Dell complaints

Dell Boi · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:04 pm Post subject: Dell XPS 800Watt [Booster X3]

The 460Watt Dell Power Unit wasnt up to the challenge of powering a ATi X1950XTX 512MB Edition, so I installed a Booster X3 (With some pain, considering the XPS drive cover closed onto the X3, I had to mess around until I found the right balance so the cover could close.

I think it looks good. Anybody else got a X3? One problem I found is that its the loudest component on my XPS now, even more so then the main PSU!

david (aka dvdpiddy) · Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 1:07 pm Post subject:

Who cares?
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paul_dellcc · Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:24 pm Post subject:

david (aka dvdpiddy) · Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:52 pm Post subject:

Rocke_T_Sinetist · Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:10 pm Post subject:

A good Dell is a good Dell. I've got one too. It's 7 years old and all I've had to do to it is vacuum the spider webs out every couple years.

Fast-forwarding from today though, I doubt you'll find a whole lot of 2006 Dells still in service 7 years from now, with or without repairs.
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rustyboots · Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:22 pm Post subject:

KE7EHA · Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:08 am Post subject:

david (aka dvdpiddy) · Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject:

Dell Boi · Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:28 pm Post subject:

david (aka dvdpiddy) · Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:48 pm Post subject:

Dell Boi · Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 3:49 pm Post subject:

david (aka dvdpiddy) · Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 4:15 pm Post subject:

KE7EHA · Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 3:43 pm Post subject:

In never ceases to amaze me what kind of shit dell will pull.

Example:
the XPS 600, which dell boi has, is a nForce 4 based SLi system, and they shove a proprietary 430W PSU in it. How do they think they can run SLi with anything other than GeForce 6 series, or even then?

From personal experience, at least a 500W PSU is needed to run ONE high end card, and they want to run two off of that piddly-ass thing? sigh

Another thing that never ceases to amaze me is that people pay for SLI, then put a ATI card in the system, but I guess it's their dollar to waste.
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david (aka dvdpiddy) · Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:36 pm Post subject:

Well the xps 700 is both crossfire and sli so really there's a choice, And in the early days of the A64 there we're no good chipsets for Amd other than Nvidia so people even though they got Nforce chipsets used ati cards because the last generation of cards from nvidia were'nt as good as ati's but better then the 5 series. Thats why people bought sli mobos because they wanted tohave a choic eeither 2 6 series or one X series and most people went for the X-series as they we're better as single solution cards and cheaper too.
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KE7EHA · Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:52 pm Post subject:

it's an XPS 600.

Any, with my experience with the x series, the GeForce 6 cards were equivalent, if not better, than any x series card. Besides which, the 7900GT can best any x1800, and a few of the x1900, while being more than $200 less expensive.
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