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post #21 of 34
1/9/06 at 5:35am
so will they void your warranty for thermal compound? Obviously if you have warranty work done you will want to remove the pin. Can the pin mod be accomplished safely without Artic silver? Oh and back to the ops topic. My 8600 lasted a good hour or so longer than the 6000 with a 6 cell. Did the 8600 have a 9 cell or what?
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post #22 of 34
1/9/06 at 6:30am
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Originally Posted by jkj
so will they void your warranty for thermal compound? Obviously if you have warranty work done you will want to remove the pin. Can the pin mod be accomplished safely without Artic silver?
The problem is, dell uses a compound pad that (as all pads) has to be replaced when detaching the cooler (which you need to do for the pinmod), so you have to replace the compound when pinmodding.
Because of that, removing the pinmod still leaves some evidence behind.

I still wonder why dells pad includes plastic in it and it looks like the techie that assembled mine forgot to remove the protective plastic before putting the cooler onto the cpu
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post #23 of 34
1/9/06 at 7:47am
Thread Starter 
pinmodding? what are you talking about?
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post #24 of 34
1/9/06 at 9:56am
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Originally Posted by Piccolo Lord
pinmodding? what are you talking about?
We are a bit offtopic and talking about p-m pinmod (which can easily be found in this forum when using the searchfunction). Basically it's just overclocking a P-M with normally 400fsb to 533fsb which increases it's clock about 1/3rd - for example a 1.7ghz get's to 2.26 Ghz max (and only if you are lucky!).
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post #25 of 34
1/9/06 at 11:47am
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Originally Posted by egalus
We are a bit offtopic and talking about p-m pinmod (which can easily be found in this forum when using the searchfunction). Basically it's just overclocking a P-M with normally 400fsb to 533fsb which increases it's clock about 1/3rd - for example a 1.7ghz get's to 2.26 Ghz max (and only if you are lucky!).

is it dangerous? can you see a significant difference about performances?
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post #26 of 34
1/9/06 at 12:45pm
Its fine if you are used to computer hardware. and can give a nice boost. results depend on your cpu
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post #27 of 34
1/9/06 at 1:27pm
Like suggested before, use the searchfunction to find out about pinmodding, there is plenty of information already written down, no need to copy&paste it.
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post #28 of 34
1/9/06 at 2:02pm
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Originally Posted by egalus
Like suggested before, use the searchfunction to find out about pinmodding, there is plenty of information already written down, no need to copy&paste it.
Have you tried the search function as of late?

In Firefox I get a blank screen

In IE I get "Cannot display Page"
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post #29 of 34
1/9/06 at 2:41pm
Yes I did and I just tried again - no problems with firefox. IE is a to great bug as to use it for anything else than windowsupdate
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post #30 of 34
1/9/06 at 3:45pm
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Originally Posted by egalus
Yes I did and I just tried again - no problems with firefox. IE is a to great bug as to use it for anything else than windowsupdate
Strange. I"ve had issues with firefox and the search for a few days now. Sometimes it works..sometimes it doesn't. This is on three different PCs also.
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post #31 of 34
1/10/06 at 6:16pm
I b*tched up a storm about it here last summer, but with two different 9-cell batteries, I got no more than 3-3.5 hours on mine, doing simple Word work with the screen at half-bright. Everytime I see someone (mag or poster) claiming 5+ hours of run time, I just laugh, "Yeah, right!"
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post #32 of 34
1/10/06 at 9:12pm
depends on the user. I actually DO get 5 hours which I did get last night when I was typing up an essay (waited till the last minute to do it ) and I had bluetooth, wireless, and sound on (quiet)
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post #33 of 34
1/11/06 at 6:00am
Good for you. I got hosed and it sucks. The inability to deliver advertised battery life CONSISTANTLY without doing extreme geek hacks to wring out is pathetic. My specs are in my sig and usually it's just me typing in Word with the screen at half-bright, no wireless and just a USB-powered LED light and it craps out in short order. Ridiculous and frustrating every time I hump this heavy laptop case around with the heavier battery that provides no benefit. I like this laptop a lot, but I won't recommend it to others based on the bogus battery action.
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post #34 of 34
1/11/06 at 9:06am
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Originally Posted by DirkBelig
I b*tched up a storm about it here last summer, but with two different 9-cell batteries, I got no more than 3-3.5 hours on mine, doing simple Word work with the screen at half-bright. Everytime I see someone (mag or poster) claiming 5+ hours of run time, I just laugh, "Yeah, right!"
For me it seems that you don't "just laugh" but complain about yourself not being able to reproduce results many people are able to achieve.
Even my unchanged celeron1400 was able to get 3-3.5 hours and that cpu is not doing anything to safe batlife (and as it needs constant fanusage there is no way to safe battime with any "geekish" tools).
So if you can't get 5+ hours with your setup you didn't read carfully enough on which conditions we achieve that.

If I am defragmenting the harddrive, running on fullspeed or doing something similar I don't get this runtime either - and using word disqualifies for low resource usage as it's one of the worst written programms ever seen on earth (just my own opinion).
TBH I always ask myself why a company is allowed to be named microsoft which makes such resourceconsuming (fo r no benefit!) software like ms office.
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