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andrewcamilleri
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June 1st, 2006 21:00
D820 Video Card
Hi,
I am in the process of getting a new laptop and after some research I narrowed it down to a couple of laptops and one of them is the Latitude D820. What I am concerned about is simply the video card. I have found a couple of people that are complaining about crashes that is very worrying ->
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?s=c89324f1461093c6608c0c092b449c83&showtopic=9737
Another concern is this, how does the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M 512MB perform when it comes to Vista and the new Aero interface? I cant possibly buy a new laptop that is not at least future proof for the next OS.
Games are another issue. This laptop has been tested and it has performed horribly ->
http://www.pcmag.com/image_popup/0,1871,s=1565&iid=128910,00.asp
I rarely play games, but judging from the benchmarks it looks like its one of those experiences that u should never go through!
Please help! Thanks!
andrewcamilleri
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Posted June 5th, 2006 11:00
Hi!Thanks for your helpful reply! The D820 seems just about perfect, except for this video cardproblem that everyone is having. The thing is that I need it primarily as a developmentmachine so unless these problems are ractified i have to find some other machine. Pleaseif anyone has fixed this video card problem, speak up! Thanks!- Well I bought a D620 with the Intel graphics chip (950) and in the brief time I had it (I sent it back for a refund after I experienced the screen problem everyone is talking about) I installed Vista and ran it with the aero interface with no probs.
- We had a number of display switching issues on XP. I just installed Vista a couple weeks ago and it worked great for about two weeks with whatever driver it installed by default. Then i installed the NVidia driver from dell and it was horrible. As soon as i installed it it rotated both my displays 90 degrees! after clumsliy getting that turned around, i tried to uninstall the driver which crashed and did not completely unisntall. So i tried to install again and first it said that the correct hardware wasn't there. Then it said it was only valid on a Vista OS, which it is. I had MS updates search for the driver and it found one, and i had hoped that it was the same that was installed previously. I am thinking it is not, because now i have the screen switching issue no only when i undock/redock, but when I lock my PC as well. And I can't seem to do a rollback on the driver.Come on dell, give us drivers that fricking work!
kheavy
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Posted June 5th, 2006 10:00
according to nvidia's vista site and microsoft's vista upgrade adviser, this system will run all features of vista just fine. i think that i'll upgrade the ram to 2gb before i upgrade to it, however (since the quadro can eat 256mb).
i don't play many games or use .net apps, so i can't fully address all of your concerns. i do use photoshop and flash, and this computer is a great system for that. no complaints. i default display settings are really dull, but you can fix that with the adjustments in the driver. color calibration also helps a lot - it's like night and day from the factory defaults.
see this thread for more info on 3dmark 05
http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=155297