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Some benchmarks comparing the laptop with my desktop PC. desktop (intel core 2 quad @3GHz, nvidia 9800GT 512 MB): -------------------------------------------------------- 1. 3Dmark vantage, resolution: 1280x1024, P-mode settings: GPU score: 5292 CPU Score: 11479 Overall score: P6116 same res...

^AFAIK, MSOffice doesn't come with the laptop. You get only Windows 7 and samsung software, rest all installed software are trial versions, freeware, etc.

Yes i5 3210m can go upto 3.1 and i7 3610m can go upto 3.3 ghz but only when the app is using a single thread. TS bench uses 4 threads stressing the cpu so the i5 falls back to 29.. maybe i7 falls back to 31 (instead of 33 max for i7)?

^ Are you sure about FID 31? I have the core i5 version that is supposed to hit FID 31 when only a single core is loaded. Click on 'TRL' button in throttlestop - it will confirm the same. Or is there any way to change/override it?

I get 74 degree CPU temp running 1024M TS bench. Max FID is 29. Is that all right?

^ok, maybe the new driver has lower performance for 3dmark06. Just ran unigine heaven benchmark 3 at 1600x900, tessellation: extreme, shaders high, no AA and got 19.1 fps / score 480. Temps: GPU 74, CPU: 85. Unigine heaven 3, same settings, with an overclock of +100/+100 for core/memory: 21.3...

you have the i7 version or i5? which driver are you using (I am using 306.02)

ran 3dmark06: score 13410 default settings (1280x800 res), 11881 @ 1600x900 everything else default. Played Assassins Creed Revelations for ~40 mins. Temps: CPU 94 :shock:, GPU 83. Notes: - Loading the CPU or GPU alone doesn't heat up much. Ran LinX - CPU temp never crossed 80. Ran Furmark...

ran 3dmark 11, score P2324 with latest bios update and 306.02 beta driver. I guess that is all right for the S01. No throttling at all and the cpu multiplier reached max 30.73 (I guess when it was running the cpu tests). But 3dmark11 doesn't stress both cpu and gpu at same time (gpu tests are...

Finally got my laptop - s01. Just in time to register for 2 year warranty. Installed fresh windows 7, downloading drivers now. Need to download around a GB! too slow :( Any faster way to install drivers? What's in the 22GB Samsung recovery partition? Any way to install driver from there?

still out of stock with my dealer :( He said he won't be able to get it before Aug 31 - so I won't get 2 year warranty :-x I should have got the core i7 version when it was available!

I finally decided to buy this laptop. Thanks for such a long and informative thread (took me 3-4 days to go through almost 100 pages!). I am concerned about the overheating issue but from the thread it seems most owners are ok with it except Pratyush (who probably got a defective piece?) I am...