Just shot my self in the foot with XPS M1730!

Well, after a few drinks and friends defeating me on COD4 online. I finally go ahead and shoot my self. Did a purchase today and is so far excited. Here are my specs!

Estimated Delivery Date : 05/14/2009

Item Number Quantity Item Description

223-6308 1 Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T9300 (2.5GHz/800Mhz FSB/6MB cache)

310-9524 1 Sapphire Blue

311-7446 1 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz

320-5788 1 17 inch UltraSharp TrueLife Wide-screen WUXGA

320-8036 1 NVIDIA® SLI™ Dual GeForce® 9800M GT with 1GB GDDR3 Memory

341-8580 1 Speed: 500GB SATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) with Free Fall Sensor

463-2282 1 Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition SP1, 64-bit

410-1883 1 Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 9.0

420-8183 1 CD / DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW Drive)

313-4217 1 High Definition Audio 2.0

430-2582 1 Intel® PRO/Wireless 4965a/g/n Mini Card

412-1397 1 No Productivity software pre-installed

320-5789 1 Logitech® GamePanel Display

461-8389 1 No Security

312-0603 1 85 WHr Lithium Ion Battery (9-cell)

310-9521 1 Dell XPS Notebook Backpack

988-0307 1 1Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis

412-0148 1 No ISP requested

430-2315 1 Built-in Bluetooth capability (2.0 EDR)
Dell Bluetooth Travel mouse

464-9572 1 No Entertainment software pre-installed

310-9348 1 Intel Centrino Core Duo Processor

310-9516 1 Windows Vista™ Premium

993-1919 1 Dell Remote Access, free basic service

I just added this to my other laptops, I will post some pics and 3dmarks and my thoughts later!

 

Congrats on the buy! How much did this rig cost you anyways?

 

Hey man, Congratz on the new laptop =) I remember shooting myself in my foot when I bought my Clevo m570TU, but I've been happy with my purchase since, so enjoy your new laptop and live it up =)

- Bovine Mage

 

The weird thing is that Dell, didn't offer the 9800MGTX on their website anymore. The original buy was for those cards. I was a little to late they were a $900.00 upgrade instead I got the 9800MGT for $700.00 upgrade. Anyways the total cost for this rig is a whole whopping!

ADDITIONAL DISCOUNTS AND COUPONS
Receive 7% off your Member purchase - $162.33 (I work for a Company with Discount for Dell, HP,Sony, ETC!)
Order Subtotal: $2,156.67
Shipping and Handling Total: $29.00
Shipping Discount: -$29.00
Environmental Disposal Fee: $16.00 (Don't know this and Don't care)
Tax Total: $98.42 (California Tax)
Total Amount: $2,271.09 (What I end up paying, Thanks for the 7% Discount)

 

Dont u think you should have gone with a better processor also??
or you are planning to get X9000 from 3rd party?

 

X900 is way to much at this time. I was thinking about after the 1st year Warranty is over then I'll 3rd party it. But installing it doesn't look to easy. By the way do anyone know how if the T9300 can be overclocked? If not no biggie, I don't think the T9300 wouldn't be a good processor to Overclock anyways!

 

You can overclock it but not from BIOS. You can use a 3rd party app to overclock it, like ClockGen, just increase the FSB.

 

But that is very risky. It does void the warranty but you can always tell a good story to dell and just get an easy replacement with no hassle.

 

True. And it's not that risky if you know what you're doing (and, of course, you did this before).

 

I think you need to put together a nice tutorial for us Time Not sure if I would risk it, but then again I do tend to gamble now and then - hehe.

Congrats on the purchase Alien... I'm sure we'll see you around the Owners Lounge.

 

Just be happy with what you have...

 

Just keep in mind. You don't VOID the warranty by opening it up and replaceing the CPU or RAM or HDD or anything else. But with a CPU I'd suggest that you keep the original or be prepared to swap one if you ship it back to Dell. But other than that, there is no reason to even have to tell them you swapped it, CPU's generally don't fail often or cause issues that often either. There's almost no way a Dell tech would come out and say "hey you upgraded this part without authorization, your warranty is void and I can't replace this". They are a 3rd party tech anyways so they don't really care. As far as they are concerned they got a work order that said "Dell told me to come out and fix this", they aren't concerned with how it broke or any other details other than making sure it works when they leave.

I hate there's this general stigma that you can't open up a Dell and upgrade things without voiding the warranty. I realize other manufacturer's have this policy, but Dell does not. Its one of the reasons I'd never buy a computer from a manufacturer which does that.

 

Hay OP, you have a really nice set up there...

 

Totally agree with you on that - the QualX techs I have dealt with fit this totally. It's just a job for them - change out the part and be on their merry way...

 

Yeah thats right..but sometimes there are some smart asses technicians who makes it hard and report everything . I had that experience in the past so just wanted to aware ...

 

I would have upgraded to 4GB memory, but that's just me

 

Much cheaper to upgrade from Newegg or somewhere after you get it. 2GB Sticks of DDR2 are ridiculously cheap.

 

Yes, I forgot to mentioned Iv'e already got 4gigs of Newegg Patriot Memory, waiting for the Laptop. Will post pics soon when I get the laptop!

 

Hi!

so if i understand right, does not matter i allready have changed my RAM and CPU + WIFI card i still in warranty until i have to send it back ? i got 3 years XPS warranty for my M1730 original config was: t8300,8800M GTX,PhysX, 2GB 667Mhz Ram,WIFI-1345, dvd-rw,and 160GB hdd...
now is : X7900, 4GB G.Skill 800Mhz Ram,Wifi 5300,NO DVD, and now have 3x500GB WD Scorpio + an AverMedia A312 Tuner. my LCD Been replaced 2 times after i upgraded my "beast" and all this just cost e about £400 but if i get it from dell gonna be 6-700...