DELL XPS M170 vs 9400 vs MacBook Pro

[dwcal]

Originally posted by: w0ss

XPS2 3dmark05 scores

7800 but you need to read German

I read German. Stock speed on the 7800 is low at 250/658. He oc'ed to 366/890 which gets it pretty close to a 7800GTX. 5443 in 3dMark05 compared to 6800 with a 7800GTX. There's no benches at stock speed, but if you multiply by the ratio in GPU clock speeds, you'd get about 3700 in 3dMark05 at stock speed.

 

[dwcal]

Originally posted by: yatusabes

Originally posted by: IHYLN

Originally posted by: yatusabes
I read reviews where the m170 is better than e1705.

some comment about the sarge 5720-V?

how is the m170 better than the e1705. can you post the links to reviews please.

http://laptops.gadioc.com/laptops/dell-...iron-e1705-widescreen-notebook-review/

http://laptops.letsreviewit.com/dell-inspiron-e1705-review

Something inaccurate those reviews. In the specs they list the video as Geforce Go 7800 GTX, but the e1705 actually has the 7800 non-GTX. I searched around, but I can't find any benches for the GF Go 7800, just the German posts in notebookforum.

 

[IHYLN]

the 7800 in the 9400/e1750 is very underclocked, just bump the badboy up to GTX speeds and you should see good numbers.

 

[railer]

Is that the only difference between the 7800 and 7800gtx? clock speed only and not pipes? I wonder if the 7800 is also undervolted so you can't reach gtx clock speeds....

 

[IHYLN]

Nvidia confirmed at CES that the 7800 GO has the same number of pipes as the GTX.

 

[FlamesFanForever]

Lots of information over at:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=36118&page=38

People are posting some good scores for the 9400 using the mobile force drivers. Just shy of 6000 in 3dMark05!!!!!

I've orderd 2 of them and should have them next week! For the price/components it's hard to beat. IMHO

There are very little reviews available and none that are comprehensive. Seems like pre production units were previewed. Should be some full reviews coming in the next week or so.

 

[RamIt]

6248 in 3dmark05 with the xps2 and 6800 ultra. not stable at those overclocked settings (526-1305)

Around 5000 stock speeds

 

[aigomorla]

uhh.. i heard dual cores have problems with games. If the laptop is going to be used for games then i would do more research on dual cores and games. Just google it. A LOT of people are having a extremely hard time getting games to work properly on dual cores. ALSO INTEL announced there dual cores had 36 known bugs and they promised to list a new bug each month? i dont know if that sounds good or not... But just do more research on your own. When it comes down to it, half the people on this post probably dont own a dual core laptop and there just trying to get you to jump the dual core band wagon.

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: aigomorla
uhh.. i heard dual cores have problems with games. If the laptop is going to be used for games then i would do more research on dual cores and games. Just google it. A LOT of people are having a extremely hard time getting games to work properly on dual cores. ALSO INTEL announced there dual cores had 36 known bugs and they promised to list a new bug each month? i dont know if that sounds good or not... But just do more research on your own. When it comes down to it, half the people on this post probably dont own a dual core laptop and there just trying to get you to jump the dual core band wagon.

Calm down about the bugs thing. Every processor has bugs of some kind and 34 bugs out of millions of transitors/logic paths is pretty good.

 

[IHYLN]

games run fine on the dual core laptop I dunno where you get your FUD from...

 

[ShellGuy]

I have heard rumors of BF2 having problems on AMD X2 systems not sure why maybe should do a bit more digging on this topic. But for the most part Dual core is the way to go.




Will G.