HP Compaq nw9440 versus DELL Precision 670
Again, the fight is between high-end machines, mobile graphics platform against the tabletop. On one side is the powerful desktop DELL Precision 670 with two separate processors XEON HT to incredible 3.40GHz. The second major contender is a graphical mobile station HP Compaq nw9440 with real dual-core Intel Core2Duo T7600 of 2.16HGz with 4MV cache. The battle is between the two professional video card machines – Precision 670 is presented with a Quadro FX3400, Quadro FX1500 video card is a HP Compaq nw9440.
To review more interest, including three in the test laptop, including two graphic stations (HP Compaq nw8440, HP Compaq nw8000) and a business laptop with a graphics card other than chip-set (HP Compaq nc6230).
HP Compaq nw9440 has a standard for business laptops, HP design – a style broadcast of solidity and reliability. The first thing one notices in this expensive station is unique graphical display with maximum resolution for laptop 1920 * 1200 (which is more than the full HD standard). 17-inch display offers good contrast, clear, detailed picture and great horizontal viewing angles. The keyboard is full-format (digital block is available) and very comfortable to use. An interesting item is selected for the fingerprint scanner (in the middle of the buttons on the touch-fall). Processor is powerful enough for all modern applications. Besides the display, the most serious difference between the nw9440 and home and business notebook is a powerful professional video card – NVidia Quadro FX1500, which impresses us with 256-bits, and they fast DDR3 memory. The core of the video card is an analogue of NVidia GeForce 7900 and it implies good performance for video games. The powerful processor and graphics card and the big screen with incredible resolution many electricity consumed, so the power adapter for laptop with record amounts. Despite this use, the laptop has an excellent cooling system – completely silent and maintenance surprisingly low operating temperature.
DELL Precision 670 is a real monster in size compared to standard home machine. Interestingly, aggressive and beautiful looking box with hardly any changes in benefits and desktop DELL XPS. Despite his solid size workstation is quiet. Opening the box we are impressed – two large coolers to cool two powerful termotrabi XEON processors, DDR2 ECC memory is capable of operating up to 16GB of memory. There are SATA2, PCI-E and other modern “O Good One.” Platform bottom is Socket 604 based Intel Tumwater E7525. XEON processors are 800MHz FSB and have Hyper Threading (OS recognizes the system as a quad). Due to her such a machine equipped with the most powerful professional graphics we have a video card – NVidia Quadro FX3400.
The conclusion is only one – Pentium 4 architecture in the face of XEON HT is hopelessly outdated, even though it was a good platform to test the HyperThreading technology, revived in the new Core i7.
The positive side of all the machines are clear from our previous articles and will not repeat truism that the more reliable, productive and efficient business laptops / graphic series of major manufacturers will not. Shortcomings in the HP nw9440 and DELL Precision 670, despite our critical attitudes were not found.
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