Recent content by bennyg

a few years back I bought a factory second, busted NIC (used wifi) low spec vostro 1500. Real cheap due to slow CPU and small hdd. Bought a much faster CPU from eBay cheap, pulled a high quality screen from a similar model, it's been a beast since, and with a ssd upgrade and new 9 cell battery...

Excellent news. I have been using WUXGA/1080p on 15 inch laptops for 5 years now. The sharpness is something i can't go without. I am a DPI whore. But not enough to consider buying a mac. I just hope apple don't have any filthily broad patents for a high res display and they start to act like...

Drivers aren't an issue... well for green team anyway. I've had a multitude of laptops of different brands and not one has ever had an issue or lost full function with a hacked INF allowing installation of a standard WHQL nvidia driver. Radeons may be totally different though. All I know is CCC...

Links are 404, maybe not up yet. Or maybe I just get redirected to global site (am in Oz) Hope MSI get their stuff together when playing with 100W GPUs, the thermals on their hi end lappys are normally pretty bad which is why I've stayed away (70C load on the GTX580M in my clevo p150hm). At...

Excellent guide... able to turn a 8/4 XFX 6800 XT into a 16/5 - about a 50% increase in frame rates! Can OC up to 385/865 but something goes wrong (screen blank, restart required) when core temp reaches 79 deg... It's either my 3-year-old generic 350W PSU or the rubbish XFX cooler (it idles at...