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post #141 of 170
3/17/04 at 3:33pm

where is it made?

i know that the parts come from all over and that there are dell assembly plants all over, but...

where is the xps made exactly?

on the bottom, does it say "made in taiwan", "made in usa" or "product of china"? etc.

thanks,

robert
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post #142 of 170
3/17/04 at 4:09pm
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Originally Posted by robertfel
i know that the parts come from all over and that there are dell assembly plants all over, but...

where is the xps made exactly?

on the bottom, does it say "made in taiwan", "made in usa" or "product of china"? etc.

thanks,

robert
Made in Malaysia, says it right on the box they deliver it in.
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post #143 of 170
3/17/04 at 5:56pm
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Originally Posted by jwf
For me they suggested a video card swap. They said they are trying to collect all the errant cards to figure out what is going on. They are supposed to show up today and replace my card.

What’s the word out there on new cards? Is the problem solved; or is it still there?

I’ll let you know in my case after the swap.

Solved the problem for me...
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post #144 of 170
3/17/04 at 7:58pm
OK, got my card swapped out. The tech had to take pretty much the whole laptop apart. I don’t know if this is just because he didn’t know better, or if it was actually necessary (seemed like most of it was needed). This means the future video card swap has to be done by a tech; and probably is not going to come cheap. He was here at least an hour; add on travel time and you are not talking pennies…

Anyway, my system seems to operational again. I won’t really know until this evening when I can run some heavy graphics. One interesting thing is that my 3dMark went from 3225 (fairly consistently) to 3375; almost a 5% improvement. I wouldn’t let the tech leave until I completed this test; just to see if the solution was to put a “governor” on the GPU. It certainly doesn’t seem the case.

The only other item of interest, at least my interest, was the actual heat sink used. Essentially they use a copper bar with a “radiator” cantilevered off to the side. Never seen a heat abatement system quite like this.
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post #145 of 170
3/17/04 at 8:01pm
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Yeah, it's a Heatpipe leading to a heatsink cooled by one of the lower fans. Actually it's very common in the "XPC" Small Form factor machines made by Shuttle (such as the SB51G, among others).
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post #146 of 170
3/17/04 at 8:14pm
Amazing.

Of course, when I design chips I've found its better to just make sure the chip never gets that hot to begin with!

Saves the headache of these exotic packages. But that's just me.
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post #147 of 170
3/18/04 at 12:14am
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careful... there's probably kids in here who weren't even alive in the days of CPU's that didn't require active cooling
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post #148 of 170
3/18/04 at 8:46am
*cough*.... Motorolla MC68000 ....*cough*

-Geed
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post #149 of 170
3/18/04 at 9:22am
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I loved the 68000.

While everyone had the Amiga, I had the Atari ST. I thought it was a great machine
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post #150 of 170
3/18/04 at 9:28am
Amiga? Atari? I cut my teeth on real-time VME based 68k systems. Clean chip. Worked well. No lockups. No overheating. And for you Amiga and Atari guys, it even played games .

Where did it all go wrong...
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post #151 of 170
3/18/04 at 1:44pm
Of course nobody can argue the superior abilities of the 6502@1MHz and the 6581. The 6581 (SID) is still sold and used today for music.
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post #152 of 170
3/18/04 at 1:56pm
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Originally Posted by Krieger
Of course nobody can argue the superior abilities of the 6502@1MHz and the 6581. The 6581 (SID) is still sold and used today for music.
Did time with 6502's as well. My Atari 800 was 6502-based, and the C64 if I'm not mistaken was also based no the 6502...

I remember my favorite c64 game was a text adventure (with graphics) called "The Pawn".
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post #153 of 170
3/18/04 at 2:21pm
Did you guys ever play populous on the old c64 I loved that game on my Atrai St. I guess were getting old.
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post #154 of 170
3/18/04 at 2:38pm
Ah yes the good old C64 I can still envision playing Spy vs Spy with my bro on that machine, good times.
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post #155 of 170
3/18/04 at 5:30pm
Things are still working very smoothly for me after the GPU swapout. I ran Call of Duty multiplayer on spectator mode for hours on a busy server w/o any problems. I also looped 3DMark03 Pro 15 times @ 1920 x 1200 and no problems there either. Looks like the GPU swap really did the trick. Thanks again Karl for helping me devise the best plan of attack.

Unreal Tournament 2004 is just *awesome* at 1920 x 1200.

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post #156 of 170
3/18/04 at 6:02pm
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Originally Posted by XstatiK
Things are still working very smoothly for me after the GPU swapout. I ran Call of Duty multiplayer on spectator mode for hours on a busy server w/o any problems. I also looped 3DMark03 Pro 15 times @ 1920 x 1200 and no problems there either. Looks like the GPU swap really did the trick. Thanks again Karl for helping me devise the best plan of attack.

Unreal Tournament 2004 is just *awesome* at 1920 x 1200.
So far, i'm in the same boat. GPU swapout has solved my issues. I've been playing Battlefield Vietnam and 1942 (Desert Combat specifically).

Hang in there, all you folks still in the build stage... You'll like this machine once you get it.
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post #157 of 170
3/19/04 at 2:18pm
Great to hear. Thanks Guys.

Memnoch
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post #158 of 170
3/19/04 at 2:45pm
I played far cry demo at 1680 x 1050 w/ medium aa and it was very smooth. 1920 x 1200 was a bit choppy. The game is pretty graphically intensive--looks nice. The 9700 mobility is impressive.
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post #159 of 170
3/20/04 at 2:55am
yes, after a full day or so the gpu swap has appeared to cure the problem. No more lock-ups.

Ah, the 6502. Does anybody remember the original unit from MOS Technology? Or even how it got its name? [Now i am really dating myself]
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post #160 of 170
3/23/04 at 8:34am
Well, Dell shipped me a replacement 9700 graphic card module for a swap out... at least I should say they were suppose to ship me a replacement... (Are you ready for this one?) ... Dell shipped me an EMPTY BOX!! Yup, I received a box from Dell which is suppose to contain a replacement 9700 Pro module. The packing list says it's in there but the only things inside of the box is an Airborne Express return packing slip and two pieces of packing foam. Thats it! Now I got to call Dell and try to tell them they sent me an empty box. Oh boy, this should be good.... stay tuned.

-Geed
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