Posts by DarthPierce

What he means by that is actually that a hypothetical 7 series getting 5000 and a hypothetical 8 series getting 5000 will have significantly different actual gaming performance even though their 3dmark benchmarks show them to be exactly...

Quote: Originally Posted by ghazgull013 integrated GPU's arent teh best i agree, but they do have some advantage points. For example: They are cheaper They give better battery life

100mhz bus in cpu-z is correct.. intel uses a "quad pumped" FSB... so 100mhz is 400mhz. The ram is also normal... it's DDR which stands for double data rate. so 166mhz is 333. 600-1600mhz cpu spread is also normal. it's...

Quote: Originally Posted by dougadamsfan It's amazing those were the exact words I was going to use when I saw the date on the OP. Exact words, man that's scary. Great minds think alike, or so they say....

Holy necro-post batman!

there's never a point to ocing the 7600g above 2.8 since it will throttle itself due to the heat.... (The exception I suppose would be if you keep your house/work at <50 degrees F)

Quote: Originally Posted by ferco Hi there; sorry to bore you but just a quick few questions about this awesome looking laptop: 1- how is the keyboard for typing; my bro is in Uni so has to type lots of essays; does...

Quote: Originally Posted by pdonket Just pretend that it's 2 7800GTX's together. You wouldn't go naming it the 7900GTX, you would call it the 7850GTX. Thus, you probably wouldn't call 2 8700's a whole new line of...

I haven't seen anyone else mention this possibility yet... what if the 8800m is actually just 2x 8700 on a single card (ala 7900 gx2 or whatever that behemoth desktop card was called) and not some new chip...

Quote: Originally Posted by MrEvil They're getting these machines in as fast as they can fly them across the Pacific. 6 weeks is overly pessimistic on Dell's part. When I ordered my D820 It had an estimated 15 day...