**The Official Studio XPS 1645 Intel Core i7 "Owners Lounge" - Part 2

I got a 130w ac adapter and A08 bios, and i think the notebook still throttle.
When i launch Prime95 with Furmark, iTurbo should show the threads fixed at 13, but it doesn't.
...i shut down the LCD (with a little application), and when i come back (10 secs), i see the threads fixed at 13 for only some seconds.... so?
And if i turn Furmark off, and i launch only Prime95, the threads are fixed at 13.
Where is the problem? GPU+CPU toghether? GPU+CPU+LCD ?

ouch!

 

Man, I am frustrated with this model not even having paid full dollar for it(replacement "upgrade"), I can't imagine how you must feel after spending a few thousand dollars(judging by your sig.)..... I wish you luck man, I am trying ti rid myself of this 1645 for good right now.

 

When I connect my ipad 3g into a usb port of my 1645 nothing *usually* happens. I did get it to work one time in order to activate the ipad though itunes, but every other time nothing.

Any ideas? I didn't see anything to boost usb port power in the bios.

 

Anyone has DPC Latency problem on 1645 core i7 720QM system ? Any workaround ? please help

 

Hey guys, the speakers are amazing, but... on skype they do crack quite a bit especially when talking to woman, and i do that a lot lol....

no seriously... is that because of the low quality sound? can i do anything about that?

 

Sorry if this has been asked before but my search turned up nothing.

I just purchased XPS i7 1645 without a SSD from the Dell Outlet. Is it possible to replace the HDD with an SSD? I have seen posts that add an SSD by using the optical drive, but i don't want to lose the Blu-ray player.

 

I am pretty sure it goes exactly were your current HD is bro....... Aren't they the same size?

Just swap em and install windows...

 

cbaty08,
thanks for the info... just making sure before i buy one from Newegg.

 

What do u guys think about the speakers? they are extremely loud arent they?

It seems when the quality of the sound is low, like when u call on skype, the speakers buzz, crack, hum (?) quite a bit - like u know it from cheap plastic speakers (turning down volume wont work either to reduce it)

The buzzing is NOT constant, mostly high tones and bass...

Does it have anything to do with the IDT SRS Surround? I turned it off, its a bit better. But still I have to turn teh volume of skpe down so much its not funny.

 

Damn, don't use Everest to watch devices' temp, this software causes DPC Latency on my system.

 

HDD 2.5" and SSD 2.5" are the same, you can replace 'em when you want.

 

well - I took the plunge...

I have a studio xps 1645 coming. I read all of the issues and still think it is going to be a smoking machine. this is a dell refurbished and it is coming with the 130w adaptor. (9cell battery too) (wled)

Should be here friday..
can't wait. (I have allwayts had good luck with dells but untill now I have only had inspirons ) typing this on an 1100 - so anything is going to seem faster

sam

 

DA90PE1-00 .

is this 130w or 90w?

 

90 sir..........

 

while playing left 4 dead or empire total war the gpu gets to about 82-84 degrees C and the i720qm does about the same. are these temps normal? They seem pretty high for the processor as my old one never got to 80 degrees C

 

Calling peopel on skype is impossible with these speakers? Cracking buzzing etc.. Not even disabling IDT changes that a lot!

 

Maybe they should lower their microphone volumes?

 

well i also tried to call her on her mobile phone, same thing.

only when i connect my hdmi samsung screen it is gone.

but im traveling a lot, and so i want the speakeers to work.

why dont u give me ur skype name lol and we try? i mean do u have any problems with calling people on skype that the sound is ?

no one else on skype here?

 

@ Riccardo83: lol, the porblem cant be ONLY for talking to a woman, and YES, I face the same problem. I usually use my bluetooth headset and the moment I start using skype my sound screws up - even video playback is affected a bitsy witsy.

ALSO, CAN ANYONE TELL ME HOW TO INCREASE/DECREASE MY BRIGHTNESS EASILY ? is there a keyboard shortcut or summin ?

 

Well then you got a problem. I am not using skype. Only some ingame teamspeak. But never had any problems regarding that.

Uhm, Fn+Arrow Up/Down ?!

 

@Goodwood8 Dell was really nice, adn even tho i dont have next day service they come tmw and change teh speakers... and even the mainboard they said. they also said they have never heard of this problem...

im think of upgrading to 3 yrs next day service + accidental warranty. on delsl website it costs 218euros on top of the 2 year warranty (within 6 days) which i have.

the guy from dell offered me 200 euros. but also told me they had special deals from time to time. take this offer and hope the speaker thing wil be fixed? and if not, since some people have this issue, still take this offer?

Also, I used a bluetooth headset and i did hear the crack a tiny bit as well? could that be? maybe it really is the mainboard....

 

I dont know, its not much of a problem for me and im reluctant to get anything relplaced from dell, if its not a serious problem. from what i've seen, replacements always have even more problems.

 

Yep same problem here...when i play left 4 dead (1), the temp goes up until it hits 84c, at this point it throttles the GPU from 657MHz to 300MHz. This happens even at 1280x720 rez. Sad thing is i could pay it fine on my old Inspiron E1505 that they replaced The 1645 is a great looking machine...just doesn't seem to be able to handle games...even ones a couple years old or older.

 

Seems to be hit and miss...my replacement refurbished 1645 has a number of problems since day one.
Also almost every time a tech has come to my house to work on my computer, i either get bad parts or something else goes wrong

 

yeah, thats a patterns i've been noticing ... which explains my reluctancy. also, i dont know why you guys are having so many problems with the heating. its ok for me, maybe because i've not been using it heavy ... dunno, could it be cuz its refurbished ? also, why not buy a cooling pad, i understand that this machine should be able to handle all that ... but if it cant, either suffer or get a pad right ?

 

well i guess its too late now to call them and cancel. maybe i can convince him to replace the speakers and sub only?

why do the whole mainboard? how long would he need for that? and will he test it with me?

I still have a week left so i can return it getting my full refund? but i like this laptop. if teh sounds the same after, well ...

 

Going off on a different tangent here, but it's something I've done in the past and was thinking about again now that I have this awesome laptop. Does anyone here do any Folding@Home with their XPS laptop? When I'm plugged in and only really using my laptop for webbrowsing and playing music, I think it's fun to have the massive CPU in this thing doing a little extra work. I know that Folding@home now has different options for the software to run that will take advantage of multi-core CPUs and newer GPUs, and was wondering if anyone here has played around with this at all. Last time I did this was with my old Athlon 3200+ desktop, and figure my i7-720 might be more suited to this

 

anyone try to use the displayport with an imac 27?

 

I ordered mine through the outlet, but the details of the order have a 90wat power supply listed. I'll have to call to request a 130 if a 90 shows up Friday or Monday.

 

hey guys, when i ordered my dell the guy said i could extend the warranty up to 5 years. now that i have problems with speakers i said, oh well lets extend to 3 years next day + accidental warranty.

at the moment i have 2 years within 6 days return + accidental warranty.

ok, well, i asked for an upgrade to 3 years, but the technician said its only possible to upgrade the dell next day service but not the accidental one.

if i knew that i would have chosen 3 years from the start...


Im just past my 2 weeks period where i coudl have returned it, ordered a new one with 3 years.

He said its not Dell that does accidental, its a diff company...

What shoudl I do?

 

double post

 

I wikied folding@home, unless your a chemical/biomolecular student why exactly would you want to use that program ?

 

because you'd be part of the 'project' helping out, more people the faster it completes. Anyhow I tried seti@home but stopped because the fans just kept kicking in, now that's it autumn/winter coming instead of summer maybe it won't be as bad..

 

I seem to be facing a problem with my DELL WIRELESS BLUETOOTH HEADPHONE. My 1645 is a month old now and recently i formatted my Laptop and Installed a fresh new Win7 x64 Ultimate Geniune .... The laptop seems to be working fine .. Except i am not able to get my audio to the DELL BLUETOOTH HEADPHONE.. Here is wht i did

I Installed my Bluetooth driver and after the Bluetooth Icon appears IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT .... Cliecked on Add a device ..
I entered into the discoverable mode in my headphone(Fast Bliknking Blue light) and the bluetooth detected it and when i click next it configures the device and says the device is ready but neither show in the Control Panel -> Sound nor it shows any Services when i click the properties of the New added device .(Still has the fast blining blue light) . The best part is it gets connect to other laptops like Toshiba , HP etc

Is anyone facing the same problem . Would Apprecriate if anyone has a solution . I called up DELL PERMIUM Technical Support . Even they couldnt slove the issue ..

Regards,
Sanyam Agrawal
E - Mail : [email protected]

 

OMG thats so awesome. I just googled and found BOINC. Its so awesome. WOW. downloaded it ... so many projects to support At last, i've found some use for all that CPU power I have

 

hey, is running BOINC bad for my laptop / CPU / GPU ? I mean currently its using my full CPU (100%) and like 50-70% of my RAM ... temps are at around 80 ... its not throttling much yet (using a 90W Adapter) although im scared my adapter might melt :/... is it bad for my battery (even though im not surring it on battery)

 

wow. this machine really is something. i've been running it for over 24 hours, continously, at close to 100% CPU usage for most of the time, and its working just fine.. obviously when i want to do some work I have to reduce the CPU usage from BOINC. But still. and magically, my battery life has increased to 7026 mWH from 6434 - is that even possible ?

 

I created a Cooling pad for my XPS 1645 with the results of heat reduction for desktop use Great results and shows a little bit of average temperatures you should be getting with Bios version 08 and 8 gigs of ram

YouTube - Laptop cooling pad with 5 Fans

 

So I have had my laptop for a couple of weeks now and I was wondering about something. I have argus monitor and intel turbo boost installed (programs that monitor and display your cpu core speeds)and I used to see turbo boost being enabled and working but for some reason now I never see any of my cores go past 1200 Mhz. Is there a reason why it seems like my turbo boost is not enabled???

 

This turbo boost thing in itself is a little shady, in my view. My processor is the i7, dont rrmbr which, but it goes upto some 2.8ghz i think ? it used to show that in the system information, not it shows 1.6/ 1.78 instead of 1.6/ 2.8. see, as long as you feel your pc is working fine, i guess its ok.

 

Suddenly my lap is performing very poor...

games suck to 8 to 7 FPS ...

its very weird...i didnt install any new driver or soft or any change of any kind..

Wht would be the problem??

 

mine does the same. Its called gpu throttling. SUCKS

 

you know, even i've realized a slump in my system's performance, i think most of this happens by stressing the components... running all these benchmarks etc.

 

I really really really need help, my internet browsing suddenly has several errors ... videos dont load properly, nor do images ... for example while watching a metacafe vid the following error showed up, from the flash player apparentnyl (flash is up to date)
Error #2044: Unhandled ioError:. text=Error #2032: Stream Error. URL: http://b.scorecardresearch.com/b?c1...y+Hose...+-+Video&c9=http://www.metacafe.com/
at com.metacafe.reports::ComScoreBeaconDispatcher()
at com.metacafe.base::CommonVideoPlayer/init()
at com.metacafe.portal: ortalVideoPlayerBase/init()
at com.metacafe.portal: layer/init()
at com.metacafe.portal::Initializer/init()
at com.metacafe.portal::Initializer()

 

PHP:

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this throttling is retarded according to gpu-z my temperature doesnt even get very hot when it throttles.

 

Hey new guy here......Just was issued a 1645 from dell for my studio 17. I don't know much about this system, I will post the spec sheet below and let me know what you think!!!
Thanks
Woody


1 224-6716 Studio XPS 16 Notebook $0.00
1 310-0173 Airborne Documentation, System Exchanges,Factory Install $0.00
1 312-0950 9-cell Battery
1 313-8874 8X DVD+/-RW Slot Load Drive $0.00
1 317-2360 Intel Core i7 820QM 1.73GHz (3.06GHz Turbo Mode, 8MB Cache)
1 317-2366 8GB, DDR3, 1333MHz 2 Dimm
1 320-8333 15.6 inch Wide Screen 16:9 1080p Full HD WLED LCD, W/2.0 MP, XPS 1645
1 320-8350 ATI Mobility RADEON HD 4670 1GB $0.00
1 320-8352 Obsidian Black High Gloss Finish with Leather XPS 1645
1 330-0171 S and P Drop-in-Box Marcom forDHS Notebooks $0.00
1 330-5460 DELL RESOURCE DVD,BACK-UP,XPS 1645 $0.00
1 330-6222 Windows 7 Label $0.00
1 341-8989 500GB 7200RPM Free Fall SensorSeagate Hard Drive
1 410-1883 ADOBE READER 9.0 MULTI- LANGUAGE $0.00
1 410-2090 McAfee Sapphire MUI, 15-Month $0.00
1 412-0148 No ISP requested $0.00
1 412-0360 Soft Contracts - Banctec $0.00
1 420-6436 PC-Restore, Dim/Insp $0.00
1 420-6576 DELL WELCOME,Software Dimension/Inspiron $0.00
1 420-7938 Dell Connect 2.1 $0.00
1 420-8051 Microsoft Works 9.0, English For Inspiron $0.00
1 420-9100 Dell Dock Consumer $0.00
1 420-9352 Dell, Software, Wild Tangent Inc Games $0.00
1 420-9691 DataSafe Local BackUp 2.0 Basic $0.00
1 421-0092 DELL-DOWNLOAD-FLAG $0.00
1 421-0187 Dell Support Center Software 64 Bit 2.0 $0.00
1 421-0188 Facial Recognition $0.00
1 421-0323 Windows Live Search,Multiple User Interface $0.00
1 421-0757 Skype VOIP Application $0.00
1 421-1010 Dell Webcam Central v1.4 $0.00
1 421-1361 MOD,SW,RXO,EZCD,10.3,DE,FI $0.00
1 421-1582 Cyberlink Power DVD 8.3 Playback $0.00
1 421-1737 Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English $0.00
1 421-2000 Soundblaster X-Fi Hi Def Audio Software Enabled
1 421-2086 eBay Webslice $0.00
1 430-0700 Dell Wireless 370 Bluetooth Module (2.1+EDR)
1 430-0737 Intel WiFi Link 5300 802.11AGN Half Mini Card
1 430-3605 Integrated 10/100 Network Card $0.00

 

I think it is what it is...

Black w/leather
i7 820 proc
1GB ATI Radeon 4760
8GB @ 1333
1080p
500GB HDD w/F-F sensor

It'll be a warm one

 

Thats why I was issued a 1645 was because I was having so much heat trouble with the other one! GREAT LOL

 

WOW, yeah...... Dell reps aren't the smartest. They failed you.

Nonetheless the system is awesome if you don't plan on using all of it's nice parts! haha

But on a serious note, it will most likely be warm my friend. Try it out when you get it and if you aren't happy send that POS BACK!

 

Just in case anyone needs it. I got a brand new 4gb ram upgrade stick PM me for details.
Model: snpx830dc/4g