Hi there,
I have an interesting story and question for the community. I recently ordered a Dell XPS 9000 that was bundled with the GTX 260 1,792 MB version. After some research, I was beginning to read reports from other buyers that their GTX 260 wasn't really achieving the performance it should have been.
A few users were claiming that their clock speeds were 515 Mhz and only the 192 stream processors instead of the sweet core 216 that's been floating around for a while. So....I emailed my Dell tech and asked him what the actual performance specs for the GTX 260 in the XPS 9000 was.
Sure enough, the stats came back at 515 Mhz, and 1080 Mhz processor clock - well below what other GTX 260's are getting. I came to the conclusion that Dell was underclocking the card for stability since the XPS 9000 was only using a 475 PS.
After about 2 days, Dell deleted my thread citing I was violating the TOS.
Anyhooooo...I'm still thinking of getting the XPS 9000 (sweet case, great price) and just getting the cheapest card I can, which I think is a GTS 220, and then buying a third party GTX 260 Core 216 card.
My question to you guys is, do you think the 475 W PS is enough for the card? I've heard Dell dramatically underrates their PS and that you'd even be hard pressed to max out 475 Watts with a 260, even an OC 260.
The rest of the XPS 9000 specs are:
i7 920
6 GB DDR3 RAM
500 GB SATA HD
Any feedback is much appreciated.
I have an interesting story and question for the community. I recently ordered a Dell XPS 9000 that was bundled with the GTX 260 1,792 MB version. After some research, I was beginning to read reports from other buyers that their GTX 260 wasn't really achieving the performance it should have been.
A few users were claiming that their clock speeds were 515 Mhz and only the 192 stream processors instead of the sweet core 216 that's been floating around for a while. So....I emailed my Dell tech and asked him what the actual performance specs for the GTX 260 in the XPS 9000 was.
Sure enough, the stats came back at 515 Mhz, and 1080 Mhz processor clock - well below what other GTX 260's are getting. I came to the conclusion that Dell was underclocking the card for stability since the XPS 9000 was only using a 475 PS.
After about 2 days, Dell deleted my thread citing I was violating the TOS.
Anyhooooo...I'm still thinking of getting the XPS 9000 (sweet case, great price) and just getting the cheapest card I can, which I think is a GTS 220, and then buying a third party GTX 260 Core 216 card.
My question to you guys is, do you think the 475 W PS is enough for the card? I've heard Dell dramatically underrates their PS and that you'd even be hard pressed to max out 475 Watts with a 260, even an OC 260.
The rest of the XPS 9000 specs are:
i7 920
6 GB DDR3 RAM
500 GB SATA HD
Any feedback is much appreciated.