Assassin's Creed II on a Dell XPS 14 (L401X) ALL MAXED

Playlist "On Dell XPS 14 (L401X)" : http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C339389B95FA16E2
Playing Assassin's Creed II on a Dell XPS 14

My Specs:
Intel Core i3 370M 2.4Ghz
4GB RAM DDR3
HD 500GB
Nvidia GeForce GT 420M 1GB
Default 720p display

Settings:
Resolution: 1366x768
All maxed
no AA
no AF

FPS count:
With Fraps: 15 ~ 30 fps
W/o Fraps: 25+ fps

** No overclock **

Played with the notebook's touchpad

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[sz218]

how did u overclock ur cpu, can u tell me how or do a video on how? Cause I have a i3 370m at 2.4 ghz and yet u have it on 2.6

[erikemares]

@sz218 big sorry dude, my mistake

yeah, it's 2.4 GHz

fixed =)

thanks for telling me \o\

[jnven]

i gotta a dell xps 15 with 4gb ram i3 380 gb memory and geforce gt 420m, and i was wondering if anyone can tell me if these makes for a good gaming laptop,can i play stuff like MW2,black ops,assasins creed,crysis 2.....cuz i went on "can you run it" webiste and it says i cant cuz gt 420m dosent support hardware T&L? but i see many people on youtube run games on this card no problem

[erikemares]

@jnven yeah, it's strange thing

BUT, not that hard to understand

in truth, the xps comes with a Intel Graphics"trash" as a "onboard", and the 420m as a "offboard"

and the Intel Graphics really doesn't have support for hardware T&L, etc

the site "Can U Run it" takes the Intel Graphics as the default display, and comes these results.

all i can say, the 420m have support for every modern graphic, without any doubt

i've installed crysis 2 and works veeeeeeeeery fine, seriously D:

hope it helps =)

[jnven]

@erikemares so that makes the 420m secondary card? if so how do i change it? if i cant can i still run all those games smoothly? thx :))

[erikemares]

@jnven yeah, u can \o\

normally, the 420m is seen as default video card

in rare cases the intel graphics take this place

BUT

when it occurs, you can click with the right button on the desired program, and there will be the menu: Run with graphic processor. Just choose the card =)

hope it helps ;D

[Watulioprodoxons]

I have a problem with this laptop. It didn't throttle before, but it does now. It's playing pretty ok and suddenly randomly starts to lag from 60 fps to 4 fps, sound effects repeat so quickly which makes a pretty anoying sound. The laptop itself is at 60°C and it's like that. It didn't happen before. Dell replaced the whole mother board which had the graphics and it still fails. Any clue?

[conscriptvirus]

your 3Dmark06 score is 7300? I have the same specs as you but I can only manage 6100-6200 w/o overclock. What drivers are you using?

[grijper12]

@erikemares I will make some videos for sure, do you use fraps? i think assassins creed brotherhood comes around 20 february... i will play that and record some. I did a benchmark with 3DMark06, I scored 7300. Very nice in my opinion.

This fan is also really quiet, some people have problems with it but mine is perfect :D

[erikemares]

@grijper12 congratz, friend ;D

i think it is a great choice too, but later, if u got the time, can you make a little gameplay vids? just for comparison. i'm curious about a gaming inspiron, because here in brazil, you cant make a custom inspiron with a hd5650 =\

and talk about it, just wanna know your opinion about the note.

thx for the comments and questions, and hope everything i've said helped you ;D