Dell Vostro 1500
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Seconded, I can run WoW and LOTRO at full settings on my Vostro 1700/8600M GT
What cpu speed would you guys recommend, as I'm looking to get my vostro soon. Top vostro 1500 seems to be out of stockSeconded, I can run WoW and LOTRO at full settings on my Vostro 1700/8600M GT
so might get the 1700
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Hello all, me again. Came home from work and the Vostro was here. It's fantastic. Not as heavy as some have made out and the 1280x800 screen is bright and very sharp, no worries at all on that front. I haven't loaded any 3d mark programmes or any actual games to test it out, I've just put on AVG and Zone alarm and been around a few websites checking out the quality of the screen and its great. Lovely fast machine.
Depends what it's going to be used for and how much you want to pay, but the penryns use less power and generate less heat (T8xx/T9xx series are all penryns I believe). Got the T8300 myself (2.4 GHz, 3mb cache) and I'm very impressed with how it runs SupCom (probably the most CPU demanding game around short of flight sims).What cpu speed would you guys recommend, as I'm looking to get my vostro soon. Top vostro 1500 seems to be out of stock
Yeah it's no heavier than your average 15" notebook, just it's not lighter either like say an XPS, but you pay more for that.
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take into account theres not that much difference between a lot of the speeds, the minimums 1.6 and the max is 2.4 isnt it? its not exactly a shocking amount of horsepower you will miss, you get the extra power at a premium after a certain point.
Iv got the 1.8, which is the same clock speed as my c2d main rig, I dont see a difference as far as thats concerned, my 8800gts pulls away from the laptop's 8600GT though noticably, only game that the vostros struggled with so far is pro evo 08.. but thats not really fair, cos its a badly coded game on all platforms.
Iv got the 1.8, which is the same clock speed as my c2d main rig, I dont see a difference as far as thats concerned, my 8800gts pulls away from the laptop's 8600GT though noticably, only game that the vostros struggled with so far is pro evo 08.. but thats not really fair, cos its a badly coded game on all platforms.
Yeah I just want to make sure that cpu won't be limiting factor and I'm not that keen to get a lower clockspeed than my 3500+ which is 2.2ghz
Limiting factor in what though - games? 8600M GT 256mb is by no means a fast card by todays standard, especially with the DDR2 (I'm not knocking it btw, it does a good job and let's you play just about anything). You're talking 3900 in 3DMark06 whereas the latest mid-sector desktop card (9600 GT) gets more than double that. So you don't need much of a CPU to get the best out of it for gaming IMO, except in special cases of particular games which need a lot of CPU horsepower.
As for CPU power it's not just about clockspeeds, a single core of a C2D @ 1.8 is probably faster than an A64 @ 2.2, and you're getting two of them (3500+ isn't dual core right?). I'm basing that on these CPU benchmarks-
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/...,1219,1318,1316,1317,1314,1315,1218,1310,1311
as said above, you cant compare core2duos to athlons now, its like you couldnt directly compare athlons to p3/4 clockspeeds, hence why they are named like that.
For starters the dualcore would be faster than a 2.2 at exact same clocks due to the fact you can load everything off onto 1 core, being O/S etc etc with the game having the full other core to play with.
I had a 3500+ before i moved to my c2d 1.8 desktop, my mate now has the 3500 desktop, I want to emphasise that my vostro absolutely tears his desktop apart in sheer performance. The one bottleneck/crippling factor of the vostro is the 8600GT due to the ddr2 memory. Even then it gets a adequate level of performance.
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Just ordered myself a Vostro 1510. Estimated delivery date is 03/06/08
Just ordered myself a Vostro 1510. Estimated delivery date is 03/06/08
First time I've seen them, look cool.
Even at standard spec with T8100 and 1440x900 its £580 good price!
I thought the 8400 were 128mb? unless there different 8400's to the ones that come in the vostro 1500.
How did you choose that processor, it only lets me choose
ntel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7250 (2.00 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 2 MB L2-cache) thats the highest speed apparantly
EDIT, ahh nvm I was looking at the second Vostro 1500 option but the only graphics option available is
Integrated Intel® Graphic Media Accelerator X3100 [Included in Price] on all three options
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Anyone play Supreme Commander on the 1500 often? Looking for the 'best' settings to get the most out of the game...running 2Gb and 2.2Ghz..
Just ordered myself a Vostro 1510. Estimated delivery date is 03/06/08
I ordered one last Tuesday - they quoted me 2 weeks+ delivery time, then it turned up on Friday
Take the delivery date with a pinch of salt (and don't blame me if it doesn't turn up till July!)
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I ordered one last Tuesday - they quoted me 2 weeks+ delivery time, then it turned up on Friday
:O That's awesome, if it turns up within 2 weeks or so i'll be chuffed
Yeah, it runs really well (see sig for spec), most settings on medium, shadows on low, although none of that makes the game look hugely worse (versus running everything on full on my desktop). I played the whole of the single player UEF campaign on my 1500 and some 20*20 skirmishes versus supreme AI and it was never unplayable. The T8300 does a really good job when there's tons of units, pretty much comparable to the E6750 in my desktop. I'm running XP btw. The 8600 seems to cope with the graphics well. SupCom interface is maybe a bit big in 1440*900 though, takes up more of the screen than I'm used to on my desktop at 1680*1050.