Looking to buy Portable Laptop

[Stokes]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
Holy christ that is cheap! I'd jump on it.

Beats paying dell about $300 for 2GB

I'll give it a try and see how it goes, can't hurt with neweggs service!

 

[govtcheez75]

Originally posted by: Stokes
My laptop has moved way ahead of schedule and is in the boxing phase, I don't think it will ship on May 22nd .

While looking for ram I came across this from newegg:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820231042

It has the specifications that will work in the Dell, and comes with lifetime warranty, plus we all know newegg has a good return policy if for some reason it doesnt work. G.Skill is also a good RAM dealer, as matter of fact I have some running in my system now . The price seems amazing for 1 GB. Anything you guys can spot that I shouldn't go with 2 GB of this stuff?

The reviews on NewEgg seem for the most part positive.

I think I may go ahead with 2 sticks and if problems can always return it. I'll give memtest a few runs at it.

that memory is DDR2 533....The D620 can actually use DDR2 667 which will slightly enhance the performance of the laptop.

The cheapest I've found is HERE


Oh, and I found out that "boxing" means that it's actually on it's way to the US from wherever your laptop was built, so it may spend a few days in "boxing" stage. Mine's been there for the past 3 days. They say that it will actually "ship" out any day now though.

 

[Stokes]

I wish it was a limit 1 per house hold . I wonder if the performance increase from the ram is worth the difference in price. $135 for 2GB of G.Skill DDR2-533, or 2GB of Transcend DDR2-667 for $165. So a difference of $30 dollars overrall.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820208037

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: govtcheez75
that memory is DDR2 533....The D620 can actually use DDR2 667 which will slightly enhance the performance of the laptop.

533 vs 667 won't do much. Maybe 5% in highly numeric calculations.

 

[Stokes]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak

Originally posted by: govtcheez75
that memory is DDR2 533....The D620 can actually use DDR2 667 which will slightly enhance the performance of the laptop.

533 vs 667 won't do much. Maybe 5% in highly numeric calculations.

Well if thats the case, you would pay roughly 22% more for the 667Mhz DDR2 Ram over the other, while gaining 5% . Being a poker player thats an investment I dont want to make.

 

[govtcheez75]

Originally posted by: Stokes
I wish it was a limit 1 per house hold . I wonder if the performance increase from the ram is worth the difference in price. $135 for 2GB of G.Skill DDR2-533, or 2GB of Transcend DDR2-667 for $165. So a difference of $30 dollars overrall.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820208037

there are rumors floating around stating that These Mushkin DDR2-533 sticks actually run 677.

 

[govtcheez75]

Originally posted by: Stokes

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak

Originally posted by: govtcheez75
that memory is DDR2 533....The D620 can actually use DDR2 667 which will slightly enhance the performance of the laptop.

533 vs 667 won't do much. Maybe 5% in highly numeric calculations.

Well if thats the case, you would pay roughly 22% more for the 667Mhz DDR2 Ram over the other, while gaining 5% . Being a poker player thats an investment I dont want to make.

haha....you already paid $1500 for the laptop...$20-30 isn't much. You're "pot committed"!!

 

[Stokes]

I think you may have me on that one!

 

[pcmodem]

Looks like 3 of us have now placed an order for the D620.

Estimated shipping date: Monday, May 22, 2006

Was waiting 'til Dell offered something other than the integrated Intel 950 graphics.

Ordered it with the T2400 CPU (1.83 Ghz), 1 GB RAM, 60 GB 7200 RPM HDD, Bluetooth, DVD burner, etc.

Also, ordered it with Business Standard Plan which includes Complete Care Accident Coverage; as an IT Professional, I guarantee it will happen.

My old laptop, which was a Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz w/768 MB RAM and a GeForce 440Go could barely run Diablo 2 at 640x480, and 800x600 was painful. Hopefully I can get a few games like Diablo 2 to run on the Quadro.




Cheers,
PCM

 

[Geforce man]

i have a d610 righ tnow, with 1.5 gigs of ram and a 1.6Ghz proc, and an x300se (64 meg) im really tempted to sell and get this, if only i could get a coupon to work with it . I play WoW alot, and while it runs on my current machine, it runs badly. And this dell scores about 3k+ better in 3dmark than my current one, so that would probably make it up to a durn good speed. Only thing is i wish they offered trulife with it. Or if they had the 14.1 inch inspiron, with nvidia graphics. the intel intergrated is good for batterly life, but SUCKS for games.

 

[Stokes]

This was taken from notebookforums.com:

"The Quadro 110M and 120M (D820 only) both support hardware T&L and Pixel Shaders. I was able to play BF2, on my D820 @ 1280x1024 with graphics options on Medium, only problems were glitches in the sky that I can only attribute to immature drivers, hopefully it'll be fixed."

Note the D820 has the 512MB version and higher clock speeds, naturally.

I'm still waitting on a reply from the original author about gaming with this, such as AoE3 or Civ 4, but AoE3 requirements are low for graphics so I'm not too worried about that. The fact that the author of the above quote was able to play BF2 with medium settings at such a high resolution gives me home to play at a lower resolution possible with the same settings.

PCM - I ordered mine last tuesday (9th), and its scheduled for delivery on this coming tuesday (the 16th), even when they predicted it shipping on Monday the 22nd . And I had the delay for the 7200RPM 80GB hard drive as well.

 

[pcmodem]

Stokes, do you think we'lll be able to get RedHat to install on the D620?
-PCM