Well Dell's customer care seems to be very good, they are going to replace it with a new 1710, no argument, I guess that's why the last 2 companies I have worked at buy Dell all the time, and I recommended Dell to 2 friends who brought...
well they brought the motherboard and 6800 ultra and it said "REFURBISHED" all over the box, I'm not happy that its still hitting 85 and its quite cool here, full chat for a few hours gaming and it could be at 90+ core clock...
Well Dell have changed the fan and its working now, but the GPU is still sitting at about 70 and reaching 98 while playing a game!
I think the GPU is on the way out, luckily they are coming back tomorrow to swap the motherboard and the...
well the engineer called me today he is on his way before 1!
playing some games last night it hit 94 on I8Kfan so that's close on 100, I am going to say I am concerned that the GPU is getting damaged! I must have been worse when it was...
just on the phone now, they want to get it in for 7 days, no way i paid for extended warranty!
looks like my fan has died now as it wont go round at all, not good.
there going to get an engineer out to look at it.
I noticed a while back that my XPS smells of burning plastic on the right hand vent, I wonder what dell will say if I call up??
Well to add to it just banged an email off to dell UK, I paid extra for a years warranty and I am still in...
its there way of getting more money, they get the customer in and then once you start adding things the price shoots!!
Its actually a very good marketing plan, but if your wise you know you can just swap it yourself in 2 mins, but some...
