Posts by mag86

Quote: Originally Posted by tijgert Be it sucking or blowing, hot air is replaced by cold air so it works nonetheless. Sucking air away may even cause an underpressure near the intakes causing a 0.001% drop in airflow...

Quote: Originally Posted by crimsontwo My idle with one fan set to run at SLOW is 53-55 degrees on 7900GS. Without the fan, it idles between 78-86. Pretty hot, I must say. This is a replacement laptop (brand new). The...

anyways i'd like to figure this out because i bought a single pipe 7900GS... but i have access to a dual pipe heatsink if i need it... How much you asking for the dual pipe?

Good find Veazer. My apologies for suggesting NG Wave. I'm using it to edit but find now that Dell screwed us with the Sigmatel drivers. No PC sound and other supported input sources found on just about all other laptops, except,...

Quote: Originally Posted by mycrx so what do i tell dell when i call them in a few minutes? i updated the driver this morning and now the nvidia temp says 75C while the i8kfan says 65C its usually around 9 or 10 degrees...

Quote: Originally Posted by dave-p as already stated the 7900 runs alot cooler, you shouldn't have a problem If you talking about the 7800, than you want to make sure you have a good warranty on the...

Quote: Originally Posted by eclypse3demons My 7800 go ran way high upwards into 94-97c while in games and 80-83C idle, there were issues, I had it replaced the entire system with a new one with the 7900GS in it, and it...

Use i8kfan for the GPU, second fan low, for day to day stuff. Your CPU will be fine. When gaming, the dell bios will kick in at the high limits automatically, except to log temps, why have another program running?

Agree, if ya want the performace, this is the price we pay.

Sounds like the DC to DC inverter is on the way out. Under warranty? Do you have a DVM to take any voltage measurements? Should be around 19VDC but you have to strip one wire to check current under load. AFAIK there are no user...