Stan! M1710 advice please!

LeperousDust · 24-11-2007, 19:39

How is the M1710 lappy for gaming, my bro wants a gaming laptop from christmas, i see i can get them now for under 1k. How does your perform games wise, this is hoping to tide him over a good two years at least i would expcet. He wants to be able to play COD4 crysis and the like, chances? I don't game anymore so i'm pretty much out of the loop, i'd much rather have a small protable laptop than a hulking 17 incher now!

LeperousDust · 27-11-2007, 14:02

Stan is obviously busy working, so anyone else care to share?

Stan_Lite · 27-11-2007, 14:20

Sorry Alex, didn't see this until now.

Mine is the slightly older version and it managed fine with the top games at the time on highest settings for the most part.

I've since put Vista on it (bought a 160Gb, 7200rpm hDD to replace the 100Gb, 5400rpm one and decided to upgrade

) and the Vista drivers for the 7900GTX GO are frankly appalling - the graphics go to pot under any sort of stress, I've tried modified drivers for it as well but it makes no difference. It looks like I'm fubared as far as gaming goes under vista until Nvidia bring out some decent drivers for it.

I believe the newer models have the 7950GTX GO, I'm not sure how the drivers for that work - might be something to check up on.
One would presume that if Dell are shipping the new machines with Vista, they would have decent drivers but nothing can be taken for granted - the M1710 is, after all, sold as a multimedia machine rather than a gaming machine. I have no problems other than when gaming with it, unfortunately the stress of gaming kills the graphics and a reboot is required (If I unplug the power lead, it works fine and I can reboot properly).

Will have to find an MCE disk to reinstall to it's original state (or XP) and hopefully that will do the trick.

In summary, as long as the graphics drivers are good, he should have no problems playing the latest games (maybe the likes of Crysis might need to be turned down a little as I barely get away with the settings on "very high" and no AA on my gaming rig with an 8800GTX OC2).

Hope this is of some help

LeperousDust · 27-11-2007, 14:26

I see i see, i have the same problem with graphics on mine i have the 7400go which is seemigly just unkown to nVidia even on their website, they dropped it like a hot coal when vista appeared, but yet Dell shipped their machine with Vista and this card is appaulingly bad for what it should be...

I'll look into it, but i feel i'll probably be better off getting the 8600m as thats probably going to have some decent drivers, but roughly the same level of performance...
Hopefully that does him. Thb he's getting along with a 9600pro atm

So anything is an upgrade, but he doesn't want to be stuck where he is in two years time again. Because i'm convincing him to get a laptop really so when he goes to uni its easy (wish someone had done that for me). But he won't forgive me if he's crippled gaming wise next year...

Davey_Pitch · 27-11-2007, 16:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by LeperousDust

Stan is obviously busy working, so anyone else care to share?

When you posted, I believe Stan would have been drinking

Stan_Lite · 27-11-2007, 17:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by Davey_Pitch

When you posted, I believe Stan would have been drinking

He was indeed drinking, rather heavily a few hours after the post, in fact

LeperousDust · 27-11-2007, 19:56

He answered fine though

Right new idea:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ASUS-F3-Series...hippingPayment
How about that, the £ to $ makes it pretty good no?
Ideally i'm after the best computer i can get for under £700 (£700 top limit really).
Too much to ask?
Core 2 Duo 5xxx or 7xxx
2gig of ram (Ok that has 1gig turbo poo but that'll do for now)
8600m, or preferrably now (after reading) HD 2600 (cooler better battery but same performance)
Usual extras ie bluetooth video out s-video out.
Screen size is unimportant really, he'll be playing on his monitor from the video out...

Stan_Lite · 27-11-2007, 20:08

I was drinking when you made the first post, if I'd replied that night, you'd have thought my account had been hacked by an alien

That looks like a good buy, my old Asus W3A was a damn good machine in it's day, even with onboard graphics, and still trundles away quite nicely now, about 3 years on.

What about tax on that one though?

LeperousDust · 27-11-2007, 20:18

I was hoping tax would be evaded by gift, chances? =/

Hmmmm
Any other ideas?

Mark · 27-11-2007, 20:24

$1250+$120 (knocking 1¢ off each is neither big nor clever, so I rounded up) = $1370
$1370 / 2.06800 = £662.48
£662.48 + ~21% + £10 = £811.60
£811.60 + 2.75% of £662.48 = £829.82 (If you've got a Post Office CC, ignore this bit)

All adds up I'm afraid.

It might slip through, some stuff always does. Declaring something of this value as a gift makes customs man suspicious - expect internal probing of the package and no discount.

24-11-2007, 19:39	#1
LeperousDust Bananaman Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh Posts: 4,817	Stan! M1710 advice please! How is the M1710 lappy for gaming, my bro wants a gaming laptop from christmas, i see i can get them now for under 1k. How does your perform games wise, this is hoping to tide him over a good two years at least i would expcet. He wants to be able to play COD4 crysis and the like, chances? I don't game anymore so i'm pretty much out of the loop, i'd much rather have a small protable laptop than a hulking 17 incher now! __________________

27-11-2007, 14:02	#2
LeperousDust Bananaman Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh Posts: 4,817	Stan is obviously busy working, so anyone else care to share? __________________

27-11-2007, 14:20	#3
Stan_Lite Stan, Stan the FLASHER MAN! Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: In bed with your sister Posts: 5,483	Sorry Alex, didn't see this until now. Mine is the slightly older version and it managed fine with the top games at the time on highest settings for the most part. I've since put Vista on it (bought a 160Gb, 7200rpm hDD to replace the 100Gb, 5400rpm one and decided to upgrade ) and the Vista drivers for the 7900GTX GO are frankly appalling - the graphics go to pot under any sort of stress, I've tried modified drivers for it as well but it makes no difference. It looks like I'm fubared as far as gaming goes under vista until Nvidia bring out some decent drivers for it. I believe the newer models have the 7950GTX GO, I'm not sure how the drivers for that work - might be something to check up on. One would presume that if Dell are shipping the new machines with Vista, they would have decent drivers but nothing can be taken for granted - the M1710 is, after all, sold as a multimedia machine rather than a gaming machine. I have no problems other than when gaming with it, unfortunately the stress of gaming kills the graphics and a reboot is required (If I unplug the power lead, it works fine and I can reboot properly). Will have to find an MCE disk to reinstall to it's original state (or XP) and hopefully that will do the trick. In summary, as long as the graphics drivers are good, he should have no problems playing the latest games (maybe the likes of Crysis might need to be turned down a little as I barely get away with the settings on "very high" and no AA on my gaming rig with an 8800GTX OC2). Hope this is of some help __________________ Just because I have a short attention span doesn't mean I...

27-11-2007, 14:26	#4
LeperousDust Bananaman Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh Posts: 4,817	I see i see, i have the same problem with graphics on mine i have the 7400go which is seemigly just unkown to nVidia even on their website, they dropped it like a hot coal when vista appeared, but yet Dell shipped their machine with Vista and this card is appaulingly bad for what it should be... I'll look into it, but i feel i'll probably be better off getting the 8600m as thats probably going to have some decent drivers, but roughly the same level of performance... Hopefully that does him. Thb he's getting along with a 9600pro atm So anything is an upgrade, but he doesn't want to be stuck where he is in two years time again. Because i'm convincing him to get a laptop really so when he goes to uni its easy (wish someone had done that for me). But he won't forgive me if he's crippled gaming wise next year... __________________

27-11-2007, 19:56	#7
LeperousDust Bananaman Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh Posts: 4,817	He answered fine though Right new idea: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ASUS-F3-Series...hippingPayment How about that, the £ to $ makes it pretty good no? Ideally i'm after the best computer i can get for under £700 (£700 top limit really). Too much to ask? Core 2 Duo 5xxx or 7xxx 2gig of ram (Ok that has 1gig turbo poo but that'll do for now) 8600m, or preferrably now (after reading) HD 2600 (cooler better battery but same performance) Usual extras ie bluetooth video out s-video out. Screen size is unimportant really, he'll be playing on his monitor from the video out... __________________

27-11-2007, 20:08	#8
Stan_Lite Stan, Stan the FLASHER MAN! Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: In bed with your sister Posts: 5,483	I was drinking when you made the first post, if I'd replied that night, you'd have thought my account had been hacked by an alien That looks like a good buy, my old Asus W3A was a damn good machine in it's day, even with onboard graphics, and still trundles away quite nicely now, about 3 years on. What about tax on that one though? __________________ Just because I have a short attention span doesn't mean I...

27-11-2007, 20:18	#9
LeperousDust Bananaman Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh Posts: 4,817	I was hoping tax would be evaded by gift, chances? =/ Hmmmm Any other ideas? __________________

27-11-2007, 20:24	#10
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	$1250+$120 (knocking 1¢ off each is neither big nor clever, so I rounded up) = $1370 $1370 / 2.06800 = £662.48 £662.48 + ~21% + £10 = £811.60 £811.60 + 2.75% of £662.48 = £829.82 (If you've got a Post Office CC, ignore this bit) All adds up I'm afraid. It might slip through, some stuff always does. Declaring something of this value as a gift makes customs man suspicious - expect internal probing of the package and no discount. Last edited by Mark; 27-11-2007 at 20:35.

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