One of my coworkers and computer gaming buddy has been having issues with his Dell Precision M90 notebook where two times in a row now four months apart his power port stopped charging his battery and the M90motherboard had to get replacement to fix the issue.
Well now it turns out the issue has popped up a third time and so I told my buddy of Dell's policy of allowing a system replacement after the third occurance of a similar issue under warranty. Now after some persuasion via Dell chat Dell small business has issued a system replacement request for the system.
His M90 is a 2GHz C2D, 2GB ram, 160GB 7.2rpm, 512MB FX2500 graphics thats covered by a four year completecare warranty.
Since the Precision M90 models have been discontinued for close to 6 months now, it would seem that he should be getting a refurbished M6300 soon right?
If thats the case, what are his chances of getting or after some arguing, receiving a M6300 with the 512MB FX3600 graphics (8800 based) rather than the much slower 512MB TurboCache (256MB discrete) FX1600 graphics which is based on the 8700GT core?
It would seem a FX2500 (which is basically a 7900GTX) should be much faster than a FX1600 since in most bench marks a 7900/7950GTX is similar in performance to a twin SLI 8700GTs and so should be significantly faster than a single 8700GT.
Has anybody been in the same situation recently of having dell replace their defective M90 notebook with a FX2500 or FX3500 with a M6300 and being stuck with a slower FX1600?
Well now it turns out the issue has popped up a third time and so I told my buddy of Dell's policy of allowing a system replacement after the third occurance of a similar issue under warranty. Now after some persuasion via Dell chat Dell small business has issued a system replacement request for the system.
His M90 is a 2GHz C2D, 2GB ram, 160GB 7.2rpm, 512MB FX2500 graphics thats covered by a four year completecare warranty.
Since the Precision M90 models have been discontinued for close to 6 months now, it would seem that he should be getting a refurbished M6300 soon right?
If thats the case, what are his chances of getting or after some arguing, receiving a M6300 with the 512MB FX3600 graphics (8800 based) rather than the much slower 512MB TurboCache (256MB discrete) FX1600 graphics which is based on the 8700GT core?
It would seem a FX2500 (which is basically a 7900GTX) should be much faster than a FX1600 since in most bench marks a 7900/7950GTX is similar in performance to a twin SLI 8700GTs and so should be significantly faster than a single 8700GT.
Has anybody been in the same situation recently of having dell replace their defective M90 notebook with a FX2500 or FX3500 with a M6300 and being stuck with a slower FX1600?
