Posts by megaphat

Quote: Originally Posted by melshaw I agree. I remember a thread here where a user put a 7800GTX in the 1710 and it worked. Dell's machines seem to be backwards compatable just not forward compatable. We need someone...

Quote: Originally Posted by joeboblock I would agree with what SolApathy says if we lived in an ideal world where manufacturers or retailers were just as moral. Unfortunately we don't so I say that while retailers and...

Quote: Originally Posted by celly What he said. First time I went in, I missed ONE screw (can't remember which one) and it took me eons to figure out why I couldn't get in. Yeah that bloody bluetooth screw...

I'd consider the dell. Its a newer platform, uses laptop processors, and will probably receive the 8800M/whatever. But the sager might too.. who knows.

Seeing as your getting an xps motherboard, it should work. Heaven knows why you didn't just buy a 1710 in the first place... But yeah the t7600g would be a very big jump. Partially because you've got a 533mhz FSB cpu at 1.7ghz. I guess...

Maybe once we get expresscard at 4x or 8x, it'll become viable. Until then, no point. Besides, a home gaming desktop isn't exactly *that* expensive.

In my 9300 (same generation, almost identical motherboard), it will only work with 2gb. When I installed 2.5gb, it gave memory errors and refused to boot properly. Same as with 3gb. So yeah I think 2gb's the limit for our laptops. Bad...

Mmm once you get over the communication trouble, they are very helpful. They sent me the wrong replacement power adapter twice, but third times the charm

Mmm this is a bit scary. On desktops, overclocking the card doesn't cause long-term damage (unless you do a crazy pencil/pot vmod or equivalent). Most I've done required a cold boot to fix. But I guess dell laptop graphics cards are...

Any that don't use SATA, but rather the 2.5" version of IDE.