Posts by stigmata

DX10 will only work with DX10 capable cards. Current DX9 cards will run DX9, not DX10.

It's a 7800 Go, unless your friend modified his laptop to fit a 7800 GTX in it.

Hmm, I've had my laptop four months and I'm at 21% wear. Damn.

I'm a freshman at UC Berkeley right now, and in my dorm room (two other guys, crowded) I have the same setup as I did at home: laptop, 5.1 speakers, lots of USB devices hooked up to a hub, dual monitor setup, etc., so living space...

Wow, bringing a three month old topic back alive to bitch more at DHL. DHL sucks!

The Core 2 Quadro is basically two Core Duo's slapped into one processor, without anything really new, so the power requirements and heat would probably make putting this in a laptop a bad idea. I wouldn't expect a quad core laptop proc...

Intel's quad core procs have been on their roadmap for Q4 (I think) of this year for quite a long time. Someone showed me their roadmap a few months ago and showed me the quad core.

He removed the heatsink to replace Dell's crappy thermal compound with AS5, and if the surface of the thermal compound isn't flat, you can tell that there was an air bubble.

He means there was an air bubble between the heatsink and the cpu, where there should've been a solid layer of thermal compound.

Even more convenient: Windows key + D will do the same.