GeForce Go 6800 Ultra: Powering the Dell Inspirion XPS Gen 2
by Derek Wilson on February 24, 2005 3:04 PM EST- Posted in
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Without AA, the performance of the Go 6800 Ultra falls between the 6800 GT and Ultra. This is very good when comparing a mobile part to desktop parts on a much more powerful computer.Pushing up the settings to include AA drops the performance of the Go 6800 to a level below that of the desktop 6800 GT. Performance is still very competitive, but at higher settings we would expect CPU to be less of a factor. It is possible that the power savings features of the Go are limiting it's ability to scale as well with settings. Unfortunately, we can't make any firm claims on this until we compare the parts in similar platforms.
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dougSF30 - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
Different nVidia drivers? That's kinda bad, methodology-wise.JustAnAverageGuy - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
It's too bad we don't get to see pictures of the laptop :)Even if it was a video card review.
ElFenix - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
#5the audigy is an external USB unit
bob661 - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
#5The CPU offered in this laptop is a Pentium M.
SLIM - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
I could be wrong, but I'd bet the picture would look a little different if all the cards were using the same drivers. The difference between 69.xx and 75.xx drivers for recent dx9 games could be significant.Cygni - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
Its a shame Dell didnt give more time with the system, it would have been really interesting to probe the Alviso platform in all of its glory and compare against current systems... especially in the arena of the DDR2.bamacre - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
#10, not sure about the cpu, but the Dell XPS notebook does offer a 7200rpm hdd, I'd bet it was used in the test.segagenesis - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
If the max output is 65W assuming you have the laptop loaded 100% the entire time the standard battery (what is it? 70W/h?) would barely last an hour. Just... ok... I imagine you can get beffier batteries or use a second one.sri2000 - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
Referring to a couple of differences in the test machine specs:---
Intel Pentium M 2.13GHz
1GB DDR2 533 4-4-4-10
AMD Athlon 64 4000+
1GB OCZ DDR400 3-3-3-10
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How much of a boost are we seeing from the use of DDR2533 RAM and from the highest clocked Pentium M to date?
The PCMag review shows it with a 4200 RPM drive - the typical speed for most notebooks, but that should be slowing things down, in this test right?
This review doesn't say if the test unit had an optional 7200RPM HD
defter - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link
"NVIDIA informed us that the TDP for the chassis is 65W."If we assume that Pentium M takes about 25W, this would leave 40W for system memory, chipset, hard drive, GPU and graphic memory. Wow, nVidia managed to pull miracle here. Gone are the days of 100W power consumption for high end Geforce 6800 cards.