NEC 3550 Firmware Update 1.07

[Dr Klovernutz]

I figure I already paid $99, only to be even with what I alread have (my laptop) If I have a 2.6GHZ, I should be able to do better with a better card. I'm gonna stick witha NVIDIA, I spke to newegg, they would waive the restocking fee since I am making another (more expensive ) purchase. What do u think would result in the most improvement???

[Chewy]

get the xfx for name and warranty

your P4 old style socket is just a lame gamer

3dmark should blow away the laptop

[Dr Klovernutz]

your P4 old style socket is just a lame gamer

I have to disagree, you gotta check this out.

I got the NEW XFX 7600GT 256MB vid card.

I'm not gonna go through all the results, just the results for the Dell 4600 that I am trying to upgrade.

INFO:
Dell 4600; P4 2.6ghz; 1G DDR RAM; 500W psu; most current nvidia driver 162.18

The 3 cards in question:
1. nvidia GeForce 5200 FX (original card)
2. eVGA 7600GS
3. xfx 7600GT

now the tests
(quick side note: my hp6105 (geforce go 6150) & Dell e310 (integrated video) results were just about the same as the eVGA 7600GS)

TEST 1 (video card stability test)
1. 139
2. 188
3. 1331

TEST 2 (3dmark v5) at 1024 x 768
1. 247
2. 653
3. 4867

TEST 3 (aquamark)
1. GFX 816
CPU 7,261
Triangles/sec: 2,324,371
Frames/sec: 7.72

2. GFX 1,134
CPU 7,126
Triangles/sec: 3,163,209
Frames/sec: 10.51

3. GFX 8,061
CPU 7,005
Triangles/sec: 15,387,008
Frames/sec: 51.11

my question why such a drastic IMPROVEMENT!??

1 point of note: both the 7600GS and 7600GT; only during the black winXP boot screen, there is a slight flicker..

what is your opinion?

[Chewy]

what is your opinion?

that eVGA 7600GS was defective

[Dr Klovernutz]

either way I'm happy, newegg wants me to pay for return shipping, worth the fight/

[Chewy]

tell them the card was bad as tested

anytime a 5200 tests almost a s good as a 7600 then something is definitily wrong

btw my 3dmark score was 4200 with a 2.4 Ghz cpu and a much lamer card

[Chewy]

my gfx is only 4209(ati 9600/latest version) 128 megs ram

cpu was 7,586

it's all about balance

my setup almost catches you in 3d mark because of my cpu

my combined in aquamark is 32,955

[Dr Klovernutz]

I don't feel like argueing with them, newegg tells me to contact evga and evga tries to blame everything but their card. I'll eat the shipping back to newegg just to be rid of the crap card and I'll never deal with evga again (and tell others the same) as for newegg they did waive the "restocking fee" ....