wooohoooo!!!

Hey guys. I just got my new Inspiron 5150 this morning. I'm now testing it for stability and to make sure there are no problems. I really love it though IMO the keyboard layout could've been better. I'll 3DMark it later. Prolly do a clean install on it too.

And thanks too to superboss, rapture and natport for helping me make my choice.

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aye thanks. Just wondering. Is there any way to monitor the temperature of the processor? The fan operates at low speed all the time but when it goes high speed the air coming out is relly warm. And why does the dvd-rom only lets me set the region 5 times? No such problems with a friend's compaq x1075.

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Well i tried the version 2.1.0 and it could read the temperature quite well. I didn't try the fan control though. But one problem is that it tends to have conflict with other software running at the same time. I got kick out of 3dmark01 and 03 and civilization2. Ah well it doesn't matter now that I've made certain that the lappy is operating within specs. Thanks zpyrd.

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Actually that's where I found it. Well its not important now.

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Hehe unfortunately my choice was made far less complicated due to the fact that the 8600 was too expensive. I saw a refurbished one with dvd-rw, 128mb GF FX5650 and 512MB ram going for just a little more than what I paid for the 5150. But I decided to go with a new one rather than a repaired one.

BTW which one did you get?

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wow cool! congrats dude.

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I got 909 for 3dMark03 using default settings. A friend's compaq x1075 with 32mb mobi radeon 9200 got 600+.

I got the settings on 3dMark01 mixed up so the readings are inaccurate. I'll post the scores after I redo it.

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