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rossjdavis
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July 21st, 2005 18:00
Dell Inspirion XPS GEN 2 pM FSB
I ordered my Dell Inspirion XPS Gen 2 and it was delivered yesterday (without a power adapter, still waiting on it to be sent!) and for the short amount of time i was on the notebook i was checking the system specs. According to the properties in My Computer, the pentium M only has a FSB of 319MHZ, however when i ordered the system it was suppose to be 533. WHy is this and what differences will it make? Can i overclock it to where it should be? Thank you, reply asap.
rossjdavis
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Posted July 22nd, 2005 00:00
yeah i agree, we called them and the lady was like "oh he didn't specify that he wanted one in the order".....
why would you need to specify that you want the power adapter ? :P
they said they would ship it overnight free of charge but then called in the morning and said they didnt have any left, thus making me wait ANOTHER week before i can actually use the notebook :(- Hah-Hah. So much for Dell Quality Control. I have an Inspiron XPS-G2 also, mine came shipped to me with a bad video card. I was getting spontaneous reboots and crashes. But Dell replaced it for me (after some hassling) and now I have a fully functional gaming laptop.
You won't be able to run it on batteries very long, with mine I estimate an hour tops. The Inspiron XPS is a power hungry beast. The Go Ultra 6800 runs at around 66 watts!! But then again complaining about the battery life on an Inspiron XPS-G2 is like a Ferrari owner complaining about bad gas mileage!
As for your original post, if you go to Intel's website they have chipset ID utilities that can help you ID the characteristics of your Intel CPU. Much more informative than the XP OS.
rossjdavis
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Posted July 21st, 2005 18:00