I only noe that X1400 on idle can last about 5 hrs+ with vista+9 cell battery.Yes,u can use ac when ur battery is on.Becuz it will auto cut off charging after the battery is full.About can use ur lappy during charging i dunno..but i still use la.Dun care la

that mean i will melt the laptop if i use that gc? lol
so, the best gc for 6400 is x1400?
i need to play bf2 or newer game like c&c 3 with at least medium detail. Can 6400 with 7300gs manage to run it at 40-50fps for both of the game?

Honestly, why bother? Why don't you fork out the money, buy the most powerful battery, and live on with it. And by the way, why do people even consider the 7300? It's underpowered and more expensive that the x1400 in Dell's pricing. You should just choose between GMA and x1400

i jz found out that they have a x1400 option
Can x1400 overclocked to match x1600? or the gap is too far?

haha... i never knew that ...
i always think that there is always a sticker to pretend void

me too ,but is costly ~~~
my insipiron 8600 , wanna buy another 2 years C&C cost Rm 1k

what you guys think ? should or should not ?

of coz not ... later battery faster die

from what i know ...
for you to claim a warranty , you need every single part of your laptop
listed in your invoice

Well, it depend whether you think is worth it or not. If you are a clumsy person who always drop your laptop or accidentially hit the laptop here and there then I prefer you to get the extend warranty. Else, is it not necessary to extend the warranty.It is recommended to extend the warranty to 3yr on the 1st time purchase. If your laptop already over 3yrs, you might think of buying a new laptop rather than extending the warranty.

Main expensive cost of laptop is LCD screen, motherboard and the processor where we can't really able to buy it from the normal computer shop. So anything happen on this 3 part, you normally need to call the dell to replace it with charges.

The rest of the laptop part able to get from computer shop either replace it as internal/external/portable.

This post has been edited by swanchew: May 5 2007, 08:24 AM

if my warranty period is over and i dont plan to extend it, then when something happened to my laptop how? send to pc shops? do they know how to repair a dell laptop?

* ATI Mobility Radeon X1400

Technology Features
* 105 million transistors using 90nm fabrication process
* Four pixel shader processors
* Two vertex shader processors
* 128-bit 4-channel DDR1/DDR2/GDDR3 memory interface
* Native PCI Express x16 bus interface
* PowerPlay 6.0 power management technology
* Avivo Video and Display architecture

* ATI Mobility Radeon X1600

Technology Features
* 157 million transistors on 90nm fabrication process
* Twelve pixel shader processors
* Five vertex shader processors
* 128-bit 4-channel DDR/DDR2/GDDR3/GDDR4 memory interface
* Native PCI Express x16 bus interface
* Dynamic Voltage Control

Extracted from ati.amd's website.

Judging by their features it is most unlikely that overclocking can bridge the gap between ATI Mobility X1400 and ATI Mobility X1600. In my opinion, X1600 is far better than X1400; after having a look at Acer notebooks that offer Mobility X1600 (after I bought Inspiron 6400), I can feel the performance gap between both GPUs. By the way, overclocking your laptop GPU is risky business, unlike desktop GPUs.

This post has been edited by Onyx_black: May 5 2007, 10:18 AM

beside wat Onyx_black is true, u must remmber overclocking = heat increase...n u wont b able to change with better heatsink...u stuck with stock heatsink....which meant ur gc will easily burn!

then can we send back for warranty when it burns??kekeke

do we really have to keep everything we upgraded for warranty purposes? i recently upgraded my ram and sold off the old ram.

i sold off my ram and upgraded it..and i just got my replacement for the whole LCD screen + cover ..

k...calvin_gsc email dell regarding this...if not mistaken....they said, let say u upgrade ur ram n u sold ur old 1....n then let say ur mobo burn bcos of dat new ram....u need to pay if u wan them to replace a new mobo....now pray hard ur new ram wont burn ur mobo....

nothing related with ram, well, u can claim warranty...no probs...same goes with harddisk...u upgrade ur haddisk...who noes u got rotten harddisk n it burn ur mobo...n u edy sell off ur old harddisk...then dell will charge u for new mobo... aahahahaha...



get wat i meant?

it's better to extend the warranty as laptop parts is not cheap. my friend's 6400 wanna change the hinge & HDD cost around RM590. the Dell warranty service SA recommended him to extend a year CC as it only cost RM584. no fuss no worries. all parts included in warranty. repair/replacement FOC.

How abt claiming warranty oversea>? my is 3 yr limited warranty onsite..bought last nov in malaysia.....now claiming in australia...... want to knw whether do I have to pay fr any charge since tech person just told me that they will send person to replace my LCD.... will they service me and send me invoice later? Anyone claimng warranty oversea before>?

Thnk

This post has been edited by Chen Bee Hansern: May 5 2007, 02:50 PM

Alamak, I just found out that the Dell personnel never installed the bluetooth driver for me last time during his reformat. I tried to install using the provided CD but it can't be used :|

Any solutions besides calling them? Or, what's the short cut to turn on the bluetooth module liao? Fn+F10?

vista should have it installed using their own drivers and software..i did a reformat and the bluetooth was installed automatically..but i still performed an update from the driver downloaded off dell's website

Actually,6400 can put X1600.Just dell dont provide it..about the temperature no big diff i tell u.My friend acer dunno wat wat with X1600 GPU runs the same game wif me(NFS Carbon),he at800x600 medium,me at 800x600 also medium.Then i can feel the smoothness for the X1600,while the X1400 is average but if put higher abit settings will start have some lagging isue.And for notebook range..dun have 7300GS GPU..people call Goforce 7300,only plain version If for 7300 GPU,i think the perfomance is crap if play some games like carbon..since my x1400(NV go 7400 also can fite x1400) so weak alrdy..(But still poor perfomance..)

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Added on May 5, 2007, 4:57 pmNOtebook GPU cant be overclocked i can tell u..becuz i tried b4..in my lappy..last time no things do,i go try overclock my X1400..when i juz increase few MHZ from the core..the display starts comeout some block..realy shocked me deeply. Then i quiclky turn off the LAppy with the off button.So can prove those notebook GPU's architecture not suitable for overclocking even few MHZ . So nvr expect to push the limits!


This post has been edited by minghao: May 5 2007, 04:57 PM

Thanks for the comment , so another qustion
I can't find GMA x3100 details and spec at intel website.
If dell really release GMA X3100 how long would it last with 9 cell battery ?
And the GMA X3100 how good the performance ?

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Added on May 5, 2007, 5:43 pmAnd about Intel Santa Rosa processor ? will it be better ?
http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/02/26/lat....d630.in.april/

This post has been edited by kingmax: May 5 2007, 05:52 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA

the best intel can offer to fill vista needs + santa rosa, c2d with low voltage= longer battery

correct me if im wrong..