Posts by matchbox2022

Less speedy rpmed hard drives tend to last forever in my experience. Even my fast one lasted for 5 years. SSDs arene't truly worth it, just get more ram for 'instant' storage persay. I always think of it as just keeping my data there,...

Yep yep. Everything above looks perfect. the fx2500m isn't THAT power hungry. 130W is fine. Heck even a 110W one would be totally fine but nothing lower.

Quote: Originally Posted by eoy4 Alright, my go 7900 GTX is finally installed and working. Here's my experience so far: Card is refurbished (but I knew that). I was gonna apply some AS5 for improved cooling prior to...

How the heck do u know that?

Any balls to the wall big **** off slot fans around? Cause that could probably run off the dvd power. Make for an amazing laptop case fan, just add a foam baffle and have the fan pull air in over hot stuff, across the baffle, then out...

Yes they are. mine is equivilent in 'theory' to the 8800mgtx, more like gts, but its still better than what I have now. From what I've seen the only big issue is the inverter gpu communication is crap due to the bios not recognizing the...

Yeah even a little airflow in the case and at least around it can make a fair difference. It's pretty low pressure air when its flowing around an object, I doubt it'll even affect that kind of fan setup. You COULD though, always get a...

Just a complete random thought. Has the teenyiest bit of validility as in that dell usually doesn't allow newer parts support, aka. their bios has pretty much a list of what devices it can boot with. The whole reason why the 3600m has...

Ahh thats me. And yeah Ive already gotten one in theory. Only a 1600m I've actually seen 'working' in a e1705. the 3600m works as in it boots, but there are issues with the screen brightness and bios. I think I've thought about it enough...

Not a bad idea!! wonder about putting a watercooling resevoir and system in there in place for the dvd drive.....running off dvd power? hmmmm ideas.