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Inspiron 9300 vs. XPS 1210

post #1 of 7
12/7/06 at 3:35pm
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Hi,
I am an owner of an Inspiron 9300 with 2.13GHz, 1GB Ram and GeForce 6800 card. I am considering upgrading to an XPS 1210 2.1 GHz, 2GB Ram, GeForce 7400 card. Will the XPS 1210 run games faster than the Inspiron 9300?
I see that 3dMark05 scores for the 9300 are higher than the 1210, which seems odd because the 1210 is newer and has better specs. How is this?
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post #2 of 7
12/7/06 at 6:59pm
The XPS M1210 is the fastest 12" notebook but you can't compare it with your 17" 9300. the inspiron ist faster because of the go6800.
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post #3 of 7
12/7/06 at 7:13pm
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Oh, ok, so it's the video card that's holding it back. I thought the 7400 was better than the 6800, hence its higher number?
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post #4 of 7
12/7/06 at 9:43pm
nope, don't we wish
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post #5 of 7
12/7/06 at 10:53pm
7400 has only 128mb vram and some other downgrades.
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post #6 of 7
12/9/06 at 9:37pm
Just 'cos the videocard has higher number does not mean it is better. The 6800 was top-of-the-line in the 6xxx series of cards.... however, in the newer 7xxx series of cards the 7400 is a low-end option. i9300 is a much better gamer, but at the moment the m1210 is by far the best 12" laptop for gaming.

Stu
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post #7 of 7
12/10/06 at 11:54am
These are 7400's specs- 4 pixel pipes, 3 vertex shaders 64mb vram

6800go specs- 12 pixel pipes, 5 vertex shaders, 256mb vram

as you can see, the numbers mean basically nothing here
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