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    about to buy a P6860FX...

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by inflsnow, Jun 15, 2008.

  1. inflsnow

    inflsnow Newbie

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    the thing is that if I plan to upgrade the CPU (to a T9300, prolly?) within the next year or so, I would like to do so (for various reasons) pretty much immediately. I'm just worried about the whole warranty-voiding aspect of doing so. I haven't seen much on this forum about major unreliability issues, which is good, but how much (if any) of a grace period should I leave to see if problems crop up?

    For what it's worth, I'm also wondering how useful/necessary the upgrade would be to me. I play RTSes (looking forward to, let's say, Starcraft 2 and especially Dawn of War 2). I might also need to do occasional heavy number-crunching (in Scilab) on this computer, but I'm not too worried about the speed of that.
     
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  2. el168

    el168 Notebook Consultant

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    I noticed that there was a sticker on the cpu which you may want to keep just in case you have to send it back to gateway.
     
    el168, Jun 15, 2008
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