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DELL Studio XPS™ 13 & 16 Notebooks, Finally, 1GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD4670!
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Apr 30 2009, 10:00 AM
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QUOTE I believe that the use of ddr3 should be put into consideration as ddr3 does make alot of difference. Most ddr2 laptops have 667 rams or at most 800 rams. Only certain laptops like the M1730 has 1067 ddr2. Ram performance between 800 MHz & 1067MHz is very far apart. Another plus to this is that ddr3 is able to give that performance without using much power,typically a ddr3 ram will use 1.7 or 1.8 volts. whereas a ddr2 ram would use more than 2 volts. You believed wrongly. The CPU FSB is the bottleneck here, the throughput is lower between the two (FSB and the memory bus speed). But you don't have to take my word for it, go look for benchmarks. This post has been edited by 22: Apr 30 2009, 10:01 AM
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Apr 30 2009, 10:11 AM
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QUOTE still bottleneck if the CPU offer 1066 FSB? Read up on the Intel's architecture of FSB (Quad-Pumped). Then understand the concept of DDR (Double Data Rate). You will soon see that yes, it is still a bottleneck. FSB:DRAM would be 1:2, hence CPU is the bottleneck here.
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Jun 30 2009, 06:22 PM
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You sure do have a love/hate relationship with Dell. Strange after all the hub bub, you would still consider Dell as an option.
That aside, if it's possible, just go with the highest res available on the 16", you will not regret it. If the font are too small, it is easily solved with a change in the DPI settings. Movies and stuff looks superb with a full HD res, a 768p res would not do the monitor justice.
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