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Benchmark Results

02:19 - Monday 15 October 2007 by The editorial team
Source: THG – Keywords: XPS, M1730, Alienware
Categories: Gaming, Mobile

Benchmark Results

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Both notebooks use SLI for enhanced 3D performance, but the XPS M1730’s newer DirectX 10 capable GeForce Go 8700M appears to be derived from a slightly downscale model compared to Alienware’s DX9 generation GeForce Go 7950GTX. Can the newer technology make up for the difference in market position?

3D Games

Doom 3

The XPS M1730’s faster processor pushes higher frame rates at low resolutions in Doom 3, but the Area-51 m9750’s elaborate graphics hardware makes huge gains against it as resolutions increase.

Turning on Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering puts Alienware in the lead across all tested Doom 3 resolutions. Notice that the Area-51 m9750 loses far less performance when set to high quality visual effects compared to the XPS M1730. Still, the M1730 is capable of perfectly-smooth Doom 3 frame rates at the panel’s native resolution.


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americanbrian 16/10/2007 02:28
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Dell XPS's are nice, but to be fair the application performance is irrelevant. The huge cost of these are only justified by the gaming performance.

In this the Low Res gaming, doesn't matter a toss either. Alienware probably have better build quality. Do you notice as well that only the dell got the look inside and out. Biased article. If you have a choice never buy dell.
sewje 16/10/2007 04:18
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I don't understand why you would bench compare the two machines with two different operating systems. This make the whole comparision between them very inaccurate.
At least use the same os configuration if you want to compare benchmarks between the two.

A very unprofessional article.

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