Primordial Chaos

~~~~Note: these are pics of the laptop I have, but they aren't mine. Need to find my freaking camera. ~~~~



Ok, showing my geek side. So I got a new laptop, and this thing is a beast. Yes, I named it Chaosflare. It's one of Asus' gaming laptops and I've put it through a few of it's paces and even running a graphics heavy game in highest detail and lots of things going on (die you evil undead!) er, doing homework I couldn't push it past 53% of processor use an 76% of Ram usage. And I TRIED people. I DAMN TRIED. I grabbed it at Best Buy, and it's so new it's not on their website so I can't just copy paste specs. Therefore I am cobbling together this post of all the detailed specs of the components.

First and foremost, the processor. Now, when I decided I was going to get a new laptop I loudly announced I wanted only an AMD processor. I am fully aware AMD is sucking it up on the laptop end of things, but they're kinda like a fav sports team, I support them even when they're sucking.

I wound up with an Intel. I couldn't find an AMD laptop with either everything I wanted, or everything I wanted at a decent price. Grudgingly, I admit this processor isn't SO bad.

Processor specs (copy pasted, I'm lazy):

Type	CPU / Microprocessor
Family	Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile
Processor number ?	P7450
Part number	AW80577SH0463M
Frequency (GHz)	2.133
Frequency in LFM mode (GHz)	1.6
Frequency in SLFM mode (GHz)	0.8
Bus speed (MHz) ?	1066
Clock multiplier ?	8
Package type	478-pin micro-FCPGA
Architecture
CPUID	010676h
Core stepping	M0
Manufacturing technology (micron)	0.045
Number of cores	2
L2 cache size (MB) ?	3
Features	Enhanced SpeedStep technology ?
Core voltage (V) ?	0.9 - 1.2125
Core voltage in LFM mode (V)	0.85 - 1.025
Core voltage in SLFM mode (V)	0.75 - 0.95
Thermal Design Power (Watt) ?	25

Next up, the hard drive, basic 320 gig 7200 rpm. More space than I will EVER need. (My desktop has a freaking terabyte just because and I'm using like...100gigs of that. But I might need that space one day, and it's handy when I need to back up the laptop I can throw EVERYTHING over and not worry about sorting it.)

The operating system: 64 bit Windows Vista Home Premium. I dislike Vista cause it's a fat pile of bloat, but I don't really have any options. ASUS isn't supporting putting XP on their new laptops, but my Dell (there is going to be a rant post about Dell soon) had Vista so I'm used to the things that piss me off, so they don't piss me off as much anymore.

The RAM: 4 gigs of DDR2, more than enough for me to abuse while I kill aliens/zombies/undead. Oh, and uh...do homework, yeah that's it. Homework.

The video card: Nvidia GeForce 9800M GS, 512 MB GDDR3, with copy pasted detailed specs:

Manufacturer	NVIDIA
Series	GeForce 9000M
Codename	NB9E-GS
Pipelines	64 - unified
Core Speed *	530 MHz
Shader Speed *
Memory Speed *	800 MHz
Memory Bus Width	256 Bit
Memory Type	GDDR3
Max. Amount of Memory	512 MB
Shared Memory	no
DirectX	DirectX 10, Shader 4.0
Current Consumption	60 Watt
Transistors	504 Million

The DVD/CD ROM drive: Basic do all drive, except it has lightscribe, which basically lets you label the CD using the drive. Which is good for me, because you should see all the CDs in my car that are blank and I have no idea what music is on them because I forget to grab a sharpie. I believe it supports blu ray as well.

The sound: Surprisingly awesome for a laptop, Altec Lansing speakers with Dolby digital home theater. Very VERY cool.

Extras: Built in 1.3 megapixel webcam, the LED lighting and case graphics (see pics above), face recognition software, a free year of Lojack, that stolen laptop service where the laptop reports it's location so the police can track down who stole it, face recognition logon, 802.11N wireless card (my home network is N so that was cool) and the QUALITY that Asus notebooks provide. All in all I am MORE than pleased with this laptop.

So there we have it, let me get back to killing zomb...er doing homework.

~AJ.