Posts by BlackSheep5

I guess I spoke too soon, but it's been way too long but it showed up today.

UPDATE: My computer has still not arrived, so I believe it was "jacked" from the mail, the issue is I am in Iraq and once the mail leaves the states it is taken over by the military. so now I have to try to track it down, I...

Is it just my computer or is it every time "grandma" post the letters get bigger? And an update on my machine, it is still in the mail and en route, so hopefully its just a few more days.

Quote: Originally Posted by T1no i have the base model p-172s fx and for some reason my bios does not have battery recalibration options in it. does your laptop have that options ? I have not received mine...

Quote: Originally Posted by qhn based on what you said about having the T8300, i would say that you have the FX Edition, which comes with the PM965 chipset cheers ... yes it is the FX Edition, sorry I did not...

Quote: Originally Posted by qhn having said that, the menitoned P-6831 carries PM965 chipset, and urs P-172X comes with GM965. cheers ... check out the specs P-172X with...

Quote: Originally Posted by qhn my 2 u.s. cents: probably works, bios might need to be involved, as u stated. But for a 600$ CPU to get an extra .3ghz? cheers ... I wouldn't get it now, I would wait for the...

The P-172X FX I ordered has a T8300 in it, I did some research on Intel.com and I was looking at the compatible processors for the PM965 Chipset and it doesn't even show the T8300 as being compatible. My question is, the X9000...

Take a look at the Gateway P172X FX notebooks, I was also looking for a good computer to play games, and for the price and options these computers are pretty nice. I was looking for a "turn key" computer because I'm in Iraq...

So this is my first post and just ordered a Gateway P-172X FX Edition, so I will post pix when I receive this monster. This is the specs: T8300 (2.40GHz, 800MHz FSB, 3MB L2 cache) Windows Vista® Home Premium (32-bit) SP1 4096MB...