My Inspiron 9300 gets around 4200 in 3dmark05... You can see in my sig that I've updated it a tad, but that still is quite a jump considering there is really no price difference between the two. Of course, I haven't heard Acer owners complain about crappy screens like we i9300 owners do...

4200 3dmark05 is nice for any notebook pc. Very cool. I will just be happy to be able to play a game in a resolution besides 800 x 600!

If I didn't mind having a 17" notebook to carry around with me all the time, I'd probably already have an I9300. But I've seen those in person, and they're just HUGE.

Happy gaming!
-Ransom

Yeah I was considering getting a i9300. It is pretty good performance wise, especially with the 6800go. That was until I realized that Dell's customer service / support sucks, Intel is an evil company, Dell's screens are always pretty bad, and the thing is HUGE and UGLY.

My new W5 just scored 984, guess I won't install HL2 the

Stock drivers on the 8104:

In 05 - 2,244
In 03 - 5,354

Will update once I get the new drivers installed.

I'm waiting for perpendicular recording technology @ 12,500rpm, 1tb with a 64 bit quad core, 6,240 ghz. 30" fold out HDTV. Should be out July '08. Also, they say Dragon should have speech recognition working by then. Do you think I should keep my Sony PCG-560 PIII 600 until then. I stil have 15% left on my 9mb drive. Of course I had to remove a lot of programs including Word Perfect which then screwed up my registry (a known bug, they say). Any advice?

I can't tell whether your being serious or not...

Anyway if ARE being serious, then my opinion is that if you wait for technology then you'll be waiting forever - if you catch my drift.

My 8101 (1.6Ghz CPU, X700 128 overclocked to 410/400, Catalyst 5.8 drivers) got 2730 in 3DMark05

Nice scores burninator. I'm glad you posted, because I forgot to post an update with the newest 5.8 Mobility Catalyst Drivers.

I'm now getting a non-overclocked score of 2537 in 3dmark05!

-Ransom

with the catalyst 5.8 drivers i get 2.576 points in 3dmark05 (not overclocked) instead of 2.377 points with the stock-drivers ...

Very cool. I didn't know what the Ferrari would get with no overclocking on the new drivers, so thanks for the info.

Nice to know our current non-overclocked scores are pretty close (you're up by about 40 3dmarks). It's been said many times before, but these are quite impressive gaming machines.

Do you know what the graphics card is clocked at (stock) for the Ferrari vs. stock clock speed for the 8104? I've read it somewhere, but I can't remember.

I have a dell i6kd with 1.6 cpu, x300 128 mb, 512 2 dimms, 60 gig 5.7k and my
3D MARK 05 score is 1219 is this any good should it be better also i was suppose to recieve a 1.8 they offered to give me 360 bucks to stick with the 1.6 what do guys think i should do?

That is pretty reasonable for an x300...about the same score as a 64mb x600 i believe. You should be able to play most newer games at lower settings. The newest games are mostly graphics card dependent, so the lower speed CPU won't make much difference. And since you saved $360...