Soldato
The family laptop has been in a bit of a state for a while so I've got a new one, with the following spec
A10 4600M quad core CPU with 7660G graphics
HD7670M 1GB DDR3 GPU
8GB RAM
1TB HDD (though only 5400rpm)
15.6" matte screen (though only 1366*768)
The screen and hard drive are distinctly average, but this isn't for any serious work so forgivable. Overall first impressions are very good. De-crapwared it in no time at all and set it up how I like, it's very snappy and the battery is pretty good by the looks of it. I've been browsing etc for 2 hours and it's showing 3 hours remaining (from first part charge) with decent screen brightness and High Performance selected in Windows. The lack of shiny tat is nice, there isn't any fingering magnet surfaces to be seen inside the machine at all which is nice. The lid is gloss, though it has a nice brushed metal effect that doesn't offend too much. Keyboard wise, I'm a Thinkpad/oldschool Latitude man, the island keyboard here is quiet in operation but the keys don't have much travel and seem small and far apart to me. Time will tell but I reckon it's a 6/10. There is a numerical keypad on it, which is as expected and a welcome addition to a 15.6 incher.
Of course it isn't a serious gaming machine but I've dropped Steam and Origin on there and a smattering of games. Every game I've had the brief time to test works to some extent at the native res, even BF3 is playable in multiplayer. The laptop palmrest does become quite warm while gaming/benchmarking, not eyebrow raising hot, but noticeable.
The AMD Catalyst Control Center (or whatever they want to call it these days) is quite spartan, bar some initially confusing performance and dual graphics settings. Not sure what driver version it's running just yet (8.944.2.1000) or what the craic is with what version I can use, will look into it. Going to be playing about with it and benchmarking as time permits. I'll add benchmarks and pics as and when I can
All in all very happy with it so far
Heaven 3.0, native res (1366x768), high settings, stock Samsung driver (8.944.2.1000 whatever that is?)
No tessellation
Moderate tessellation
Normal tessellation
DiRT 3, native res, all high, 4 x MSAA
Street Fighter IV Benchmark, all high, native res
A10 4600M quad core CPU with 7660G graphics
HD7670M 1GB DDR3 GPU
8GB RAM
1TB HDD (though only 5400rpm)
15.6" matte screen (though only 1366*768)
The screen and hard drive are distinctly average, but this isn't for any serious work so forgivable. Overall first impressions are very good. De-crapwared it in no time at all and set it up how I like, it's very snappy and the battery is pretty good by the looks of it. I've been browsing etc for 2 hours and it's showing 3 hours remaining (from first part charge) with decent screen brightness and High Performance selected in Windows. The lack of shiny tat is nice, there isn't any fingering magnet surfaces to be seen inside the machine at all which is nice. The lid is gloss, though it has a nice brushed metal effect that doesn't offend too much. Keyboard wise, I'm a Thinkpad/oldschool Latitude man, the island keyboard here is quiet in operation but the keys don't have much travel and seem small and far apart to me. Time will tell but I reckon it's a 6/10. There is a numerical keypad on it, which is as expected and a welcome addition to a 15.6 incher.
Of course it isn't a serious gaming machine but I've dropped Steam and Origin on there and a smattering of games. Every game I've had the brief time to test works to some extent at the native res, even BF3 is playable in multiplayer. The laptop palmrest does become quite warm while gaming/benchmarking, not eyebrow raising hot, but noticeable.
The AMD Catalyst Control Center (or whatever they want to call it these days) is quite spartan, bar some initially confusing performance and dual graphics settings. Not sure what driver version it's running just yet (8.944.2.1000) or what the craic is with what version I can use, will look into it. Going to be playing about with it and benchmarking as time permits. I'll add benchmarks and pics as and when I can
All in all very happy with it so far
Heaven 3.0, native res (1366x768), high settings, stock Samsung driver (8.944.2.1000 whatever that is?)
No tessellation
Moderate tessellation
Normal tessellation
DiRT 3, native res, all high, 4 x MSAA
Street Fighter IV Benchmark, all high, native res
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AA kills framerate in nearly every game, memory bandwidth I believe
Yes still very happy with it. If buying for gaming go for something with a better GPU, Crossfire support is very hit and miss. For example Far Cry 3 does not put any load on the 7660g at all, which is annoying because 25% or so higher frame rate wouldn't go amiss for the mix of medium settings I'm running it with (30-45FPS) 