Posts by ktme9300

If I can get around the wife, I'll sell my 1520 and pick up the M15X with the 8800M GTX and a 2.4 C2D.... that looks like what I need for portable performance. My 8600M GT stinks for shooters.

Look at my response to your other *cough* similar thread. http://www.notebookforums.com/thread210875.html

Save your money up if you want a gaming laptop. The 8800M GTX is coming into the laptop arena finally. Anything with an 8600M GT would probably disappoint you, unless it's simply casual gaming. I'm not happy with the performance of my...

I appreciate the differences you've shown between XP and Vista. I'd hate to do it, but I might throw XP back on my 1520 and give another shot to see how CoD 4 works. I've installed it before. This time I'll use Acronis to image my Vista...

It really depends on what is most important to you right now. Mobility or gaming sounds like what you are looking at. Both the 1530 and 1330 offer very good platforms from what I have seen in reviews. The 1330 is no gaming laptop...

There's a thread on the 15" Dell laptop forum under the subject of the M1530 8600GT card. It hasn't been very clear whether the 8600M GT in the Inspiron, XPS or Vostro is using GDDR2 or GDDR3. You might look at that thread for some...

Quote: Originally Posted by kboyer I run Vista on a home desktop and unfortunately I'm not a good enough gamer to feel the effects of a slightly lower frame rate in Vista - I die just as much in XP as I do in Vista... ...

Quote: Originally Posted by eclypse3demons I am not entirely sure those results tell us anything other than your machine is slower than Keypad's machine you are running a 2.0 cpu and I dont know if its the 1MB cache but...

If you don't plan on parting out and selling your rig, that's your only option. You could buy that card, get your system running, sell it and buy a new one.

Part it out and sell it. Sounds like the video card it dead. Those cards ran pretty hot.