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Dell XPS M1730 Gets Dual SLI NVIDIA 8800M GTX and Penryn Processor; Read the Review
Dell XPS M1730 is third best gaming laptop after 17" Sager NP9260 (Clevo D900C ) and 17"Alienware M9750. But This Dell laptop has special features that make it totally unique and different. One is SLI mode for graphics and second is it is using Ageia PhysX Card which makes the details of images and actions more real. Also, its processor is over-clockable and can adjust frequency according to your need from 2.8GHz up to 3.4GHz.
In this article you can see 3 videos. One is about the effect of Ageia PhysX Card then, you will see one video about the quality of game on XPS M1730 and another video about the quality of game on Sager NP9260, respectively. You can watch these three videos end of the article.
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Also, in this article you can find best collection of all good sides and bad sides of Dell XPS M1730 from at least 5 websites and comparison lists between this laptop and the first and second top gaming laptops (Sager NP9260 and Alienware M9750).
There is a problem about media card reader. In different websites that have done reviews on this laptop they have mentioned of 5-in-1 media card reader but in Dell website you can find 8-in-1 media card reader for this laptop.
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Dell XPS M1730 World of Warcraft Edition Gaming Laptop
In the following you can see the full specification for the best model pricing at $4,506:
Memory: 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz up to 4GB
Hard Drive: RAID Protection: 250GB (2x250GB) 5400RPM add $0; RAID 400GB (2x200GB) 7200RPM [Included in Price]; RAID Performance: 500GB (2x250GB) 5400RPM add $0; Reliability: 64GB Solid State Drive plus 200GB SATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) [add $750 or $22/month]; RAID Performance: 128GB (2x64GB) Solid State Drive [add $1,650 or $49/month]
Graphics: NVIDIA SLI Dual GeForce 8700MGT with 512MB3 GDDR3 Memory and with Ageia PhysX processing unit
Audio: 2speakers with 5.1 channel output with for true surround sound experience; Integrated Sound Blaster Audigy HD sound processing software for enhanced gaming, Music and movie experiences
Dual headphones, microphone (stereo line-in) and support for 5.1 audio out
8-in-1 card reader; ExpressCard 54 mm slot; Consumer IR
AT&T built-in cellular mobile broadband (HSDPA 3.6) [add $150 or $4/month1]; or Sprint built-in cellular mobile broadband (EVDO Rev A) [add $150 or $4/month1]
OS:
Weight: Starting at 10.6 lbs (4.81 kg)
Other: Integrated 2.0 MP camera
All Good Sides of Dell XPS M1730 are:
-Integrated Ageia PhysX Card. The Ghost Recon 2, Inferno, CellFactor: Revolution, Unreal Tournament 3, and Warmonger games get very good advantage from this facility. It's supposed to take such elements as weight, velocity, and force into account. In other words, in a game, a wall won't just be knocked down; rather, the wall will collapse according to how the character hit it, how much the character supposedly weighs, and how much force was applied. These effects also apply to items falling into water and making an appropriate-sized splash, or the ability for a soldier to shoot his weapon down stairs instead of just straight ahead.
- The 2.8-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo X7900 is over-clockable to 3.4 GHz, means it has Frequency-adjustable facility.
-SLI graphics from nVidia.
-Excellent performance numbers, even with
- Huge storage with fast rpm and numerous hard drive options.
- Offering Rapid Driver Update program
-LED fireworks coming from all fronts. It can be used to control volume, media playback and effects. The LEDs will even pulsate synchronously to music played over Windows Media Player, iTunes, and WinAmp
- There is a small gaming LCD on the keyboard deck that shows the condition of game. For example depending on the game you play, it shows a character's health and life or how many bullets you have left. Also, it shows information about your CPU and RAM utilization, with a countdown timer, stopwatch, and date and time stamps. All of which can be cycled through a button next to the display
- There are playback buttons in the front bezel and Dell's Media Direct button. Media Direct is a nice alternative to using
-Dell Quickset software adjusts the colours for each speaker and the logos individually.
-Configurable speakers to have different effects and colors
-Backlit keyboard with silver color and a white light that you can easily toggle off with a Function-key press. The keyboard is better than Dell XPS M1710 laptop’s.
The keyboard is spacious, and comfortable. The number pad is in the right way. There are large Power button and Media Direct function for access to media without booting Windows and a button to the right to quickly change modes. The XPS touchpad has been moved some to the left and it remains centered on the space bar.
- A 2.0-megapixel webcam above the screen.
-Hi-def output of DVI
- It supports EV-DO or HSDPA mobile broadband
According to ecoustics, the 26,983 3DMark03 is excellent but it is lower than Alienware Area-51 m9750 with score of 34,585! The PCmark05 of this Dell laptops scored 6,940 which is one of the best.
According to PC World:
In WorldBench 6 the Dell XPS M1730 scored 85, a very nice score, though not quite as good as Dell's own XPS M1330 notebook.
In 3DMark 2006 it scored a very powerful 8033, more than enough to run most current games to run with medium to high quality settings.
3DMark 2001 SE got blitzed by a score of 27,792.
In the encoding test it also did well, achieving scores that are beginning to show notebook CPUs are comparable to desktop CPUs. Using iTunes to encode 53 minutes worth of WAV files to 192Kbps MP3 files took just 75 seconds and in Cdex (which uses only one core of the CPU) it took 110 seconds.
According to PC Magazine:
On SYSmark Preview 2007 Overall, the M1730's scores were 10 percent better than those of the Alienware m9750, which loads Windows XP Professional.
It also finished Photoshop scripts and video-encoding tests 14 and 26 percent faster, respectively, than the Alienware did. But with all the lighting effects and power-consuming components, the 85-Wh battery lasted only 1 hour 26 minutes on MobileMark 2007 tests, though that's understandable for a gaming laptop.
3D Mark06 test: Dell XPS M1730 ( Core 2 Extreme X7900, NVIDIA GeForce 8700MGT) scored 9982 and ALienware M9750 ( Core 2 Due 7600, NVIDIA GeForce Go7950GTX SLI) scored 9595.
According to notebookreview:
3DMark06 test: Dell XPS M1730 (Intel Core 2 Duo T7700 2.4GHz, 2x Nvidia 8700M-GT 512MB graphics card) scored 8,019 while Alienware M9750 (Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 2.33GHz, Nvidia go 7950 GTX video cards with 512MB) scored 7,308, and Sager NP9260 (2.66GHz Core 2 Duo E6700, 2x Nvidia GeForce Go 7950GTX video cards with 512MB DDR3) scored 9,097 ( better than this laptop) and the predecessor laptop Dell XPS M1710 (2.16GHz Core Duo, nVidia GeForce Go 7900 GTX 512MB) scored 4,744.
According to Laptop Magazine:
Gaming scores are very good: 152 frames per second on F.E.A.R. at autodetect settings that's just slightly behind Alienware's 161 fps on its Alienware M9750.
3DMark03 test: Dell XPS M1730 (2.8-GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900, Two Nvidia GeForce Go 8700M GT (SLI)) scored 26,983 while Alienware M9750 scored 34,585.
3DMark06 test: Dell XPS M1730 scored 8,064 while Alienware M9750 scored 8,706.
PCMark05 test: Dell XPS M1730 scored 6,940 while Alienware M9750 scored 5,552.
All Bad Sides of Dell XPS M1730 are:
- Two USB ports fewer than its predecessor means XPS M1710.
- There is no an HDMI port which is odd.
- There is more expectation about the quality of speakers.
- Only one year of support comes standard, however the extended warranties are available.
- DirectX 10 performance too dependent on driver support
- There is no finger print reader
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Comparison between Dell XPS M1730 and Sager NP9260:
-Sager comes with Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (2.66GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 1066FSB) or Intel Core2 Extreme X6800 Desktop Processor 1,066 FSB w/4MB L2 but XPS M1730 comes maximum with Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900 (2.8GHz/800Mhz FSB, 4MB Cache).
- M1730 has the Blu-Ray drive option but Sager doesn’t have.
- Sager NP9260 has got 7-in-1 media card reader but M1730 has only 8-in-1 media card reader
- M1730 has LED Backlit option which Sager NP9260 laptop doesn’t have.
- The Graphics card of Dell laptop is higher.
-Sager has extra Built-in TV Tuner and Remote Control facilities.
Comparison between Dell XPS M1730 and Alienware Area-51 m9750:
-The Alienware laptop has the optional integrated coaxial TV tuner which Dell laptop doesn’t have.
- The ALienware Laptop is based on previous
- The Alienware has 4-in-1 media card reader a bit less than Dell laptop
-The Alienware has SLI mode and Blu-Ray drive and SSD options like Dell laptop.
- The Alienware is cheaper than Dell laptop.
- Dell laptop (10.6lbs) is heavier than The Alienware (8.5 lbs).
effect of Ageia PhysX Card :
quality of game on XPS M1730 :
quality of game on Sager NP9260:
4 comments:
I noticed that at one point, at the beginning of the cons section that it said that there was no bluray drive. Afterwards, however, I checked the Dell website and indeed they did offer a bluray drive. This might just be because it would send the price alot higher but I just wanted to point out that this laptop could indeed come with bluray if you're willing to pay extra.
I'd like to point out that even if this doesnt perform quite as well as the alienware or the sager, the looks alone can make up for this. In my opinion this is one of the best looking laptops that I have ever seen. I got one a few weeks ago and it is possibly the most powerful and beastly laptop i've ever had the pleasure of using.
I plan on getting one of these in 30 days. I'm replacing an Alienware Area-51m and have decided to go with Dell this time. To the guy who talks about looks making up for performance: I want whatever you're smoking. Aesthetics will NEVER make up for performance.
Does anyone know if the video graphics card is integrated or not????
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