Latest 6831FX upgrade

[cytog64]

Originally, all I have upgraded on this laptop was the processor (t5450 1.6ghz to a t7500 2.2ghz).

I am now starting another upgrade.

First, I am going to take the 3gb up to 4gb. I am replacing all the ram with some Kingston HyperX ram I got to try out at Quakecon. I had hyperX gaming ram in the rig I built 2 generations ago (1ghz AMD ATHLON, 1gb ram, 256mb ati 9800) and really liked it. My last rig (AMD 5200+ X2, 2GB ram, 512mb EVGA 7900GTO) used Corsair XMMS due to me wanting to support a DLF sponsor and a great price. Next, to utilize the extra memory I am going to upgrade to vista64 from 32. I also have purchased a 320Gb 7200rpm Seagate hdd. I plan to format and partition the old 250gb 5400rpm drive and install OpenSuSE Linux11.0 64bit. I will put vista on the new hdd.

Being that this is the first time since I purchased the laptop that I have reloaded, I am looking for quite a speed increase as I remove all the BBY preloaded bloatware that I have tolerated for so many months.

[TinyElvis]

Hey Tog, let me know if you need a x64 Vista Video Driver. I found a sweet one that works beautifully on my rig. Its a July 08 driver, but heck of a lot better then anything I found so far.

[cytog64]

Reload complete and vista 64 tweaked. So far so good.

Going to start fallout 3 all over again. I made it a few hours into the game and took my skills the wrong way.

@Tiny

What driver are you using?

I went to www.laptopvideo2go.com and used their search engine to find a driver. Criteria I used to search with - Vista 64, Vid Card HW_ID = PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0609&SUBSYS_0690107B&REV_A2, WHQL= Yes. It pointed me to a 176.xx 64bit driver. I was happy with the 32bit 178.13 driver I was using pre-upgrade.

[TinyElvis]

I run x64, and the most stable I have seen, which I run, is 175.63. no stutters, and everything is smooth as hell.

[jdierking]

I'm running 180.43 BETA since I've been playing through Far Cry 2. FWI, The PhysX API has been integrated into this forceware release.