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    Dell Studio XPS 16 use ddr2?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by joer80, Jan 8, 2009.

  1. joer80

    joer80 Notebook Evangelist

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    Does the Dell Studio XPS 16 use ddr2 or ddr3? I am not sure, but I am going to guess ddr2 based on the 3dmark06 scores. Does anyone know for sure?
     
    joer80, Jan 8, 2009
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  2. Ice Cold

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    Ddr3 1066
     
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  3. joer80

    joer80 Notebook Evangelist

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    I mean for the graphics card.. Sorry, should have been more spesific..
     
    joer80, Jan 8, 2009
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    Then you also mean GDDR2 vs GDDR3. Big difference between DDR and GDDR.
     
    nizzy1115, Jan 8, 2009
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  5. Ice Cold

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    its DDR3 for both dell keeps GDDR3 for Gaming systems
     
    Ice Cold, Jan 8, 2009
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    Despite having the GDDR3 GPU,only 48XX 3dm06 pts...disappointing
     
    p1990, Jan 8, 2009
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  7. joer80

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    Yes it is... I was thinking it would do better... the 3650 with ddr3 was like 4300...
     
    joer80, Jan 8, 2009
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    Sure? I thought it was somewhere around 38XX... :confused:
     
    p1990, Jan 8, 2009
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    Depends on which one, The one Dell ships in its studio 17 is ddr2.
     
    yomamasfavourite, Jan 8, 2009
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    I was refering to the one with GDDR3. DDR2 variants score around 3500max...
     
    p1990, Jan 8, 2009
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    can you run crysis or cod4 at all with this gpu? if so at what setting do you think? :confused:
     
    fxny12004, Jan 8, 2009
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    You definitely can, Look at the ton of people on YouTube running Crysis on ATI 3650 systems and even M1330's which has only 128MB of GPU RAM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XGGVbcGtfY

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2yXugjl1xs

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd4tBjoT08E&feature=related


    pretty amazing considering most Desktops could not even run Crysis when It came out.

    my ATI 3650 runs it just fine, of course Its Mainly because the ATI 3000 series uses Hypermemory and It takes a ton of my 4GB DDR2 RAM but its 800mhz and my T9400 has 6MB cache and a 1066FSB so that helps out the ATI card alot ATI's depend alot on your CPU. And CPUZ keeps showing the T9400 running at 2.69ghz during high gaming activity not the stock 2.53ghz, Its workhorse chip. I get good frame rates but on lower resolutions
     
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    cool thanks dude...
     
    fxny12004, Jan 8, 2009
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    From the recent NBR 3DMark06 comparison results: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4764

    3DMark06 represents the overall graphics performance of a notebook. Higher numbers indicate better performance.


     
    flatsix911, Jan 8, 2009
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  15. Ice Cold

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    # Dell Studio XPS 16 (2.4GHz Intel P8600, ATI Mobility RADEON HD 3670 512MB) 4,855 3DMarks
    # HP HDX 18t (2.8GHz Intel T9600, Nvidia 9600M GT 512MB) 4,127 3DMarks


    thats pretty shocking considering the P8600 vs. the T9600 as different class almost of CPU one has 3MB cache vs 6MB cache on the T9600 and yet the slower CPU on the laptop with the better graphics card came out ahead.
     
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  16. Lucky3killer

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    How can you install ATI drivers? ATI don't have drivers from their website for mobility Radeon but would work to use desktop version of driver for ATI?

    I know that GeForce offers own drivers for mobile GPU.
     
    Lucky3killer, Jan 8, 2009
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    That HDX score is screwed up, it should be at least 4500. Xirurg's got 5200+.
     
    plasma., Jan 8, 2009
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    Yea slower CPU with with higher 06 marks, looks like 3670 is actually cool, although 9600GT with DDR3 could have been better.

    How much difference between P8600 and T9400 actually?

    No T9400 option in my country yet, so "less power/heat and cheaper" vs. "higher clock/cache", overall is P8600 actually okay compare to T9400?

    Anyway I am waiting a bit longer for more spec choices and hopefully lowered price, I am going back to Australia at the end of Feb and I prefer to get mine from Hong Kong Dell, so I have like a month.
     
    Zeta, Jan 8, 2009
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    You get them from your laptop venders website.
     
    nizzy1115, Jan 8, 2009
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  20. Lucky3killer

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    Drivers from laptop vendor website could be outdated, I just ask about install latest drivers for ATI.
     
    Lucky3killer, Jan 8, 2009
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    Does ATI 3670 in XPS Studio use full 512 MB as dedicated or use hypermemory?

    There's no GPU-Z on review that what I checked.
     
    Lucky3killer, Jan 9, 2009
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    I'm assuming that you can force ATi's reference drivers to install, as you can for Nvidia's (back when you needed to), but I don't know for sure.

    I want to know this too, as obviously the notebook's worthless if you can't update the video drivers.
     
    Wolfpup, Jan 9, 2009
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    But why use them at all?
     
    Wolfpup, Jan 10, 2009
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    Not shocking at all. 3DMark06 measures the GPU.
     
    cfoo, Jan 10, 2009
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  26. Charles P. Jefferies

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    Don't put too much weight on the 3DMark06 scores, they are misleading. If you want to realistically compare GPUs, you need to look at the Shader Mark scores within the 3DMark06 score (HDR/SM3.0 and SM 2.0); the overall score takes into account the CPU, which as you can see in this post, can make a huge difference.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Jan 11, 2009
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    Or better still, look at benchmarks.
     
    Wolfpup, Jan 11, 2009
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