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    GF decided to keep P-6860FX. Already installed T7700 and 7.2k HD. What to do now?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by WARDOZER9, Mar 19, 2011.

  1. WARDOZER9

    WARDOZER9 Notebook Consultant

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    GF decided to keep the P-6860FX I got a killer deal on instead of her HP 8510 laptop so I swapped the T7700 into the laptop along with a 320gb 7.2k RPM HD. To give it a little more oomph and remove that sad little T5550.

    Now heres my question, outside of the latest DOX Optomized drivers what all can I do for software or hard mods to get the most out of this laptop WITHOUT OVERCLOCKING? Any case mods for this thing for airflow? Copper mods or anything? Modified bios?

    Is there a light up keyboard I can get for this thing?
     
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    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    no backlit keyboards unfortunately, wish there were. Since the system is the nVidia 8800 and solder issues may prevail so staying away from over clocking is a good idea.

    The CPU should be a better match to the stock clocked GPU for gaming and the like so you are at about the best ballance you could be there. With the better disk the system should feel a bit snappier as well.
     
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    So does anyone know of any case mod's for the P-6860FX? I noticed one mod where a guy cut a hole in the bottom of the chassis to put ramsinks on the memory for the 8800m but he cut up the stock heatsink to do so instead of doing what I did and putting proper thickness thermal pads between the memory modules and the heatsink as there was previously an almost 1.5mm gap between the memory modules and the heatsink which I thought was total BS that gateway let that happen.
     
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