HOW-TO: Upgrade your 9300 with the Ultra o ... ... seems very interesting.... I just got my 9300 for xmas and I'm loving it so far. My current configuration i ...

jmbgator · 12-26-2005, 03:25 PM

seems very interesting.... I just got my 9300 for xmas and I'm loving it so far. My current configuration is the 1.73 gHz, 1 gig ram, 80 gig 5400 rpm, radeon 128 mb x300, and the 1440 X 900 WXGA+ Display. I would like to upgrade my x300 to the 256 mb nvidia go 6800 that can be purchased as an option for the 9300. 1) does anyone know the best way to get a hold of one and for what price, and 2) can I just "plug and play" after installing the drivers and uninstalling the x300 drivers without having to do the whole flash bios and power supply and battery changes that the 6800 ultra and 7800 upgraders have to do?

Lord^ · 12-26-2005, 03:38 PM

since 6800 go is a dell upgrade for the 9300, this will work perfectly. just unsinstall drivers and you'll be set.

craptastic7 · 12-26-2005, 03:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmbgator

seems very interesting.... I just got my 9300 for xmas and I'm loving it so far. My current configuration is the 1.73 gHz, 1 gig ram, 80 gig 5400 rpm, radeon 128 mb x300, and the 1440 X 900 WXGA+ Display. I would like to upgrade my x300 to the 256 mb nvidia go 6800 that can be purchased as an option for the 9300. 1) does anyone know the best way to get a hold of one and for what price, and 2) can I just "plug and play" after installing the drivers and uninstalling the x300 drivers without having to do the whole flash bios and power supply and battery changes that the 6800 ultra and 7800 upgraders have to do?

i've got a 7800 on the way and need to sell my 6800go. send me a private messege and well talk.

kamiraa · 12-26-2005, 04:46 PM

Ok, someone please answer some questions. I been lurking on this website for about a year and been researching the hell out of my next laptop. So I finnaly came under the decision to get the 9300 as soon as the next big discount hits in january.

So someone help me answer these questions:

1. How much weight does the 9 cell add?
2. Does the normal cards declock when not plugged into the PSU?
3. What kind of battery life can you get with a 9300 with a 6800 ULTRA
4. Since its declocks when plugged in after the mod, can you still play games descently just on battery life allone?
5. You can do this upgrade with a ATI 64 meg RIGHT?
6. Is the 9300 portable enough for you?

Please answer theses. Im planning on buying a 2.0 pentium M 9300 with just basic video card and 512 megs of ram. Im going to upgrade it right away to a 6800 ultra that im buying tommorow and 4 gigs of memory (if it supports it). I need to have a powerfull labtop for engineering graphics programs and playing some games.

Mr. K6 · 12-26-2005, 07:01 PM

Ok, here's your answers:

1. Minimal weight is added, and the extra battery life is very nice. You'll need the 9-Cell for a 6800 Ultra anyway, so get it.

2. The stock X300s and 6800Go run at full power even on battery.

3. Probably horrible battery life. My 6800 Go NU went for about 3:30-4 with a nine cell and everything turned down or off. Gaming I could get up to 1:45. With my 7800Go I get about 2:30 of desktop life and ~1:10 gaming. The Ultra is evidently worse on power than the 7800Go, so probably a little less than that.

4. Games run alright on battery life on my 7800Go (7800Go on battery is still faster than the 6800Go I had). Again, cant help you here because I dont own a 6800Go Ultra.

5. Yup.

6. 9300 is great for me. Anything smaller would be a pain in the ass, I love the room and the size of the screen. The battery life is insane for such a big laptop. Also, the palm rests are big enough for me to even run my mouse on and do a little gaming (because thumbpadding it sucks

). I use my laptop to write labs and I get a good 3:30-4 hours in the library which is perfect.

I'm wondering why you went for the 6800Ultra instead of the 7800Go? The 7800 is much faster, especially in games, and it's pretty damn cheap atm at ~$250. Did you get a killer deal on the Ultra? Also, the laptop will only support 2GB of RAM, but I think that should be good for many engineering apps. Good luck

JaxChris · 12-26-2005, 09:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmbgator

seems very interesting.... I just got my 9300 for xmas and I'm loving it so far. My current configuration is the 1.73 gHz, 1 gig ram, 80 gig 5400 rpm, radeon 128 mb x300, and the 1440 X 900 WXGA+ Display. I would like to upgrade my x300 to the 256 mb nvidia go 6800 that can be purchased as an option for the 9300. 1) does anyone know the best way to get a hold of one and for what price, and 2) can I just "plug and play" after installing the drivers and uninstalling the x300 drivers without having to do the whole flash bios and power supply and battery changes that the 6800 ultra and 7800 upgraders have to do?

As the last person wanting my 6800go has backed out and went for the 7800hack himself... you've now got a PM with an offer.

And no, you don't have to go thru all the bios hack 'n flash that we did.

Hotrodguru · 12-26-2005, 10:03 PM

Well I went for the Go6800 Ultra because I scored it for $90 on ebay

.

Guru

JaxChris · 12-26-2005, 10:09 PM

Good fetch

kamiraa · 12-27-2005, 03:15 AM

every time i decide on something for my new laptop I find more shit on this website that makes me change my mind. I guess Im going to get the lowest speed chip and do a 1.7 ghz pin mod'd to 2.26 ghz.

Am I crazy to be buying a brand new laptop and the first week tearing it down to do a upgraded GPU , memory, harddrive, and CPU haha

I think I got problems. But doing everything yourself is so much cheaper then buying a fully decked out XPS170 (2.26ghz, 100gig 7200, etc)

Mr. K6 · 12-27-2005, 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kamiraa

Am I crazy to be buying a brand new laptop and the first week tearing it down to do a upgraded GPU , memory, harddrive, and CPU haha

Maybe, but then I am too

. Here's my laptop after owning it for 10 minutes:

Lord^ · 12-27-2005, 10:20 AM

It almost breaks my heart to see something like that

Corneliusm · 12-27-2005, 03:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. K6

Maybe, but then I am too

. Here's my laptop after owning it for 10 minutes:

Took me a tad longer... about 2 weeks before I was prompted to spring for 7800 (it was such a good deal). I had it opened up and spread all over my bed also since there's not enough room on my desk for stripping this down far enough to install the graphics card.

It took me just over an hour to install it.

JaxChris · 12-27-2005, 05:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. K6

Maybe, but then I am too

. Here's my laptop after owning it for 10 minutes:

LOL... I need to find the pic I have off all the stuff sprawled out like that. It's kinda nuts looking because you would think there is 2 laptops because of the XPS2 conversion parts.

(Post #500... weeeee!)

jmbgator · 12-27-2005, 05:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JaxChris

As the last person wanting my 6800go has backed out and went for the 7800hack himself... you've now got a PM with an offer.

And no, you don't have to go thru all the bios hack 'n flash that we did.

did you ever get my reply?

fishmando · 12-27-2005, 10:47 PM

Wow... I am new here and I guess this thread just stopped me from getting an XPS… Hello i9300!

12-26-2005, 07:01 PM	#245
Mr. K6 0_o Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: MA, USA Posts: 2,325 Credits: 464	Ok, here's your answers: 1. Minimal weight is added, and the extra battery life is very nice. You'll need the 9-Cell for a 6800 Ultra anyway, so get it. 2. The stock X300s and 6800Go run at full power even on battery. 3. Probably horrible battery life. My 6800 Go NU went for about 3:30-4 with a nine cell and everything turned down or off. Gaming I could get up to 1:45. With my 7800Go I get about 2:30 of desktop life and ~1:10 gaming. The Ultra is evidently worse on power than the 7800Go, so probably a little less than that. 4. Games run alright on battery life on my 7800Go (7800Go on battery is still faster than the 6800Go I had). Again, cant help you here because I dont own a 6800Go Ultra. 5. Yup. 6. 9300 is great for me. Anything smaller would be a pain in the ass, I love the room and the size of the screen. The battery life is insane for such a big laptop. Also, the palm rests are big enough for me to even run my mouse on and do a little gaming (because thumbpadding it sucks ). I use my laptop to write labs and I get a good 3:30-4 hours in the library which is perfect. I'm wondering why you went for the 6800Ultra instead of the 7800Go? The 7800 is much faster, especially in games, and it's pretty damn cheap atm at ~$250. Did you get a killer deal on the Ultra? Also, the laptop will only support 2GB of RAM, but I think that should be good for many engineering apps. Good luck __________________ Inspiron 9300 + Samsung 17" WXGA+: P-M 1.8 @ 2.4GHz, 1.420V \| 2x1GB Transcend PC2-4200 RAM \| nVidia Go 7800GTX @ 460/1250MHz \| 60GB 7200RPM Hitachi HDD \| Atheros a/b/g Wireless \| NEC 8x DL DVD-RW \| Logitech MX518 Optical USB Gaming Mouse \| Logitech Premium USB 350 Headset \| Windows XP Professional Guides - The Laptop Tweaking Guide - Pin-mod Volt-modding - Go 7800GTX Extreme Cooling - D810 Gaming Monster - Custom Cooling Dock BUY THE ABOVE LAPTOP

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12-26-2005, 03:25 PM	#241
jmbgator Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 31 Credits: -340	seems very interesting.... I just got my 9300 for xmas and I'm loving it so far. My current configuration is the 1.73 gHz, 1 gig ram, 80 gig 5400 rpm, radeon 128 mb x300, and the 1440 X 900 WXGA+ Display. I would like to upgrade my x300 to the 256 mb nvidia go 6800 that can be purchased as an option for the 9300. 1) does anyone know the best way to get a hold of one and for what price, and 2) can I just "plug and play" after installing the drivers and uninstalling the x300 drivers without having to do the whole flash bios and power supply and battery changes that the 6800 ultra and 7800 upgraders have to do?

12-26-2005, 03:38 PM	#242
Lord^ Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 37 Credits: -339	since 6800 go is a dell upgrade for the 9300, this will work perfectly. just unsinstall drivers and you'll be set.

12-26-2005, 04:46 PM	#244
kamiraa Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 329 Credits: -111	Ok, someone please answer some questions. I been lurking on this website for about a year and been researching the hell out of my next laptop. So I finnaly came under the decision to get the 9300 as soon as the next big discount hits in january. So someone help me answer these questions: 1. How much weight does the 9 cell add? 2. Does the normal cards declock when not plugged into the PSU? 3. What kind of battery life can you get with a 9300 with a 6800 ULTRA 4. Since its declocks when plugged in after the mod, can you still play games descently just on battery life allone? 5. You can do this upgrade with a ATI 64 meg RIGHT? 6. Is the 9300 portable enough for you? Please answer theses. Im planning on buying a 2.0 pentium M 9300 with just basic video card and 512 megs of ram. Im going to upgrade it right away to a 6800 ultra that im buying tommorow and 4 gigs of memory (if it supports it). I need to have a powerfull labtop for engineering graphics programs and playing some games.

12-26-2005, 10:03 PM	#247
Hotrodguru Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 14 Credits: -346	Well I went for the Go6800 Ultra because I scored it for $90 on ebay . Guru

12-26-2005, 10:09 PM	#248
JaxChris Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,251 Credits: 233	Good fetch

12-27-2005, 03:15 AM	#249
kamiraa Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 329 Credits: -111	every time i decide on something for my new laptop I find more shit on this website that makes me change my mind. I guess Im going to get the lowest speed chip and do a 1.7 ghz pin mod'd to 2.26 ghz. Am I crazy to be buying a brand new laptop and the first week tearing it down to do a upgraded GPU , memory, harddrive, and CPU haha I think I got problems. But doing everything yourself is so much cheaper then buying a fully decked out XPS170 (2.26ghz, 100gig 7200, etc)

12-27-2005, 10:20 AM	#251
Lord^ Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 37 Credits: -339	It almost breaks my heart to see something like that

12-27-2005, 10:47 PM	#255
fishmando True dat... Double True! Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Vermont Posts: 123 Credits: -318	Wow... I am new here and I guess this thread just stopped me from getting an XPS… Hello i9300!