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    Dell XPS14 FPS drops and concers

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Krestek, Dec 30, 2012.

  1. Krestek

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    i bought DELL XPS 14 (L401x) 2 years ago it began to have some troubles after a year so i sent it to technical support guarantee and got almost all hardware replaced.

    laptop runned fine for almost a year then.
    run diablo 3 and all kind of ps3 games whit no problem
    thing is it began to overheat and shutdown, fps drops and audio shuttering a while ago so i cleaned it and bought a cooling base
    now it dosent shutsdown, no audio shuttering but has constant fps drops making games unplayable.

    thing is dosent matter the graphis set on the game it will always have the same fps drops on high medium or low i dont know what to do about it

    i ran the 3dmark vantage and here are my results please help.

    Computer Technical Sheet:

    Windows 7 x64 Bits
    Nvidia Gforce 420M 1GB
    Intel core i5 2.8 Ghz - 3.2 Turbo Boost
    6Gb Ram
    500GB HDD

    NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i5-480M Processor,Dell Inc. 011NDY score: P3624 3DMarks

    sorry for the bad english i hope u can help me out

    PD: i just updated nvidia driver from nvidia sources (same fps drops)

    latencymon shows me this problem is dell webpage dont have bios updates and i really dont know which BIOS to install plz someone that knows about this help me

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