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    Noobie Hi and question :D

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Madmonkee, Jun 5, 2009.

  1. Madmonkee

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    Hi all.
    I am sat here with my inspiron 1720, running the lowly 1.67ghx dual core chip, with the 8600m GS gfx card.

    Question; Is the 8600m GT the best GFX upgrade available for this unit or can I get a different version perhaps the 9xxx or better? What sort of realistic gains will i be seeing over the GS... I play WoW on it now and again.

    Also besides the x9000 chip, are there any others that I can pop into this, I had a quick snoop and noticed the T9XX series can be used, provided its the 800mhz fsb, what is the highest one we can use in the inspiron?

    New to the laptop scene as I bought this awhile back by accident :D
    Desktop is an i7 920@4ghz, 6GB DDR3, 2x1TB F1's, HD4870x2 custom waterloop. So I know this is never going to compete but comes in handy now and again, I would like to just speed it up abit :D
     
    Madmonkee, Jun 5, 2009
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