Hehe,lucky buggar,giving the lowdown on its going to fall to you then huh.

Guess there's at least 3 of us that don't think its ugly now

You'll love it, of course....

Has anyone else ordered a 1730? I know someone asked about who ordered, but know one really said anything.

I want to order one with 2 solid state drives in a raid, extreme processor, and 4GB of memory.

But it's way too friggen much. I'm going to give a few months and see what other options they add and see what the price does.

I don't need 2 8700s in SLI. A single 512 would be good enough for me. I don't need the Physics accelorator either. Intel turbo cache would be nice.

Well when anybody gets theirs, some benchmarks would be very nice

I'm thinking about getting this mainly because once I'm off to graduate school, bringing my desktop may be a bit much. This would make things easier in terms of moving things and having room.

Oh and if say I got one with the T7700 (2.4 GHz), I'd be able to swap it out for the X7900 later if I'd like, yes? I don't plan on doing it anytime soon if and when I got the M1730, but perhaps later I might (like I did with my XPS Gen 2 for super cheap).

Of course...that's the Beauty of 'the Beast'!

Ultimate and near-infinite upgradability!

Yeah, I figured as much but considering it was an "Extreme" CPU, I wasn't 100% sure. Seemed it was but just needed a little bit of clarification.

Thanks!

what I wanna know is the m1730:

XP vs Vista in 3d 06 and games...

I hear that Vista sucks! I have never fully used it... dont look forward to it....

I'm probably going to instantly reformat...I've just heard too many stories about incompatibility with current games and barfing on framerates...even if you want to dual boot, though, you'll have to reformat, because XP must apparently be installed FIRST to dual-boot the OS's...?

hahahaha
Same here, I have just heard nothing but problems... I dont care if it looks "pretty" I want quality and stable OS.

Im prob going to reformat to windows XP Pro, then dual boot with Ubuntu...Give that a shot.


My 1730 comes in today! Hopefully someones home to sign...grrrr

Prog

If you want to dual-boot, I'm pretty sure you won't need to format. Considering you don't have much to back up, try one these guides on APC Magazine.

Dual-Booting Guides for XP/Vista/Linux

Bookmarked: thanks tons, that'll really save some time, bud...

Prog: definitely start a new thread as soon as you get your box, please, since you're going to be the first 'normal citizen' to be cranking this sh!t (Zyb's alright, sure, but he's got 'connections' within Dell, and seems to have a pre-production box with 2.4 proc instead of the 2.8...also, he's rocking Vista-only and with no reformat, as mentioned earlier). I can hardly wait to see the oc'd numbers in XP...I also wonder if there will be any REAL difference between XP and Vista with this setup (at least, on the games that Vista WORKS at all)?

Edit: Oh, shoot, just noticed the 'stock' config has a 2.4 proc as well...anyhow, it'll still be good to see Vista vs. XP on Bioshock and stuff...also, if you can give numbers from the OC of the graphics boards, you would be our god! The proc OC will likely make little difference in games, anyway, though it may cause numbers in other apps to shoot up (i.e encoding/ripping/extracting/content creation software, etc.), though these pale in importance compared to gaming numbers, of course!

Edit 2: Got it yet? Got it yet? Got it yet? Got it yet? Lol...are you at work or something?

Back to the forum after a long time.

I recieved my XPS 1730 last tuesday (bought it on Sunday Oct 30). Two days was the delivery time (impressive).
Last week, was a huge pain at work, I had no time to play with this beast until Saturday. It took a full 2 days to reinstall Vista and XP. SATA was causing problems. I had to slipstream my XP Cd with the SATA drivers.

Just loaded Bioshock, GRAW2 (got it with the rig).
I will let you know the benchmarks as soon as possible

I just got my 1730 today... and let me tell you the most important thing about it...

Vista is just awful!!!! Its by far the worst OS i have ever used... its getting close to mac.... eww

I put on XP pro and this machine is amazing!!! I am getting ready to 3dmark it right now... Ill have info on that later... In mean time I attached a pic of the puter at my shop....


O ya, I had tacos today... mmm hot sauce!


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Update guys

Bioshock at 1440x900 (everything enabled)
Min FPS: 26 (rite at the time when u first meet sister and little daddy)
Max FPS: 60
Average : 40

And this was in XP with dell's stock drivers for the video card: will run it later on Vista