Posts by eoy4

Quote: Originally Posted by Obmij A question just occurred to me about your temps mystery. Since you're obviously monitoring your temps, when do you have your cooling fans set to come on? Well, I monitor my...

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 installing it, but when I took the heat assembly...

Ooooh, that'd be cool!! (as in *literally* cool)

Please DO post updates!! All I see from ppl that had put a 8xxx series card in this notebook is that the internal screen doesn't work, or the inverter needs to be replaced, or god knows what else : P (umm... the FX1600, 2600 and 3600M...

Quote: Originally Posted by matchbox2022 Bake upside down again for a little longer. I really do suggest selling it once its working though. NOOO! Don't do that!! What if I end up buying it!? lol

Yeah, of course I understand it would be kinda slow. But it's OK, I want to use it for storing movies and stuff. Not for important things, and definitely not something like a RAID array. I'll just wait till I can get a 1TB drive for...

Quote: Praying for a cheap dell 3600M on ebay. :O What!!!? You can put that into a e1705?? I thought it was impossible... (so sorry about the triple post... but I had to ask O__O)

Oh, and one more reason I decided to upgrade this computer instead of buying a new cheap one, is that I can do so much to it, and have so much fun... The parts are really good, and drivers and stuff are so easy to get for Windows and...

:S Agh.... I already bought it Couldn't resist the temptation. See, I know that this is an old laptop and all. But to get a decent replacement, I would want to buy a $1600+ lappy, like an XPS or a Toshiba Qosmio (this e1705 cost...

Quote: Originally Posted by kendle666 here check it out....http://computers.shop.ebay.com/i.htm....c0.m270.l1311 there are several mxm II cards for under 200,and some are even new there are guys from Hong Kong that are...