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Asus EEE Mini 7 inch screen laptop is a dream
NiN^_^NiN:
It runs DX great ive been playing GTA VC for awhile on it the card does quite well it is even good on WoW untill you get to an outside area with alot of movement.
If you have anything specific you want me to try i'll give it a go but it runs all DX games that have been released in the past few years half life ran great too so whatever your wanting to run its probably gonna run fine
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: NiN^_^NiN on January 22, 2008, 04:46:46 am ---It runs DX great ive been playing GTA VC for awhile on it the card does quite well it is even good on WoW untill you get to an outside area with alot of movement.
If you have anything specific you want me to try i'll give it a go but it runs all DX games that have been released in the past few years half life ran great too so whatever your wanting to run its probably gonna run fine
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That's all I wanted to know, thanks! I was thinking of buying one for my gorf machine and installing a stripped down version of xp and a custom build of dragon king. Dk doesn't need to be running on a fast pc, but it does need a video card that is fully dx8 complaint. If it'll run gta then it'll run dk no problem.
Howard_Casto:
Oh btw... if you want to benchmark the processor, fire up mame and run 1944 or metal slug 5 on it. Those particular games are about the maximum that a 900mhz pc can handle in mame.
NiN^_^NiN:
I'll try 1944 tonight for you just to see how it's running
Only bad thing about the EEE PC is it doesn't support 640 x 480 in Dx games (GTA VC) i had to use a hacked video driver to make it work.
Its ok but the hacked video driver doesn't allow you to use the external monitor as a mirror only as another monitor with the desktop extended and it also doesn't allow you to use sleep or hibernate the driver gets messed up when you wake up but otherwise it's fine
As mentioned in this thread 640 x 480 might work ok on a eternal monitor on stock drivers
Only problem i see in using it as a mame machine is the external monitor you might have to enable it each time the machine boots up (altho if u use stock driver and use hibernate that might solve the problem)
As for getting hot or battery life the battery life is around 2 to 3 hours it depends how bright the screen is and if the wifi is turned off it would be fine for watching maybe 2 standard movies
I've only used it for watching family guy around the house from the main pc and playing MAME off the main pc too and never had any problems i finished Dinosaurs and Caddalics (sp?) with heaps of battery time left.
The hotness of the laptop is pretty good it has a fan on the side that blows hot air out but also has 3 vents on the bottom of the unit
I have spent a full sick day in bed using the laptop on my chest and it got warm but it didn't get so hot as to burn but it was high up on the warm scale.
NiN^_^NiN:
Ok cause im such a nice guy :) i installed the original video drivers and set the intel software to use monitor and the LCD on the eee pc
This worked out great :) you can start up the EEE PC and it will run on the external monitor perfectly ;)
I did try out 1944 and that ran as smooth as silk and thats streaming over wifi for it aswell
I didn't try 1944 out on the external monitor sorry but i don't see any problem with that
I should remind u that altho the 900mhz celeron cpu is 900mhz on all the games that people have tested it ran at around min 1.5ghz on alot of games they played with no problem
Do you have a more intensive mame game i can try out on the eee pc to benchmark it abit better?
Only downside to installing this into a cabinet is that you need to remove a magnet out of the case so the eee pc can start while the lid is closed.
as for starting the eee pc without wiring in a cable internally inside id use a small solonoid that can just push the button on and off it would be very simple
Another option is to wire in a hall effect switch so you just have to swipe you hand under the lip of the lid to start the pc aswell ;D
If there is anything else u want tested just ask im happy too
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