Avitar Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 Well everyone who's missed me lately, here's where I was. I got one of those really bad viruses and my laptop HDD failed. I was running on 2GB of RAM for the longest while... then i cleared out my heat sinc compound by accident... and I guess lappy gave up the ghost. I have now repaired this laptop and I'm proud to announce that i'm back :)The following are my new specs:Gateway NV59C 66u8GB DDR3 1066Mhz RAMIntel i3 Quad Core 2.4 - 2.9 Ghz2GB Intel M370 Integrated graphics1TB HItachi SATA 3.0 3Gbs HDDIntel Centrino Dual Core WiFi+WIMAX 6250 a/b/g/n15.6 HD LED LCD 1366x768 60hz1.3 MP WebcamRealtek HD Audio SpeakersBlu-Ray 1.5Gbs R Drive.WIN 7 ULT SP1 x64Unfortunately, my neighbour took down her WiFi, since I didn't have a laptop to video chat with her... Will update the community when I have restored my Internet Access. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonliul Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 Welcome back bro! :cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted August 29, 2012 Administrator Share Posted August 29, 2012 :welcome: back.Well, the new specs are really nice. I'm seeing some kick-ass laptops these days, the ones I never imagine could exist. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudrax Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 How good is intel M370? any comparison with nvidia and AMD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demoneye Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 :welcome: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 Welcome back - always nice to have good members back (hope to see a similar post by madeinheaven, one day.) ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calguyhunk Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 :welcome: back :DBTW, i3 Quad??? :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedy57 Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 Back ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lyldz Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 :lol: :clap: :whistle: :tooth: :welcome: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudrax Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 :welcome: back :D BTW, i3 Quad??? :oMay be talking about HyperThreading (HT), 2 physical and 2 virtual cores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avitar Posted August 30, 2012 Author Share Posted August 30, 2012 Welcome back bro! :cheers:Thanks bro. Will have to download all apps from scratch again. :welcome: back. Well, the new specs are really nice. I'm seeing some kick-ass laptops these days, the ones I never imagine could exist. :DThanks man. I like the new specs too. Runs COD Black Ops on maximum graphics without a glitch :) How good is intel M370? any comparison with nvidia and AMD?If you can set up an Intel system properly with the right drivers and all, it's better than AMD. Think of it like this: The Entire DIMM2 4GB DDR3 Ram stick is reserved for graphics only by the system. DDR3 is just as fast as a dedicated graphics card. DDR2 was slower so i couldn't be done before. 4GB Integrated graphics card anyone? ;) Welcome Back 8)Thanks. :welcome:thnks :) Welcome back - always nice to have good members back (hope to see a similar post by madeinheaven, one day.) ;)Thank you RocketMan. Indeed I hope madeinheaven will consider gracing us with his return also. :welcome: back :D BTW, i3 Quad??? :oThanks. Back !Thanks speedy. Love the smiley. :welcome:thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avitar Posted August 30, 2012 Author Share Posted August 30, 2012 :welcome: back :D BTW, i3 Quad??? :oMay be talking about HyperThreading (HT), 2 physical and 2 virtual cores.That's absolutely correct rudrax. When I open task manager I see 4 cores being monitored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted August 30, 2012 Administrator Share Posted August 30, 2012 So many years have passed and I'm still wondering if HT is as good and effective as actual cores. :PHaving a i5 without HT doesn't help to know the above. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudrax Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 If you can set up an Intel system properly with the right drivers and all, it's better than AMD. Think of it like this: The Entire DIMM2 4GB DDR3 Ram stick is reserved for graphics only by the system. DDR3 is just as fast as a dedicated graphics card. DDR2 was slower so i couldn't be done before. 4GB Integrated graphics card anyone? ;)The amount of reserved graphics memory isn't really the core thing to consider. A dedicated graphics card performs way better than an integrated one, besides, the fact that a dedicated one requires slightly more power which is obvious w.r.t. performance. In the matter of CPU intel can beat up AMD but not in graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudrax Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 So many years have passed and I'm still wondering if HT is as good and effective as actual cores. :PWhatever, you get to see double number of the physical cores in the device manager, that's enough :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calguyhunk Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 So many years have passed and I'm still wondering if HT is as good and effective as actual cores. :P Having a i5 without HT doesn't help to know the above. :(Whatever, you get to see double number of the physical cores in the device manager, that's enough :P On heavily threaded apps, HT does speed up things by as much as 15-30%, but everything else remaining constant, identically clocked processors (from the same family - with the same underlying core architecture) with extra REAL cores will always be significantly faster than ones without them. :) For example, a REAL quad core i5 will be much faster (certainly in multi-threaded apps) than an identically clocked i3, which is a dual core with HT. And a Hyperthreaded i7 quad will be faster than an i5 in multi-threaded apps when compared to identically clocked i5's. ;) Virtual cores do fasten things up, but do not actually perform as well as real cores :yes: EDIT: And btw, Duals with HT are not referred to as Quads either. They continue to remain just that - Duals with HT. Just like Quad-cores with HT are not Octa-cores either :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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