Posts by Xcythe

parts list, one E6410 i5, no HDD, then bought 6410 ATG top cover, 8G DDR3, then cooling slice, then mobo w/ nVidia, then bigger heatsink for CPU/GPU, then ATG palmrest top, backlit keyboard, and i7 820 QM. It will take the 840QM, but...

I would look for a mini pcie to 5-pin adapter and use an Intel 5300 mini half size card. It has a 3x3 antenna array, up to 450mbps, you can add the additional antenna and lay it out under the keyboard. You can get a card for less than...

For win 7 modding you need to take ownership of OS. I mod bootloader, logon screen and theme. Deviant Art, has lots of boot loaders, logons, themes, cursors and links to other win modding. Search for HUD or HUD Evolution by Mr. Grimm....

Yes, a reformat is the best solution. Put your OS on a thumbdrive. ('Win 7 usb' works, unetbootin, WINtoBootic, Bootable USB by HP) You may get away w/ an 'over-install' where all your current data gets put in a folder called...

It's not your computer, don't hate 'it'. It's Windows. Windows itself is just a document management system. Originally it was a GUI over an OS, specifically DOS. Windows 7 is the most stable one currently. Linux would probably serve you...