Got my Notebook at last!!! \o/

Hi all!!!

Ok, I've basically come a looong way to essentially get back to what I had initially planned on buying (though there was a lot of changing minds in between). To begin with, back a few months ago, my choice was the dell xps m1730, but as info of the 9800 series began leakin I hopped on the "I will wait to see what it does" train. Well, in a nutshell I went from being fixed on getting a 9262 with 9800GT's down to getting a 8660 because it was simply overkill for my occasional gaming spree. Then out of the blue did I find someone who sold their completely new dell xps 1730 for about half the listed price (8800 gtx sli, 4GB ram, 2.5ghz duo, 360 GB laady daadi daa)...so I just couldn't resist

Aaanyway...so far I am EXCEPTIONALLY happy, everything works perfectly, the machine is sturdy as hell, and the lights make it quite the spaceship indeed! (can't remember who said that, credit to them anyway ).

Now that I finally have a beast, I wanted to get some advice on a few tests I should run. For starters I downloaded a temp measurement software, for Core 1 and Core 0 (whatever that is) I am getting between 38-40 degrees celcius when idle (is that ok?). Please let me know any kind of benchmarks I should want to run

Many thanks in advance!

 

ammm i thought this was the sager forum....now that u betrayed sager maybe u should post this in the dell forums ;P j/k

grats on ur purchase

 

agreed, but since i basically "grew up" in this forum, I felt it justified to put it here...this is like my home...k, getting carried away now

 

Not everyday you see some one convert from sager to Dell! I salute you.

 

Yea, in the end the best cost/benefit ration is the determining factor...