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Post January 15th, 2005, 3:38 pm

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you gave your bro a 6800?!
i wish i had an older bro to do that

lol. Well, dell, not too long ago was upgradeable, you just needed to get a slim type card so it would fit in the case that i had. I don't know what they're doing now... I like having control over everything so, I build it.
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Post January 15th, 2005, 3:38 pm

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Post January 15th, 2005, 7:41 pm

i hate dell, i cant even see my cpu, or my memory, or half my computer for that matter.
its covered in some green plastic shield. th one time i tried removing it, it made weird noises and the whole thing dropped 2 inches...i kinda left it alone after that.
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Post January 15th, 2005, 11:30 pm

4ss_munk3y wrote:
i hate dell, i cant even see my cpu, or my memory, or half my computer for that matter.
its covered in some green plastic shield. th one time i tried removing it, it made weird noises and the whole thing dropped 2 inches...i kinda left it alone after that.


That's really weird.. they must have started doing that. Mine has green plastic quick releases on everything.
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Post January 17th, 2005, 6:50 pm

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Not true about emachines Bgnn32! My brother got one for x-mas and it had onboard graphics but I went ahead and stuck my 6800 Ultra in there! :)


Ok so not all of them are like that or they have stopped, I have seen some that don't have AGP, but I am not too suprised they make some that do.
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Post January 18th, 2005, 2:40 pm

my dell is an old dell, like 4 years old.
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Post January 18th, 2005, 4:12 pm

4ss_munk3y wrote:
i hate dell, i cant even see my cpu, or my memory, or half my computer for that matter.
its covered in some green plastic shield. th one time i tried removing it, it made weird noises and the whole thing dropped 2 inches...i kinda left it alone after that.
That is a plastic shield that comes off - you should see some plastic notches going into little slots if you look carefully.

They have used them for years. Not sure if the systems out in the last year still use them. They appeared a good design for airflow off the P/S fan to the CPU area.
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Post January 19th, 2005, 9:30 am

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yeah, its SDRAM..i think, not sure, cpu-z tld me, but im too lazy to redownload it


...erm that was like 10 years ago was it not? ....for 200MHz MMX PC's.
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Post January 19th, 2005, 11:46 am

The new Dell gaming PC's are coming with PCI Express, you may want to check this out...I bet you will be pleasantly surprised to find a PCI-X slot there which should be filled with a new NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT
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Post January 19th, 2005, 12:35 pm

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The new Dell gaming PC's are coming with PCI Express, you may want to check this out...I bet you will be pleasantly surprised to find a PCI-X slot there which should be filled with a new NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT



Not saying true or false but I have seen cards advertised as an AGP card when it is actually hard wired to the mobo, it performed just like a normal AGP card only no real AGP port. I would assume they could do the same with PCI-X.

Like I said I am not saying they do or don't as I have yet to see the new Dell's guts, but I wouldn't be surprised either way.
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Post January 19th, 2005, 12:39 pm

Sorry, to clarify I was putting my suggestion for a video card in there, not implying that the card came with it.
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Post January 19th, 2005, 9:59 pm

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...erm that was like 10 years ago was it not? ....for 200MHz MMX PC's.


Haha....MMx.....that is funny.

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