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dell xps 1730

  • 04-08-2009 12:56pm
    #1
    mehmeh12
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    Im running a dell xps 1730 with dual 256 MB NVIDIA geforce 8700 with sli enabled. Having updated my drivers i now learn that there is a upgrade available for this laptop. The new 512 MB 9800 geforce graphics cards are suppose to increase performance on new games such as crysis by up to 50% .Does anyone using these new cards know if they are worth it?


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  • #2
    Voodu Child
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    There would be a gigantic increase in gaming performance going from 8700M to 9800M GT.

    You're talking about going from a weak mid-range card to a high-end one. The 8700M is a 128-bit card, basically just a o/c 8600M GT, its performance is nothing special. The 9800M GT (or 8800M GTX, they are the same) is in a different league, it has a 256-bit interface and 3 times as many stream processors (or shader cores or whatever you want to call them). Miles better.

    That is the simple answer to your question, however, apart from performance you'd also have to look at price. Those things are mighty expensive to buy on their own. I don't know if Dell would even sell them to you.


  • #3
    mehmeh12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 921 ✭✭✭mehmeh12


    I read online in some other forums that dell do have a upgrade program for users who got the 8700's like myself...

    Still its about extra 800e or so...would i be better off saving up to get a new laptop in the future? tbh i'm suprised that dell would sell such ****ty cards with a gaming laptop.


  • #4
    Voodu Child
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    At €800 personally I would forget it, no GPU is worth that much. That is just the nature of mobile GPUs though, it's a racket tbh. ATI are offering much better value than Nvidia these days, you'd be better off saving the money and you'd get a great ATI-based laptop in the future for not much more.


  • #5
    mehmeh12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 921 ✭✭✭mehmeh12


    yes i can't help but notice that even when you buy a top of the line laptop..pretty soon theres always a new improvement in about 6-12 months... and then what you bought earlier becomes outdated.. so in the end perhaps a desktop is a better solution..ive read on boards that its quite easy to change the graphics cards on a desktop

    curios by your username is if safe to assume that you have a vooduu setup of some sort?


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