Posts by absynth

oh also regariding pci express... i guess it's not so much the speed that may be obsolete but the form factor that dell uses for future cards.. for example a number of dells had the R9000 card, but they were not all the same shape.. ...

no dice on the return. just sell your old one on ebay.. lol.. in a few years people will have out of warrenty devices and those will become valuable.. but yea no credit will be given from what i got from my talk with the xps guy.....

yea i agree, it's not worth $400+ to get a 1500 point increase on 3dmark 05.. but still its nice that they are willing to do it.. plus give it some time and an 8800 or whatever will come around.. lets just hope pci-express x16 doesn't...

ok i got off the phone with the dell tech guys (do yourself a favor and call the xps people, which i didn't at first, but i was on hold for awhile still) XPS Support 1-800-822-8965 option 3 option 1 option 4 ok so the skinny as...

ok yea it seems like we have nearly identical systems and your scores are considerably higher in all aspects.. bios information versoin 5.41.02.36.A7 (not sure if this can be tweaked) drivers forceware version...

ok i have an xps now, but i'm getting speeds of around 4900.. now i know that's still good, but i have a 2.0 gig cpu and 1.25 gigs of ram. and i get about 22000 on 2001... it just seems like something isn't quite right. I'm using...