Greetings,

Just got my I8200  1.7G last week, with the UltraSharp screen and ATI Radeon 9000.  It looks great and I'm very happy with the performance.  Got a 6322 score on Madonion's 3DMark, is that on par with a system with this spec?  I ran the benchmark with the I8200 fresh out of the box from Dell, nothing additional was installed or removed and having only 128MEG of RAM.  After messing around with different programs first thing I did was reformat and loaded my own WinXP Pro SP1.

Anyway, the biggest reason why I chose to upgrade to the Radeon 9000 was the upgraded scaler I've read about on the Mobility Radeon, which supposedly improves the display on a laptop LCD panel scaling down to a non-native resolution.  So I tried 1280x1024 and fn+f7 to fill the screen, doesn't look much better than the regular GeForce doing the same thing.  I think it's because the LCD panel itself is doing the scaling and not the Radeon.  I read up on ATI's site stating that the Zoom feature is an OEM option and it's up to the manufacturer (Dell in the case) to implement that feature.  Am I correct about this?  In order to utilize the Mobility Radeon 9000's built-in enhanced scaler, it has to be activated in some way via software/driver?

I downloaded the latest driver from Dell's site, but found no reference to any of the OEM options described on ATI's site on the Mobility Radeon 9000.  Is there a modified reference driver from ATI I can use to take advantage of these OEM options?

Thanks for any info.

I8200, 1.7G, UltraSharp on Mobility Radeon 9000, 512M, IBM 40G 5400RPM HD, fixed Toshiba 8X DVD, 12G second HD, HL-DT-ST 24X CDRW/8X DVD combo drive (trying to make this the fixed drive but need part# for bezel/cover, anyone?), 40G external firewire drive.