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| Microsoft has release Vista SP1. For most desktop users this has very little effect excpet some tidying up and finishing codes. For most laptop users it does the same, excpept for the M1730. The 7GB is a very small amount to pay for the exclusive users of this laptop and the performance gained from it. The M1730 as I'm sure many of you have found out is very sensitive to certain changes, mainly graphics. The SLi never really worked properly and many thought one was better than the two. Since SP1, we have found that a lot of the code is actually for SLi and Crossfire support. Vista cannot fully use the SLI bridge, which is why there are some performance issues, however it now can and, trust, two is definately better than one.
In a gaming environment, our M1730
- 2.4GHz CPU
- 2GB RAM
-320GB HDD
- 2x 8700M 256MB
- PhysX 100M
showed very high imptovements on FPS in COD4 rising up an amazing 45% in performance mode (Average from 62FPS to 89.9FPS) and 27% in quality (42.9FPS to 54.6FPS). Crysis also shows similar improvements.
Outside gaming, the PC is a lot more stable. With reliability readings rising from 2.4 to 5.2 and steady after 5 days. No crashes and no hang ups. The only down side to this amazing story is an extra 7GB of space.
However it also cleans up codes, IE7 doesn't freeze as I know some people have found and the RAM is more utalised. So do get SP1, you can download the 400MB install file from microsoft
Happy shooting
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