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    Studio XPS 13 GPU misleading?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by villious, Jan 15, 2009.

  1. Aaronbeh

    Aaronbeh Notebook Guru

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    Aaronbeh, Feb 2, 2009
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  2. drfelip

    drfelip Notebook Evangelist

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    We need some gaming benchmarks :)
     
    drfelip, Feb 2, 2009
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  3. Nition

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    I got a 3DMark '06 score of 3550 on mine, using 1280x800. So I'd expect something like the 3872 result at 1024x768. So performance seems about equal to a real 9500 at least.

    I think you should always see some gain, because the NVIDIA drivers are fooling the game into thinking it's one card anyway. The game doesn't have to somehow support two cards.
     
    Nition, Feb 2, 2009
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  4. pillowshot

    pillowshot Notebook Consultant

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    AFAIK nVidia have to make SLi work for certain games. A workaround I believe in some cases is renaming the .exe of a game without a profile into a game with a profile and you should get SLi performance.

    I imagine games without a profile see negligible gains. (Hardly worth calling them gains)

    Oh, and if you have the full version of 3dmark, could you post your SM 2.0 and 3.0 scores please :)
     
    pillowshot, Feb 3, 2009
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  5. Jidde

    Jidde Notebook Guru

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    Hmm, can you please explain that again? :confused:
     
    Jidde, Feb 3, 2009
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  6. millermagic

    millermagic Rockin the pinktop

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    The Studio XPS 13 is expensive ...
     
    millermagic, Feb 3, 2009
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  7. a36

    a36 Notebook Consultant

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    but it has leather accents, that way you know it's classy and high-falutin'

    this. i'd rather see some practical numbers
     
    a36, Feb 3, 2009
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