Pros: This is an excellent laptop but during my first review I found two Cons that perplexed me the first 3 days I owned this laptop. I have now found corrections to these would be problems. See Cons below:

Cons: 1. The LCD display color was very gray tone and lacking color. I found the fix to this by going in the Nvidia control panel and moving the color Hue all the way to the red side then moving the color saturation to 65%. 2. An easy fix to the Teamspeak2 microphone problem was purchasing a Logitech clear chat USB earphone/mic set. Ever thing is loud and clear now.

Overall Review: I should have waited a few more days before I did my first review. Problem solving sometimes takes time. Toshiba please accept my apology, but perhaps a better manual would have avoided this grief. This now places the X505-Q870 Laptop in 5 egg country. I loaded Fallout 3 on it today and the grahics are something to behold and it runs very smooth.

Pros: Runs like a scalded cat right out of the box no overclock needed. I noticed the gpu was clocking 1.280 gighz while playing BF3 and frame rates over 100 when set to high. world of tanks the grafics are much better than my GTX 570. As a matter of fact I feel it is like a 570 X 2. Seeing things and colors I never saw before on my HP 27 inch monitor.

Cons: No cons so far.

Overall Review: I an running a intel i7 2600K at 4.6 gigs and an Asus MB which has PCI 2, wonder how this bad boy would run on PCI 3 with more bandspread? guess I will have to think about another up grade on the MB sometime down the road.

Pros: Fast, Faster, Fastest! quiet, powerful, awesome. Runs cycles around my 460 GTX. Runs Bad Company 2 from 75 to 125 FPS. Black Ops is very smooth and steady, ditto on BC2.

Cons: Only problem is the software drivers on the CD caused issues on Bad Company 2. Downloaded latest Nvidia drivers and problems went away.

Overall Review: The installation was easy, though the body is larger than the 460 GTX. Once I got good drivers installed everything runs very good. Fan runs fairly quiet at these over clocked speeds. Just running it at default values, it runs faster than any thing I have ever had before. Get one if you can.

Pros: Has been rock solid and works okay at default settings. I have used it for a lot of gamming and for the most part it does very well. see cons for one problem. You can overclock using the BIOS. The CPU Q9650 and QTX460 seem to run quite well at default speeds. 8gigs of generic DDR3 memory.

Cons: Sound system sometimes has to be rebooted.

Overall Review: My machine originally had an Intel chip-set Asus mobo, this mobo worked using the same HD and Windows 7 without having to reinstall. However occasionally the sound card causes problems, perhaps because of operating system incompatibilities. a second reboot seems to clear this problem up. I am sure reinstalling the OS would fix this inconvenience. This is a reasonably priced mother board which has filled my needs fairly well.

Pros: This is one fast laptop! It is as fast as my gaming desktop. While running Microsoft Flight Sim X at medium settings it was hitting 120 to 160 FPS with acceleration direct X on! Turning everthing on very high produced a very fast 75 FPS average. I have played COD WaW and it seems very fast on that as well. All other applications are equally very quick. By the way, I have read some bad comments being made about the Nvidia gts360 grahics card. In this computer it runs very well, FPS are as fast as my desktop with Nvidia GTS250 1gig OC, even faster on FSX. The grahics are visually just as good also, I hooked it up to a Sansung 20 inch LCD and it was really beautifull on that monitor. The BlueRay feature is nice, but you have to use the keyboard to operate that feature. Sound is pleasant and better than most laptops I have ever used. A little more base than two speaker rigs, but had to turn down the treble it was a little tiny to my ear.

Cons: I have two reasons to drop one egg off the overall rating. 1. The LCD screen while being just okay, does not have good color rendition even though it is very sharp. It has too much graytone to its display. However it did very well on FXS, not as well on COD WaW. When I plugged the 20 inch samsung moniter into it it was awsome on COD! For this much money I expect a better onboard display. 2. I use TeamSpeak 2 while gamming and the on board sound card has issues while trying to use a microphone with it. I backed up to older drivers and it seemed to work better. however it is not as loud or clear as it should be. Perhaps better drivers will clear this problem up at a later date.

Overall Review: Overall this is a fine laptop and I have been a little picky about the LCD screen, if anyone knows how to correct the color rendition please let me know. This computer is a keeper and it will be around my computer room for the next 10 years or better, I enjoy it very much.

Pros: Good replacement video card for computers that have pci-e capablities and upgrades to Vista and DX10. Runs DX9c games equal to or better than my old ATI X800XL card. Runs MOH Demo well with shader3. The grahic effects seem to be very nice.

Cons: If you are building a new machine go with a 8800GTX etc. as they will have more power for the newer games running more DDR3 interface 320-768 vs the 8600gt 128.

Overall Review: The 8600GT is a good card for the price, and is a tie over for my 4yr old machine and It will enable me to get another year or two more out of it then move on to better equipment.