Posts by psyang

Ok, here's the post I remembered: MMarkin's Post -Peter

Do a search on Mikhail Markin's posts - I think he tried to drop a Prescott in his 5680 and found the heat problems were too severe. Of course, my memory could be totally failing me here, hence you need to search and see. -Peter

I don't know how I did it - I'd hit 1600 once but otherwise hadn't gotten past 1400, and then...magic It actually reached the end - I bumped into the right-edge, or I could have gone further. -Peter

I'm running 2gigs right now on my 5680. Some have said the 5680 is finicky about the type of memory, so make sure you get good quality, matched pairs. Here's the specs on mine: Quote: General Information : DIMM 0 (J6G1)...

Glad to be of service - you certainly deserve some help given all the help you've dished out in the past. -Peter

I was warned to simply make sure you got high quality ram for the 5680. I was lucky enough to buy 2 sticks of CAS 2.5 ram from someone on the forums who upgraded his laptop from a 5680 to one that required ddr2 ram. They have run...

Not a fix, but maybe a workaround if you don't want to rma. Look at USB sound devices like this one. My father-in-law's headphone jack went screwy (the headphones accidently got ripped out of the jack, and headphones/speakers would...

Quote: Originally Posted by RubberDuck Ive never had problems before with anything bought on Ebay. However, this is teh first time I had soemthing shipped with USPS. I will avoid any sellers using USPS in...

If I were you, I'd go to your hard drive's manufacturers site, and look up the ambient operating temperature range. For the hitachi 7k60, I think the max temp is 55. While your drive won't fail immediately once the temp goes outside its...

There's the Asus z81sp that starts at $1621.98 at StarTech. It comes with the nVidia 6800 Go, but is a real DTR with P4 processor and will thus most likely be poor in battery life and probably fairly heavy.