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E1705 with 7900 GS review

post #1 of 12
8/12/06 at 9:17pm
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I know this particular Inspiron has been reviewed a few times, but here's what I had to say as well:

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3103
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post #2 of 12
8/13/06 at 2:34am
Good review!!
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post #3 of 12
8/13/06 at 5:23pm
Yeah. A great review & very IN-DEPTH! Definitely very helpful & useful for would be buyers.
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post #4 of 12
8/14/06 at 2:33am
Very thorough I might say. GOOD JOB! I read the whole thing
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post #5 of 12
8/15/06 at 6:39am
Thats got to be one of the most in depth reviews I've ever read,must have taken you ages to collate all that.
Exellent review.
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post #6 of 12
8/15/06 at 8:09pm
Simply great!!

My brother got one e1705 today, that's just awesome I hope get mine soon!
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post #7 of 12
8/16/06 at 2:15am
Thread Starter 

Thanks

Thank you all for the positive response. This is my first review, and I wanted to make it a solid one. Yes, it took a while (although may have used some more editing on my part), but the laptop is definitely worth the "effort". Yeah, watching 3DMark05 run so nicely and enjoying the graphics hardly constitutes an effort.
Anyway, back to Oblivion. I almost finished the Fighter's guild plot line with my mage (done with main story and Mage Guild). The game is so breath-takingly beautiful that I dread the day when I'll be done with everything and have to wait for an expansion.
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post #8 of 12
8/16/06 at 1:41pm
I ran the 3DMark03 on e1705 of my brother yesterday, at the first boot, right out the box... and I was REALLY SURPRISED! His score was ... "3DMark03 14022", JUST IDENTICALLY of AvatarK82's score, wow. I'll run the 3DMark05 and 3DMark06, I bet It won't be also the same xD
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post #9 of 12
8/16/06 at 8:11pm
Great review & welcome to the forums!!!!!
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post #10 of 12
8/22/06 at 12:11am
AvatarK82,

Great review, lots of good info.

Got a question for you (and anyone else who cares to chime in).. and a question about HDMI fo r everyone else here (since I think I've already asked you )

I've read, heard here and there that the 1705, and the 1710's Upper lcd lid, and lowering housing are made out of magnesium alloy.

Well today I ran across a write up on Anandtech, them doing shoot-out between the two units and they are saying aluminum.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Anandtech
The case has an aluminum exterior,
http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=2766&p=5

Pretty sure the above is a mistake, right?


Another thing... anyone hooked a 1705 up to a BIG SCREEN HDTV? via the DVI port? If so could you do 1080p?

I'm assuming a DVI to component "dongle" would be needed to convert the DVI to component.

Anyone done so? and what were the results? 1080p? (HDTV)

How was the audio hooked up?

The new HP dv9000(t) is going to have a HDMI port, which will allow a DIRECT digital connection between the computer and a BIG SCREEN TV, PLAMSA SCREEN, PROJECTOR.... trying to decide between one of those with the GeForce Go 7600 series gpu with the HDCP signal embedded, or a DELL 1705 with the 7900GS, the 7900Gs of course being a much faster gpu but lacking the HDCP signal.

The 7600 from what I'm reading only outputing 1680X1050.... and if my souces are right that means if will only do 720, instead of outputing at 1080 (p) preferablly because the HP outputs at 1680x1050..

DVI+HDCP=HDMI

HDMI spec having the audio and video via the HMDI connection...

http://www.dailytech.com/Article.aspx?newsid=2760


One more thing.... Anyone found a HDTV card that will work in the Dell 1705 /1710?
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post #11 of 12
8/31/06 at 11:18pm
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While I'm not an expert on material properties, I'd assume a sheet of aluminum would be easy to bend and would never be used on a laptop. With that said, the material does not feel like aluminum. Anandtech is usually a reliable source, but I don't know where they got that information.
Unfortunately, this laptop is the only nice piece of equipment I own (apart from my headphones), and that will not change soon. I'll try to find a good LCD monitor to test the DVI, but that may take a while. I'm sorry I can't help you with testing this.
Take a look at this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVI-D

According to the specs, the DVI-D should support HDTV resolutions even if it is a single link. I'm sure they would have put a dual-link DVI connection in the feature list if it was implemented.

What's the chance of SirMaximuM getting the EXACT score I got given that there are so many variables in the environment!?! Even I can't get the same score twice in a row, there's always a difference of a few points. I'm sure a statistician could pull some magic tricks and figure it out (my second stats class in college made me feel very stupid for the first time in my mathematics career).

Let me share something I found. If you are playing a GPU-limited game (Oblivion), use RIghtmark RMClock to set the CPU freq to 1GHz. When I do that, both fans stay on low no matter how long I play, and GPU temperature is low enough. If I'm running the CPU at 1.86Ghz, both fans kick into high speed in half an hour. Since the game is GPU-bound, there's almost no drop in performance.
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post #12 of 12
8/31/06 at 11:49pm
AvatarK82,
Case from other sources is listed as magnesium alloy... so I would assume it's a mistake.

On the DVI port, it's not a case of being able to display at a certain resolution... it's the fact the HDCP signal is not in the datastream. HDMI being DVI + the HDCP signal...

I'd be VERY interested in hearing from people with the 1705 /1710, or M90 about them hooking their unit up to a HDTV, via HDMI (most current TV's having a HDMI port)....



From what I've read a DVI only output machine cannot be directly connected to the HDMI port... you have to use a DVI to analog converter to convert the signal to component..

Without the HDCP signal a HDMI tv will only display a blank screen if hooked up to the computers DVI port.

I'd like to hear from owners on this issue as it's a major factor...
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