Posts by frylock

I have a Samsung WSXGA+ screen on mine. It sucks. The light leakage doesn't bother me and I have no stuck/dead pixels. But the viewing angle is terrible. I notice it most at night in dimly lit rooms. No matter how I adjust the screen it...

Quote: Originally Posted by theorist i thought as long as the memory was pc 4200 533 200 pin it would be fine. Not so - there's a little ROM chip on the module called an SPD (system parameter device, or...

This started happening to me too, but only after installing the bluetooth module that I got from Dell spares as an add-on. I don't actually lose wifi connectivity though, it's just the light that goes out...

Anything other than an integer factor of the native resolution is going to look a bit fuzzy. UXGA is 1920x1200 so you would have to go down to 960x600 to get sharp text, which is probably going to feel a bit cramped. That said... at...

If you get rid of the pagefile you'll still have "paging" going on. Windows pages in the bits of the programs you are using on demand, and drops pages you're not using from time to time (because it can just page them back in...

The tosh's dual hard drives _might_ buy some performance if they're set up as a RAID set. Depends how highly these benchmarks rate fast loading of bulk data - e.g. level load times in games. That said since a drive failure is twice as...

Flight Sim can be a lot of fun if it's good visuals and open-ended entertainment you're looking for. There are also a lot of good add-ons (both commercial and freebies) that keep it interesting.

I've had mine for a few weeks now - excellent machine, but I've become a little annoyed by the screen. Not the sparkles, just poor viewing angle. Seems like unless I'm dead center I get a lot of fade towards the corners... does anyone...

It would be interesting to see the different types benchmarked. Even though they're all sold as PC4200 (or whatever) there can be significant performance differences depending on the SPD setup...

And that's a reason I went for a 9300 instead of the XPS2 - the DDR3 RAM is fast, but it draws a lot of power and can't be throttled back, unlike DDR2..