two CPU benchmarks both benefit by over 20% for the XPS M1730’s 20% faster CPU clock, with an additional 7% gained when the CPU is overclocked by 7%. Both systems use the same memory speed, but Sandra Memory Bandwidth gains 20% from the XPS M1730’s 20...

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get a little touchy about others. If you're building a new system from scratch then you should probably be thinking about an 800MHz or better CPU. Overclocking is not recommended since many capture cards derive their timing from the CPU and, unlike most software...

at resolutions up to 2048x1536, pegging the needle at around 200 frames per second for the XPS 720 H2C, and approximately 160 frames per second for our own building effort. Dell's average performance superiority here is 21%, mostly due to a CPU overclock of...

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a DVD9 video to the smaller DVD4.7 size 36% faster than the lower-cost Dell XPS 630. TMPGenc sees a 34% performance gain from the Überclok Reactor’s overclocked CPU. Mainconcept h.264 encoding hands a 48% lead to the Überclok Reactor. Even though the...

couldn't get the cooling system to keep our overclocked system running at full speed over an extended period, because power consumption of a new CPU is likely to be higher than that of the CPU it replaces by design, you must ponder the likelihood that a CPU...