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    Smoking Onions: 3D Mark scores on new Dell

    Larry Joe Thanks dude. Advice taken.. Jedi Knight rocks!
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    Smoking Onions: 3D Mark scores on new Dell

    I'm really curious if Dell shaves costs by using cheap parts. I'm no expert, so any feedback on evidence of this would give me food for thought on my next purchase: The following is what Dell put under the hood of my 8200 Dimension ($1500): Processor and motherboard: Intel P4 (2.26GHz) and...
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    Smoking Onions: 3D Mark scores on new Dell

    Actually, the reason I was worried was that morrowind runs at 30FPS, a bit faster now that i have the no CD crack and turned down some settings. Despite shelling out clams a few weeks ago for it, I think I'm going to stop playing this game. Getting around the game world is seriously painful...
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    Smoking Onions: 3D Mark scores on new Dell

    My scores wre for 32-bit color. With office and all the Dell "extras", I'm already up to 8GB disk usage and I've got peripherals hanging off 5 USB ports. Thanks guys for the great feedback - I was worried I'll have to fry my video card and refrigerate my box to get "average" 3DMarks!!!
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    Smoking Onions: 3D Mark scores on new Dell

    Yes, using the just released detonators 2.9.4.2 for the Ti200. The old drivers were pushing around 7,100. Hope Nvidia pays these guys a lot of money...that's as much diffrence as spending $200 bucks with Intel!
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    Smoking Onions: 3D Mark scores on new Dell

    Just bought a new PC (dudes, I got a dell) and am amazed at the 3D Marks its posting. Amazed at how low they are that is! System specs: P4 2.25 Intel 512 cache Maxtor 40gig, 7200RPM Intel 850E chipset Ti2100 64mb 512 mb Samsung RDRAM With everything stock and OCing the Geforce 3 to...