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post #1 of 4
6/18/08 at 12:53am
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Hello!
My brother once again refused to listen and bought his new laptop w/o asking first... He bought the XPS 1530 as a "gaming" notebook with the Nvidia 8400GS...
He just needs it to play games as far as AoC, by the benchmarks I’ve pulled it looks like the 8600 GT will do just fine.

Unfortunately there is no return option. He learned the hard way that you're not going to get to much out of that system for gaming... OC and the best i could pull was a 1780 3dmark06.

I was unable to find anything about upgrading the GPU in this guy; can anyone point me in the right direction?
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post #2 of 4
6/18/08 at 3:29am
You will have to replace the MB....the GPU's are soldered on unfortunately.

probably not worthwhile
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post #3 of 4
8/4/08 at 6:26pm
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Originally Posted by marker01 View Post
Hello!
My brother once again refused to listen and bought his new laptop w/o asking first... He bought the XPS 1530 as a "gaming" notebook with the Nvidia 8400GS...
He just needs it to play games as far as AoC, by the benchmarks I’ve pulled it looks like the 8600 GT will do just fine.

Unfortunately there is no return option. He learned the hard way that you're not going to get to much out of that system for gaming... OC and the best i could pull was a 1780 3dmark06.

I was unable to find anything about upgrading the GPU in this guy; can anyone point me in the right direction?
Really? I bought the XPS M1530 as a gaming laptop also (also for school, why I chose the 1530 over the 1730). It has a T9300 2.5GHz processor, 256 MB nVidia Geforce 8600M GT card, 4GB ram, and I consistantly get 30-40 FPS with Shader 3 on in AOC... you just have to remember to turn ALL shadows off, as those are the things that screw up your FPS.

Go to laptopvideo2go.com and download the latest 177.xx driver (right now it's 177.79).

Be warned though, I'm currently running into a ton of trouble involving my GPU overheating and underclocking automatically while playing AOC on medium-high settings. Right now I'm waiting on Dell to replace my fan (laptop is just 2 months old, but hopefully they'll replace it with a better one). Hopefully that'll fix it.
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post #4 of 4
8/4/08 at 11:42pm
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Originally Posted by Kaaji1359 View Post
Really? I bought the XPS M1530 as a gaming laptop also (also for school, why I chose the 1530 over the 1730). It has a T9300 2.5GHz processor, 256 MB nVidia Geforce 8600M GT card, 4GB ram, and I consistantly get 30-40 FPS with Shader 3 on in AOC... you just have to remember to turn ALL shadows off, as those are the things that screw up your FPS.

Go to laptopvideo2go.com and download the latest 177.xx driver (right now it's 177.79).

Be warned though, I'm currently running into a ton of trouble involving my GPU overheating and underclocking automatically while playing AOC on medium-high settings. Right now I'm waiting on Dell to replace my fan (laptop is just 2 months old, but hopefully they'll replace it with a better one). Hopefully that'll fix it.
He has 8400, not 8600 . But your suggestions are also useful, I would also suggest using drivers from laptopvideo2go.com for a bit of extra performance, and play around with your game settings.

Unfortunately, as gerryjoson mentioned to upgrade to the 8600 you would have to replace entire motherboard. This would be very costly... probably not worth it.

Stu
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