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bluetorch18 · Oct 25, 2006, 11:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bcavanau

I found another ATI overclocking util...

Here is what I found.

Core clock is running at 418.50
Core voltage is .850

Memory clock is 450.00
Memory voltage is 1.80

I/O voltage is 1.80

Nice, that looks pretty normal, maybe slightly underclocked, but a big jump from what they used to be...something like 300/275

bcavanau · Oct 26, 2006, 12:05 AM

Update on wireless....

Vendor is 168C (which translates to Atheros, same manufacturer)

Device id is 0024, which I could not find a reference to anywhere...so I am assuming it is a new adapter...

Bill Gates · Oct 26, 2006, 12:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bcavanau

Update on wireless....

Vendor is 168C (which translates to Atheros, same manufacturer)

Device id is 0024, which I could not find a reference to anywhere...so I am assuming it is a new adapter...

Download v1.02 from this page: http://www.dlink.com/products/suppor...&sec=0#drivers

You may have to force-install (Pick the driver you'd like to install) if it doesn't detect it as a valid driver. However, it appears to use the same chipset so it ought to work. It is indeed an 802.11n chipset.

bcavanau · Oct 26, 2006, 12:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bill Gates

Download v1.02 from this page: http://www.dlink.com/products/suppor...&sec=0#drivers

You may have to force-install (Pick the driver you'd like to install) if it doesn't detect it as a valid driver. However, it appears to use the same chipset so it ought to work. It is indeed an 802.11n chipset.

Yes, that driver does indeed work. Displays as a "D-Link RangeBooster N 650".

FWIW, I was able to discover an access point that was previously unavailable. Even when in OS X using that driver.

Bill Gates · Oct 26, 2006, 12:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bcavanau

Yes, that driver does indeed work. Displays as a "D-Link RangeBooster N 650".

FWIW, I was able to discover an access point that was previously unavailable. Even when in OS X.

Excellent!

Zadillo · Oct 26, 2006, 12:26 AM

That's pretty interesting if that's the case, and those numbers are accurate. The original MBP's were severely underclocked, if I recall correctly (I think something in the 300/300 range).

Those numbers are still underclocked, but it sounds like it isn't underclocked as much.

If you can run 3DMark05 and 06, I'd be really curious to see what the numbers are, compared to the stock original MBP's scores.

akhentek · Oct 26, 2006, 12:26 AM

congrats on the new machine and
many thanks for the test reports here

appreciating the wireless driver link posted
downloading and keeping it for my install

my brand new 15" MBP will ship on oct 30

this has been one of my longest waits ever

enjoy the C2D power

Zadillo · Oct 26, 2006, 12:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bluetorch18

Nice, that looks pretty normal, maybe slightly underclocked, but a big jump from what they used to be...something like 300/275

Yeah, I think stock X1600's are supposed to be something like 470/470, so this seems pretty nice indeed, much closer to "normal".

bcavanau · Oct 26, 2006, 12:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zadillo

That's pretty interesting if that's the case, and those numbers are accurate. The original MBP's were severely underclocked, if I recall correctly (I think something in the 300/300 range).

Those numbers are still underclocked, but it sounds like it isn't underclocked as much.

If you can run 3DMark05 and 06, I'd be really curious to see what the numbers are, compared to the stock original MBP's scores.

Zadillo,

I will indeed run those for you...however...it is 12:30 am here, and I am heading to bed.

I tried to download them, but the downloads were going so slow, I cancelled them.

I will download them at work tommorow (later today) and install them when I get home, then post the results for ya...

bcavanau · Oct 26, 2006, 12:31 AM

Start thinking of any other questions/test you want me to run...

I will check this thread at work all day tommorow and download any software, etc...and run them all when I get home...

Thanks for being patient with me...

Good night...see you on the flip side.

Zadillo · Oct 26, 2006, 12:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bcavanau

Zadillo,

I will indeed run those for you...however...it is 12:30 am here, and I am heading to bed.

I tried to download them, but the downloads were going so slow, I cancelled them.

I will download them at work tommorow (later today) and install them when I get home, then post the results for ya...

Cool, no problem, and thanks! If it helps, I'd recommend downloading from guru3d..... they offer a lot of different mirrors, but I usually had the best luck downloading from them.

Zadillo · Oct 26, 2006, 12:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bcavanau

Start thinking of any other questions/test you want me to run...

I will check this thread at work all day tommorow and download any software, etc...and run them all when I get home...

Thanks for being patient with me...

Good night...see you on the flip side.

No, thank you! It is awesome to get such an early report about this kind of stuff.

mightymike107 · Oct 26, 2006, 12:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeef690

Yikes! That display looks worse than the old MBPs!

you're probably just looking at the picture on your old MBP!

WildPalms · Oct 26, 2006, 12:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Abstract

Did you read the post above yours?

Did you read mine?

coreymcl · Oct 26, 2006, 01:06 AM

OK ao I know this is wishful think but the signs seem to point to this conclusion. I've had my MacBook Pro 2.16 w/100gb harddrive for about 3 months. About a mount ago now while on a trip it just died. Apple says they replaced the screen, harddrive and possiblely the mother board. So I picket it up after the work was completed and got home for a few days and noticed they bent the case just above the CD opening. Which causes problems incerting a CD or taking one out. So again I take it back to the Apple store. I was told they were going to order me a new one to replace this one.

So here's the date like, Oct 9th bent reported and new laptop ordered, Oct. 13th managment sign off on the replacement of my laptop. They tell me it could take 7 to 10 business days to come in. Well Oct 27th will be the day business day mark.

I told the laptop will be shipped directly from China to the Apple store. So I am holding my breath to see if I get a new 15" Mac Book Pro Core Duo 2 with atleast 100gb and 2GB of ram.

So what should I expect to recieve? One like I already have? Or since they changed the lines already to make the new ones, get a new Core Duo 2?

The waiting is keeping me.

Corey

nicoritschel · Oct 26, 2006, 01:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by coreymcl

OK ao I know this is wishful think but the signs seem to point to this conclusion. I've had my MacBook Pro 2.16 w/100gb harddrive for about 3 months. About a mount ago now while on a trip it just died. Apple says they replaced the screen, harddrive and possiblely the mother board. So I picket it up after the work was completed and got home for a few days and noticed they bent the case just above the CD opening. Which causes problems incerting a CD or taking one out. So again I take it back to the Apple store. I was told they were going to order me a new one to replace this one.

So here's the date like, Oct 9th bent reported and new laptop ordered, Oct. 13th managment sign off on the replacement of my laptop. They tell me it could take 7 to 10 business days to come in. Well Oct 27th will be the day business day mark.

I told the laptop will be shipped directly from China to the Apple store. So I am holding my breath to see if I get a new 15" Mac Book Pro Core Duo 2 with atleast 100gb and 2GB of ram.

So what should I expect to recieve? One like I already have? Or since they changed the lines already to make the new ones, get a new Core Duo 2?

The waiting is keeping me.

Corey

You'll get an "old" CD MBP, not a C2D.

108 · Oct 26, 2006, 01:10 AM

Apple Store in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan -- a pretty damn big Apple Store, even -- didn't have the C2Ds. Oddly, they'd removed the price tag displays from all their MacBook Pros, and told me they didn't have any in stock, period. Which is very sad.

So I went to an electronics retailer where I have a point card (basically, you get 10% store credit on every item you buy); they're selling the MBP at the same price as the Apple Store; they already had the 15" and...the guy told me they'd "most likely" have the 17" in tomorrow.

Well, today is tomorrow!! So I might just have that 17" and be online at home with it in . . . four hours.

Yessssss

PODshady · Oct 26, 2006, 01:17 AM

Apple says my 15.4" Glossy Widescreen 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo, 200GB HD, 2GB DDR2 SDRAM, ATI X1600 w/ 256MB SDRAMMacBook Pro wont ship till Oct. 30... you are pretty lucky to have one now.

PODshady · Oct 26, 2006, 01:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by coreymcl

OK ao I know this is wishful think but the signs seem to point to this conclusion. I've had my MacBook Pro 2.16 w/100gb harddrive for about 3 months. About a mount ago now while on a trip it just died. Apple says they replaced the screen, harddrive and possiblely the mother board. So I picket it up after the work was completed and got home for a few days and noticed they bent the case just above the CD opening. Which causes problems incerting a CD or taking one out. So again I take it back to the Apple store. I was told they were going to order me a new one to replace this one.

So here's the date like, Oct 9th bent reported and new laptop ordered, Oct. 13th managment sign off on the replacement of my laptop. They tell me it could take 7 to 10 business days to come in. Well Oct 27th will be the day business day mark.

I told the laptop will be shipped directly from China to the Apple store. So I am holding my breath to see if I get a new 15" Mac Book Pro Core Duo 2 with atleast 100gb and 2GB of ram.

So what should I expect to recieve? One like I already have? Or since they changed the lines already to make the new ones, get a new Core Duo 2?

The waiting is keeping me.

Corey

There is probably a good chance that uou will get the Core 2 Duo... becuase I know that if you place an order with Apple and they release an updated model before your ships that you automatically get the newer version... so you will probably get the Core 2 Duo one... but I am not sure... good luck with that

bearbo · Oct 26, 2006, 01:21 AM

my atitool 0.25 beta 16 shows it's "Default (84.81/84.81)" ... is it normal?

what would happen if i click on find max core?

how do i overclock it?

thanks

mrwilly123 · Oct 26, 2006, 01:29 AM

Can't wait to get mine....2.33 ghz/3 gb/200gb basically, totally maxed out....

It's gonna get here the day before a final paper is due. Hopefully that paper decides to write itself, because I clearly won't have the time.

premodea · Oct 26, 2006, 01:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by S2NINJA

Thank you, bcavanau for sharing your experiences w/ the new MBP! and congrats on being probably one of the 1st ppl to get one!

Please let us know how the battery is after you've calibrated it properly. Although i have a feeling it's not going to be any different than the CoreDuo MBP.... but let know anyway!

thanks and congrats again!

Just wondering, how do you "calibrate" the batteries properly? Any online resources would be greatly appreciated.

macman2790 · Oct 26, 2006, 01:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by premodea

Just wondering, how do you "calibrate" the batteries properly. Any online resources would be greatly appreciated.

it comes in the manual. it's also here http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86284

topgun072003 · Oct 26, 2006, 01:55 AM

bcavanau is by far the most popular person on the forums right now. Congrats on your purchase, my room mate is getting the same machine tomorrow. Thanks for all of the tests and being so willing to post the results to feed our mac obsession.

nick004 · Oct 26, 2006, 01:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bcavanau

I found another ATI overclocking util...

Here is what I found.

Core clock is running at 418.50
Core voltage is .850

Memory clock is 450.00
Memory voltage is 1.80

I/O voltage is 1.80

Is that more than the previous model?

Oct 26, 2006, 12:05 AM	#52
bcavanau macrumors member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Troy, MI	Update on wireless.... Vendor is 168C (which translates to Atheros, same manufacturer) Device id is 0024, which I could not find a reference to anywhere...so I am assuming it is a new adapter... __________________ Brian 2.33GHz (C2D) 15" MacBook Pro\| 2GB RAM \| 120 GB HD \| 256MB Radeon X1600\| 6X DL-DVD \| Mac OS X 10.4.9 8GB iPhone

Oct 26, 2006, 12:31 AM	#60
bcavanau macrumors member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Troy, MI	Start thinking of any other questions/test you want me to run... I will check this thread at work all day tommorow and download any software, etc...and run them all when I get home... Thanks for being patient with me... Good night...see you on the flip side. __________________ Brian 2.33GHz (C2D) 15" MacBook Pro\| 2GB RAM \| 120 GB HD \| 256MB Radeon X1600\| 6X DL-DVD \| Mac OS X 10.4.9 8GB iPhone

Oct 26, 2006, 01:17 AM	#68
PODshady macrumors member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Springfield, IL	Poo on you Apple says my 15.4" Glossy Widescreen 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo, 200GB HD, 2GB DDR2 SDRAM, ATI X1600 w/ 256MB SDRAMMacBook Pro wont ship till Oct. 30... you are pretty lucky to have one now.

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Oct 26, 2006, 12:26 AM	#56
Zadillo macrumors 65816 Join Date: Jan 2005	That's pretty interesting if that's the case, and those numbers are accurate. The original MBP's were severely underclocked, if I recall correctly (I think something in the 300/300 range). Those numbers are still underclocked, but it sounds like it isn't underclocked as much. If you can run 3DMark05 and 06, I'd be really curious to see what the numbers are, compared to the stock original MBP's scores.

Oct 26, 2006, 12:26 AM	#57
akhentek macrumors member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: elphinstone, canada	congrats on the new machine and many thanks for the test reports here appreciating the wireless driver link posted downloading and keeping it for my install my brand new 15" MBP will ship on oct 30 this has been one of my longest waits ever enjoy the C2D power

Oct 26, 2006, 01:06 AM	#65
coreymcl macrumors newbie Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Dallas	OK ao I know this is wishful think but the signs seem to point to this conclusion. I've had my MacBook Pro 2.16 w/100gb harddrive for about 3 months. About a mount ago now while on a trip it just died. Apple says they replaced the screen, harddrive and possiblely the mother board. So I picket it up after the work was completed and got home for a few days and noticed they bent the case just above the CD opening. Which causes problems incerting a CD or taking one out. So again I take it back to the Apple store. I was told they were going to order me a new one to replace this one. So here's the date like, Oct 9th bent reported and new laptop ordered, Oct. 13th managment sign off on the replacement of my laptop. They tell me it could take 7 to 10 business days to come in. Well Oct 27th will be the day business day mark. I told the laptop will be shipped directly from China to the Apple store. So I am holding my breath to see if I get a new 15" Mac Book Pro Core Duo 2 with atleast 100gb and 2GB of ram. So what should I expect to recieve? One like I already have? Or since they changed the lines already to make the new ones, get a new Core Duo 2? The waiting is keeping me. Corey

Oct 26, 2006, 01:10 AM	#67
108 macrumors member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: tokyo	Apple Store in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan -- a pretty damn big Apple Store, even -- didn't have the C2Ds. Oddly, they'd removed the price tag displays from all their MacBook Pros, and told me they didn't have any in stock, period. Which is very sad. So I went to an electronics retailer where I have a point card (basically, you get 10% store credit on every item you buy); they're selling the MBP at the same price as the Apple Store; they already had the 15" and...the guy told me they'd "most likely" have the 17" in tomorrow. Well, today is tomorrow!! So I might just have that 17" and be online at home with it in . . . four hours. Yessssss

Oct 26, 2006, 01:21 AM	#70
bearbo macrumors 68000 Join Date: Jul 2006	my atitool 0.25 beta 16 shows it's "Default (84.81/84.81)" ... is it normal? what would happen if i click on find max core? how do i overclock it? thanks

Oct 26, 2006, 01:29 AM	#71
mrwilly123 macrumors member Join Date: Jun 2003	Can't wait to get mine....2.33 ghz/3 gb/200gb basically, totally maxed out.... It's gonna get here the day before a final paper is due. Hopefully that paper decides to write itself, because I clearly won't have the time.

Oct 26, 2006, 01:55 AM	#74
topgun072003 macrumors 6502 Join Date: Sep 2006	bcavanau is by far the most popular person on the forums right now. Congrats on your purchase, my room mate is getting the same machine tomorrow. Thanks for all of the tests and being so willing to post the results to feed our mac obsession.