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    How did you make your e1505/6400 better?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Bjorned, Jun 4, 2006.

  1. Bjorned

    Bjorned Notebook Guru

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    So, what have you changed, added etc to make it perform better, in games, in 3dmark, when booting up, etc etc.

    Have you overclocked anything, installed a particular type of drivers, change something in bios? Etc

    You know what I mean =)
     
    Bjorned, Jun 4, 2006
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  2. winkosmosis

    winkosmosis Notebook Evangelist

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    I returned it and I'm gonna buy an Asus Z96J with a video card that is twice as fast and 667mhz RAM!

    By the way, you should get it a week from when you ordered it. That 20 days away date they give you is BS.
     
    winkosmosis, Jun 4, 2006
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  3. Bjorned

    Bjorned Notebook Guru

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    I want the good battery time that you get from the 6400, know that it aint the fastest graphic card, but aint that "hardcore" gamer either =)
     
    Bjorned, Jun 4, 2006
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    lilredfoxie Notebook Evangelist

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    I ordered the Windows XP MCE reinstall DVD and formatted my hard drive and removed the extra parttions so i have more hard disk space. (MediaDirect I have absolutely no use for, same with the dell diagnostics and system restore since I have the OS DVD)
     
    lilredfoxie, Jun 4, 2006
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  5. Mark

    Mark Desktop Debugger

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    This is good stuff to do for sure. If you call Dell you should be able to get reinstallation CD for free. What lilredfoxie did is the same stuff I did when I got my Inspiron 6000. Also, considering overclocking your GPU, additionally check out TuneXP and other windows optimizer programs. :)
     
    Mark, Jun 4, 2006
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    Bjorned Notebook Guru

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    I am doing a format c: as fast as I get it and install Omega drivers for the card. Is there any thing more to do?
     
    Bjorned, Jun 5, 2006
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    pahhhoul Notebook Enthusiast

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    I removed all the partitions the first night I got it.
    Did a clean install of WinXP Pro SP2.
    Set page file to: 256 for both fields.
    Installed the latest version of Ubuntu the next day.

    now I'm currently looking for BIOS tweaks.
    also I'm going through my old "optimize XP tweaks" files.

    Paul
     
    pahhhoul, May 24, 2007
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