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Just bought my new set up, need help!
 

offline stilaktive from a place on 2004-06-15 12:28 [#01241460]
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I got HP compaq NX5000, some 'business notebook' thing. I
dunno.
It was 1.6 pentium M (cetrino)
Anyway it had two usb 2.0 ports, 4 pin LEEE 1394, and i
updated the ram to 768. It had a 5,400 rpm 40GB HD, and
dvd.cdwr. It had an integrated graphics card, (but i want to
run an open GL card as this is what max/msp needs! :O, what
can i do?) It runs xp home. I'm also going to get an
external hard drive of about 200 GB, running at 7,200rpm.
Im going to get a m-audio 410 (firewire) and oxygen8
tommorrow and i bought a 4 pin to 6 pin firewire adpater
just now.

Is this a good setup? Does having this 'integrated' graphics
card mean my cpu will be used up more? does anyone know if i
can get a grphics card for this model?

Thanks guys. (and a few girls)

 

offline 010101 from Vancouver (Canada) on 2004-06-15 12:31 [#01241463]
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How much did you pay for it?

 

offline clint from Silencio... (United Kingdom) on 2004-06-15 12:31 [#01241464]
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Are you sure it needs open GL? Wouldn't that just be for the
visual graphics functions?


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2004-06-15 12:44 [#01241488]
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no an integrated graphics card usually means that it will
eat some of your system RAM to use as Video RAM

not a good thing :(

 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2004-06-15 12:46 [#01241490]
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oh, and if it's a laptop, you're stuck with whatever
graphics it has

you cannot upgrade graphics on laptops (except AlienWare
ones, but ask brokephones about them)


 

offline stilaktive from a place on 2004-06-15 12:51 [#01241496]
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i paid about 1,200 quid i think? i pay in DHs out here i
think its equivilent.
I was checking out the specs of other music orientated
laptops in mags and it had a pretty similar set up. can i
buy an external graphics card? hehe sounds stupid.

I use Cubase SX2 and im not going to play games on it, so do
i really need a good graphics card?



 

offline ecnadniarb on 2004-06-15 12:55 [#01241504]
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Nah, don't worry about the graphics card...and yes the only
time you need Open GL is if you are using Max/MSP for
graphics...for sound you should be fine with what you have.


 

offline stilaktive from a place on 2004-06-15 13:47 [#01241572]
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ah great thanks man i was actually worried for a sec. The
thing is on my PC i have some shitty AGP pro thing thats
only 32 mb, but that fucked up and the drivers are all
fucked so god knows what its running on.
But whenever i decide to jog the screen around on cubase
really quickly, for whatever reason, my cpu meter goes way
up! i just dont want my graphics to interfer with my music
making on my new laptop. i checked the HP site and the
nx5000 has some Extreme intel internal 64 mb thingie. sounds
ok.

do all the other specs sound ok?

this laptop will be only used for music, nothing else. the
course at uni (bathspa) runs G5's with logic 6 (1 between 2
people on the first year) and the studio has some good
protools hardware. i think im pretty sorted... right only a
few more exams then ill get stuck in. whopeee. shame i never
lived in england. anyone live in bath?


 

offline clint from Silencio... (United Kingdom) on 2004-06-15 13:53 [#01241584]
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I'm sure that will be fine. The graphics take up only a
small amount of cpu power.


 

offline stilaktive from a place on 2004-06-15 14:55 [#01241666]
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is that even with a graphics card?

 

offline clint from Silencio... (United Kingdom) on 2004-06-15 15:47 [#01241749]
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I don't know what I'm talking about, I'm trying to sound
clever.


 

offline stilaktive from a place on 2004-06-16 01:06 [#01242256]
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bumpy humpy. mabey theres some laptop pros out there.

 

offline sneakattack on 2004-06-16 01:16 [#01242260]
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IEEE 1394

Pentium Ms are pretty nice processors. They still run hot
of course, contrary to lots of propaganda which implies them
to be god of everything..

Everyone bitches about on board graphics, but bear in mind
that:
1) power usage reduced
2) heat output reduced (corollary of sorts)
between these two I'd say integrated gfx are nice on a
laptop as long as you don't need anything intensive. Now
intensive doesn't mean 3D gfx--it means nasty ones, like
games. This thing still has rudimentary 3D acceleration.

Also, I would suggest removing the travel dependency on the
external drive. Extra power, extra hassle. I'd say have it
at home for long term type shit, but keep whatever your
working set of crap is on the internal.


 

offline princo from Shitty City (Geelong) (Australia) on 2004-06-16 02:02 [#01242271]
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Pentium 'n' M's....

Yum!!!

 

offline stilaktive from a place on 2004-06-16 10:00 [#01242900]
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really?
I would just like a seperate drive 'just' for recording and
samples. not worth it?


 

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