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Dell i9300 video card 64MB Radeon X300 to 256MB nVIDIA GeForce Go 6800

post #1 of 5
7/7/05 at 12:40am
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Hello! I just recently found/joint this great forum.

By mistake I've put this message to a wrong forum yesterday and could not revoke it by myself - the moderator closed that thread per my request and advised to repeat it here. So here we go - this is the most appropriate place for such questions I hope. BTW thanks for all who has reacted to my post.

I'm sorry if my questions have been answered here but I could not find them. I guess answers might be useful for other people also.

I recently purchased Dell Inspiron 9300 with basic video card - 64MB ATI Mobility Radeon X300 and I do not like the image quality at all. So I want to upgrade the video card to the better one. 128MB ATI Mobility Radeon or
256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 (hoping that the quality would be much better). I am thinking about G6800 if it is not very expensive.

I've tried to find the cards on the Dell website and other places on the Internet but I could not. It seems to me now that there is only one way (most expensive) to upgrade - call Dell. But I'd like to explore my options before I call them.

Could you please let me know how to do such upgrade the most efficient way (cost, time)? What about warranty? I have Complete Care for 3 years.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thank you.
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post #2 of 5
7/7/05 at 12:47am
If you're still within 21 days return period, it might be better to return your current one and order a new one.
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post #3 of 5
7/7/05 at 12:48am
I'm not sure what Dell will say, but I bet it will be pricey. I'm not sure if it will increase image quality but you will be able to play games at much higher settings.
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post #4 of 5
7/7/05 at 11:23am
Image quality doesn't have anything to do with your video card. But gaming has everything to do with the vid card.
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post #5 of 5
7/7/05 at 11:51am
I ended up doing the return thing because of the 7/1 35% off coupon, but I did get a call from Dell saying that the 6800 Go that I wanted (before I decided just to do the return) was finally in stock. The part number is W5373 and this it the number of the parts department I dealt with 800-357-3355. I think it was about $320 or so... The return was fairly painless, so I'd opt for that option since it will cost you a lot less. They offered to credit me $68 for my X300 128MB which isn't enough to make the $320 expense enough...
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