Posts by Adam84

I absolutely recommend the 8600 over the 5150. I've owned both! I had the 5150 for about 9 months before I got tired of sending it back to Dell for problem after problem. I personally think the 5150 has a deplorable design. It lacks...

Oh...well this is confusing... I downloaded the new Sandra (SP2/2004.8.9.131) and it gave me 8628. It seems they've changed their test or something. Anyhow, SP2 has tests for the P-M and it seems I beat their 2,0 Dothan rig by a...

Am I doing something wrong? I have an identical system to the author of this thread except for having XP Pro and I get 6277 for ALU. Curiously, I get about the same results as he does on everything else, but my ALU is very low. Yes I...

I asked because I wanted to know if this is the norm. I already have a replacement on the way because I haven't much choice in the matter, essentially. I *know* that it's very difficult to get it spot-on. I work for a company that...

SpeedSwitch reads 1.993GHz. Hopefully someone will run wcpuid and tell me what they end up with. I realise there are variations (due to variations in the chip logic and other such things), but it is apparently far off enough to cause...

I have a 2,00GHz Inspiron 8600. It shows up as 1,99GHz under properties. I decided to check using wcpuid (found at www.h-oda.com). It shows that the FSB is running at 99,68MHz. This seemed a bit far off spec, to me, and so I tried my...

Oh yeah, wcpuid can be found at www.h-oda.com

Hi guys, I'm wondering what you guys get with wcpuid on the Inspiron 8600 and wcpuid, particularly those with the 2,0GHz model. If someone can help me out, it'd be muchly appreciated. Mine is showing a 99,68MHz bus speed which...

Quote: Originally Posted by Okle wow this seems like a pretty bad design for the 5150... haha now i get to laugh at my math teacher when i go back to school, back get him an echo indigo as an xmas present....

Well that's good that some people have had good experience with the 5150. I am currently returning mine to Dell and exchanging it (plus some extra $$$) for an 8600. I got tired of sending it back to the service centre only to have it...