Posts by Tiburon666

Quote: Originally Posted by kpurcell I have no facts to support my anecdoate. But i had a 100 GB 7200 drive in my dell 9300. I was running out of room and bought a 160 GB 5400 from hitachi and ran acronis true image...

Quote: Originally Posted by 411sponge Thanks for the information. Where can you turn off the acoustic management settings? Also, does it make the drive insanely loud? The hard drive manufacturer will have on...

There is no "one size fits all" answer to this question, so the best answer for you depends on what you're primarily going to use the machine for. If you need the extra space just for storage such as pictures or mp3s than a...

My experience with 32bit Microshaft Windoze OS' dating back to NT-3.5 is that if you're going to mess around with application priorities, it's OK to lower one notch down, but not to increase priority. And especially not to increase to...

I've been keeping tabs on this thread for awhile now seeing how its progressed since I originally posted and feel I have to chime in again and put in my 2 cents. I think those of you advising against upgrading the I9300 and writing its...

Quote: Originally Posted by DELL-Machina Update your Bios first to ensure your XPSgen2 can support the 2.26Ghz CPU. I recall that 2.13 was the best you could get for the longest and there may be a chance you wont be...

Samduhman you aren't out of luck or past the time to make the upgrade, however, you're going to need patience, persistence and a little luck to do so. I purchased my 7800 GTX from a member of this board just a couple of months ago after...

From the auction description, "I have been told also that this is an ES sample". ES means Engineering Sample, these chips are prerelease early steppings used by Intel for testing and developmental purposes when creating new...

I found it on the firmware page, under downloads, then "S" for Sony, then DVD-Recoder (Laptop), then clicked on the link for Sony DW-Q58A /Dell OEM UDS2. Maybe you looked in the wrong place? Anyhow here's the link...

Try this link they have the most extensive list of firmware of optical drives from all manufacturers that I've found on the net. The Firmware Page http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php Good Luck! I hope this helps. Ciao