£1200 - Dell Studio XPS 16 - with ssd?

Not sure if anyone is aware or not but the 15.6" XPS 16's on the outlet are all coming with 4670 1GB cards?

Sent a few numbers to my Dell contact and they are all coming back as having the 1GB card....
 
Yaaaay mine has finally arrived!

It's amazing, it's scary at first without a hard drive because the machine is silent when you turn it on.

Installed Crysis for a laugh, plays fine on medium at 1080p. WoW works fine maxed, and bootup time is really really fast on SSD. :)
 
Strife212 said:
Yaaaay mine has finally arrived!

It's amazing, it's scary at first without a hard drive because the machine is silent when you turn it on.

Installed Crysis for a laugh, plays fine on medium at 1080p. WoW works fine maxed, and bootup time is really really fast on SSD. :)
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yi am using mine as my main computer and its much faster than my old desktop. I put that down to the SSD. Currently working in the dark, and the backlit keyboard is really cool also.
 
Izi can you post pictures please?

Also how do you manage to get the £1200 price in the first page? I can't see how it's possible with the 2.8GHz cpu and the SSD o_O
 
Izi - could you possibly run HDtune and crystaldiskmark? would love to see the SSD performance.

I am considering selling mine and getting the i7 version with SSD (its out on the US site so should be out here in about a week). Just waiting to check if the xps16's thermal solution is upto the task with an i7 as dell seem to put form over function
 
hd tune : average 143mb/s
access: 2ms
burst: 148
cpu usage -1%?!?!?

I was working when these tests took place by the way so you may get a little more than this.

the max was 196mb/sec

i take it the i7 is just a fast cpu? i am not sure if a faster cpu would help me much as its just a work machine. what do you think?
 
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Thanks Izi
wow that is pretty good. I currently have the 500gb 7200 seagate and it is not that great. I have a WD black I am going to swap in whilst I wait to see how the i7 version goes.

The i7 is a new cpu but also needs a new motherboard as the i7 cpu also has the mem controller and pci-e onboard so you just have cpu and and chipset (instead of cpu, northbridge and southbridge). the i7 is a quadcore with hyperthreading (so threads) but also when a program doesnt use all its cores it shuts off inactive cores and overclocks the remaining cores.
it should be a big improvement oer c2d but to be fair I am not sure how many people would need the extra power (I use mine as a desktop replacement and do lots of encoding so for me its worthwhle)
 
i see. I dont do any video encoding. I litterally just use VS2008/Photoshop/Office so dont think it would be worth the outlay, however this is my desktop replacement.

Like i say, its still faster than my old desktop so thats good enough for me :)
 
i havent changed anything and mine doesnt get hot in every day work.

i stayed wsith the 2.4 ghz processor, i notice most people who complain about exessive heat have the 2.8/3.0ghz versions.

overall still extreamly happy with it.
 
I have undervolted, applied AS5 to cpu and gpu. I have tried a P8600 and a P9500.
It runs at reasonable temps unless gaming (then it gets really toasty)

I will probably pick up a laptop cooler at some point.
I love this laptop and for me the external heat is the only negative
 
wakayoda said:
Just no, dell is not good for build quality
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just lol.


@ninja2000 I was wondering if they had done it on purpose. The air is forced upwards, instead of down. I had wondered if this was actually a design enhancment, as many people like to use laptops in bed/on knee etc. When the vents blow the air down there is no where for the heat to go. Many laptops die whilst on a fabric/duvet etc because of this.
 
Izi said:
just lol.


@ninja2000 I was wondering if they had done it on purpose. The air is forced upwards, instead of down. I had wondered if this was actually a design enhancment, as many people like to use laptops in bed/on knee etc. When the vents blow the air down there is no where for the heat to go. Many laptops die whilst on a fabric/duvet etc because of this.
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It would be good if that was the reason and it worked but:

a. the air intake vents would be blocked if used on a bed which would make the heat problems worse.
b. if I only open the lid 45 degrees and game on an external monitor the laptop hardly even get warm let alone hot! (internal temps drop from high 70's to high 50's).

I have also had a studio 1555 which has a similar design but allows an extra couple of mm gap between the lid and exhaust vent. That design worked efficiently and the laptop remains cool.

I am hoping dell changes the design very slightly on the 1645 (i7 version) to allow for better airflow
 
My brother purchased the Zalman ZM-NC2000B notebook cooler to use with his XPS16, knocked a substantial amount off idle and load temps. Decent notebook cooler with perfect size and design for XPS16, whole unit stays very cool which should help prolong the Mobo life :)

So from a toasty 85c load it's down to 50c maximum thanks to voltage tweaks, MX2 thermal paste and ZM-NC2000. Without notebook cooler it hits a max of 60c and whilst the palm rest area does still get fairly warm whilst gaming, it's far from hot.

wakayoda said:
Just no, dell is not good for build quality
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I'm sorry but after tinkering around inside a XPS16 I beg to differ, imo very well put together, if you ignore the slightly lightweight thermal cooling with this particular model. :p
 
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