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    Upgrading The Dell e1705 Notebook Graphics Card.

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Skawtish, Apr 17, 2007.

  1. Skawtish

    Skawtish Notebook Consultant

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    Skawtish, Apr 17, 2007
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    Iceman0124 More news from nowhere

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    Its still not a viable means of getting extra performance, the cost/risk is way to great, it will be a long time before internal mobile graphic upgrades become a viable solution, if ever. The Dell service manual gives you pretty clear instructions on how to do it as well.
     
    Iceman0124, Apr 17, 2007
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  3. eessie

    eessie Notebook Geek

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    Yeah, when I upgraded my graphics card from the GeForce 7800 Go to the Go 7900 GS, I followed the instructions from the Dell service manual which I have to say the instructions were excellent and very detailed!
     
    eessie, Apr 17, 2007
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  4. Skawtish

    Skawtish Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah sorry didn't notice this was in the instruction manual.
    It makes me wonder why the dude wrote the guide..
     
    Skawtish, Apr 17, 2007
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    Didn't he say he didn't find a manual for his model? Maybe he did that before dell posted their instructions?
    Anyway, its a nice post.
     
    Balistic, Apr 17, 2007
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  6. Skawtish

    Skawtish Notebook Consultant

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    he also said hes going to write a guide for when the santa rosa and all that stuff comes out.
    how to install it.

    cant see that being very easy though.
     
    Skawtish, Apr 17, 2007
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    Do you think we'd be able to pop a DX10 card in my current E1705 if they release one with a dx10 card and with the same form factor?
     
    Zmanattack, Apr 17, 2007
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    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    If Dell does, then you probably can.
     
    Greg, Apr 17, 2007
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    That would be sweet, then we can ungrade to 8600 go to play Crysis, get all the DX10 details.
     
    Stevenj, Apr 18, 2007
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    Paul Mom! Hot Pockets! NBR Reviewer

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    I would personally rather see a new form factor and design, but that's me.
     
    Paul, Apr 18, 2007
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  11. eessie

    eessie Notebook Geek

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    If Dell could just release a DX 10 card for the Inspiron 9400/E1705 before moving on to the next model refresh for that series (Inspiron 9500/E1706 ???) that would be just awesome, sort of like a little going away present...But based on what I've read elsewhere it looks highly unlikely that is going to happen :(
     
    eessie, Apr 18, 2007
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