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    XPS 17 - i5 with GF GT435M or i7 with GT445?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by GreenGreen, Nov 28, 2010.

  1. GreenGreen

    GreenGreen Notebook Enthusiast

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    Let's state first of all, that all I need this notebook for is school and some games (The Witcher 2 :rolleyes: ) so I was looking for better graphic card. However from what I see, GT445 isn't so much better than GT435, so is it worth putting i7 (which I probably won't even fully use, i5 is more than enough) to have GT 445?
     
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    hlgr Notebook Enthusiast

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    The GT445 is, at least according to 3dmark06, about 40% faster. Don't know how that translates into real world performance, there are some other benchmarks in the long xps17 thread.

    I myself went for the GT435/i5 combo. Hoping that itll be nice and quiet when using the integrated graphics. Should arrive next week :)
     
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