Well I'm getting ready to finally order a barebone.
Only problem is the dead / bright pixel risk. I don't want to spend over a grand to find an annoying bright or black dot in the middle of my screen. This has happend on one of my LCDs and is driving me nuts.
I was wondering what people's experiences have been with dead pixels on laptops? Are they common and in the off chance that I get one ... am I basically skrewed?
Dead Pixel Risks.
Thats a little reassuring. I usually end up buying LCD monitors from best buy or Fry's electronics even when building PCs for customers. I sometimes have to return the same model 3 times before getting a LCD that has zero dead pixels. I tend to be a little anal when I build systems, I sure has hell wouldn't want to buy a PC from Dell and get a dead pixel and I would think the same goes for customers.
As for the chassis, I think I might just get the Z71V. I was really looking foward to the Clevo and the aspect of being able to upgrade the video card in the future. But if its going to cost me $700+ for a similar build except the video card ... I'll stick to a 6600 GO plz.
I guess when that laptop isn't able to do the things I need it to do, I'll either sell it on ebay or keep it as secondary system.
I'm also considering doing the overclock by buying a 400MHZ CPU (like a 1.7) and over clocking the bus to 533. I'm just not sure if I want to risk damaging the system.
Has anyone had an overclocked Z71V for a extended period of time without any problems?
Current System Goal:
Z71V Laptop with 6600GO
1.7 @ 2.16
1 GB Memory
40GB 7200 8MB Hard drive
CDRW + DVD
As for the chassis, I think I might just get the Z71V. I was really looking foward to the Clevo and the aspect of being able to upgrade the video card in the future. But if its going to cost me $700+ for a similar build except the video card ... I'll stick to a 6600 GO plz.
I guess when that laptop isn't able to do the things I need it to do, I'll either sell it on ebay or keep it as secondary system.
I'm also considering doing the overclock by buying a 400MHZ CPU (like a 1.7) and over clocking the bus to 533. I'm just not sure if I want to risk damaging the system.
Has anyone had an overclocked Z71V for a extended period of time without any problems?
Current System Goal:
Z71V Laptop with 6600GO
1.7 @ 2.16
1 GB Memory
40GB 7200 8MB Hard drive
CDRW + DVD
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Whats this pin mod people are talking about? My Dothan 725 was set to 533 the second I put it into laptop and its been stable the whole time (6 months ago I got it and it was the same chip that was in my M6000N for over a year)
After I found out there are dip switches you can flip... is that what people are talking about?
After I found out there are dip switches you can flip... is that what people are talking about?
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http://forums.legitreviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=3976Bun-Bun wrote:Whats this pin mod people are talking about?.......