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E1705 Geforce 7800 Go
Anyone have this notebook and had any problems with over heating while playing games? Seems when some of Dells notebooks overheat (forum complaints) the frames go to zero for the most part. If this is still a problem I will look elsewhere for a notebook.
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Chimp_Nabers
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Posted February 9th, 2006 11:00
Hi
I've had an Inspiron 9400 for about two weeks and it performs very well for games. The 7800 Go card can handle new games like Age of Empires III, NFS Most Wanted, Half-Life 2, SWAT 4, Prince of Persia 3, Call of Duty 2 etc at high settings with no problem.
I haven't tried turning up AA & AF settings yet as I'm expecting some limitations with a notebook but this is a worthy machine.
Cheers
smitty0710
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Posted February 10th, 2006 03:00
I would like to know the core clock speed of the Go 7800 and If it is adaptive. I hope dell didnt lower it too much.Joshnor713
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Posted February 10th, 2006 03:00
If you look at the specs for it in Nvidia's website, you can see that it's supposed to perform a bit better than the 6800ultra, so if it performs under than Dell has possibly handicapped it, probably so it wouldn't interfere with M170 sales. I'm not sure how one would go by get this card to it's potential.smitty0710
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Posted February 10th, 2006 17:00
I'm sure it will perfor a lot better than the Ultra in terms of screen resolution because it has the same amount of Pixle piplines and vertex shaders as the GTX however I bleive that I could use a tool to clock it at its normal core clock.I think it is wrong that Dell underclocks something I paid full price for (if that is true??). If there going to cripple something in my system, then they should give it to me at a discount. It is like Intel charging the same price for Celeron as they would a Pentium. If I find out that is the case, (Dell are you listening) I WILL return the notebook. If you got to cripple something to get it to work, fine, but at least give us the specs so we KNOW what we are getting before we buy it.
Scott
- Hi all,
greetings from Germany.
I've bought the inspiron 9400/E1705 a week ago. Now I'm testing my notebook and found out, that the nvidia 7800go were underclocked. The core clock is 250MHz instead of 400MHz. The ram clock is also underclocked to 329MHz effective 658MHz instead of 550MHz (1100MHz).
I tried to reach someone from the technical support team, but they don't give answers.
When I read something like "...include Powerful graphiccards to enjoy multimedia...", then I can only laugh about Dell.
I send my notebook back to Dell, but inform my lawyer first.
Kind regards
CarlMcCoy Chimp_Nabers
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Posted February 10th, 2006 22:00
Hi
The Nvidia site does quote those as stock speeds which might vary by supplier, but it's still unhelpful that Dell doesn't give this level of detail in their tech specs.
For info, I applied the Coolbits registry entry and upped the speeds, using the auto-detect option, to 354Mhz (core clock) and 862Mhz (memory clock). 3DMark05 registered an improved score from about 3800 marks to over 5200. Not sure if this is good as I haven't seen any other similar benchmarks. Also, the fan comes on more than it used to but it's not really noisy.
Out of curiosity, If anyone has one of these machines and has run 3DMark05 perhaps they could post (or PM me) their benchmarks :-)
Thanks
- Thanks Carl and Chimp for the heads up. Interesting information indeed, considering this is what I received from a sales rep today, and I quote: "I believe I don't have enough information about the item (surprise, ya right) all I know is that its good for high end gaming and we don't cripple the card".Seems there sales people don't even know what is going on. Most people might not even do the amount of research we are doing, but glad we are, cause it sure seems Dell is sticking it to us. $299.00 US is not a low amount of cash for a video card. I just want what I paid for. I expect a Geforce 7800, not a Geforce clocked slower then a 6800 series.When I receive mine I might try the coolbits and see how it goes. I am just afraid I might melt something in the process due to poor cooling, which perhaps is why they down clock the gpu and memory.Scott
Joshnor713
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Posted February 11th, 2006 00:00
I'm sorry but even if the sale reps did know that Dell handicaps the card, you really think they would say so. I imagine most of them have to know what's going on if they work there in the first place. First of all it only makes sense. Dell comes out with the next series inspiron 9000's model, so they need a card that's better than the 6800, which the only next choice is the 7800(vanilla) since the XPS model already has 6800ultra. But look, the 7800 according to Nvidia's specs is slighty better than the 6800ultra, that's when it becomes a problem, because the XPS model is still offered with the 6800ultra. Who would want to pay so much extra for an XPS when you can get a better GPU in an inspiron? So in order to fix this, they handicap the card just enough where you can say that the 6800ultra is still a better card, and thus the XPS is still on top even without the 7800GTX option, so you still have to pay more for a more capable gaming system. And think about if you were in their shoes, deny all you can of it and say to all the angry customers, that's how it's supposed to be. Best wishes.
Omegatay
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Posted February 9th, 2006 00:00
Don't usually like to bump topics, but someone has to have one of these notebooks that can answer this question. If not, this will be my only bump.
Thanks.