The infamous ATI issue - again.... 2004-09-03 - By Alan Jones
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My fan isn't particularly noisy even when it does kick in at full rate - which
isn't very often, but the heat burns your leg when you sit it on you lap - ouch.
Plus the harmon kardon speakers blow away any sound the fans makes many
many times over.
Cheers,
Alan.
On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 09:59:22 -0400, Christian Rittener
<christian_lists@(protected)> wrote:
> How noisy is it? I'm selling my P4 laptop because I'm sick of those fans
> (I get enough already from a dual Xeon workstation), and its "main RAM"
> ATI graphics scheme won't run XSI.
> Any comments on XSI performance AND noise on middle-of-the-road Pentium
> M and AMD laptops are welcome... the Dell M60 seems great, but it's a
> bit pricey. Acer?
>
> Christian
>
>
>
>
> Alan Jones wrote:
> > I can really recommend the toshiba satellite 5220. It runs XSI
> > beautifully - (GeForceFX Go5600) hopefully they have one with a
> > beefier CPU by now - this one's a bit over a year old and only has a
> > 2.4ghz P4. Also knock the RAM up to 1gig - I've been too cheap to so
> > far.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Alan.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 09:59:04 +0300, Dan Yargici <dan@(protected)> wrote:
> >
> >>Yeah, please do, that would be great.
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>
> >>DAN
> >>
> >>-- -- Original Message -- --
> >>From: "Thomas Shaw" <shawthomas@(protected)>
> >>To: <XSI@(protected)>
> >>Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 10:30 PM
> >>Subject: Re: [OT] The infamous ATI issue - again....
> >>
> >>
> >>>I ordered a Dell Inspiron notebook yesterday with an Radeon Mobility
> >>>9700 on it. While I didn't get it with the intent of running XSI, I can
> >>>check it out and let you know how it performs...
> >>>
> >>>Ing. Marek Mihok wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Dan,
> >>>>
> >>>>I never had any problem with ATI at all !!
> >>>>I am using now 9600 256mb board....working with XSI and WindowsXP
> >>>>without any problem...
> >>>>
> >>>>I can't tell you about mobility radeons, I do not have a notebook
> >>>>
> >>>>Marek
> >>>>
> >>>>-- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----
> >>>>Ing. Marek Mihok - ANIMAX 3D
> >>>>Juzna Trieda 9
> >>>>040 01 Kosice
> >>>>SLOVAKIA
> >>>>+00421 905 316 504
> >>>>animax3d@(protected)
> >>>>
> >>>> -- --Original Message-- --
> >>>> *From:* owner-xsi@(protected)
> >>>> [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)]*On Behalf Of *Dan Yargici
> >>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 14, 2004 1:04 PM
> >>>> *To:* XSI@(protected)
> >>>> *Subject:* [OT] The infamous ATI issue - again....
> >>>>
> >>>> Sorry to be a bore and bring this up again, but my searching turns
> >>>> up a mountain of old/contradictory results...
> >>>>
> >>>> OK, once and for all:
> >>>>
> >>>> 1. Are the low-end ATI cards still considered unusable/crappy? (my
> >>>> interest here lies more with the mobility radeons)
> >>>> 2. Is this general crappiness down to Softimage or ATI?
> >>>> 3. Will they ever be less crappy? When (if?) HL2 comes out, will
> >>>> this not mean, as everyone has predicted, that there'll be scores
> >>>> of disgruntled ATI users unless this is addressed?
> >>>>
> >>>> Basically, I'm on the laptop hunt again, and I've found hundreds
> >>>> of laptops that are perfect in every way, except they use ATI and
> >>>> not Nvidia. Compared to the 3 or so I've found that have the same
> >>>> spec with Nvidia cards. All 3 of these, without exception, carry
> >>>> a huge jump in price.
> >>>>
> >>>> This situation would be much better if manufacturers weren't so
> >>>> tight with their screen resolutions however....
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for your patience. :)
> >>>>
> >>>> DAN
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
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