Posts by Ralph 9100

Quote: Originally Posted by DELL-Machina no artifacting but due note that on my max power setting i did get background artifacting after 6+ hours of use so i use my default+++ settings are you talking about...

Just benchmarked my 9100 with: 3.2GHz 1 gig RAM 60GB 7,200 RPM hdd Clean install of XP Pro but no tweks and no services disabled... yet New Dell Drivers for 9800 3dmark03 SCORE: 6525 looks like everything is running well and...

have you tried playing any games for an extended period of time since you overclocked?

I just popped in the Windows XP cd to do a clean install and noticed the three partitions that other people have mentioned before... my only question is whether or not changing them to NTFS will cause any problems since about 3 GB of...

haha... well if it turns out there's something else available i'd still say the hitachi 7k60 is the one to go with, it's been around the longest and i haven't heard of anyone disliking it

i'm almost positive the hitachi travelstar 7k60 is the ONLY 7,200 RPM hard drive available for laptops

hmm... i burned the image using Nero and told it to boot from the CD after restarting. It went to a screen that had a few lines about the system specs (a screen that usually doesn't appear) but then it just continued to boot as usual,...

how do you run these tests from the bootable CD? I just installed the RAM about half an hour ago and haven't had any problems, but I'd just like to make sure i'm not going to run into any in the future...

Quote: Originally Posted by rogueone sure you can do it, all the CPU's in the XPS/9100 are regular desktop parts, but you're not going to get $800 worth of performance improvement. The chip only costs ~$400 so...

er... it will also depend a lot on your warranty/screen/CD-drive. I paid 2,200 for mine at the beginning of this month with the following specs: 3.2GHz with HT, 1mb cache WUXGA screen Win XP Pro ATI 9800 mobility 256mb 256mb...