Posts by MU man

On my 9300 I can get over 3 hours so I would assume it would be pretty similar to the xps. You can lower your brightness a bit and that will also help. Edit: My 9300 has a 6800go and 1.86GHz CPU. I would think there is not that much...

piemaster, I have heard that theory before that you should take out your battery if you are going to be on ac, but I have never done that and my battery still lasts over 3 hours in my 9300. I have had my 9300 for about 10 months and it...

Well I didn't know you could check the wear of your battery so I just did. NHC says that mine is at 0%. I have had the laptop for probably 10 months, but I don't have it unplugged that often.

I think that is pretty high. I have heard that the NV42 6800go's are 6800ultras that couldn't reach the ultra clocks. You're lucky you can get to 810. My max is around 720. To tell you the truth, if you really want to get more fps,...

Well I tried this game yesterday and I was really amazed. It seems like it will be great, but wow did it ask for alot. It auto-detected my settings as high. It set resolution at 1024x768 with no AA. I think HDR was on too. I brought...

Hey man that is great that you are getting a XPS. One thing I noticed was that the graphics card they are sending is a nv42. This is either a 6800go or ultra; however, I checked my settings and it says that I have a nv42 and my card is...

Well I played some source today for probably 2 hours and the 6800go reached a max temp of 84C. I don't know why it suddenly didn't get to 93C, but I guess this is good. I still plan on opening it to check out the dust situation though....

I was all excited about the update GUI in Vista, but then I tried the Linux distro Kororaa that comes with XGL. If you guys haven't given it a look, you should. I know someone posted a link to some videos some time ago, but that is...

Well I am definitely going to open my pc tomorrow because I am sure there is a dust build up. I blew into the back exhaust for the CPU and there was some dust that came out. I am kind of hoping that is the main problem. Also if that...

Well if I were you I would take the M170 because even if you don't want it, you can get more for it than the 9300. So if you find out you want the desktop, then you can sell the M170 and get it. O and I'm just curious as to what was...