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General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> wrote in
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an.2004.08.17.04.11.20.296477@yahoo.com:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 02:44:50 +0000, -- wrote:
>
>> General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> wrote in
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an.2004.08.16.12.45.14.660762@yahoo.com:
>>
>>> The Athlon 64 is screaming fast. For a desktop I'd go with a 939 pin
>>> part which has twice the memory bandwidth and a lower load on each
>>> bus (2 rather than 3 dimms). I have an A64 laptop (754 pin, 3400+),
>>> all my benchmarking shows it to be equivalent to a 4-5GHz Xeon
>>> (depending on application). Mandrake 10.0 AMD64 edition installed
>>> without a problem.
>>>
>>
>> Which laptop did you finally decide to get?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> I got the Compaq R3000z with an Athlon 64 3400+, 1G RAM, 60G drive,
> 1680x1050 screen and built in 802.11G. The 802.11G card was free
> otherwise I wouldn't have gotten it since it's useless (no Linux
> drivers and no 64 bit Windows drivers which are necessary for
> ndiswrapper). The Compaq R3000z and the HP zv5000z are identical
> except for color. The HP cost $200 more, not clear why. The big screen
> is nice but It makes the laptop a little unwieldy, I think if I had it
> to do over I'd get the smaller screen. The one thing I absolutely
> would not buy again is the HP carrying case, it's not much better than
> a shopping bag. The case came in a bundle with a mouse and a USB
> cable, skip it and just get a third party mouse and case.
>
> I put Mandrake 10.0 AMD64 edition on it. It installed without to much
> fiddling. The only thing that required any hacking was the XFConfig
> file to get it to support the 1680x1050 screen. If you get the
> standard screen it will work right out of the box. The other thing
> that I had to do was build a 2.6.8.1 kernel to get the Cool & Quiet
> clock speed control to work. That was very simple to do. Once you have
> a kernel that supports Cool & QUiet, switching clock speeds is
> trivial, just echo the clock speed into the scaling_setspeed file.
>
> echo 2200000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed
Thanks for the detailed report. Two questions:
1) How noisy or quite is this laptop?
2) What are your impressions of the nVidia video card?
Thanks again.