Posts by XCNuse

I've always been to this place: http://www.parts-people.com/ Their stuff is like a quarter the price that dell will sell it to you, people buy XPS LCD backs for like 100$ (no freaking idea why!) they aren't worth that much, you can buy...

The Kingston is better, check out the tRC ratings between the two, the Kingston has higher ratings in the row cycle timing. I don't know how much of a difference it takes to really "see" any difference, but in the end yes the...

Mine is right now, it's an easy mod, they are the exact same body so just buy the parts and have at it.

Okay so it is FPS, do you know what is causing it to drop low numbers? Does it happen at random, or does it happen during something specific? It could be some particle effect that is going on causing it to do that or something, but did...

Is there a way to check what your FPS is ingame? If so check it and when it starts "skipping" see what that FPS number is. Also, what graphics card do you have? And what temperature is it showing it as (red line) in...

Sounds good, I'm nearly always working with graphics whether it be photoshop, illustrator, or even when I'm doing some 3d work. I'll probably upgrade to 4gb before the end of the year. Plus.. no reason not to really. Easy and cheap...

@radicool, how much performance increase did you see, i've been contemplating on upgrading to 4GB from 2, but I mean how much quicker are startups and everything?

well ... so much for that, think I threw out almost $40 worth of webcam and shipping. didn't work, tried to make it work, even grinded (who knew the inside of the 1710 LCD back cover was metal?!) with a dremmel, got pretty much...

Got the webcam this morning, tested it out some blah blah, it's very very small lol just about ALL the work i had planned on doing .. doesn't exist lol like there is just a really thin chip in here that has all the internals, then it...

@radicool, before the BIOS' were updated, yes it was only possible to have 2gb of RAM, but during one of the BIOS updates it is possible to install 4gb of RAM. Just know that you can NOT use 800Mhz RAM, 667 is the highest you can go.