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    Question about Dell M1710

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by joosyjoos, Feb 19, 2008.

  1. joosyjoos

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    Alrighty guy, I've got one of the 2nd generation Dell XPS M1710 with the 1.83ghz Yonah processor, 2ghz RAM, 7900GS, upgraded to Vista (wish i hadnt). I'm wondering if there's anything i can do to increase performance. I'm having a lot of problems with it bogging down on me and im not sure why. It seems like the processor is just working on background tasks when nothing is going on. My friend has a Toshiba with the same processor and less RAM and appears noticably faster. I'm wondering what the heck could be going on. My HDD is relatively free, ive defragged it and done everything i can think of. Any thing i can do to "tune up" my pc? Or am i SOL and just need to buy a new one?

    Thank in advance.
     
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    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    You can always upgrade the processor up to a T7600 2.33Ghz.
    or you can upgrade your harddrive to a 7K200 harddrive. That will help to boost performance.

    K-TRON
     
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    Wont the T7600 be limited by my Mobo? The yonah processors run at 667mhz if im not mistaken... would my board take advantage of the 800mhz fsb? And i already have a 7200rpm HDD.
     
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    nevermind just realized that is a 667mhz processor but 600 dollars seems a bit steep. Any chance i can overclock my T2400?
     
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    It looks like you are out of luck on overclocking, unless you can figure out which pll chip your board uses. I highly do not recommend doing this.
    You can clean up the registry, and run msconfig, and shut off some startup and background processes, that will help speed things up.

    K-TRON
     
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    Alright. Thank you for your help.
     
    joosyjoos, Feb 19, 2008
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    powerpack Notebook Prophet

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    If ClockGen works on DeLL's you can figure out pll by the hunt and peck method. ClockGen has instructions on this. Before you apply anything you can see how things are read. In the same family reads some correct, tells you close then just find the one that reads all clocks correct and that means you are most likely where you want to be. Info on this in the apps FAQ's. But as K-Tron said I don't Recommend.

    A T7200 is $300 still expensive but I don't think your CPU is the problem.
     
    powerpack, Feb 19, 2008
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