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    which m1730?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by GapItLykAMaori, Jan 3, 2011.

  1. GapItLykAMaori

    GapItLykAMaori Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey nbr so ive settled a deal with the person selling old refurbished laptops. However I am in a dilema as he has given me 2 options.

    The first setup will be $100NZ more which is roughly 80US. So what do u guys think is worth getting?

    SETUP1
    Dual core Intel T9300 CPU @ 2.5GHz
    4GB DDR2 RAM
    1x 60gb Corsair Force solid state hard drive and 1x 500gb Storage drive
    Dual SLI nVidia 9800M GTX Video cards

    SETUP2
    Intel Core 2 extreme X9000
    4GB DDR2
    500GB storage (2x250GB sata HDDs) upgradable.
    DVD/Blu Ray combo drive. Reads and writes both DVD and BluRay
    2x 512mb Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX running in SLI

    Thnx guys
     
    GapItLykAMaori, Jan 3, 2011
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  2. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    I would go with the first one...on notebook check they rank it half a list higher. And SLI 9800M GTX beat most non-SLI/CF cards. If you bought them OEM they would be more than upgrading to an X9000 later, plus you get an SSD. :D
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Jan 3, 2011
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