Posts by indy2005

Quote: Originally Posted by Doughy I have used compressed air in aerosol form "air duster" before but it dried my fan bearing and i had to replace it. So i have stopped using that product now. I...

Quote: Originally Posted by Doughy I was cleaning my heat pipe fins every 2 months until i installed some filters underneath to catch the dust first. Seems to be doing a good job. good idea, what kind of filters?

Briefly saw a yellow type flash, but then everything was OK. Not getting a 20C drop (I wish), biggest culprit was the CPU heatsink grill. It was nasty..... When I am not blocking the vents I wm running around 83....better than the...

Hi, With games taking over 10Gb of space each... I am looking to upgrade from my 120Gb. I can only install 3 games on it, and I have had it. I cant even defrag because I need 15% free space for it to run (almost 15Gb free...). ...

Oops, After all my hard work - stripped down CPU, GPU and then AS5ed it over the weekend...I only went and played Crysis yesterday with the Power supply pushed up against the back wight hand vent of my 1710. After 1 hour of playing,...

Hi, After 3 days of tweaking, I am getting 22-30 FPS. I am big enough to admit my mistake and I am quite enjoying it now. Running at quite low resolution, and using no nvidia scaling - so the picture is small but crisp. These are...

Quote: Originally Posted by |-007-| Ran it on mostly medium settings on my XPS 2. No difference between textures on high vs medium vs low. I set the resolution to 1280x800, game effects to high, and modified my config...

Quote: Originally Posted by Joshnor713 I really don't get why I hear a good amount of people with M1710 or M1730 complaining about their Crysis performance. I can play all medium well on playable with my 9300+7800GTX...

I treated myself to Crysis on Friday night. What a mistake. OK, so I havent got a 3 way SLI rig, water cooled MOFO of a PC. I just have a 7950GTX, dual core 2.0 GHz 1710. But boy, does Gears of War look amazing on 1400 resolution,...

Here is an update for those that are interested. My PC is still hitting 90+, but is now capping at 90 in Crysis so far. I took my laptop apart today again, and used a very light AS5 coating. I decided to do the CPU heatsink as well...