Posts by codek

it has the most beautiful semi glossy matte screen but the gpu/mobo sucks. Design flaw all the way. My gpu blew out 1 year ago and its $400 to replace the gpu. Not worth it. I can get a new alienware for 1500. all of my dell laptops...

anybody?

I'm having a tough time replacing the hard drive in my dell xt. The hard drive (a pata 80gb) started stuttering so I had a replacement sent out. The replacement has a cable that is a female connector and my connector from the...

Quote: Originally Posted by dave-p Are you positive the fans are working correctly ? You may want to apply new thermal compund to the GPU yes it was working the as5 got the temps down a couple of degrees (i...

Quote: Originally Posted by codek I have an M90 and it was good for the first two years and about 7 months ago it started to heat even when I wasn't playing games. A lot of times it would shut off by itself. I now...

Quote: Originally Posted by zzpulp Just for completeness for people using the search engine.... The only thing that has really been done about the heatpads is replacing them with a highly conductive metal (aka copper). ...

Quote: Originally Posted by MrEvil For the memory, no, too much of a gap. Any place on the Laptop where you have one of those thick blue spongy pads you can't replace with AS5. The GPU core and the CPU core however...

Can I remove those pads and use AS5 in place of them or no?

Nice. I'm looking for a set for the average joe. Question is which set to buy and where? How about these? Set, Power Bit, Fractional, 1/4" Hex Shank (52 pcs.) http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item....re&dir=catalog ...

Quote: Originally Posted by zzpulp No, you need 200-pin DDR2 modules. And your peak commit charge should be less than the total physical memory. so I can go with a DDR2 800? over a a DDR2 667 Thanks zzpulp!