Posts by DivideByZero

I installed the 84.43 drivers and got a great boost in performance. Have it running fullscreen @ 1280x800 with 16x filtering, dynamic lights off, all other settings medium, plus disabled EAX and lowered the sound quality. Ghost...

Well, it kicked my lappy's @$$. Very choppy even with the everything turned down to the lowest settings and the video card OC'd.

Quote: Originally Posted by SubTeeFuge Seen as you didn't specify anything, I have a 1999 Sony Vaio PCG505G, 233 Pentium mmx, 2mbs of VRAM!! awesome for gaming such as minesweeper and solitaire. Sure I'll trade...

You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile! Sorry, couldn't resist... If that happened, I'd be surprised if anything really changes, except maybe more money getting pumped into R&D. Why would Dell mess with a working...

Argh, well the tech just left. Turns out that Dell sent the wrong fan. Of course he figured that out after taking my lappy apart... *sigh*

From cnet: http://reviews.cnet.com/4531-10921_7-6464030.html Quote: March 14, 2006, 8:14 AM PST Unconfirmed: Dell buys Alienware Posted by: Rich Brown While no word has been officially released from either Dell or...

Thanks for the feedback guys. I called up Dell support and it's covered by the warranty, so a tech will come to the house to replace it. I could replace it myself, but then again, I paid for the coverage for a reason.

Nope, it's actually pretty clean.... Unfortunately Dell chat support is not available on weekends and I was on hold for 30 minutes and decided to call again later.

I booted up my 9300 the other day and noticed that the right fan - fan #2, was making a vibrating/buzzing sound. I've been good about keeping the system relatively dust-free and use canned air to blow out the fans every two weeks or...

Quote: Originally Posted by silicon??? ... and about me landing one too many backflips wrong, well..... i can't deny that. i have landed on my head a few times. it cracks every vertibre from my neck all the way down...