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    Dell XPS M1330 Mod For Reliability

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by nsk1974, Apr 30, 2010.

  1. nsk1974

    nsk1974 Newbie

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    Just posted here what hopefully will turn out to be a recipe for a reliable M1330. I'm on my 3rd motherboard (each carefully fitted by myself - sorry just don't trust Dell techs to look after my laptop)!

    I've got the Copper GPU Mod, Using Arctic Silver heatsink paste and importantly have added a 9 cell battery. Don't really need the extra battery life, but this raises nicely the rear of the laptop and improved considerably the cooling intake and subsequently GPU and CPU temperatures.

    At idle now I'm typically seeing GPU at 50 degrees and CPU cores at 33 - 36 degrees.

    Fingers crossed that the A06 motherboard revision and these mods give me a laptop that has a decent life - because even though it's a couple years old I still love the form factor / power of the XPS M1330 and can't find anything on the market that I'd consider replacing it with right now.
     
    nsk1974, Apr 30, 2010
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  2. prBrianpr

    prBrianpr Notebook Consultant

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    I feel like you. And the M1340 seems to be a great PC (My friend have one) but Dell take it out, still, M1330 body is better, the look, the metal and solid construction. Is bad that a few parts ans bad cooling gave to this computer a lot of problems. For 1,000-2,000 dollars to buy a laptop it need to be rock solid, you know, not is easy to spend 1,500 dollars to a computer that get faulty a lot of times. And now price very reduced in e-bay :eek:

    PS: How I know if I have A06 motherboard?
     
    prBrianpr, Apr 30, 2010
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