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Who's with me ? Who wants a XPS Gen 2 now?

post #1 of 11
2/24/05 at 4:01pm
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I do we gonna have to spend some money over ours 9100/xps but stil worth it

I am selling my 9100

it only ships after april 8th
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post #2 of 11
2/24/05 at 4:40pm
You don't think p-m sucks anymore?
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post #3 of 11
2/24/05 at 4:42pm
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well that 770 seems fastest available right now

even tho i think they could use somethink desktop processor with 3.8cpu
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post #4 of 11
2/24/05 at 4:49pm
after finding out the 6800 ultra is a 12p card, i'm not as excited. i like the look of the xps2 and its use of centrino, but a 12p gpu just can't handle the load of gaming @ 1900x1200 with 4x AA, 8x AF, vsync... etc.
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post #5 of 11
2/24/05 at 4:54pm
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Originally Posted by HULK
after finding out the 6800 ultra is a 12p card, i'm not as excited. i like the look of the xps2 and its use of centrino, but a 12p gpu just can't handle the load of gaming @ 1900x1200 with 4x AA, 8x AF, vsync... etc.
Nvidia says the go6800 ultra is twice as fast as the MR9800. A 3dmark03 score of 12,000+ isn't good enough for you?
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post #6 of 11
2/24/05 at 5:34pm
well i asked for people's opinions about running css at the native 1680x1050 w/ all high settings, no vsync, bilinear filtering, & no AA or 1280x800 w/ all high settings, vsync, 6x AA, & 16x AF... everyone told me to run at native settings because the picture would be much sharper and clear. imo, they were right.

honestly synthetic benchmarks don't mean much to me. i'm more practical and objective oriented. will the gpu run @ 1900x1200 with all the bells and whistles? if not, then why spend $3000 on a machine that can't run a game at the highest possible settings? i looked at the 2048x1536 numbers for the desktop 6800 ultra... which is the closest thing to wuxga. at that res, the desktop card chugged at about 37 fps in far cry w/ 4x AA & 8x AF i would expect the go6800 ultra to run about that speed or maybe slower.

short answer to if double the benchmark score is enough for me.... no, not if i want to play at the native res of the lcd.
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post #7 of 11
2/24/05 at 5:51pm
the numbers in this review supports my point

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2356

you can see that @ 1600x1200 w/ 4x AA and 8x AF on, fps scores for doom 3, far cry, and hl2 are ~35, ~40, ~55 frames per sec. i can only imagine what these numbers turn into when the game is running @ 1920x1200.... i guess you could run them @ that res without any of the "nice" effects... but then again isn't that the point of buying a killer gpu? to run everything at max w/ all the effects and cool stuff?
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post #8 of 11
2/24/05 at 5:53pm
Perhaps we could get whackamac to start working on unlocking 4 pipes? lol
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post #9 of 11
2/24/05 at 5:56pm
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Originally Posted by Damaged4Life
Perhaps we could get whackamac to start working on unlocking 4 pipes? lol
LOL
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post #10 of 11
2/24/05 at 7:06pm
These look sweet, but I'm sticking to my original plan - wait for the dual core P-M systems next year. My current XPS will still do me just fine, thanks.

(For the record don't take this as a knock on the new systems - I just don't feel like buying a new laptop every year...)
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post #11 of 11
2/24/05 at 7:28pm
Yep, your current XPS should hold it's own fine until next year and probably even after that.
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