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    XPS 1647 Questions...

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by advocado, Jun 18, 2011.

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    XPS 1647
    i5 460M
    RGB LED
    ati 5730M 1GB
    4GB DDR3
    500GB 7200rpm

    I'm having some questions on this model of laptop:

    1.DO you guys suffer from dust inside monitor?

    2.My power button is not as sensitive sometimes i press the button nothing happen i have to press harder to the mid.

    3."Blip" sound using IDT audio driver everything i mute/unmute speaker or play sound after long time of silent.

    4.Is there anyway to turn off all the lights without turning off the power?

    5.Do you guys get 90W power adapter or 130W? I hear 90W gives throttling issues is that true even for 1647?


    Also i think after some upgrade my Graphic Card clock has been locked from few applications, before i can run Speedfan & other overclock tools but now these tools freeze up the laptop everytime they run/startup.

    Only program i managed to run that reads/write the GPU is OpenHardwaremonitor, AMD GPU clock tool. How do i tell if the overclock has been applied? I tried running 3Dmark11 basic but shows 2 totally different scores even on the processor:


    default 650/800, i5 1463MHZ & it can't tell gppu clock speed?:

    3Dmark11 P1176
    graphic 1072
    physic 2572
    Combined 1088

    Result


    OC 840/1100, note the processor speed is now 2793MHZ:
    3Dmark11 P1508
    graphic 1403
    physic 2575
    combined 1430

    Result
     
    advocado, Jun 18, 2011
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