My review of the Dell XPS M1730 Gaming Laptop

[teamjawbox]

Alright, here's my take on the Dell XPS M1730 gaming laptop.

http://lagwar.com/home/archives/6724

It was really about everything I had anticipated performance wise and a bit more glam aesthetically. Decent mid-range gaming laptop overall.

Anyone else using one? If so, any solution you'd recommend for the heat? This thing is HOT.

 

[Maziar]

Thanks for the review i had this laptop before and unfortunately because of some reasons i sold it i really loved it, excellent performance
Well there are some good notebook coolers for M1730
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=173512&page=494
It seems the zalman model looks good

 

[obsidian86]

how does it compare ? http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/asus_unleashes_184_w90_laptop_wild_equipped_with_a_4870_x2_gpu

 

[overclockingrocks]

solid review keep up the good work

 

[Maziar]

how does it compare ? http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/asus_unleashes_184_w90_laptop_wild_equipped_with_a_4870_x2_gpu

ASUS W90 is better because 2 HD 4870's in CF beat 2 8700MGTs in SLI or even 2 8800MGTXs in SLI.
Actually 2 HD 4870s perform like 2 GTX 280M in SLI.

 

[teamjawbox]

i hear ya, the two 8700M GT's in SLI doesn't go very far performance wise. it's not a high end gaming laptop by any stretch of the imagination, but for a portable and fairly priced mid-range it's ok. im positive there's better out there for prob a better price but tossed it on the dell account for 0% interest rate. but for 1200 bucks I guess I can't complain. I went ahead and ordered two more gigs of DDR2 RAM from newegg and slapped in there.

i've tried a couple of different external coolers but you could still fry an egg on the keyboard lol. heard logitech made some kind of cooler so i'm gonna see if i can find that.

is there such thing as a good external laptop cooler?

thanks!

 

[Maziar]

For $1200 its worth it indeed,and yes we have laptop coolers(they are external,we don't have internal coolers)