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    Dell XPS 16 with 740qm processor

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by rdg05fsu, Oct 19, 2010.

  1. rdg05fsu

    rdg05fsu Newbie

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    Getting on the old man's good graces has finally paid off and he ordered me a new studio xps 16 for my birthday.I upgraded it to the 740 i7 processor. Still comes with 5730, 4 gigs ram ect. I just figured it would be cheaper to upgrade the ram at a later time and have him fork out the extra cash for the upgraded processor now.. :) . I know I'm proably not going to notice a large improvement in gaming because I didn't upgrade the video card and I'd probably get a more niticeable difference in upgrading the ram but am I going to notice an improvement at all? Anyone else have an experience with the 740?
     
    rdg05fsu, Oct 19, 2010
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  2. seeker_moc

    seeker_moc Notebook Virtuoso

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    5730 is the best video card (edit: for the XPS 16). Also, CPU is a small difference, but better than upgrading RAM. It's cheaper to buy 8 new gigs of ram, than to upgrade from 4 to 8 with Dell. Correct decision made.
     
    seeker_moc, Oct 19, 2010
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    TimeWriter Notebook Evangelist

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    720 and 740 perform almost the same, the 740 maybe is like 5% faster but this can be noticed only in benchs and heavy cpu tasks such as video transcoding, but not games. For that video card, the 720 is not a bottleneck.
     
    TimeWriter, Oct 19, 2010
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    wlfng2005 Notebook Consultant

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    I would get an SSD and upgrade on the RAM instead of the 740QM. The little speed difference does not deserve the price difference.
     
    wlfng2005, Oct 20, 2010
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