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[Bill Gates]

So has anyone bitten on your MacBook Pro with free pirated software for ONLY $2400 yet?

 

[tekmoe]

rmrbrown, what did you do with the MBP 2.8 you bought last month? Glad I waited. Typing on my brand new i5 17".

 

[rmbrown09]

They do list the specs.

They managed 38 FPS average with all Setting son medium at 720P for Crysis with
Intel Core i5 520M 2.4GHz and 4GB of ram

Problem though is the 1GB variant being used.

hmm, well I guess that is ok.

I really hope someone comes out with an overclock tool for this new GPU

 

[rmbrown09]

So has anyone bitten on your MacBook Pro with free pirated software for ONLY $2400 yet?

yes

rmrbrown, what did you do with the MBP 2.8 you bought last month? Glad I waited. Typing on my brand new i5 17".

I sold it today. Going to have to use the money for some other things first and then rebuy the macbook (arrandale this time) next month

 

[murdercitydevil]

I guess at some point I'll make a backup of my OS X, install bootcamp, get a nice OC and flash it to BIOS with nibitor, then get rid of bootcamp and restore backup. Don't really care for bootcamp...vmware suits me fine. Although if CS:S runs fine maxed out then screw the OC, this is an MBP after all - my desktop is for gaming.

 

[maximus06]

Why does everyone keep mentioning the 1GB vs 512MB? Its completely and utterly pointless:

The VRAM of the GPU is used to store information that the GPU needs fast access to. In games, this would be textures and geometry. In CAD and other 3D applications it also stores similar data.

In games and CAD, the only performance increase would be due to the fact that the graphics card would be able to load more/larger textures & geometry.

The issue here is that the 330m is not a high performance graphics card. It is too slow to render high detail textures and geometry that are capable of being stored in 512mb of VRAM.

In other words, you will see very minimal increases with the bump in VRAM.

 

[rwdebes]

Sadly all the benchmarks they did for the 330M are the 1GB variant.

that suppose to be on the 2199u$ macbook pro..

 

[spaceballl]

I can't wait to play the original Portal (never played it before!) on my brand new MBP when Steam comes out...

 

[rmbrown09]

I can't wait to play the original Portal (never played it before!) on my brand new MBP when Steam comes out...

yea will be awesome, I just have a bad feeling we won't see the beta till 20 - 30th.

I hope they integrate the icon and quick lists into the bar on the top right (what do you call that) by the battery and bluetooth dealy. just like it works from the taskbar in windows.

 

[Yixian]

All I can say is that on the 15" 2.8GHz mbp with the 9600m gt card, the game mass effect 2 was pretty bad in the fps department (turned off all the 4 graphics options) and I just tested it out on my i7 mbp which ran considerably faster.

I still turned off all the 4 options under the gpu menu and now 95% of the game play is fluid with hardly any frames dropping. The only time it shows a little bit of frame drop is when there are 4+ enemy battles and now its more than playable!

So in other words, you can only just run a current gen game on the most powerful Apple notebook with all settings turned to very low?

Pass.

 

[TWIXMIX]

I played around with Left 4 Dead 2 on my windows partitions yesterday.

I seem to be able to hold steady around 60fps with everything maxed out, and 2x anti aliasing. Seems like this card is performing better than expected.

The weird thing is, windows seems to think the graphics card has 1300+ mb of video memory. Some issue with boot camp drivers I guess.

 

[Eidorian]

I played around with Left 4 Dead 2 on my windows partitions yesterday.

I seem to be able to hold steady around 60fps with everything maxed out, and 2x anti aliasing. Seems like this card is performing better than expected.

The weird thing is, windows seems to think the graphics card has 1300+ mb of video memory. Some issue with boot camp drivers I guess.

Which notebook?

 

[Cali3350]

Why does everyone keep mentioning the 1GB vs 512MB? Its completely and utterly pointless:

512mb to 1gb makes no difference, your right.

256mb to 512mb will make a noticeable difference though. The 330M is perfectly capable of driving games with that texture resolution.

 

[TWIXMIX]

Which notebook?

The highest end 15 inch. The one with the i7 and 512 mb of video memory.

 

[Jarcrew]

I played around with Left 4 Dead 2 on my windows partitions yesterday.

I seem to be able to hold steady around 60fps with everything maxed out, and 2x anti aliasing. Seems like this card is performing better than expected.

The weird thing is, windows seems to think the graphics card has 1300+ mb of video memory. Some issue with boot camp drivers I guess.

That is awesome news.

Can't wait to hear how the native version runs when Steam comes out next year.

 

[senor ding dong]

The highest end 15 inch. The one with the i7 and 512 mb of video memory.

do you have the 5400 or 7200 rpm HDD?

 

[mdnz]

I played around with Left 4 Dead 2 on my windows partitions yesterday.

I seem to be able to hold steady around 60fps with everything maxed out, and 2x anti aliasing. Seems like this card is performing better than expected.

The weird thing is, windows seems to think the graphics card has 1300+ mb of video memory. Some issue with boot camp drivers I guess.

Windows adds some 'virtual' video ram to your video card (Not sure why).
That's why Windows also says my GTX 285 has 2800 MB VRAM while it only has 1000 MB VRAM.

Windows doesn't magically add VRAM and Apple didn't hide any either. Do a bit of research!

 

[tdream]

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time

Ahahahahahahaha

 

[tdream]

I'd love to see Bad Company 2 on the GeForce 320M.

You enjoy watching paint dry and slideshows?

 

[TWIXMIX]

do you have the 5400 or 7200 rpm HDD?

5400 rpm HDD.

Windows adds some 'virtual' video ram to your video card (Not sure why).
That's why Windows also says my GTX 285 has 2800 MB VRAM while it only has 1000 MB VRAM.

Windows doesn't magically add VRAM and Apple didn't hide any either. Do a bit of research!

I know windows doesn't magically add VRam. I'm a Computer Science major so I do have some knowledge about computers. Also, I just noticed it quickly last night so I didn't have time to do any research. Thanks for the heads up though.


Sorry to hijack the thread, but does anyone know if I can safely update my nVidia drivers on my bootcamp partition? Or, should I wait for BootCamp itself to be updated?

 

[Cycom]

From some of the benchmarks I've seen of the 330m, it can run Left 4 Dead 2 maxed out at around 60-70 fps.

 

[amjustice]

According to that, May it is then.

Yeah Probably

For the guy who hasnt played portal before you are in for a treat, one of my alltime fav games and I think we are in for a treat with portal 2.

I cant wait for steam to come out on Mac, I think the new i7 is going to eat steam for breakfast

 

[Mirai 11]

From some of the benchmarks I've seen of the 330m, it can run Left 4 Dead 2 maxed out at around 60-70 fps.

That sounds fantastic. Roll on Steam for Mac.

 

[mdavis]

All I can say is that on the 15" 2.8GHz mbp with the 9600m gt card, the game mass effect 2 was pretty bad in the fps department (turned off all the 4 graphics options) and I just tested it out on my i7 mbp which ran considerably faster.

I still turned off all the 4 options under the gpu menu and now 95% of the game play is fluid with hardly any frames dropping. The only time it shows a little bit of frame drop is when there are 4+ enemy battles and now its more than playable!

Next I'll be testing out bioshock 2, the 9600m gt card ran that very poorly and I'm sure that the 330m will allow me to play it without much drop in the frames.

What resolution were you playing Mass Effect 2 at with the 330m?

I played around with Left 4 Dead 2 on my windows partitions yesterday.

I seem to be able to hold steady around 60fps with everything maxed out, and 2x anti aliasing. Seems like this card is performing better than expected.

The weird thing is, windows seems to think the graphics card has 1300+ mb of video memory. Some issue with boot camp drivers I guess.

Were your using the standard resolution (1440x900) 15" for this?

 

[Eidorian]

The highest end 15 inch. The one with the i7 and 512 mb of video memory.

Thanks. I'm just looking for the GeForce 320M benchmarks though.

I know my 9500 GT is enough power for the 720p gaming that I do on a secondary machine I have around. Hopefully the GeForce 320M has similar performance or even greater.