There will be a reasonable benefit because the Pentium M has double the cache. It also has the fuller power management than the Celeron so battery life will probably balance out in the end. The 533FSB gives more bandwidth but I don't think it affects it that much even though I haven't had much...
Even if you could find it I don't know of any external hard disks that can take power over the Firewire bus. It offers a lot of power (isn't it something like 12V 1A) but a hard disk needs usually 12V and 5V with up to 1A on each line and that doesn't consider the Firewire controller as well...
You could put either CPU 400 or 533FSB in it theoretically. Cost wise you might do best to get a 400FSB chip and pin-mod it. The fastest official chip Intel sell runs at 2.26Ghz (I think it's called the 780) but you can get that speed from a pin-modded 1.7Ghz 400FSB chip. You can usually reach...
For the first issue, what does 'crapping out' mean? BSOD, won't boot up? Not that helpful information. Test your RAM with memtest86 to check that is ok and try installing another graphics card to override the onboard. I had no end of issues with my cousins NForce2 integrated graphics I gave up...
In Compaq M300s the CPU is soldered to the board so you can't change it (I had a look inside one). You'd need a whole new systemboard to make this upgrade and I'm sure that probably isn't worth it.
It would theoretically work just fine but the X800GT is a PCIe only part and looks to remain that way, meaning at the moment your best (value) bet would be an NVidia GeForce 6600 (ideally a GT) in AGP format. A full-blown X800 would be another option.
4x AGP is plenty fast enough, I'm running...
Another thing I was always curious about was whether you could run two hard disks and software-RAID them in Windows XP! If anyone finds that out I'd be interested to see the results (but I can't believe no-one has tried already) - I'm especially surprised the high-end gaming machines (i.e...
You can install 2 HDDs internally in this notebook. I had one before and as is the case with all Dell machines you can buy a media bay hard disk holder (it takes 2.5" size drives) - like this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayI...em=5125411805&rd=1
It will probably trash power consumption...
Am I right in thinking that the Radeon 9100 is ATi's replacement name for the Radeon 8500LE they used to manufacture? I heard that somewhere and I can't find much info on a specific 9100 chip, nor any reviews. But if that is the case then that would explain it's good performance.
Even as a 'newbie' to these forums I do use a lot of PC hardware and stuff and I'd like to agree with 3sixes that he is most likely right about the modem or NIC hardware parts. During a lightning storm fragile bits of equipment can get high voltages going down them and especially bits like a...
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