Posts by spaceweasel

1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot Memory, Samsung, or other)? No 2. What is the most important...

1) Do you currently own an SSD? Are you planning on purchasing one or more in the near future? I do not own now, but am, seriously, looking at them. 2) If you’re planning on purchasing an SSD, which brand(s) are you considering and why...

I have the same with my 7800GTX. Use a small desk fan to blow cool air. That will keep the temp down to useable.

Quote: Originally Posted by Stoodo Congrats! Now sell me the old card http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MESC%3AIT&rd=1 Starts 9:00PM Pacific Time 8/4/2006

Another successful upgrade! I now have a E1705 9400 T2500, 2GB 667 RAM, Nvidia Go 7800gtx. The graphics card upgrade completes the transformation to a high performance laptop

Quote: Originally Posted by zolutar ok I want to know how you got ahold of a 7900gtx.... numbers look close to where the XPS's are running, my guess is it needs tweaking, remember the 7900 gtx is only 10-20% faster...

However, changing this value does not allow the CPU to throttle down, automatically, under light workloads. This means under battery power it will use a lot more juice, and with AC, there will be more heat and wasted energy. I think it...

Quote: Originally Posted by zoom_zoom Is that safe ..... messing with the registry like that? Not unless you back up the registry first, and have some idea of what you are doing. I have eleven years...

After reading your post, I looked into the registry, and found that key already there, but with a value of 1. I changed the value 0, and the notebook is faster. I am posting this right after rebooting, and getting back online, so I...