Posts by PLC

Did you all catch the 4xAA/8x scores? 1400 in 3dmark03... and they said that pulled in 50 fps! so if you can score 1400 or higher in 3dmark03 with lower settings then you will be fine in fact i dont think on an 13inch laptop LCD...

furious that is POWERPLAY working all our tests have disabled powerplay and besides your results are exact opposite of ours we get LOWER performance when AC plugged in charging battery we get MAX performance on battery only,...

Dell needs it hahaha those XPS/9100 couldnt be given away

O/C birdy told me that the S170 can run at 430core/250mem fairly stable pulls 12000 3dmark 2001 3200 3dmark 03 i would never admit to doing this however since it would void my warranty

sdnotebook the extended battery is roughly 0.5 pounds heavier it also sticks out at a 60 degree angle and acts as a notebook stand it changes the aesthetics a lot and makes the laptop bulkier at a 1 end i would guess the...

My S170 boots up around 1 minute maybe a few more seconds when i have an external USB drive plugged in it takes like 3 minutes dunno why if you have long boot times disconnect all periphs and reboot

thanks oakleaf it is possible a 1.5 CPU doesnt take as much power as a 1.7 therefore you are not showing the large slowdowns like we are (also your scores are lower overall hehe) in fact i think when i have slowdowns my CPU is...

thanks for running the tests it seems that while the difference is smaller for you guys its still there... maybe i have a really bad AC adapter and you guys are getting more juice from yours ? also when i ran tests at battery 80%...

oakleaf please use 3dmark 2001 it shows CPU usage more in the overall score if you want to keep using 3dmark 03 then click DETAILS after each test and write down CPU score ignore speedswitch pls test 4 ways with ALWAYS ON...

my 3dmark 03 benchies didnt waver much either only like 150 points however the CPU score was less than half when charging battery anyway im using real-game performance tests now and no matter what setting i put for AC power plugged in...