Posts by Karma Police

Quote: Originally Posted by BIGEE1212 man go for the warranty. i had an e1705 and got upgraded to the 1730. dell does in fact treat my computer as new (im guessing because i switched lines from inspiron to xps). so i was...

They're replacing the 8700 sli with 8800gtx sli for my old 7900gs. This was after I sent the email to michael@dell.com. The guy who called me had to check with the team that issues replacements but it worked out. Thanks woodstock!

hmm... xps wiki says it's not required for vista 64... but it said the same about vista 32 but dell does offer NSS for it...

Do you mean this? http://support.us.dell.com/support/d...&fileid=233537 I think that's for m1530... does anyone have the link to NSS for vista-64 for m1730?

There's no notebook systems software on the dell website, does that mean we don't need it?

Not according to notebookcheck. Plus it's a 256 vs 128 bit bus. I think Dell knows this and that's why they opted to give me the sli but as you said, sli often slows down games. So I'm going to call them out on their own logic.

I had the e1705 with the same config except 100gb 7200rpm HD and 2.0ghz processor, and they are replacing it with xps 1730 with 8700m sli and I didn't have to ask... though I'm considering asking them to give me the 8800gtx sli. From...

nope, nothing is taking up the cpu or ram significantly.

i have 1 gb ram and my pagefile is set to the non-windows partition, roughly 2 gb, so it's not that. i've tried switching it back to let windows manage it but it did nothing.

used o&o defrag, still those clicks. click...click...click.... as I'm typing gonna do a nuke reformat during christmas holidays when i have time. if anyone has suggestions before then please tell me!