Should I ask the technician?

A month ago I bougt an Alienware M17x R2 with

Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Q720
Dual 1GB ATI® Mobility Radeon™ HD 5870
8Gb 1.333 MHz Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM [2 x 4096)
8X DVD+/- RW Optical Drive (DVD & CD read and write)
1 TB (7.200 rpm) harde schijf with Free Fall-sensor- 2 harddisks (2 x 500 GB in Raid 0)
17-inch 1920x1200
Dell Wireless 1520 halve minikaart (802.11n) - Europees
Dell Wireless 370 Bluetooth-module - Europa

I've allraidy replaced the first harddrive with an OCZ Vertex2 120Gig

Since I've got it every game flickers and is onplayable when I enable Crossfire.
They even have different clock speeds??
Master: GPU core clock: 300Mhz
GPU Memory clock: 400Mhz
Slave :GPU core clock: 100Mhz
GPU Memory clock: 150Mhz


I've called Dell about it and they will send a technician to replace the cards.

Now I've bought an i7 920XM and an Intel wireless 6250+WiMax card for 375$ on Ebay.

Would it be wise to ask the technician to install these components since he will have to open the laptop anyway?

Or should I say nothing and do it myself after he is gone?

 

Keep an eye on him installing the CPU as I've seen claims the techs are really bad with thermal paste application (Though it isn't Dell techs doing it I believe... So it can vary)

If he'll do it for free I'd ask him.. If he won't theres no harm done in asking.

 

I don't think it's a good idea letting them know that you'll replace parts yourself as they won't be covered by the warranty and if/when your system will break they'll probably use that as a reason of it failing and excuse to terminate your warranty.
I'd say don't take the risk if you care about keeping the warranty.

Cheers

EDIT: BTW nice deal, can you pm me the sellers name?

 

I think I will say nothing and do it myself when he's gone.
I do not want to lose my warranty because I only have the laptop for a month and have 3 years next bussiness day.

I bought it on Ebay from laptopmonkey.
His add sais 425$ but because I bought the wireless card at the same time I got it for 375$

He also has some i7 940XM's for 738$ but you can make a deal for all of his items.
eBay verkoper: laptopmonkey: Computer PDA objecten op eBay.be