Posts by NeptuneN

I asked them to replace the same drive in my 9400 and I had one at the door in 3 to 4 days from my first email. I'm in Ireland. The original one was very noisy even after a firmware flash

Warm is when you can leave it on your lap. Hot is when you can't. Makes sense about the gfx fan.

We have a outlet on the Dell site which seems to be cancelled orders, or returns which are as new. Then theres a ebay one which seems to have returns that have minor scuffs or marks etc. Seems to be one of each for every country.

Why just the GFX when not gaming? Its only a week old I'd hope it doesn't need cleaning out yet?

I've seen other posts about that, but that must be quite loud. I'd prefer to run hot and quiet than cool and noisy. Within reason of course.

Apple have their own problems. http://news.digitaltrends.com/news/s...acbook_screens I'd have assumed the Sony double lamp and thin LCD screens might solve this problem, but I haven't had a good look at one yet to compare it with...

I've a Dell 9400 2Ghz Core2Duo, 7900gs and even when not playing games it seems to get quite hot underneath. I've tweaked vista, turned of indexing etc, so its not constantly doing things like accessing the HD etc. I see somepeople have...

I had a M1710 for a while with a 7512mb 950GTX and that was a lot quicker than a 9400 with a 256mb 7900GS I have now, and probably worth the money if you want to play the latest games with as little compromise as possible in a laptop. I...

From my experience some screens have this problem worst than others. Pot luck which you get. Seems common on all TFT's not just Dell and not just laptops.

I have a 9400 and a DVD TSST corp DVD+-RW TS-L632D. When I first got it the DVD drive used to emit a terrible really unpleasant ear splitting high frequency squeal. I looked around on the web and updating the firmware was suggested. So...