Not to mention they might buy a used one on eBay to save more money instead of giving u the brand new m1330 hahaha kidding.

Eiraku, UGPM.

Roger... Still nothing in the inbox though...

well personally i like the 1210 looks better...boxy pc-ish look...1330 looks like the thing u use to hold the door at the bottom or sumting fogot wat its called lol

A door wedge... A RM5k magnesium/aluminium/plastic door wedge, to be exact...

hey i have the 1330...it's 100% rubber and very durable!..its under my door right now hehe

lol including just now, I already sent like 3 of em. New one consists of 1st and 2nd one so.. good news good news

does coolbits work with the xtreme G mobile force driver or must use with the official forceware driver?

Well, as of now... Coolbits DOES NOT WORK with any of the Vista drivers... The only tool I know of that actually does anything on Vista (where overclocking is concerned) is ATITool, check google for the latest beta of that...

IMHO, the 160.03 driver from LaptopVideo2Go.com is better even than the MobileForce drivers... It's faster in FEAR, Far Cry AND it makes Galactic Civilization II playable (which was not so with the Dell drivers or the MobileForce drivers)...

Mind you, even the very latest drivers available from LV2G seems to break at one point or another (at the very least, FEAR refuses to run)... But 160.03 has been stable so far (short of screwing up Aero every time an OpenGL Screensaver is run, but nothing else), and AT LEAST it enables the Colour Controls on Vista (say yay to Gamma correction!)... There's no difference in performance between MobileForce and the Dell drivers, so I didn't bother...

And the official ForceWares? Don't bother, you'll need modifed .INFs for them anyway, so better get something newer from LV2G...

Word of caution though, any damages incurred by overclocking (yes, they'll know when they open the GPU up) will void the warranty... So take that into consideration if you were planning to do anything of the sort...

no la just asking about the coolbits thing coz read somewhere if change the pre-rendering from 3 to 0 it'll improve fps somehwat....but the post was dated 2005 so not exactly reliable.

and no not planning to any overclocking of any sort...im a respectable conservatist haha

better than mobileforce drivers?....then u better change the link at ur 1st post from mobileforce to the driver at laptopvideo2go =)...guess ill download it then.

thx!

now using dual channel on my xps doesnt feel much diff as without dual channel

Roger, will update... But plz refer to a HOW-TO regarding the drivers a few pages back before doing anything... That might save you from a world of hurt...

Dual channel doesn't really make anything go faster particularly, but it reduces the bottleneck between the HDD, CPU and RAM... So, it's more of an incremental speed upgrade... Things should be a littttttttttttle bit smoother in Vista... I guess...

Unless, you installed 2x2GB sticks... Then things should go a lottttttttttttt more smoother in Vista (even though 32bit Vista can only use around 3.5GB RAM effectively... You need 64bit Vista to properly use all 4 gigs of RAM)...

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jun 24 2007, 11:24 PM

I still remember back then when I suggest LV2G to Eiraku, it was not stable enuf for use so he decided not to let post it in frontpage. During those time, the MobileWare or whatever is better than LV2G. For my type of system LV2G is always the best choice if u asked me.

This post has been edited by derred: Jun 25 2007, 03:43 AM

my notebook always kinda running hot....i think even in idle the processor is at full speed...how to adjsut auto timing??

U have NHC? If u hav that just change that from there. It shudnt be that hard.

The S cable thingi that connects the laptop to the tv...what is it called? I asked a few shops here and none of them seems to know what I was talking about.

Thanks guys for the help regarding the webcam. I contacted Dell support, looks like it's a known problem. Its due to the small sensor size in the camera. Oh nevermind...sigh..

Also got a chance to ask about the XPS M1330. The guys said he is testing out a black one...It will be slimmer and lighter than the 1210, though he declined to give exact figures, will have a 8400 card, a 2.0MP camera..price he said might be on the little high side after all the configurations...

Sigh....just when I got my hands on XPS M1210 not too long back...now they wanna launch new 1 pulak...

Oh well...

Anyway, for the benefits of the n00b owners like myself.
Not sure if it is posted here before or not...
Here's a quick guide on how to change the RAM if you plan on upgrading.

The RAM that is located on the bottom side of the laptop is kinda straight forward.
The 2nd piece of RAM is located beneath the keyboard (I actually just found that out not too long ago. ...like I said...i'm a n00b...)

First, we need to open up the panel located on the top part of the keyboard where the Power button is located. just use a small blade to unclick the piece and slowly lift it up. (flip the screen back so that it is flat...it is easier to remove the panel that way)



Then, there are 3 screws that we need to remove for the keyboard.



Slowly lift up the keyboard and you'll find the RAM there. (becareful here as the keyboard is still connected to the motherboard.
Then, push the clip that is holding the Ram to either side and the RAM will pop up.



Dell is kind enough to put there BIG BIG..."DIMM A DDR2 ONLY"...So that Dunggus like me don't actually put in the wrong type of RAM...


Tadda....RAM upgraded....

Woah... Fully featured HOW TO with pics! This is going FrontPage!

Thanks man!

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Added on June 25, 2007, 6:35 pmYeah, at that time I was only trying the LATEST and GREATEST drivers... Turns out that in the world of Beta Vista nVidia drivers, higher number don't necessarily mean better drivers...

And it seems that an update to the tried and tested 106.03 has come out, 106.04... Seems to fix some stuff and give better gaming performance... Downloading to test rite now...

EDIT: Been reading up on it... 106.04 seems to give some problems under certain games, so I'll hold out for now...

I think it's called, the S-Video Cable...

And I've yet to find any S-Video --> Component cables that work...

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jun 25 2007, 07:33 PM

man doin those stuff aint noob at all...noobz would go to pc shops and heve the guys there change the ram for them (like what would i do) haha...it doesnt void the warranty or anything right if u upgrade the ram urself?...how come i read comments about removing the upgraded ram and inserting back the original when u need to call dell to service ur comp or sumting?

Well, it doesn't void anything... Dell's service terms just doesn't cover RAM that you buy, that's all... So better to give them the system with the ori RAM (which is covered) so that IF (and that's a BIG IF) they screw up, they'll have to replace the RAM too...

Imagine them mishandling the RAM that you bought with your own hard earned money, and THEN imagine them not being liable for anything if they damage it...