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    should I worry about the horrible Graphics card issues?....

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by DOHXPSFan, Apr 11, 2008.

  1. DOHXPSFan

    DOHXPSFan Notebook Geek

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    That I have heard about here and on the dell user to user forum? Here a link to one of the problems I am talking about if you would like to see it and I'll look and see if I can find all the other ones I saw too! Do ya think I have to worry about that happening to mine?
    Here's one Link: Here

    Heres another on the dell site: here
     
  2. TigerFX

    TigerFX Notebook Guru

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    I haven't seen people mentioning that on this forum yet. Perhaps it's a relativly uncommon problem?

    I'd say just order it and maybe get the two or three year warrenty just in case. Statistically, it shouldn't happen to you ;).

    Sorry I'm not much more help, but you're going to find people having issues with most every laptop out there, and in the end you just need to pick.
     
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    DOHXPSFan Notebook Geek

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    Thank You and plus I already have it and haven't had any of them problems and thank you for your reassurance of that problem not occuring as much as I had thought and greatly appreciate your thoughts on it too!
     
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    callanish Notebook Consultant

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    From my experience, all these problems are connected with an overheating GPU, eventually burning itself out. It is affecting all REV00 or REV01 motherboards. The older your M1330 is, the better chance of coming across this problem. Dell seems to think the Rev04 motherboard fixes the issue; I'm still skeptical. My personal guess is that the more intense you use your GPU for games/graphics, etc, the faster it will burn out due to the thermal issues of the M1330. The penryn chip runs cooler, so that might help the internals, but overall I'm waiting to see if and how many M1330's experience the same issues with either a replaced Rev04 motherboard or if new M1330's, even with the Penryn chip, will experience the problem somewhere down the road.

    Wouldn't panic, just get a good warranty and hope the Rev04 MBD fixes the problem.