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    Dell XPS GEN 2 - BEWARE MA WHOE'MES !

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by supremelord, Apr 26, 2005.

  1. supremelord

    supremelord Notebook Geek

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    Was ur score on 3D Mark 2003 and 2005 without overclocking or anything ...

    and why THE HELL can we Australians not purchase the XPS GEN 2 here in Australia !!!!

    so not cool ....

    ** Dell Inspiron 9300 ... Centrino 2 ghz ... 1 Gig Ram ... 256 Nvidia Geforce 6800 Go ... 100 Gig Hardrive ... 17 inch WUXGA screen with Truelife ... 8 x Dual DVD Burner ... Wifi **
     
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  2. Dragon_Myr

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    Be glad you can't. For a top of the line gaming machine it's really annoying to have mine crash every hour of gaming time. [ :(] Seems like the memory keeps getting too hot. I think Dell forgot it needs to stay cool too.

    Anyway, my most recent score on 3DM05 was 5524 on the 76.50 drivers and a fully tweaked version of XP. That might have included an automatic overclock so my other lower score was 5308 on the Dell drivers.
     
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  3. Downside

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    I haven't had any crashing with mine, but I did have one sodimm die on me. Dell overnighted me a new one, and been gaming away since.

    My 3dmark scores are right around 5300 or so using the 76.44 drivers. Haven't had a chance to try the 76.50's yet.
     
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    Turns out I just had a bad install of the 76.50 drivers. It's all fixed now. [ :D] Ran CSS great for 2 hours, no crashes!
     
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    Now that you've had your XPS2 for a bit longer now, what can you say about the experience so far?

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