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    Huge review coming up XPS vs E1705 (9400)

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by HexiumVII, Feb 13, 2006.

  1. HexiumVII

    HexiumVII Notebook Guru NBR Reviewer

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    I will be review these to laptops next week:

    XPS 2.0GHz Dothan
    Go 6800Ultra
    1GB RAM
    100GB 5400RPM

    vs

    E1705 2.0GHz Core Duo
    Go 7800 vanilla
    1GB RAM
    100GB 5400RPM

    I will be doing tons of benches such as:

    Guild Wars
    Sims2
    Prince of Persia Two Thrones
    DnD Online Beta
    Warcraft III
    NFS Most Wanted
    CoD2
    Half Life 2
    DoomIII
    Quake4
    FEAR
    FarCry
    Jedi Academy
    Rome: Total War
    SW BattleFront II
    3Dmark01-06


    Driverheaven Photoshop bench
    PCMark
    SuperPI
    WinRAR
    HD Tach

    So much fun! Let me know what other benches (with links to where i can get them) you want to see!!
     
    HexiumVII, Feb 13, 2006
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  2. 21st Hermit

    21st Hermit Notebook Consultant

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    HexiumVII,

    Cool, looks like a great A-B comparison.

    Hermit
     
    21st Hermit, Feb 13, 2006
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  3. Brigand21

    Brigand21 Notebook Consultant

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    Battefield 2
     
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  4. chinna_n

    chinna_n Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    I also would like to have some Audio/Video encoding benches, like DivX, Lame, and some MPEG2 with pinnacle.
     
    chinna_n, Feb 13, 2006
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