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    thinking about some upgrades... need opinion

    I have a dell 5150 (i know i'm stupid) and I have had it for about a year and a half. I want to speed up the computer a bit, especially when multitasking. The video options suck and I already have the best card, but I have a 4200rpm- 40gig HD, a 3.06 P4 non-ht, and a gig of ram. I am thinking of...
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    need tiny passive heatsinks

    I am looking for heatsinks for a video card in a laptop. I need one that is about 1.5"x1.5"x.25"(height) and others that are about 1/4" high for ram. Any ideas?
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    video ram- someone tell me how fast

    the laptop cards CAN be overclocked, but not as much as a desktop card. I have a Dell and the standard drivers (from dell) are from the 45.xx version. Myself and many other dell users are using modded .inf and 60.72. The modded .inf is just like coolbits and allows for clock freq changes. Dell...
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    video ram- someone tell me how fast

    I have a laptop FX5200go 64mb (I know its a crap card but its the best I can get for my laptop). I have devised a way to cool the card but am needing to know how fast the ram can be (or at least a ballpark). here is what is on the ram chip... hynix kor hy5du283222a f-33 404a...
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    cannot reach "factory" GPU speed

    sorry to say but your facts are wrong... 300mhz core and (up to) 600mhz ram (depending on manufacturer). There IS room and others have modded very similar cards to produce much less heat. I am just wondering if all of the 5200 spec GPU's are designed to run at the same speed or if each...
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    cannot reach "factory" GPU speed

    I have a geforce FX5200 64mb go in my laptop and it is supposed to be able to operate at 300mhz gpu and 600mhz ram. The max I have been able to get is 235 gpu and 522 mhz ram. There is only a thermal pad to cool the GPU and the ram has nothing whatsoever. Would adding ram heatsinks and a very...
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    GPU passive cooling + OC

    I am dealing with a FX5200 go (in a laptop) and this is the best card I can buy for my system. I feel that the card is definately the weak point for my system. I am using the latest forceware plus a modded .inf. The default settings were 196/392 and I have OC'd it to 235/475 stable. I have only...
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    absolute best thermal paste (laptop environment)

    I know it may be a stupid quewstion but I need a thermal paste for a laptop. I will be installing some new P4's in a fewe laptops and am making a custom heatsink setup for a laptop video card. is the -5 stuff the best? I am willing to pay a little more for better cooling.
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    Really old laptop- mod or get rid of it?

    where could I find ram for this thing? I have only been able to find upgrade kits. I imagine these use PC100 sdram sodimms?
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    Really old laptop- mod or get rid of it?

    http://www.stereopark.gr/COMPUTER/PCG505.htm http://www.4allmemory.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.memorySearch&model_id=7237 http://www.centon.com/rson11l.htm here are three sites I have found- it is a PCG-505FX not FX505. The top site says 128 and the lower two say 96mb and offer...
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    Really old laptop- mod or get rid of it?

    I left out a few details in my original post.. He has a wireless PCMCIA card that works well for him. He has a attachable CD and floppy drive. I have already put win2000 on it. As far as ram he has 64mb right now. From all I have found there is 32mb non-removeable and 2 slots for a max of 32...
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    Really old laptop- mod or get rid of it?

    My dad has an old sony pcg 505FX and this thing is SLOW.. its got a 266mhz pentium, 64mb ram, onboard video, and a 4GB HD. It is the one with a 12" screen and no CD or floppy built in. My dad has a couple desktops and a server to use at the house but he is a pilot and travels extensively and...
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    Attempts at cooling a video card (small space)

    I have a laptop with a geforce FX 5200 64mb (best I can get for it) and the cooling for the card is like many other laptops in that it just has the thermal pad and a metal sheet over it- meaning no heatsink and/or fan- just a little thermal pad. Anyway the clock speeds are really low from the...
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    Very weird video card problem...

    I use adaware regularly.... it came up with 4 ads- removed them and no luck. I called up DEll tech support and got the usual runaround of driver installation- did not work. I have no idea what is going on. Does anyone have ANY ideas to try?
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    Very weird video card problem...

    I have a laptop with an ATI 9000 64mb card (i know it sucks but its the best I can get). The problem is that during games the framerates are extremely slow and Jerky. The graphics are Ok but the performance is not there. Just a few days ago I was playing games with much better framerates and no...
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    which is better ATI 9000 or Geforce 5200

    I have a 5150 and the cards are swappable but only between the 2 mentioned. I currently have the 9000 64mb so Ill just keep what I have for now. Thanx
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    which is better ATI 9000 or Geforce 5200

    I have a laptop and my only choices of video cards is the ATI 9000 64mb or the nvidia FX5200 64mb. Both have the same memory but other than that which would be better for games?
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    help me remove a mobile ati VPU- flexfit

    so there is no way to get a descent video card? Dell makes me really mad- You can buy a laptop w/ a 3.2GHZ P4 HT but you get terrible graphics.... Anybody have any ideas? From what I was getting from Dell the board and the VPU will work with flexfit- its a pin thing?- and I would need to find a...
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    help me remove a mobile ati VPU- flexfit

    I have a video card question that has me stumped. I have an ATI 9000 64mb in my dell notebook. The card DOES have flexfit- dell could at least tell me that- the problem is that this is the best card they make and will not make a better one. I am thinking about swapping out VPU's from another ATI...
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    someone help me with a video card

    Ok I am a college student who made the mistake of buying a dell laptop. I have built many desktops and servers but as far as laptops I was clueless a few months ago. I am active on the dell forum and there are literally HUNDREDS of people wanting a video upgrade. The only cards offered by DEll...
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