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

why does the 1730 use 667mhz RAM instead of 800mhz RAM on the mobile extreme processor..

Santa Rosa (the chipset) only supports 800MHz FSB and 667MHz ram.

Note, however, that the RAM is dual channel, which means it is (theoretically) capable of saturating a 1333MHz bus (667x2)...
This doesn't happen in practice, but the difference between 667 and 800MHz ram with an 800MHz FSB is very low nonetheless...

mobile platforms in general do not support high sped ram because it uses substantially more power for very small performace gains.

i didnt think the RAM speed double when its dual channel...

it's not that the ram speed doubles.... each module is still at 667... but the aggregate speed is effectively 1333...

it's like 2 highways with a 667 speed limit will get twice as many cars through as a single highway... though all the cars are going the same speed as before... there's just more of em.

ok

2007-10-09 23:28:07 - Bioshock (1440x900) (Full GFX Settings)
Frames: 2996 - Time: 66040ms - Avg: 45.366 - Min: 35 - Max: 66

Could you please do some OC'ing on that badboy and post the benchmarks? Your M1730 should be knee-deep in my E1705's ass. More apparent at higher resolutions maybe?

Prog or KOTOR,how stiff are the screen hinges....does the screen wobble much when open ?

My screen does not wobble at all. Its built super sturdy...super nice!

I really like this machine. Going from vista back to XP is like going from 0-60 MPH.


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I cant over clock with the dell vid drivers and I cannot find any drivers that will pop thsi baby in sli. I downloaded some off laptopvid2go and it lables my vid card as a single 8800m GT lol and my 3dmark 06 score was only 4300...

HMM I wanna over clock this but cant successfully seem to.

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All I have to say is that it is bullshit there isn't more support. You paid good money for that rig.

hahah
I havent played any games yet. But the speed in windows and dvd shrink is great! Of course my last machine was the m170 with a 2.0 PM


My m1730 3dmark06 screen res is 1440X900 (somthing like that.. cant rem exact)
and im getting 6506

Whats ur res when u do 3dmark 06???

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