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Dell Latitude E6400 Laptop with Nvidia NVS160 - Performance

291 days ago

I recently got a new laptop and this one is equipped with an NVS 160M GPU, as usually, find the 3D Mark specs for this chipset can be hard so I am going to publish them here. Enjoy: OS Driver Score Vista 84.69 625 Vista 7.15.11.5655 1032 Windows 7 176.07 1846

Consolidation is fun...

365 days ago

Over the years, I like many others have used CDs or DVDs to backup files. Of course as videos, pictures, VHDs, ISOs, etc get larger and larger... the limits of these technologies result in a number of headaches. Recently I decided to switch to doing all of my backups on external HDs. You can now easily get a 250GB external USB drive for about $100. At this price, it becomes feasible IMO to simply backup to two of these HDs instead of using 50 or so DVDs. Cheers,

Cute - Fun with Office GUIDs

517 days ago

While trying to fix a corrupted Microsoft SharePoint installation, I noticed that there was something funny about the GUID used for the WSS SharePoint package: MsiExec.exe /X{90120000-1014-0000-0000-000000 0FF1CE } The last 6 characters spell Office J

Dell D630 with NVS 135 Performance

798 days ago

I have now been able to get results of a Dell D630 with both the Intel X3100 and the Nvidia NVS135. See below for details on their 3DMark 06 performance. Please note that Dell has released an updated NVS135 driver, but not a X3100 driver yet.

Dell Latitude - NVS110M vs Intel GMA950 vs Intel X3100

901 days ago

I have seen a lot of people trying to figure out the 3DMark06 performance of Intel's new "Santa Rosa" graphics chip the X3100 chipset. I had the opportunity to test this on a Dell Latitude D630 (the replacement for the D620) so the results below are as apple-to-apple as you can get. It is important to note that the machine was running the Dell A01 drivers (only one available since it is so new). I have read that the current Intel drivers do not support HW T&L, but that the chipset does, so I would expect to see a jump in the numbers when the A02 drivers come out later this year. If the "jump" is the same as Nvidia got last year, that means the 3DMark06 score will be over 1200; which is not bad. The test was also run on Vista (32-bit), which to-date has been about 5% in 3DMark06 scores than XP. Updated: Someone asked for the RAM speed of these machines. Both the D620 and the D630 used the faster 667MHz memory. Here are the results: ...