£500 laptop for Half Life 2 and CS: Source

BEN_UK said:
Its plays L4D really well for me 1366x768 high no problems. No idea about call of durez 2.
Click to expand...

Nice one just got back from shopping with the mrs she let me have one guys said in store it was and end of line product...just got to strip all the rubbish now :) paid £547 anyone tried overclocking the 9600mgt with riva tuner?
 
9zap said:
Nice one just got back from shopping with the mrs she let me have one guys said in store it was and end of line product...just got to strip all the rubbish now :) paid £547 anyone tried overclocking the 9600mgt with riva tuner?
Click to expand...

Cool good price, i paid £600 a month ago. Then yesterday saw it in a large PC shop for £700 !

It is a great spec laptop for the price.

Stripping all the crap tell me about it, i created the recovery disk and then deleted all the HDD partitions inc the hiddens ones and recovered it back to factory with just one partition 298Gb :)

Still a lot of crap on but just remove that the normal way.

Any questions about laptop just ask.

Thanks Ben :)
 
I notice there is no recovery disk with it so I am assuming now... you have to make your own? Think I may do what you have done BEN UK
 
BEN_UK said:
Well today i brought the Acer 6930 for £600 :)

Specs are,

Intel Core 2 Duo P7450 2.13Ghz 1066 MHz FSB 3mb L2 cache
9600GT NVIDIA 1Gb Dedicated
320 GB SATA
4Gb RAM DDR2
16 inches screen
Windows Vista Home Premium

Great spec for the price just setting up now :D
Click to expand...

You sure those are right, I can't find a Acer 6930 with a 9600GT?

There seems to be 3 different models, damned if I can see the differences between them ;)

AS6930G-583G25Bn
AS6930G-733G25Mn
AS6930G-583G25Mn
 
Last edited:
9zap said:
I notice there is no recovery disk with it so I am assuming now... you have to make your own? Think I may do what you have done BEN UK
Click to expand...

Yes mate u have to create the recovery disks 2 DVD's i think it was, use the acer empowering program i think to create them.

Aye its a 9600m GT 1Gb with a P7450 Aspire 6930G

:)
 
been playing lfd last couple of hours after some tweaking i am getting very decent fps and it looks nice with 16xcsaa lowered the shader and forced triple buffering with vsync of in nv cp 45-90 fps @1366x720 well happy
 
I'm trying to find a Intel based (P7450) Aspire 6930G with a 9600m GT 1Gb, WUXGA screen and bluray drive but it's giving me a headache, anybody know the part number for this SCU?

<edit> think it's AS6935G-644G32<edit>
 
Last edited:
BEN_UK said:
Hello,

I have had a Acer 5051 laptop for nearly 2 and a half years now, cost me £450 and its serviced me well but its time for a upgrade.

Looking to spend no more than £500 really. Hoping to get £100 second hand for the Acer to but towards the new one.

Looking for best performace for £500.

Hoping to beable to insall steam on it and play CS: Source at good playable frame rate

What would you recommend for £500 ?

Thanks Ben
Click to expand...

Find someone with a 8600m GT inside it. You can pick up something decent for cheap. :)
 
Last edited:
BEN_UK said:
Well today i brought the Acer 6930 for £600 :)

Specs are,

Intel Core 2 Duo P7450 2.13Ghz 1066 MHz FSB 3mb L2 cache
9600GT NVIDIA 1Gb Dedicated
320 GB SATA
4Gb RAM DDR2
16 inches screen
Windows Vista Home Premium

Great spec for the price just setting up now :D
Click to expand...

Can't find this spec anywhere.

Infact I can't even find one with 320GB.

The best spec I'm finding is:
2.0Ghz Core 2
4GB Ram
250GB HDD
1GB Dedicated 9600m GT


Did you get yours in the UK ben?
 
Last edited:
sansnom said:
Can't find this spec anywhere.

Infact I can't even find one with 320GB.

The best spec I'm finding is:
2.0Ghz Core 2
4GB Ram
250GB HDD
1GB Dedicated 9600m GT


Did you get yours in the UK ben?
Click to expand...

yes i did, big local high street store.
 
any of you Acer owners come across issues with CPU throttling when playing games? (ie it'll become laggy ingame)
 
Surfer said:
any of you Acer owners come across issues with CPU throttling when playing games? (ie it'll become laggy ingame)
Click to expand...

I haven't noticed any throttling at all..

Though my housemate has the same machine as me, and was running Furmark and Prime at the same time to calibrate a battery - on the couch - on the hottest day this year.

The machine didn't throttle, it just shutdown.


I'd have to say that's an extreme burn test though, and it's nice to know the machine shuts itself down rather than melts!
 
I got the 6930G

P7450 2.13ghz CPU
4GB Ram
9600M GT 1GB GPU
320GB HDD

Nice machine although its running on a 32bit OS so im not getting full value, I have to send off for the disk I believe.
 
mehuk said:
I got the 6930G

P7450 2.13ghz CPU
4GB Ram
9600M GT 1GB GPU
320GB HDD

Nice machine although its running on a 32bit OS so im not getting full value, I have to send off for the disk I believe.
Click to expand...

think thats an end of line model..mines the 250gb t6400 jobbie 4gb ram 9600m gt
 
9zap said:
think thats an end of line model..mines the 250gb t6400 jobbie 4gb ram 9600m gt
Click to expand...

zap it and get the free upgrade when its due... I am on 64bit rc7 atm but cant get touch pad to work...will get free upgrade in october
 
uv said:
I haven't noticed any throttling at all..

Though my housemate has the same machine as me, and was running Furmark and Prime at the same time to calibrate a battery - on the couch - on the hottest day this year.

The machine didn't throttle, it just shutdown.


I'd have to say that's an extreme burn test though, and it's nice to know the machine shuts itself down rather than melts!
Click to expand...

Good to know as ive been thinking about getting this one.

Other machine i was looking at was a custom build from a place that lets you configure some aspects of the laptop

can get a 15" laptop reasonable specced laptop with a an Ati HD4650 for under £700.(even less if i buy without the OS) Cant say who they are as they are a competitor.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom