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post #261 of 328
8/1/08 at 10:15pm
Has anyone come up with a fan controller for the 8800 gpu's yet ?
I see if8kfan owner, writer, is missing in action . I'm really surprised because this is one of the most important issues with this laptop,despite the A09 bios . I can mod the mobo in a heartbeat ,but rather use software
at this time ...
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post #262 of 328
8/4/08 at 12:15am
Why? The built in fan control in the bios does a great job of cooling down the GPU´s.
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post #263 of 328
8/4/08 at 2:48pm
Because i want to control the fan speed (high or low), and keep it in the margins i want .

I'm a hardware tech for 20 years ,done all sorts of mods to mobos including volt,CPU,gpu, north bridge (Control with volt pots adjusters) ext..
Problem is it fluctuates to long of a span and to keep it in the 40's you need to over clock to 3.4 gigs in bios(fans on high constantley) .Simply put i want to decide how fast or slow and when fans kick in, thats all. Sure the cards run in 70's c fine,but how long they last is key.
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post #264 of 328
8/4/08 at 11:30pm
I just roll stock speeds...Tends to last longer and fans don't have to kick in so much...For the 10% increase it just isn't worth the lesser life of the cards....Each there own though.
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post #265 of 328
8/5/08 at 12:24am
Well you can´t overpower the bios fan control even by setting the Fan Enforcement to 10ms or even lower, it will always interfere with the bios fan control.

I noticed this when I ran I8kFanGui with my XPS M170. And you know what the actual bios did cool the GPU better than having I8kFanGui control it, my go 7800GTX got hotter by using this fan control program.

I had set it up correctly. I am no novice when it comes to computers. Working with them on a daily basis, have built computers for 10 years.
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post #266 of 328
11/12/08 at 6:51pm
I just got my big beautiful machine yesterday. Still trying to figure out Vista. However, Call of Duty 4 and Crysis is running well at max setting.
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post #267 of 328
11/18/08 at 9:03pm
Just wanted to add that the 1730 can use 8gb and Vista 64 works fine with it. I found drivers for everything and have a clean device manager. I think I got all drivers from Dell except the video, webcam, and logitech LCD drivers.

I found so little info on it at all my favorite sites it was amazing. After a bit of googling I found a few that had tried. I took the plunge and bought 8gb ram and 2 x 500gb drives, used my OEM key and upgraded to Vista 64 for free!

Feels like a whole new machine now!
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post #268 of 328
12/29/08 at 3:43am
anybody knows about a new 1730 upgrade, like gpu?
what's up with the sli 8700m gt anyways i mean ain't this card is old now?

shouldn't they offer the 9800m gt sli like alienwire clevo etc.? anybody?
sadly i am about to buy one this week, i'd be so pissed if they come up with a new gpu week after that.
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post #269 of 328
12/29/08 at 8:46am
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Originally Posted by SirBA View Post
anybody knows about a new 1730 upgrade, like gpu? what's up with the sli 8700m gt anyways i mean ain't this card is old now? shouldn't they offer the 9800m gt sli like alienwire clevo etc.? anybody? sadly i am about to buy one this week, i'd be so pissed if they come up with a new gpu week after that.
Best I can tell, the 9800m GT is the same card as the 8800m GTX, even using the exact same 65nm G92M Core. So Dell probably isn't offering the 9800m GT since there would likely be a backlash from people attempting to upgrade from the 8800m GTX only to find out they didn't really upgrade at all. The 9800 GTX's are a possibility though, but I haven't seen many computers with those cards yet. To top that off, what little info I've seen suggests that the GTX is a rather minimal upgrade from the GT, nothing that a little OC-ing couldn't compensate for: http://www.notebookcheck.net/typo3te...170f0ef96e.gif About the only other high-tier upgrades that I can think of on the horizon that the 1730 won't support at all is the mobile quad-cores. So there really isn't a lot in the near future. I would say now is a fine time to buy if your in the market. The 8800GTX sli are still top tier and not looking to be outperformed by a reasonable margin for some time.
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post #270 of 328
12/29/08 at 11:49am
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Originally Posted by Tekara View Post
Best I can tell, the 9800m GT is the same card as the 8800m GTX, even using the exact same 65nm G92M Core. So Dell probably isn't offering the 9800m GT since there would likely be a backlash from people attempting to upgrade from the 8800m GTX only to find out they didn't really upgrade at all. The 9800 GTX's are a possibility though, but I haven't seen many computers with those cards yet. To top that off, what little info I've seen suggests that the GTX is a rather minimal upgrade from the GT, nothing that a little OC-ing couldn't compensate for: http://www.notebookcheck.net/typo3te...170f0ef96e.gif About the only other high-tier upgrades that I can think of on the horizon that the 1730 won't support at all is the mobile quad-cores. So there really isn't a lot in the near future. I would say now is a fine time to buy if your in the market. The 8800GTX sli are still top tier and not looking to be outperformed by a reasonable margin for some time.
i agree with you on that, 9800m gt is same as 8800 gtx, in fact 8800 gtx probably even faster. well DELL wants 1000 extra for sli 8800gtx wow, but there's like %102 performance increase over 8700m gt sli.... anyway gotta get rid of my 1530 soon...
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post #271 of 328
12/30/08 at 5:07pm
I read over at notebookreview that the XPS Studio lineup was to appear on the first of the year. I think the implication was that the m1730 would stop being sold along with the rest of the current XPS line. Since Dell bought Alienware, the next logical move would be to drop the M1730 and leave the gaming laptops to Alienware.

On the GPU topic, yes, the 8700m GT SLI is old and will only make you wish you had the 8800m. Nothing in the 9800m line is significantly faster than the 8800m, so the only thing to worry about is a GTX 200 mobile part, which I haven't heard anything about.
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post #272 of 328
1/22/09 at 6:01pm
A10 bios for m1730 released says it has a support for a new video card.. Anybody got any details ?
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post #273 of 328
1/22/09 at 7:21pm
time to try the FX3600 again lol
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post #274 of 328
1/23/09 at 7:37am
FX3600 ? isn't it 8800gtx ?
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post #275 of 328
1/23/09 at 8:34am
actually not the same foot print, the m1730 has a unique card lol

So what the new one would be is a ????
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post #276 of 328
1/31/09 at 9:43pm
Someone hinted ATI but maybe since there was talk about Dell ending the performance XPS series, they decided to hook you guys up with 9800gtx upgrade potential. I don't really know though...
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post #277 of 328
1/31/09 at 10:05pm
It could be support for NVidia's re-branding of some of the 8 series. I think everyone knows the 8800m GTX is identical to the 9800m GT, so maybe it's just support for that. Or, maybe Dell is planning on offering a 9700 in place of the 8700 since there was that big thing about the G80 chips frying themselves. Another possibility is support for Quadro cards so they can sell the m1730 as a more workstation type thing.

I agree with zzpulp, I don't think the ATI possibility really makes sense at this point. The m1730 seems to be on the way out as the XPS series becomes the premium line instead of the gaming line of computers.
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post #278 of 328
1/31/09 at 11:53pm
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Originally Posted by zzpulp View Post
Someone hinted ATI but maybe since there was talk about Dell ending the performance XPS series, they decided to hook you guys up with 9800gtx upgrade potential. I don't really know though...

Which is an utter shame that they're ending it.
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post #279 of 328
2/1/09 at 1:26pm
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Originally Posted by wraithrsw View Post
Which is an utter shame that they're ending it.

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post #280 of 328
2/3/09 at 2:28am
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Originally Posted by wraithrsw View Post
Which is an utter shame that they're ending it.

On the bright side, that means I won't be able to put more money into it.
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