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    Worried about my new M1730 performance

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by drfxeelgood, Sep 21, 2009.

  1. drfxeelgood

    drfxeelgood Notebook Guru

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    I have had a series of dell laptops, frist being the inspiron 9300 or 9100..i think...that one died of overheating after 3 and a half years, then the last xps m1510 died of overheating, 3 years again...maybe im stupid but i got an xps m1730 last week, however a little worried about the performance of it, people are saying there getting 11k plus out of 3d mark 06, i just ran it and got 10,345. Also got a 3D Mark vantage score of P9007,ran these tests on the most recent nvidia driver direct from the websitem, no virus scanning or zone alarm running. is this a decent score?

    spec is
    Smoke Grey with White LED Backlights
    Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T8300 (2.40 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 3 MB L2 cache) 1
    Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium SP1 (64 BIT) - English 1
    17.0" UltraSharp™ WUXGA (1920x1200) TFT with TrueLife™ with Integrated 2.0MP web cam 1
    4096MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x2048] 1
    320GB Free Fall Sensor (7200RPM) Hard Drive 1
    Dual SLI™ 512MB nVidia® GeForce™ 9800GT graphics card


    thanks guys
     
    drfxeelgood, Sep 21, 2009
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  2. claxdog

    claxdog Notebook Evangelist

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    with my 1730 in sig i get about 9600+- in 06 and about 8400 in vantage. so i say its about right most of those 11000+ scores are due to the extreme cpu.
     
    claxdog, Sep 21, 2009
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