Posts by egalus

As soon as you try to play games with the integrated graphics you gain from dualchannel as now cpu and graphics have to use the same ram.

Quote: Originally Posted by Piccolo Lord pinmodding? what are you talking about? We are a bit offtopic and talking about p-m pinmod (which can easily be found in this forum when using the searchfunction)....

Sounds like your laptop is not doing 533fsb but 400fsb instead as 13x133 would be 1733 and 13x100 is your 1300. As you don't give details about your laptop it's open to you to decide if your laptop is actually capable of doing 533 fsb...

Quote: Originally Posted by jkj so will they void your warranty for thermal compound? Obviously if you have warranty work done you will want to remove the pin. Can the pin mod be accomplished safely without Artic...

As long as you don't need to take apart your laptop to change the compound you would be able to stay in warranty, but as you need to open and partly disassemble it it's easy for dell to say that you actually caused the damage that you...

Which they will if they check the thermal compound on the cpu.

As said many times before: Pinmodding voids your warranty.

Or have dead pixels. Question is, do you see the leakage during working with the laptop, only if you do and it annoys you I would ask for a replacement.

Yes, 5 hours is almost allways reachable (depends on the backlightsetting as you can easily add 50% powercunsumption when going from mininum to maximum brightness) and most times I end at 5 1/4 to 5 1/2 hours. I use a Inspiron 6000...

If you call that light leakage you definately don't wanna see the cheap noname laptop my wife uses for years. Her bottom lines have about 3 times the brightness than the top lines of the display.