Posts by AndyM

Did some searching here but cant find anyone who tried this, so here goes my Q's... I'm thinking of retiring my M170 and moving to current tech for more snappy general usage performance. No more laptop gaming for me, so the Vostro...

That's a good option package if you get it working, fast HD like others said, and it looks like you got the 1900x1200 LCD also! I cant tell what if anything special graphics card that thing has though, but it is somewhat loaded, so....????

Man, these really jammed up my M170 with a 7800gtx oc'ed using these. Loaded the 97.44's, ran 3d06, thought my computer broke with 97.44's: 3d06-2499 sm2.0-1138 sm3.0-971 cpu-771 I then went back to the 84.63's that my...

y2k...I dunno why your numbers are so high, maybe you have a bunch of stuff turned off/optimized? I'm doing 'performance', not 'maximum performance' on my driver, so that might be something too. And who knows what sort of crud is...

You should really consider turning up the speed on that 7800, with the faster CPU you should get some great numbers along with nicely improved in game framerates. I turned mine up recently some more to 440/1250 (2.0 cpu), runs solid...

I like the 84 series drivers better than the 9x.xx with my M170/7800gtx. I loaded an .inf'ed 9 series driver and got 50 less in 3dmark than with the latest 8 series. I like the old control panel better too. A little note...the Dell...

Temperature: If yours is anything like my 7800 GTX was, you might have a nice wad of dust blocking the entrance to the heatsinks between the fans and heatsinks. Speed: Here's one that I didnt see mentioned...Maybe check the Windows...

Furry, I am not sure what series Sony LCD projector that is, but here's a few tips from mine (Sony 55" WF series), which works perfectly with a 720P resolution sent to it from my PC (also with DVI to HDMI cable). First, find out...

Quote: Originally Posted by matist hi there, a bit offtopic maybe but how many points you can gain in benchmarks making this changes ? my temp are (when i'm playing) about 75-89C the max was 103 c and my fans are...

Quote: Originally Posted by pettersson72 AndyM do you use Dell's stock cooling? I have similiar temps like you have. Now when I run Oblivion in 1920x1200 to stress test my GPU I am at around 80-90 degrees Celsius full...