Yes its official the strange_1 is now a member of the infamous dark side :twisted: .  I sold my TR5 and bought a UK spec S1 XP series laptop.  Only annoying thing is the fan but other then that its a cool machine.

Guess the fan noise is a common issue among the type s..

You know, everybody says that the fan noise of the S is annoying.  Although I noticed it compared to the TR’s silent fan… it hasn’t been extremely bothersome so far.  :D

eeewwwwwwwwwwwww….that rots.  hate to loose u.  or is it like we gained a daughter in law?  seriously, now u can write up a side by side comparison, albiet one side will be from a soon distant memory.

i am curious about how much more power your new pc has compared to the tr5, in real life situations….
good luck!!!
jigs

Hahah - congrats mate - fan issues aside its a storming machine, hope you enjoy it!

I was playing DOOM 3 last night on my S and it was cooooooool after overclocking the graphics card :D .

how far did you manage to clock it?

Mine can be pushed to 439/240 comfortably with no artifacts.

Roughly the same as u, but I noticed a lot of slow down after 30-45 mins, so I thought dont blow the laptop on its first day :evil:

Interesting. I had an extended 3 hour doom3 session the other night at these settings and so far all is well, but like you I really don’t want to tempt fate too much!

Wow Doom3 will actually play on the S ? what are specs of your S notebooks? thx :D

At an average of 45 fps yes.

having said that, the Doom3 code is particularly well optimised, but another of the biggies, Far Cry, also plays exceptionally well.

Its the Radeon 9700 i guess.

Will you guys do me a favor and benchmark your 9700 with 3dmark20003.  I just want to know what type of numbers you guys are hitting with those type “s”

already did somewhere - have a search, under the ‘gaming on the s- stype’ thread…

I got a 2611 with the default settings using the Omega Drivers (4.7 based). This was using adaptive CPU set to Fan Speed 5. I’m also not overclocking the graphics chipset. Some other people got around 3000 or so with a little bit of tweaking and overclocking. Please check out this thread for more info.