Posts by Jacmert

Hey DragonEmperor! You might want to cancel and replace your order. (Nm, just figured out that it looks like you haven't placed it, yet) I managed to get the system in my sig for $1938. You can read what I did in this thread (or...

Quote: Originally Posted by Blighter1 That's a great review...though if you complain about New York taxes...as a Canadian, I will be obligated to smack you. XD YEAH, I KNOW! Lol, I noticed that too, when I was...

Quote: Originally Posted by Skott On another note I'm thinking Dell does drop tests just to see how durable their units are. Anyone seen any articles stating such info? Kinda curious what the results were. I...

I think I might have heard something about upcoming P-M price cuts. Anyways, what I find even stranger/more frustrating is how Dell doesn't price their P-M upgrades according to the cost differentials for the actual chips. There's like...

Quote: Originally Posted by mr. roboto nice! If you just have a little patience, you cangenerally always get what you want from dell. I don't know if that's as true for Dell Canada, though. I guess part of...

According to the Dell.ca Higher Education page (they never offer any weekly deals/specials for Higher Education, so I use that page to find out what the BASE configurations and upgrades are), the i9300 comes standard with a 1.73GHz...

Btw, does anyone remember if the Athlon 64 / Turion benefits from dual-channel DDR400? Because if it can get by with dual-channel DDR266 (DDR533 effective)... the whole on-die memory controller and HyperTransport bus totally confuses...

If you're matching two 1GB sticks for 2GB of RAM, then wouldn't it be running in dual-channel mode? If that's true, then it'll be at least as fast (or faster, if the Turion can take advantage of more than PC3200 of bandwidth) than 1...

I think so. Well, at least for the 3-yr warranty. It's $91 USD regardless of whether you have a 1/2/3 yr warranty, right? Here for Dell Canada, 3 yr CompleteCare costs $169 CDN extra (approx. $140 USD). It's only $99 CDN (~$82 USD)...

Quote: Originally Posted by GBmanNC Its not just extra space, the gloss screen makes movies and games look ALOT better, my friend has the 9300 with the wxga screen and i can see a difference. Your kind...