Acer 8371/3810 Owners Thread

user100monkey · 30 Nov 2010 at 14:59

FYI i use the following settings
1366 * 768 fullscreen
settings on fair with the following edits
texture res to high
trilinear
liquid good
sun disabled
particle good
I get 60fps when the indoor engine is in use and around 30 - 40 fps in outdoor areas.

Cuppa · 30 Nov 2010 at 15:56

Can anyone e-mail me where they're getting these for £350 or close to, just had a look and the best I can do £430. Would like to order one tonight if I can.

Thanks folks.

Edit e-mail in trust.

kevpuk · 30 Nov 2010 at 16:12

Yep yep - mailed you

Cuppa · 30 Nov 2010 at 16:26

Thanks Kev, very much appreciated. Now all I have to do is hope they dont sell out before I get home and find my credit card

mOdO · 30 Nov 2010 at 18:54

Can I get the link too please, thanks

kevpuk · 30 Nov 2010 at 20:32

Sent - about time these guys gave me commission !!!! And to e36Adz too, as the original founder....

kevpuk · 30 Nov 2010 at 20:33

£341.80 now, people..... 135 in stock !

chrismscotland · 30 Nov 2010 at 22:07

People still enjoying their 8371? I was a bit put off by lack of HDMI but my home TV has VGA In if I want and I was mainly going to use HDMI for hotel's but found that most of their TV's are locked out!!!
Anyone tried any more games?

molinari · 1 Dec 2010 at 12:52

kevpuk said:
£341.80 now, people..... 135 in stock !

Any chance you can let me know where this is please?

kevpuk · 1 Dec 2010 at 14:21

Yep yep - mailed

chrismscotland · 1 Dec 2010 at 21:51

A couple of queries, I'm pretty useless with how good these new ULV CPU's are, but I currently have the HP Mini 311 netbook with the 1.6Ghz Atom and the Ion GPU, is an Acer 8371 with the Ati 4330 and SU9400 CPU going to be more powerful?

sja360 · 1 Dec 2010 at 22:02

the cpu is more powerful and i believe the hd4330 is better too if not equal to the ion graphics chip.

chrismscotland · 1 Dec 2010 at 22:24

sja360 said:
the cpu is more powerful and i believe the hd4330 is better too if not equal to the ion graphics chip.

Thanks mate, I am sorely sorely tempted to buy one, was hoping that adding a Seagate Momentus XT drive to my HP Mini would make a difference but I'm not really sure that even that can overcome the very limited CPU!

sja360 · 1 Dec 2010 at 22:27

i agree the atom cpu is quite slow, i know you could optimise and tweak windows but the fact is nothing beats having a good dual core =)
sadly i bought one of these and i did plan to have it for myself but turns out the gf has taken it =/
not sure whether i should buy another or just keep my old fujitsu pi2515.

chrismscotland · 1 Dec 2010 at 22:40

sja360 said:
i agree the atom cpu is quite slow, i know you could optimise and tweak windows but the fact is nothing beats having a good dual core =)
sadly i bought one of these and i did plan to have it for myself but turns out the gf has taken it =/
not sure whether i should buy another or just keep my old fujitsu pi2515.

Lol, well from what people have said on here the 8371 seems a cracking bit of kit, wish it had an HDMI port but thats about it, and not really used HDMI from my netbook at all.

e36Adz · 2 Dec 2010 at 01:46

Run SuperPi on your netbook and see how it compares to the 8371 for an indication of cpu performance, we are hitting around 25-26 sec on SuperPi to 1M.

And if you're still feeling confident run 3d mark 2006 for an idea of gfx performance, you are aiming for 3200

tbz_ck · 2 Dec 2010 at 08:43

e36Adz said:
....you are aiming for 3200

......if you pull your finger out and tell us how you made that overclock stick

chrismscotland · 2 Dec 2010 at 09:30

e36Adz said:
Run SuperPi on your netbook and see how it compares to the 8371 for an indication of cpu performance, we are hitting around 25-26 sec on SuperPi to 1M.

And if you're still feeling confident run 3d mark 2006 for an idea of gfx performance, you are aiming for 3200

Lol SuperPi on my HP Mini 311, 2mins 28 secs! god thats slow!

kevpuk · 2 Dec 2010 at 09:58

chrismscotland said:
Lol SuperPi on my HP Mini 311, 2mins 28 secs! god thats slow!

Lol !

Could probably get close to that with a pen and paper......

Just kidding - I find my 8371 way more potent than a previous netbook (N270 Atom). Still, horses for courses and all that.

chrismscotland · 2 Dec 2010 at 10:00

kevpuk said:
Lol ! Could probably get close to that with a pen and paper......

Just kidding - I find my 8371 way more potent than a previous netbook (N270 Atom). Still, horses for courses and all that.

Yeah its the N270 CPU that its got, so you find the 8371 much faster?