Posts by exabytehd

Um, I am not saying he should have to, hell if he wants to try to get them to send him a GTX, all the better for him, all I am saying is its a better card, he is already overclocking his 7800 GTX as about as far as it will take him...

Quote: Originally Posted by T120ted I had a M170 replaced w/ a M1710 that had the 7900gs. It took a few weeks of wrong parts being sent and horrible talks with tech and customer care. I sent them a chart similar to the...

redoing the mbr wasnt a problem for me since I did a direct mirror from my XPS gen 2 to the M1710, including the MBR, and grub boot loader, I had no problems once I got rid of that partition. Of course I did have to do a repair for...

my overclocked 7900 gs does better than 7800 gtx, not just 3dmark, I ran quake 3 @ 1920x1200x32 8xS AA, 16x AS, and got about 20% higher FPS on the 7900 gs.

This just happend to me, got a M1710 replacement for a XPS gen 2. the 7900 GS is definately not worse than the 7800 GTX, with my 7800 GTX, clocked very similar to yours, mine is at 450/1150, I get quite a boost from the 7900 gs, my...

I was always pro LG, especially when I saw my friends M170 which had a samsung which looked like crap, and I was worried when dell was replacing my XPS gen 2 with a M1710, but when it came it had the LG, in the system config it...

and to show the difference when you do it at 1280x800:

If you guys are still discriminating against M1710's my M1710 I got as a replacement for my XPS gen 2 from dell just got: 2 GHz Core Duo 1 GB 667 Ram (will swap with my 2 GB 533 soon) Geforce go 7900 gs @ 630/1201.25/1.24v It is dual...

I can, but the guy is in US, for US support, on US escaltion, will it do you any good since you are in canada?

Well finally got rid of the stupid media direct crap so I could mirror my old drive on to the new one, one thing I thought was weird is the M1710 says MXG061 when it is booting, I would have figured it would say M1710, like my XPS GEN 2...