Posts by dajohu

I have 2 identical Asus laptops and when I made the restore disks, I didn't make which set was for which laptop. I just did a full restore on both units and windows says it's activated. How can I check which key is on which one? My...

Vista 64 for sure. It runs everything great and is FREE if you use your Dell 32 bit Vista OEM key! Contrary to what some may say it runs games as good as XP ever did. Technically you can strip it down to run even more like XP but I...

I would be happy with what you're getting as it is an upgrade from what you had. CPU is already much better than the one you had and the graphics cards are a little faster and newer as well. The physics unit is not worth anything in my...

Just wanted to add that the 1730 can use 8gb and Vista 64 works fine with it. I found drivers for everything and have a clean device manager. I think I got all drivers from Dell except the video, webcam, and logitech LCD drivers. I...

Quote: Originally Posted by gerryjoson The max GPU temp I saw on the 8800 powered one was 82 degC [8700's were a little cooler] that was with I8kfangui with the offset adjusted to mimick ntune temps[you need to do this...

I agree, I have an SLI 8600 notebook and while some times it will be on par performancewise with a single 8800GTX, many other times it will not. Plus you don't have to mess with SLI issues that may come up.

Quote: Originally Posted by diefool i just threw on 174.31 and am getting 11549 3dmarks in 06 and 35fps crysis all high @1680x1050. and I've only got 1 8800m when I get the Other--one? hell I don't ned...

Quote: Originally Posted by wardo i love my 1730! not one problem yet and love alll the bellss and whistles Me too, I've been very happy with it. My CPU and GPU temps are so cool I honestly am wondering if...

You are correct that laptop has a single 8800GTX. They do have 512Mb each, but realize that doesn't really equate to 1Gb since I believe that they both have the exact same things in memory at the same time. Crysis plays excellent. ...

Quote: Originally Posted by scor1pion Here is my situation. I'm not looking to start a war between the Dell and Sager fans. Loooking for knowledgeable input to help me decide. I have 4500 to spend on a computer ...