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Are you pissed that dell locked the XPS 2 6800 Ultra video bios?

Poll Results: Do you care if the 6800go Ultra bios are locked?

 
  • 54% (24)
    Yes, I think Dell is only making their flagship laptop slower by doing this
  • 18% (8)
    No, I think it is a great idea. It prevents anyone from ruining their system.
  • 27% (12)
    I really could care less what dell does.
44 Total Votes  
post #1 of 14
10/1/05 at 1:55pm
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Just would like to know the general consensus, I couldn't be more angry at the fact that they did that.

Please, only XPS 2 owners vote.
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post #2 of 14
10/1/05 at 1:56pm
Edit: nevermind
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post #3 of 14
10/1/05 at 1:57pm
Yes I am for any other Dell machine BIOS. My I8000, D4500, I9300 are all locked up
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post #4 of 14
10/1/05 at 2:15pm
There's two sides here. If people found out that Dell notebooks overclocked like heck, there would be an even bigger rush for them by the enthusiast community. However, Dell would also have to deal with the morons that screwed their notebooks up and (dishonestly) send them back to be replaced, which means more people hired and more hassles. I guess Dell highly abhors the second situation over the increased revenue from the first (they are the largest anyway).
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post #5 of 14
10/1/05 at 2:19pm
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I just don't understand why all their other notebook have video bios that OC but the XPS doesn't have that option.
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post #6 of 14
10/1/05 at 3:09pm
not pissed, but maybe that little bit of overclocking will help when we start to stuggle on games, at the moment stock is fine BF2 runs with everything on full
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post #7 of 14
10/1/05 at 4:06pm
HEHE! wait until you try doing it with 7800 Go GTX it will be the same situation.

Good thing that we now have a process to overcome that.

Anyone got a Dell 7800 Go GTX bios?
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post #8 of 14
10/1/05 at 4:30pm
As in the lock preventing overclocking? Doesn't bother me at all, seems sensible given the limited amount of overhead the Ultra has.

John
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post #9 of 14
10/1/05 at 5:25pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnmcl7
As in the lock preventing overclocking? Doesn't bother me at all, seems sensible given the limited amount of overhead the Ultra has.

John

HUH? Limited amount? Have you been under a rock?
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post #10 of 14
10/1/05 at 5:31pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cornholio
HUH? Limited amount? Have you been under a rock?
LOL!!
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post #11 of 14
10/1/05 at 6:10pm
I've never overclocked graphics cards, and I am willing to cope with slightly less performance. Personally, I look forward to driver improvements rather than overclocking to solve performance issues. When games get too good for my 6800 ultra, then I may consider an upgrade to the 7800 GTX. I'm somewhat dissappointed with the 7800's performance according to the Sager benchmarks, so I'm interested in seeing what the XPS m170 can do with it.
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post #12 of 14
10/1/05 at 6:33pm
Wait, so are they all locked or only the new models?
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post #13 of 14
10/1/05 at 7:22pm
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by |-007-|
I've never overclocked graphics cards, and I am willing to cope with slightly less performance. Personally, I look forward to driver improvements rather than overclocking to solve performance issues. When games get too good for my 6800 ultra, then I may consider an upgrade to the 7800 GTX. I'm somewhat dissappointed with the 7800's performance according to the Sager benchmarks, so I'm interested in seeing what the XPS m170 can do with it.
A driver can only do so much. If you want faster gameplay you are going to have to sacriface visual quality to get that extra boost. As with overclocking your boost in frames per second are far more greater then setting the driver to a faster speed (high Performance)
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post #14 of 14
10/1/05 at 8:05pm
To each his own.

Personally I'd rather blow up my system trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of it.

It will be obsolete in a few months anyway. I don't care at that point I'll get whatever is the best and do the same.
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