Posts by ShadowCid

The most likely cause is that the air vents are clogged with dust and you need to open up the laptop and clean out the exhaust vents and fans with some compressed air (blowing it the right direction). Don't just take off the keyboard and...

Good luck! I hope it works out for the sake of myself and everyone else waiting on this.

Any news on the bios hack yet? I think that's the only thing holding back this mod from working.

Quote: Originally Posted by DrinkMore Well, its kind of stupid to mod something that clearly won't work in a laptop it was not designed for. Everyone here is talking about soldering like it was a hobby. Most people...

I'm keeping a very watchful eye over this topic. A 7900 GTX would be a huge upgrade over the 6800 ultra in my XPS Gen2.

Just in reply to MadCnty: The centrino is an awesome proc for gaming. Almost an oddity in the processor world and typically beats out the P4. Look at the benchmarks and you'll see that. On a sidenote (and I wasn't going to bring this...

Also, if I recall correctly, if you ordered your XPS2 with 512mb then it comes with 2x256 (and it only has two slots). So you may only be getting 756mb total instead of 1 gig. Just a thought.

Another point with the G series is that when those products are released (October, I believe) the prices of their other series will go down. So those 518s will be even cheaper if you really want one.

Wait until the new Logitech "G" series mice come out. They smoke the 518 in every aspect. G5 for wired and G7 for wireless. The G15 keyboard that they're also releasing soon is also pretty sweet.

Am I the only one who can see the GPU temps only using RivaTuner?