New 7900 part numbers - Page 8

I should be the first to know....

because I am stuck with an ATI1400...hehehe...please let us know as soon as Dell if offering the 7900GS and/or 7900GTX for the E1705 (I do a search on the Dell website every day or so and no luck). My ATI1400 'struggles' sometimes. I know the 7900GS will be a great improvement over the ATI1400. I believe we 'are not sure' if the 7900GTX will work without physical mods to the E1705 and I believe the same stands true for the 7800GTX (physical mods required). Please correct me if I have stated anything incorrectly. If either the 7900GTX or 7800GTX only require more power, can you just buy a new 130 watt power brick from Dell?

I really do hate Dell online support...

I asked online Dell idiot if the 7800 GO was available. He gave me part # XPSG2GU. I searched this and it brought up the 7800 GO GTX for $449. This is not the 7800GO, correct? My understanding is that the 7800 GO GTX will not work with the E1705 without physical mods to the computer, correct?

Yeah, the 7800 GTX requires you to desolder a post for the keyboard I believe. As far as the 7900 GS hopefully that will be just a straight swap. The 7900 GTX will hopefully be a straight swap too, but more then likely it will require a 130w power adapter.

Yeah, can I get in on the list of when the 7900 GS or GTX is available to order from Dell, I am down, money is ready to go, lol. I would definitely upgrade. I would love to have the extra performance and less heat.

me three lol

anyone got part numbers for the GS?

A member posted this: US804 for the Geforce Go 7900 GS. Not sure if it's valid.

I know that the part # is UF814 for the XPS M1710.

Well Bal`thzar if you can get a few let me know, I am ready to buy one like yesterday, lol.
Thanks

I just got off with Dell Spare Parts...

Again worthless...after speaking to someone that barely understood me, I was advised after asking a number of times if the US804 is the part number for the Nvidia 7900GS and was advised that US804 is for the 7800.....any thoughts?

Why try to upgrade your 9300/9400 video cards to the 7900GTX and lose your warranty. Your gonna end up paying the same price for buying a new system. Ok lets say 7900GS gets 7500 and a GTX at 9000 3dmark 05 points. That's only 1500 points. You can pretty much over clock your video cards to get an addtional 1000 Points.

You guys should just sell your current laptops and wait for the 7900's to come out on the 9400/E1705. I just configured a E1705 System for 1250 after a $750 off $1999 coupon that has a 7800 Go in it. I'm sure when the 7900's come out It'll be only a 100 more.

So why spend $500+ on a video card and risk to void your warranty on your system that's worth $1000+ dollars. Ebay it for a $1000 then add 300 or so on the new system with a Duo Core CPU and a 7900/7800.

My two cents.

Here is your 2 cents back

First off you won't lose your warranty unless they find out that whatever went wrong was the fault of what you did. 99% of the time they do not send anyone to your house anyway. Most of the time it is a simple this is whats wrong we will send you a replacment.

This difference between the DUO and M is minimal and why would I upgrade to something that is not even used by the things I do on a daily basis?

This thread is about upgrading the 9300 or 1705 with the 7900 GTX not some lecture about warranty.

Here's your change,

How is 7000 PCmarks on the Duo vs. 3500 on the M minimal. That's a big ass difference. Maybe in current games there's minimal difference but future games definately a diffence. Isn't that the reason why you wanna upgrade to a 7900GTX so you can game better in the future. Plus multitasking and all other apps runs a whole lot faster.

So lets say u do get that 7900GTX in there and everything works then a month later the cpu goes bad or the Motherboard gets fried. Are you gonna send your system back with the 7900GTX still installed or put everything back the way it was. For me that's way too much work to open up a laptop and doing the swap. And isn't there some kind of seal so that they will know the laptop's been tampered with. If its a desktop than that's a different story. Go ahead and swap video cards.

Your gonna end up paying more for the upgrade then a whole new system with a video card close to spec if you get about 1000 for your notebook. I got $955 on a P4 3.0 Ghz Nvidia 5200 laptop that I bought in Feb 2005. http://cgi.ebay.com/Toshiba-Satellit...QQcmdZViewItem
I only spent 400 more to get an XPS M170. So your laptop can easily go for more.

Why upgrade old technology. I am referring to the 9300 Owners. I mean if you have a lot of money to throw away and like tweaking and modding than go for it. To me it does'nt make sense. I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. It's like putting a turbo on a Honda Civic. Sure it will go faster but imagine a Bigger engine and a turbo. Like a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution.

Yeah..how about I sell my 1 month old E1705...

because that would be DUMB!!!! I unfortunately got my E1705 when the 7800GO was not offered. I have an ATI1400. I am sure I will be able to get a 7900GS for ~$400 when they are available. I would rather spend $400 than lose at least $500 trying to sell a 1 month old laptop on Ebay....yeah, sell it, that's the ticket....NOT!!! DUMB......

ok, first off i don't even think dell would notice (or even check) a 78(9)00 GTX in it second of all, of course there is no seal as these laptops are user upgradable (and can be upgraded w/o voiding the warrenty)

7000 to 3500 yeah right

I guy recently moded his e1705 with a 7800 GTX and hit 8000 in 3dmark05 with similar OC's as myself. That would make about a 200+ point difference. I don't know where you are getting your numbers but a 7900GS is not comparable to a 7800GTX and you are not going to get that kind of point difference on a DUO. The 7900 would be utilized right now while a DUO is not. By the time games are using it the new CPU's are out and you didn't gain anything. You might see a slight improvement on multitasking and apps but not a BIG difference as you would indicate.

What if this what if that come on man give me a break. Most of the time you do not send your machine in they send the parts to you if you know what your talking about.

There is no seal and I can swap stuff out in my 9300 in 15 minutes. As someone said before people who swap stuff wouldnt realize there was a GTX instead of something else anyway.

It's obvious you are new to tweaking and overall reasoning when it comes to upgrading so do us a favor and quit thread jacking.

I'm not talking about 3dmark05 points but PCMark05. You know the difference? I read on this forum that you have to mod some posts inside and solder off some posts and also update the BIOS. So it's not just a simple swap. Do me a favor and look at these benchmarks. http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/04/...ow/page19.html
The Duo wins in everyone benchmark by a wide margin in about 80% percent of the tests. Have you even used a yonah yet? I've been using it at work for 1 year now at intel and there is a big asss difference. I test desktop/mobile cpu and chipsets.

We have a particular test that runs a script and opens 16 opengl applications. The Yonah can run them all in about 30 secs and the dothan takes about 3 minutes. So the Yonah will have all 16 apps running while the dothan has about 5 open. For you guys waiting for merom. There's only a slight diffence from yonah to merom. So it's not worth waiting for if you game. You'll probably see a 1% diffenence in games. But video editing, performance definately goes to the merom

I may be wrong but isn't the 7900GS just a clocked down version of the 7900GT if that's the case then look at these benchmarks: http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/...ance/page7.asp
It's right on par with the 7800.

I have no problem with people upgrading the 1705 with a x1400 to a 7900gs because your system is already a core duo and it's made for that system. My problem is with people willing to spend $500 for a 7900GTX that they don't even know if it'll work with there 9300 yet. Plus it's only a single core CPU. Don't you want a faster CPU too and a better Video card? Get a new one E1705 with a 7900GS I bet it will be under 1400 if you have a 750 coupon. Ebay your 9300's while your guys system is still worth something.

I actually ordered the E1705 with a 7800 a couple months for about 1300. Dell called me 3 weeks later saying they are having problems with the 7800 and the bios for the 9400. So they gave me a coupon for 750 of a XPS M170, so i got it for around 1300. And tell you the truth, it's still too slow for me. Especially when the speed step kicks in. I regret that i don't have a core duo processor. If it wasn't for the pretty xps lights I would of sold this along time ago.

MCF...maybe you can get dell to take back your system since it's only a month old.

hey guys ok as of right now all parts including the revision II of the vanilla Go 7800 are moot. I would say a few more weeks and it will be a good to go situation maybe a month

I think for some of us, it is the joy of the hobby to try something that nobody else really has to see if it can be done...but thats just my take

New System build (in your invoice) and Spare Part part numbers are different.