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    M1330 Performance and Benchmarks

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by praneeth, Jul 17, 2007.

  1. praneeth

    praneeth Sanath Jaya Suriya!!!

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    Looking at the HP DV6500t review here (which has benchmarks comparing to M1330):

    It's interesting how the two laptops (M1330 and DV6500t in the review link below) with identical specs have performance that seems quite significantly different. Even the video cards are the same. Any thought? Am I missing something here?

    http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3828

    Is the HP video card underclocked in some way?
     
    praneeth, Jul 17, 2007
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  2. sesshomaru

    sesshomaru Suspended Disbelief!

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    The VRAM in the HP may be DDR2, or even worse, GDDR2. The clocks may be low to offset heat issues. Or there may be other reasons not apparent at a cursory level...
    Sheesh.. Looking at the title, I thought someone received his 1330..
     
    sesshomaru, Jul 17, 2007
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  3. praneeth

    praneeth Sanath Jaya Suriya!!!

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    Yeah, thought it was interesting though. You would expect the ultraportable to be the one that's clocked for heat issues, but its the other way round.
     
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  4. chuck232

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    GDDR2 is based on DDR2, as is GDDR3. Why would it be 'worse'?

    And since the 3DMark 06 scores are the same, I'd say a bogus run for one of the machines in the 05 test.
     
    chuck232, Jul 17, 2007
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