Posts by mindaugas

guy at BB told me the same thing, 4 times is the charge. Catch is that they still send it back on the 4th to make sure its a hardware issue. After that they replace it with someething of "comparable" hardware. So I could end up...

7422GX ... since Feb this year so 6 months. Its in the shop right now, 2nd time, but this is the 2nd unit. I replaced the first day after I got it, bad HD and LCD. This one runs fine but screen flicker and I am trying to get BB to...

it looks like the driver is bumping down to 8 bit vs 32, or the LCD is loosing bit depth but I dunno if that's possible. ...nice van ghogh. My favorite is this one though ... this turning into an art gallery post lol

Someone over at the zd forums said I could strip it down and reapply the thermal grease, but I should send it back to HP for repair. I've taken it down to the mobo without issue, but what a pain in the ass. This is gonna be a good 2...

x700 is a much better card over the x600. I personally am using a zd8000 right now and despite it running Windows great, I can't play any games because the video overheats. This appears to be a fairly common problem. If you're going to...

I used to return burnt out AMD chips when I worked as a tech. In factI had a guy bring one in that was brown that AMD didn't even question. Not a notebook, but fyi. It may also depend on your rep with the retailer, etc. Intel was the...

Yes Yes Yes. I'm going to use mine to get my Gateway replaced with a better one hopefully. I also got a free AC adapter and battery Plus I get another one next year if I want. (Part of the performance plan aiwapro is talking about). I...

its cuz the app is grabbing the CPU and thus increasing the heat. Games would make the fans speed up too and they actually shoudl more intense than a graphic editor.

I was doing upwards of 80, as low as 45 when things get going. It's never choppy or laggy and I use 1280x1024 with everything cranked, AA, Anisotropic, etc. I have an x800Pro tho which helps I dunno how these would ping in...

I'll ask Ryan (my boss at Gearhost) if he tried overclocking it. I'm sure he did. Thanks guys! I did psot over at those forums also