AMD Turion II Ultra dual-core processor M600 (game)?

[Mephisto68]

hi,

im just wondering if this set up would be able to play any games at all? i see the GPU benchmarks fine for games but i dont know if it would play games even with this AMD.

link to specs.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01887287&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

link to some of the GPU benchmarks.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-ATI-Mobility-Radeon-HD-4650.13883.0.html

thanks in advance for the insights!

I have this same laptop and I play Star Wars the Force Unleashed the Ultimate Sith Edition and the game plays just perfectly no lockups or problems, graphics are amazing for this laptop at this price!!!

 

[nCoherent1]

Just for grins go to (of all places) Walmart and look at their HP dv7 3079. HP makes it only for Walmart. I ordered one last night. I looked at everything Best Buy had. There was always one or two items missing there. I'm not a gamer, but wanted a laptop to d/l my HD video via firewire and have the numbers to handle it. The HP 3079 "should" fit.

AMD Turion II Ultra Dual-Core M600 (would rather have Intel)
2 MB L2 Cache
4096 MB DDR2 Memory (DDR3 would have been nice)
8192 MB Max
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 (M96)
Up to 2815 MB Video (1024 MB dedicated) (I like this)
640 gig HD (7200 RPM) (most had 5400 RPM)
LightScribe Blu-Ray ROM with SuperMulti DVD (most had one or the other, not both)
17.3" HD LED 1600 x 900
56k modem
Ethernet
802.1a/b/g/n WLAN
Wireless
Altec Lansing with SRS Premium Sound and Sub-Woofer (not the best)
5-n-1 card reader Sony only has Memory card and SD. I needed XD)
4 USB
2 headphone out (nice for two of us watching a Bluray vid on a plane)
1 mic in
HDMI out ( nice to connect to the wide screen in the hotel and watch my HD home vids)
eSATA + USB 2.0 (great for an external HDD)
1 IEEE 1394 Firewire ( a must for HD input from HD camcorder)
Plus more....

All for $898. I researched and could not find another laptop for close to that price. It all looks good on paper, bu will half to see how it works in real life.

This post is very very old but wow i spent 3 weeks scanning forums for overheating = dragon age ultimate edition on THIS EXACT laptop...

I played starcraft 2 and a few other games for months after buying this laptop used...no problems then BLAM! the laptop just starts freezing mid-game requiring a forced restart.

I researched and researched leading me to cleaning out the dust in the exhaust port and intake around the heatsink fan...i even got explicit youtube instructions on re-applying thermal paste and did so.

now the laptop will only play with a very large fan under it...games that is...i got coretemp, reinstalled windows, rolled back drivers, checked bios, did cpu stress testing, re-seated heatsink, and so monitering the temp the laptop goes up and up while playing ONLY DAO until it gets to about 69C and laptop locks up...

WARNING: If you have the overheating issue it WILL cause your hard drive to be fried from all the forced restarts....i had to replace mine.

So...i've opened it up twice and cleaned/reapplied thermal paste and it still overheats.

Could it be the heatsink is not seated tight enough? or is damage to the heatsink causing this perma-overheat issue now?

REMINDER: It was playing fine for three months when i got it...but the blu-ray drive didn't work for some reason (only read music cd's-wierd)

I read in the forum a few posts prior to his something about software helping solve this issue!? Any suggestions?

 

[nCoherent1]

80C is fine for a laptop - as long as it's still running fine, and not artifacting or thermally throttling, I wouldn't worry.

I feel alot better now knowing that my laptop dont have any issue if its 80C while playing games. But it would help alot if someone with same laptop like Mr Drazhar will comment on his laptop temperature while playing games.

he issue i had was that the laptop started freezing when it got hot. I reset it to factory setting and after that im not having the freezing(stuck) problem even at 84C.
I installed some drivers earlier when i was having the problem. I suppose the drivers were the problem for system freeze . right ?

when your laptop was overheating to 80C+ and you said it was drivers as the issue; then you reset it to factory setting?

please explain...i have coretemp monitoring my cpu temp at all times and i have it shut down the computer at 70C to prevent damage...the computer locks up anywhere from 59C+ sometimes and sometimes it lets it get to 69C+

what drivers might i edit/rollback/reinstall or "factory settings" do i modify to address this overheating issue?