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Ok it appears that my gpu bios is older then some others: Standard version: BIOS date/time: 12/14/10, 17:33: BIOS version string: 113-C29604-101 AtomBios version: ATOMBIOSBK-ATI VER013.010.000.009.039462 My version: BIOS date/time: 12/13/10,14:49: BIOS version string: 113-C29604-101 AtomBios version: ATOMBIOSBK-ATI VER013.010.000.009.039364 If anyone is interested in the "older version" and in my case stabler - see attached. 6970bios.zip

At the ripe old age of 47, I might be able to lay claim to the title of Official Fossil of Tech|Inferno. Most of you guys were barely out of diapers when I was busy peeking and poking random values into the memory of a Radio Shack TRS-80 to see if I could make it go KA-BOOM! Not much has changed since then. Now I am too old to play any games that move faster than Pong. I am glad that I've been able to help some of you guys get some decent frame rates out of your laptops and set a few world records along the way.

techbear, you officially have the most awesome location I've seen for some time.

When you install furmark it creates 2 shortcuts, one for single gpu and one for multi-gpu. If you run the multi-gpu even on Windowed mode it should utilize both of them

So Brian can look forward to this! LOL! Edit: So Brian are you going to ghost ride the whip?

I really don't think the difference between the 2630QM and 2410M is big enough that it will enable the i7 chip to keep up longer... My recommendation is getting the i5 if money is tight and then you can still upgrade to a 2840QM or similar in the future, if you don't get the CPU from Dell they're quite affordable, especially in a year or two. The i5 will be good enough for a while, and whe en the i5 isn't fast enough anymore, the 2630QM won't be that much better either. Rather put the money in the 3GB GPU since you can't upgrade this yourself.