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XPS 2 not as reviewed/advertised
According to www.nvidia.com the XPS2 should be getting in excess of 12,000 3Dmark 2003 points. Unfortunately I am unable to score anywhere near that am getting 11,043 out of the box and 11,127 when I tweak the system as much as possible.
According to the unit Dell sent to Tom's Hardware guides I should be getting 5,223 on my 3Dmark2005 and again am not scoring anywhere near that number either. I'm getting 4,885 out of the box and 4,915 after tweaking.
Now I'm well aware that I will not get right up to those scores when I have my system fully setup to run. However, I'm not even coming remotely close to what those review sites have said I should be getting. I based my decision to buy on them because Dell sent them XPS2 systems to evaluation. I have noticed my XPS2 is downclocked from the 450 MHz core speed and 1.1 GHz memory speeds the review sites recieved. I feel I have been mislead by Dell in that they sent out higher performing machines to review sites and sent me a slightly less performing machine. That's not what I paid for.
If someone from Dell reads this forum I am requesting that a link to download the 5.41.02.36.01 Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra Go bios be made available to me. I currently have the 5.41.02.36.A7 bios and it does not make the Nvidia Go 6800 Ultra perform as advertised. Tech support had no idea what I was talking about and I am awaiting an email response from CC. If neither work I will snail mail the corporate offices.
For everyone else be advised the Inspiron XPS2 is not as good as it's said to be in reviews.
According to the unit Dell sent to Tom's Hardware guides I should be getting 5,223 on my 3Dmark2005 and again am not scoring anywhere near that number either. I'm getting 4,885 out of the box and 4,915 after tweaking.
Now I'm well aware that I will not get right up to those scores when I have my system fully setup to run. However, I'm not even coming remotely close to what those review sites have said I should be getting. I based my decision to buy on them because Dell sent them XPS2 systems to evaluation. I have noticed my XPS2 is downclocked from the 450 MHz core speed and 1.1 GHz memory speeds the review sites recieved. I feel I have been mislead by Dell in that they sent out higher performing machines to review sites and sent me a slightly less performing machine. That's not what I paid for.
If someone from Dell reads this forum I am requesting that a link to download the 5.41.02.36.01 Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra Go bios be made available to me. I currently have the 5.41.02.36.A7 bios and it does not make the Nvidia Go 6800 Ultra perform as advertised. Tech support had no idea what I was talking about and I am awaiting an email response from CC. If neither work I will snail mail the corporate offices.
For everyone else be advised the Inspiron XPS2 is not as good as it's said to be in reviews.
- Most people will love the XPS2 check out the user 3d mark 05 scores at http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=70341 Not many if any notebooks can tough it period. Obviously the XPS2 based off what average users are scoring is a beast for a laptop. Of course you by chance you do not like it just send it back, don't worry it will not be lonely for long, someone will buy it. Oh ya www.nvidia.com at various time my push thier card scorces up abit, plus the boxes they brench most likely do not have many if any background apps running period.
Message Edited by Twohype on 03-29-2005 03:54 PM
- OK you *only* get a score of 4900 on 3DMark2005. This compares to the following DESKTOP systems:Athlon 64 3400+w/ an ATI X800XTP4 3.4GHzw/ATI Radeon X800Athlon 64 3200+w/ GeForce 6800 UltraP4 3.2GHzw/ATI Radeon 850I think you see where I'm going with this.Bob
This is because you did not LOWER your resolution. Try to lower the resolution to 1024 x 768 while testing. I would like to know what kind of score you are getting!! :D
@Dragon346 wrote:
According to www.nvidia.com the XPS2 should be getting in excess of 12,000 3Dmark 2003 points. Unfortunately I am unable to score anywhere near that am getting 11,043 out of the box and 11,127 when I tweak the system as much as possible.
According to the unit Dell sent to Tom's Hardware guides I should be getting 5,223 on my 3Dmark2005 and again am not scoring anywhere near that number either. I'm getting 4,885 out of the box and 4,915 after tweaking.
Now I'm well aware that I will not get right up to those scores when I have my system fully setup to run. However, I'm not even coming remotely close to what those review sites have said I should be getting. I based my decision to buy on them because Dell sent them XPS2 systems to evaluation. I have noticed my XPS2 is downclocked from the 450 MHz core speed and 1.1 GHz memory speeds the review sites recieved. I feel I have been mislead by Dell in that they sent out higher performing machines to review sites and sent me a slightly less performing machine. That's not what I paid for.
If someone from Dell reads this forum I am requesting that a link to download the 5.41.02.36.01 Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra Go bios be made available to me. I currently have the 5.41.02.36.A7 bios and it does not make the Nvidia Go 6800 Ultra perform as advertised. Tech support had no idea what I was talking about and I am awaiting an email response from CC. If neither work I will snail mail the corporate offices.
For everyone else be advised the Inspiron XPS2 is not as good as it's said to be in reviews.
Message Edited by ecshih on 03-31-2005 03:25 PM
- I'm getting 5197 to 5120 as 3Dmark05 scores (latest run hit 5171), hey I've got a few things going in the background (50-53 processes to be exact), you need to update your drivers. The XPS 2 is simple an awesome laptop. Oh ya if I tweak the driver for max performance I get a 5302 3Dmark05 score, obviously that's awesome.
Message Edited by Twohype on 04-12-2005 05:06 PM
Message Edited by Twohype on 04-12-2005 05:07 PM
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