Posts by Davenow

THANKS!! I was assigned the task of buying my stepdad an LCD for xmas by my mom (with her money). This will allow me to buy him a VERY nice 17 instead of an "ok" one.

CS players like lower resolution so that there is a guarantee that there will NEVER be a frame rate drop. Even a TINY slowdown for .01 second can be the difference between killing or being killed.

I am going to use whatever is cheapest and PC3200. Cases where ram is incompatable do happen, but its REALLY rare, unless there is something about this MB I dont know. I am going to go to 2 gigs, and the 3.4 because I know that I need...

Bump.. About to add more power to my baby (adding a 3.4 and 2 gigs ram) and Turn her into a 5690 (wife is doing that for me for xmas)

Title says it all I have paypal or can do a money order

Quote: Originally Posted by gerryf That is simply not accurate...as many people have mentioned, they have loosed the hinges and the cracks reappear. The lid is engineered wrong with even minimal pressure ultimately...

I have a 5680 with P4 2.6 800fsb HT 512 DDR 9600 128 (standard there) 40gb 5400rpm hd I am looking at P4 3.4 800fsb HT 2GB DDR Soon after, a 7200rpm hd (probably 80 gig) I mean thats a 800mhz increase, and 4 times the...

what card does the 5690 have?

all you have to do to prevent this is loosen the tension on the hinges a LITTLE bit

FYI the magnet trick IS real. We do it here at Dell all the time. This thread is why I am ordering the parts and fixing my 5680 myself lol