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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: skip on January 15, 2007, 08:48:51 PM

Title: Selling my laptop
Post by: skip on January 15, 2007, 08:48:51 PM
I'm thinking of selling of laptop, a Dell Inspiron 8100.

But, I don't know how much, reasonably, would go for on eBay.

Specs of this laptop:
1 GHz P3
512 RAM
40 GB HDD (just bought several months ago and the warranty is still valid for a couple years)
15.4" LCD SXGA+
16 or 32 MB NVIDIA Geforce Go2
DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive
ESS Maestro 3 Sound card
No internal network card

Comes with:
-Docking station
-Genuine Windows 2000
-Logitech Speakers [value of $15]
-Nice laptop case

Problems:
-Dead pixels [very few]
-Battery life is only about 20 minutes

If you need any other information... feel free to ask.
Title: Re: Selling my laptop
Post by: Newby on January 16, 2007, 12:05:33 AM
Haha, sucka. My GeForce2 Go apparently has 64MB of memory. :)
Title: Re: Selling my laptop
Post by: rabbit on January 16, 2007, 08:02:43 PM
My nVidia Quadro NVS is 512mb, suckas.
Title: Re: Selling my laptop
Post by: Sidoh on January 16, 2007, 08:29:15 PM
My friend has 1 GB of video memory (two 7800 GTX's on SLI).  ;p
Title: Re: Selling my laptop
Post by: skip on January 16, 2007, 08:37:27 PM
AWESOME!

But, how much do you think my laptop is worth? $300? $400?
Title: Re: Selling my laptop
Post by: Sidoh on January 16, 2007, 08:39:12 PM
Quote from: skip on January 16, 2007, 08:37:27 PM
AWESOME!

But, how much do you think my laptop is worth? $300? $400?

I don't know... $400 seems reasonable, but I don't know.  I'm not into used laptops.
Title: Re: Selling my laptop
Post by: trust on January 16, 2007, 10:12:30 PM
Quote from: skip on January 16, 2007, 08:37:27 PM
AWESOME!

But, how much do you think my laptop is worth? $300? $400?

Probably no more than $150-$200, considering you can get decent new laptops for $400.
Title: Re: Selling my laptop
Post by: rabbit on January 17, 2007, 06:54:11 AM
Quote from: Sidoh on January 16, 2007, 08:29:15 PM
My friend has 1 GB of video memory (two 7800 GTX's on SLI).  ;p
On a laptop?  WTF?
Title: Re: Selling my laptop
Post by: Sidoh on January 17, 2007, 11:13:41 AM
Quote from: rabbit on January 17, 2007, 06:54:11 AM
Quote from: Sidoh on January 16, 2007, 08:29:15 PM
My friend has 1 GB of video memory (two 7800 GTX's on SLI).  ;p
On a laptop?  WTF?

Yep. :P
Title: Re: Selling my laptop
Post by: Joe on January 23, 2007, 01:03:47 AM
I don't know much about SLI.. is it limited to two cards? An even number? A base of two?
Title: Re: Selling my laptop
Post by: Sidoh on January 23, 2007, 01:37:17 AM
Quote from: Joex86] link=topic=8416.msg106996#msg106996 date=1169532227]
I don't know much about SLI.. is it limited to two cards? An even number? A base of two?

SLI is two cards.  There are similar technologies that have (somewhat) recently been released by nvidia to link together four cards.  I'm not sure if it's under the name SLI, but I sort of doubt it has the exact same name.
Title: Re: Selling my laptop
Post by: d&q on January 23, 2007, 10:43:30 PM
Quad SLI.
Title: Re: Selling my laptop
Post by: deadly7 on January 23, 2007, 11:07:22 PM
Quote from: Deuce on January 23, 2007, 10:43:30 PM
Quad SLI.
I love how creative they were with the name.. heh.
Title: Re: Selling my laptop
Post by: Sidoh on January 24, 2007, 11:33:06 AM
Quote from: Deuce on January 23, 2007, 10:43:30 PM
Quad SLI.

Yeah, I thought it had quad in it.  Someone linked me the Dell "super pc" and it had quad sli.
Title: Re: Selling my laptop
Post by: MyndFyre on January 24, 2007, 02:26:05 PM
Quote from: Sidoh on January 23, 2007, 01:37:17 AM
Quote from: Joex86] link=topic=8416.msg106996#msg106996 date=1169532227]
I don't know much about SLI.. is it limited to two cards? An even number? A base of two?

SLI is two cards.  There are similar technologies that have (somewhat) recently been released by nvidia to link together four cards.  I'm not sure if it's under the name SLI, but I sort of doubt it has the exact same name.

Unfortunately, the Quad SLI implementation as it has been done so far does not actually link together four physical cards - rather, it links together four physical GPUs, two of which are present in the NVidia GeForce 7950 chipset.

The primary drawback to this is, of course, bandwidth.  Using four GPUs across two cards, or two GPUs in one card, requires double the bandwidth to push data down the pipe.

I'm considering buying another 8800 GTX when I've got some extra cash laying around and there are drivers for it.  I hate NVidia right now because the only DX10-compatible card on the market, the 8800, does NOT HAVE DRIVERS FOR VISTA.  UGH.  Then I'll do dual-SLI.