (NP8150-S1) Can't wait to get a hand on this


Core™ i7-2820QM. 15.6 FHD 95% NTSC. GTX 485M. 250GB Intel 510. Intel Ultimate-N 6300. Windows 7 Pro 64-bit.

 

ill take that one as a big compliment

 

You're welcome dude. Though I probably won't need it, I know that there would be more cards in the future that my 8130 would be able to support.

Mr. Mysterious

 

Hm the GPU temp seems to jump 15C when I plug in an external monitor. Kind of annoying since the jet engine turns on.

Edit: It seems to be only when I have two displays running at once. I turn off the laptop LCD and the temps drop.

 

That's because your running at twice the resolution after plugging in the second monitor...

 

Yeah, when running 2 screens, powermizer doesn't work so you are running at full clocks the whole time.

 

Woohoo just found out Eurocom might give me 10% discount because Im a student. So that gives me 138€ to play with. I might want to get the 2820qm ^^

 

Ordered on 3/23. Currently in Phase 2.

 

Anyone else finding steam crash instantly when login details are inputted? I've tried reinstalling steam and restarting ths whole pc several times.

laptop specs are 4gb 1333 ram, gtx 485, 2720qm i7, and 500gb momentus xt ssh hdd.

Also does anyone know anything about updated driveres for the gtx 485m? all i've currently got is the stock drivers (265.77) and was wondering if any new drivers had been released. I have had a look on the clevo website for the gtx 485 supported drivers and there aren't any newer drivers. I think i saw something about the quadro drivers were upto 266.40 or something.

 

dunno, steam and steam games are working for me...

 

Steam is working for me as well.

 

one more day to receive my laptop!! is the gtx 460m powerfull enough for the current games?my reseller offer it only with this card..

 

The GTX 460M is still a great card. I remember you having the NP8690 before with the GTX 280M right or something equivalent?

Well, the 460M is way better than the 280M.

 

i had w860cu with gtx 260m but with 1600x900 screen res.

 

In any case, the 460m should still allow you to run most current games on high.

 

Well, the 460M will torch the GTX 260M . You won't have problems down the road.

 

For those of you that ordered recently, can you tell me from whom and what the ETA of those are? I'm wondering if we're at like a month wait or two weeks or what with standard builds on the 8150. Thanks!

 

I am sure others are the same, we are close to current on this model and shipping them out in 4-9 business days.

 

The 460M s about 30% faster than the GTX 260M.

 

Glad to hear it thanks!