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    Is my wifes 1,200 laptap a beter gaming machin than my xps 1730 ?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by hamilcar, Feb 18, 2008.

  1. hamilcar

    hamilcar Notebook Consultant

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    Bought the xps 1730 when it first came out. Spent around 3,000 on my expensive toy .Now the wife was not letting me use the Beast so went out an got her the gateway P6831x .Does my wife now have the fastest gaming laptop in the family ? So is one 8800 gts with a bad cpu better than 8700 sli with a better processor
    xps1730

    Dell XPS M1730 Saphire Blue
    T7700 2.4GHZ
    2GB RAM




    NVIDIA GeForce Go 8800 GTS graphics
    Intel Core 2 Duo T5450 1.6GHz FSB 667MHz (soon changed)
    17" WXGA+ TFT-LCD widescreen display with Ultrabright technology and 1440 x 900 resolution
    250GB Serial ATA hard drive (5400 rpm)
    3GB DDR2 667 MHz Ram
     
    hamilcar, Feb 18, 2008
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  2. Lithus

    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    Close in performance for games that support SLI. 8800m GTS will demolish the SLI 8700m GTs in games that don't support SLI.
     
    Lithus, Feb 18, 2008
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    dondadah88 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    the 8800m is one of the best gpu out so your wifes laptop would be better than yours unless the game is heavily cpu bound
     
    dondadah88, Feb 18, 2008
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  4. NAS Ghost

    NAS Ghost Notebook Deity

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    Yea, but one thing to note i think is that until you change the cpu, it will bottleneck your performance,though i do think she would win regardless.
     
    NAS Ghost, Feb 18, 2008
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    allbald Notebook Evangelist

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    As Lithus said, if SLI is supported then its close but its still probably a tad better depending on how much the CPU is holding things back.

    In games with out SLI support, the numbers won't be pretty -- you'll have almost 2x the performance out of the 8800gts.
     
    allbald, Feb 18, 2008
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