Posts by btenbrinke

I've been watching mine over the last couple of days and here are my observations: For the first couple of hours after turning it on, the temps will go through a sawtooth pattern where they will rise from about 46 to 60, the fan kicks...

I think I must have gotten one of the last ones. I was initially told that it was out of stock, but then it shipped on the night of the 16th and I got it the morning of the 20th. Perfect screen, perfect cooling, I must have lucked out....

It must have been a PHPBB. There is a virus going around that googles for those bb's and there is the result.

Actually, if the video card is going in an SFF, you want to make sure that it only takes up one slot because a lot of the newer cards take up two and that might not work...

What are some of the settings that people are running their 6800 Go video cards at? When I tried the optimal settings in coolbits, it seemed a little high, so I wanted to see what other people were successfully running theirs at.

Just for interest's sake, I thought that some of us could compare the cooling properties of our 9860's. Mine follows a constant pattern of rising to precisely 60 degrees before the big fan kicks in. It then drops steadily down to about...

I ordered the laptop on the 14th at around two in the afternoon Eastern time. I was initially told that the laptop would ship on the fifteenth or sixteenth, but then on the fifteenth was told that it was on backorder. I made a slight...

The advantage of buying with a credit card is purchase protection and extended warranty. When I ordered through discountlaptops, they just asked me for the toll-free number from the back of the credit card and called the bank to verify...

I had heard that someone tried to get Eurocom to pricematch and that they wouldn't do it. (Elsewhere on this forum I think.) Their prices were atrociously high, especially if you looked at any kind of upgrade. There shouldn't be any duty...

I wanted to order from PC Torque, but I couldn't use a Canadian credit card with them. And I didn't see the point in paying more just to order from Sager directly. Anyway, now that my order's been processed, I'll just wait. I guess I'll...