Posts by lucidchaos

Quote: Originally Posted by MichaelX30 Anyone pin-modded a 2.0 or 2.1 GHz P-M yet? 2.66 or 2.793 GHz would be insane! I think it would be impossible. Hi michael Read all about it here: ...

Well, reaver, I have another "guess"... LOD tweaking mean anything to ya?

Question for everyone: If you go to futuremark, and click on ORB, and look at the browser for 3dmark 2001 you will see that Reaver has the top score for the Nvidia geforce 6800 go. When you break it down, he is pretty close to the rest...

Quote: Originally Posted by REAVER Well actually when I upgraded from a 1.73GHz to a 2.26GHz CPU it only increased my score by about 85 points (about 2% for a 33% CPU upgrade), 3DMark05 is almost GPU exclusive. ...

Quote: Originally Posted by REAVER I'm trying to find a micro-water cooling system (I hear NEC makes a good one), I've always wanted a water-cooled laptop. Now I actually have a reason to get one. And they called me...

Alright I have decided to "settle" for a 2.53 I tried every value and vid mod configuration up to 1.692v, here's what happened: At everything below 1.644, prime fails the small FFT's before things even heat up. The...

Question for those who opened up their XPS gen 2 - Is the heatsink for the CPU made up of copper or aluminum? I was looking at the xps2 service manual and the picture on THG (http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/2...ll_xps-04.html) and...

Quote: Originally Posted by Lifestatistic Someone did say that he received a score higher then stock iXPS2 systems. I think my 5224 outperforms his 5002 by enough. I got that score before I reinstalled windows. Note,...

SirBA, to some of us, this IS the game, the benchmark, etc. Of course it won't help much for modern games, as they are GPU limited. I ran a doom3 timedemo at 1.86 and at 2.66 (to compare what I started with to what I have now), and got...

Ok guys, I have read many of these posts since I ordered my laptop on March 31st. I was afraid my screen was going to be complete, utter crap. I unboxed it and found I had an LG. People were complaining that the lg sparkled and the...