Posts by danton

Quote: Originally Posted by DarthPierce I've heard people say this to.... but when was the last time you saw a 300GB 7200 RPM drive outperform a 150GB Raptor Heck, find me a 500GB 7200RPM drive that outperforms the...

Quote: Originally Posted by m94mni The 4Gb on the M90 is hideously expensive! Somthing like +7700 Euro for increasing from 1Gb -> 4Gb. Probably they don't have 2G DIMMs at the moment, or have a very...

Anyone seen M90 in person? I wonder what's the display quality (viewing angles, color reproduction etc.) And another question: could someone point me to gaming benchmarks of any Quadro FX card? TIA

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/pr...dt1&l=en&s=bsd M90 M65

Quote: Originally Posted by DarthPierce yikes... that 160GB drive is only 4200 RPM AFAIK, there are currently no 5400 or 7200 2.5inch drives of this capacity. Also, I read somewhere that high capacity (or,...

Still prefer ICQ

CoreDuo T2500 = 2.0 GHz The article doesn't say about memory of CoreDuo. The X2 system had a gigabyte of dual-channel DDR2-667. CoreDuo = 272 points/GHz X2 = 260 points/GHz

Quote: Originally Posted by Xarthan not entirely true, a T2600 is only a 600 dollar upgrade, so it can be priced at 1.9K minimum. As far as I can see on US Dell site, it can be configured even for less with...

The bulk of the price of the HP comes from T2600 processor. 9400 with a T2600 is also around $2.5K.

Processor-wise, these two machines as configured are probably very close with Sager/AMD 4400+ @ 2.2GHz having a slight edge over Dell/Duo @2.16GHz. What's much more important for gaming is graphics card. Sager is 7800GTX while Dell is...