Posts by mbenigni

Thanks. Yah, $300-$400 sounds realistic assuming they weren't looking to make a profit, and they weren't taking the original card back for any trade-in value. Not sure what they would do with them anyway, besides build refurb machines.

Does anybody have any idea what any of the 5500 upgrades cost?

"Also, they were offered for the same price at the same time from AW" And what was that price? I'm just trying to get a ballpark on what a GPU upgrade costs for the 5500. Thanks!

Any idea on price? I'm right on the edge of selling my 9600 5500 and putting the proceeds into building a hotrod desktop system, but if I can get this done for a reasonably small sum of money, it might make more sense.

Thank you very much, Mark. I didn't have a can of compressed air handy, so I had to take the low-tech approach, blowing out as you recommended w/ a drinking straw (hoping to get any big stuff) then basically blowing in on the ports...

Thanks. Are you referring to the fans beneath the GPU cover? I think there might be other fans that are only accessible if you remove the keyboard as well. Can anyone confirm this, and can anyone tell me how to take the keyboard out?

Grrrrrr. Grr. I had finally made up my mind to sell my Area 51m. Its not the very latest model (7700?) but the sleeker, curvier one that was latest and greatest last spring (5500? Can't keep em straight.) Anyway, I set the...

Hi Guys, I have a Saucer Silver Area 51M (the newer model whose number I always forget) which I purchased about a year ago. Its in excellent shape and has been well cared for. I'm thinking about selling it because I need to get...

So I appear to be the luckiest man in the world. I bought the only PC without the ability to disable hyperthreading (Area51m) and I need the only (modern) app that requires I disable it (Gigastudio.) Grrr. Alienware support site...

I installed the 8.05 drivers two days ago, over a fresh installation of XP SP1 with all other drivers from the Alienware site. Now City of Heroes won't run for more than few seconds without crashing. I went back to Alienwares page to...