Bad news from Laptop City

[Cole]

Last night, the core on my video card shit the bed.  I had burnt out a memory bank a while back, and underclocking seemed to help.  Well, I can't even see the desktop anymore.  It is full of crap, and won't display over 4 bits.  bs.  I'm gonna try to get the manufacturer to replace it.  Hopefully it won't cost more than 400 bucks.  You probably won't be seeing me around much except on the forums unitl I can get this fixed. 

This effing blows....

[xTc the NJ GUIDO]

my processor core runs at 81 degrees celcius, im lucky my comp is still running. but the downside is no cs source.

[TyDiRiUm]

haha, told you Cole. You talk shit about Tyd and bad things shall come to you... LoL, nah, j/k bro. Sry 2 hear about the comp.

[Privateer]

ouch, you play cs on a laptop, that explains alot... heh


actually a real good friend of mine that i met at college plays on a laptop and he use to own all of us on 1.6 without extrra add-ons like mouse and keyboards... this might be the most impressive thing with widow's inverted mouse a close second.

[TyDiRiUm]

That seems incredibly hard to do with no mouse... He must be skilled...OR CHEATING!

[Gunner]

thats y you suck 

[Cole]

No, my laptop was leet!  AMD64 3000+, and the mobile versions have 1mb l2 instead of 512kb  the graphics card wasn't too bad, before it burned up.  This thing shoulda lasted at least another year.  Now I'm going through withdrawl, and I am very bummed.  bah.  I'm selling some of my stocks!

[TyDiRiUm]

sorta, yea...?

[Privateer]

thats what makes the kid that goes to my college amazing at the game, i have no clue how he does it.


I just got a free laptop from where i work, i thought the specs were nice 1.7 pentium M, 512mb... then i looked for the graphics card, radeon x something 128mb and all i could think about was 9-5 source at work...


that quickly faded though

[Death_ADDER]

lol... laptops suck... other then downloading porn on vacation.

Steve

[TyDiRiUm]

I shouldn't have to be watching porn if I'm on vacation. If I'm on vacation, I'm gettin some...

[Cole]

Aside from the "lalptops suck" crap, I'm thinking of getting this one as a replacement.

http://www.cyberpowersystem.com/highendsystem/ntbks46500.asp?v=d

It is a PCI-E form PC with the Pentium M platform.  I am a big time AMD 64 guy, I loved the performance.  However, this looks pretty good, and it's light.  The Dell XPS gen 2 is basically the same laptop, but with a go 6800 U and this is a go 6600.  I can upgrade the graphics card, but I'm not sure if that is really a possibility at this point.  There are three form factors for the PCI-E moblie video cards, each with there own heat dissapation ranges.  But, if I ever did fry this graphics card, this is replaceable.

Here is a performance peice on the card.  http://hardware.gamespot.com/Story-ST-x-1485-x-x-x

Let me know what you think...

I don't think that 5900 on 3dmark03 at 1024x768 is bad at all.  I would only get 3000 on my old laptop.  when I O/C'd the hell out of it I got 3600, but I moved it back down so I wouldn't fry over time.  Seems like it didn't matter....

[Cole]

Just ordered it.  It is leet.  I can't wait to get it.

[Death_ADDER]

well you order your laptop... and I will play on my desktop computer...

Steve

[TyDiRiUm]

Try playing with no mouse... Fun shit...

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