You should listen to this guy Dell would never send out a machine with a component too weak to provide enough power to something inside of it.
Argh! SO many conflicting opinions! If its not the PSU then why am I getting such **** results on games and 3DMarks?
Well, I changed out the Ram from the default DDR2-667Mhz they sent me with some PNY 800Mhz. Just turned out to be misclocked to 667Mhz so I had to RMA it. Still got the same results.
Exactly, I get around 400-500 points less in 3dmarks on vista but games are getting very close to what there were in XP plus like allready stated that PSU cant be much good, id reccomend a decent branded one.
I meant the software and stuff they put on it, unless you already got rid of it. I honestly didn't take that big of a hit on 3dMark on vista, maybe about 500 points, so I don't think that's the main problem
Oh yeah. It came with Home Premium 32bit and I installed Ultimate x64 the day I got it. Now, Im on XP and I got a 600 point increase compared to Vista. I swear, last nite it wasnt that much. Now Im only about 450 points behind the VGA Chart. Which could be contributed to PSU I assume. I forgot how much I miss XP. Im so tired of all that Aero BS of Vista. But I digress, its nice to hear someone comment on the quality of the Rosewill brand.
There not a horrible brand but i would put abit more money towards the PSU and get something with a more well-known brand. Have a look at the Thermaltake Toughpower series as there great for the price
I doubt its the psu, im guessing drivers and general dellness performance wise. You cant sell a machine that wont perform as it should.
What do you mean general dellness? I just ran the Airborne demo on that fresh XP install and OMG it was like ****ing night and day compared to Vista. It played like you would expect a console game too aka solid framerate never dipping. If it wasnt for the fact that Crysis is promising so much with DX10 and 64bit I would probably just scrub the Vista install since my XP is only on 10GB and see's itself as "H". Oh well, I will just work around it I guess.
You do know that the E 6800 scores around 450 more points than the E6600 in the cpu tests, and that the tests in the VGA Charts were performed with an E6800 right?
Well, Im not talking about the whole score, Im talking about the Shader 2.0 score http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_2007.html?modelx=33&model1=859&model2=722&chart=308 And no, I wasnt sure what their test bed was.
Either way, at 10200 your score is on the mark for your hardware, and the other problems you mentioned are being had with 750 watt power supplies as well.
Well, like I said, now Im on XP for the first time with this rig I will never go back to Vista. Bioshock never slowed down once nor did Medal of Honor. XP is just such a finally tuned system after 2 SPs and a 3rd one coming up, I guess I shouldn't of been so anxious to be an early adopter. Not to mention I forgot how fast everything opens and closes <.< Viva la XP
