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post #1 of 3
12/16/07 at 11:31pm
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I was thinking of purchasing a Dell Inspirion 1520 but first wanted some input about how the following setup would handle games, video, and sound editing.
SYSTEM COLORJet BlackeditPROCESSORIntel® Core™ 2 Duo T5250 (1.5GHz/667Mhz FSB/2MB cache)editOPERATING SYSTEMGenuine Windows Vista® Home Basic EditioneditDISPLAYGlossy, widescreen 15.4 inch display (1280x800)editVIDEO CARD256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GTeditMEMORY1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHzeditHARD DRIVESize: 120GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)editINTERNAL OPTICAL DRIVECD / DVD writer (DVD+/-RW Drive)editWIRELESS NETWORK CARDSDell Wireless 1390 802.11g Mini-CardeditINTEGRATED WEBCAMNo Webcam OptioneditBATTERY OPTIONS56Whr Lithium Ion Battery (6 cell)editSOUND OPTIONSHigh Definition Audio 2.0edit

Also would I be able to expand the memory later?
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post #2 of 3
12/18/07 at 4:42am
I have a Vostro 1500 [black 1520]
I play crysis at either 800x600 with all settings on medium or 1152x864 with everything on low except for textures and water on high,can still be a bit laggy in some parts of the game,but reducing a setting or two will pick the frame rates up a bit until you get back to a less demanding part of the game

As crysis is the most demanding game out,you can pretty much say it will play other games better,although Bioshock is pretty similar setting wise for me,older games like far cry and HL2 play at native easily on my screen res....so you won't have a problem.

Can't help you with sound or any serious video editing,although video editing will always supposedly use a faster cpu to better effect.The sound jack has a lot of people complaining about noise with headphones....I don't use headphones but logitech X2300 2.1 speakers,and I don't notice any noise,but then I'm probably suffering a bit of industrial deafness

Yes you can add more memory and you would probably want to with a hog like Vista,even with XP I would recommend 2GB of ram if playing games etc.
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post #3 of 3
2/2/08 at 7:08am
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I was thinking of purchasing a Dell Inspirion 1520 but first wanted some input about how the following setup would handle games, video, and sound editing.
SYSTEM COLORJet BlackeditPROCESSORIntel® Core™ 2 Duo T5250 (1.5GHz/667Mhz FSB/2MB cache)editOPERATING SYSTEMGenuine Windows Vista® Home Basic EditioneditDISPLAYGlossy, widescreen 15.4 inch display (1280x800)editVIDEO CARD256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GTeditMEMORY1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHzeditHARD DRIVESize: 120GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)editINTERNAL OPTICAL DRIVECD / DVD writer (DVD+/-RW Drive)editWIRELESS NETWORK CARDSDell Wireless 1390 802.11g Mini-CardeditINTEGRATED WEBCAMNo Webcam OptioneditBATTERY OPTIONS56Whr Lithium Ion Battery (6 cell)editSOUND OPTIONSHigh Definition Audio 2.0edit

Also would I be able to expand the memory later?
I would edge more toward the xps m1530. Costs about the same as the 1520 and scores much higher on the 3dbenchmarks. IE 3dmark2006 the standard 1520 scores around 3000 vs m1530xps 4000 points. Kind of strange since they both use the same graphic card. I've read on other posts that the reason for this maybe that the M1530graphics uses GDDR3 memory where as the 1520 card is only GDDR2 .

If by memory you mean Ram then yes it's easily upgradeable just don't buy from Dell because you'll pay top dollar. In terms of Graphic card then the 8600Gt is as far as you can go for that model. It's a very capable mainstream card, should play most games well.It's certainly a quantum leap from the likes of the x1400 that dell used to offer in the 1505 the predecessor t o the 1520.. As the other poster stated 2gbRam min for gaming these days Dell usually offers 2gb-3gb of Ram standard with their bundles ....

In summary if you can't afford the extra for the m1530 then your 1520 should rock with 2gb of ram and a 8600Gt card..
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