Posts by sakor1

Yes, it should work. Yes, the FSB will downclock to match. Your calculation is approximately correct. I would just contact the buyer (if you haven't already paid and shipped) and explain your mistake. Hopefully they are...

Walked under any ladders lately? Broken a mirror? Seen a black cat? Lol. That is a shocking run.... and like above I would say, barring some absolute freak run of bad luck, it has to be something with the way you are using it. I would...

No, chipset does not support it. Have not heard of any plans to upgrade/ introduce a new revision. In fact, the opposite. Word is that the Inspiron series will be dropped alltogether, in favour of the studio series. There may be studio...

You should be fine with any ATA-6 2.5" hard drive, up to the max available in that format (ie: a SATA hard drive will not work). Stu

Quote: Originally Posted by Zander Just look for PCI Express cards. a gen2 has that slot so you would be ok getting one off newegg or what not. No, no, no, no. NO. This is a laptop, you cannot just buy an...

You cannot remove, replace or upgrade the integrated video. Stu

It should be fine. Just remember, you will probably have to apply some thermal paste (like Arctic Silver 5) to the new CPU when you install it. Other than that, is very straight forward. Will take a little longer than normal booting up...

Yeah, thought as much. Gives me a good indication though, looks like being an upgrade so am happy with that Stu

Thanks for that. I was (and am) fairly confident that it is in fact faster, but just wanted that clarification .... however have to say that I am not sold on that PassMark benchmark, having a look it doesn't seem particularly...

Hey all. Gonna drop the hammer on a new laptop soon (looking at the Dell e6400 or perhaps lenovo w500), which will be replacing my current desktop (a Dell XPS 720). My reason for this is I don't need something with so much gaming...