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    Does the specs on my D900F looks right ???

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Sparky894, Jun 2, 2009.

  1. Sparky894

    Sparky894 Notebook Evangelist

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    Is there any reson why my bus speed is only 133 mhz ???

    Is there any reason why my ram frequency is only 600 to 400 ???

    I thought this is DDR3 1,066 mhz ???

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    Does my GPU specs look right ???

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    1. the 133mhz bus speed has a 20x multiplier
    2. DDR: double data rate, 533 mhz = 1066 mhz
    3. Yep, MXM 3.0 to boot

    Nice system... :D

    Oh and download nvidia 185.85 drivers right now
     
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    Thanks ... it is a very very nice system ...

    :D

    where does it say mxm 3 ???

    and where can i download the official nvidia 185.85 drivers ???

    are these the official drivers sanctioned by nvidia or are they the hacked drivers ???

    how should i go about installing them nvidia drivers too ???

    Thanks

    :D
     
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    It's the socket type for the GPU. It doesn't say it anywhere, but I can tell it's MXM 3.0 because the memory is 950 (instead of 800). Means you can upgrade it in the future.
     
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    thank you for the details

    :D
     
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    does anyone knows how to eject the piece of rectangular plastic that is inside the xpress card slot ?

    thanks
     
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    ^Push the little square button next to the slot. (left side)
     
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    Sparky are you going to do a review on your machine?
     
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    awesome machine.. i wonder how comes the new alienware M17 can have 2xGTX 280 and the d900F cant.?
     
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    I've seen two reasons given, 1 is the solution for SLI with MXM3.0 hasn't been provided yet by NVidia. The other is there's no more space since the i7 uses 3 RAM slot.
     
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    It's an official driver, straight from Nvidia. Download it here.
    It's more about the power consumption of the i7 processor.

    The Alienware is MXM3.0 with SLI, btw.
     
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    So I took this notebook because I am able to upgrade the GPU ... against the alienware m17x ...

    so say for the next 2 years nvidia releases newer cards for the mxm 3.0 slot ...

    would you say that in my next gpu upgrade I am possibly on par with the m17x sli ... gpu wise ???

    :confused:
     
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    If you are asking whether it will be on par performance wise, sure. A single gtx 2xxm vs SLI gtx280m, if the newer card is more powerful than gtx280m. But there is a lot more into the gpu upgrade in a notebook. I wouldn't count on it unless the motherboard manufacturer says it can take that gpu (slot mxm3.0 or not).
     
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