Computer dieing

[warwizard]

Reinstall everything on the laptop and see if it makes a difference.

Blow the fans and cooling vents out, the XPS laptops have a known overheating problem with their video cards (I have had 3 at work need Motherboard replacements due to overheating.

Replace the hard drive, its just a sata hard drive, think of getting a fresh drive before reinstalling.

[suicidesspyder]

Yea ive blown them out at least once a month and have a tiny external fan that blows into the back of the vents to help aid in cooling i have no problems with overheating anymore but if you think a new hd would work then i might look into that first.

[Trushot]

Like it says i think my computer is on its last legs and with no money atm to buy one str8 out its about to hurt. Why cant these sites like newegg finance lol. I would go dell but meh not good enough imo ne more. So im stuck with the lingering question where to go for a good computer to put on finance hmmm ne ideas.

I cannot advise you to finance a computer ... it is not a very sound decision financially

the best thing to do is deal with what you have and sacrifice until you can "finance" it yourself...

decide what "payments you want to have each month ... then "PAY" yourself this amount each month until you have enough to pay CASH for the computer setup you desire ... then once you buy it start paying yourself again an amount so when your ready to upgrade you can pay cash again ...

Financing luxury tems is never a good thing EVER

[Fizzler]

Financing anything is hardly ever a sound financial decision. If you can fix your existing laptop than you are golden to save up for something better. Otherwise if you can only put away say $100 a month for a new computer it will be 20 months before you have the money to buy what you are looking at. You need to weigh the priorities.

Definitely do not finance from Best Buy if you go that route... man are they seedy. They offer you a Same as cash deal but if you are late by one second they not only raise the interest rate to like 28% but also apply if back to the beginning. To make it even harder the payments are on a 25 day schedule so it never the same time every month...

[Starbuck_Jones]

I would not recommend replacing anything if it still turns on and you have not wiped and reinstalled the OS yet. Its not like car with a worn out fan belt. You lost 2/3 of your frame rate. Its not a worn out chip of ram or video card that will do that.

[moosejaw]

What about power profiles? Is the OS doing something to throttle performance for energy savings when you don't need it to? There was an issue where high performance was selected but the OS did not actually use high performance.

[Bovidae]

When in doubt Format C:

At least your machine still boots, so you can get anything important/sentimental off your HDD.

A fresh install of everything should buy you two months until you have the cash in hand to buy your dream machine.


As to the price of the linked machine, i7-965, nuff said

[Ughmahedhurtz]

The specs on the computer are nice... but if you are willing to spend that much you can build a pretty sweet machine.

Exactly. Check this out.

Qty.Product DescriptionSavingsTotal Price
1 LITE-ON 24X CD/DVD Burner Black SATA Model iHAS324-08 - Retail Item #: N82E16827106291
$31.99
1 COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UW Black Aluminum Bezel , SECC Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail Item #: N82E16811119068
$49.99
1 EVGA 896-P3-1171-AR GeForce GTX 275 Superclocked Edition 896MB 448-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported ... - Retail Item #: N82E16814130478
$259.99
1 SeaSonic S12D 750 Silver 750W ATX12V V2.3/EPS 12V V2.91 80 PLUS SILVER Certified Active PFC Power Supply - Retail Item #: N82E16817151084
$159.99
1 Logitech G11 Gaming Keyboard - Retail Item #: N82E16823126009
$58.99
1 Logitech G5 7 Buttons Tilt Wheel USB Wired Laser Mouse - Retail Item #: N82E16826104076
$49.99
1 CORSAIR DOMINATOR 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMD8GX3M4A1600C8 - Retail Item #: N82E16820145267
$259.99
1 GIGABYTE GA-P55-UD4P LGA 1156 Intel P55 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail Item #: N82E16813128400
$169.99
1 Intel Core i7 870 Lynnfield 2.93GHz LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80605I7870 - Retail Item #: N82E16819115213
$569.99
2 Scythe S-FLEX SFF21F 120mm Case Fan - Retail Item #: N82E16835185006 Return Policy: Standard Return Policy
$33.98 ($16.99 each)
1 Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 120mm SSO CPU Cooler - Retail Item #: N82E16835608007
$74.99
1 Corsair Extreme Series CMFSSD-64D1 2.5" 64GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid state disk (SSD) - Retail Item #: N82E16820233090
$204.99
Subtotal:$1,924.87
UPS Guaranteed 3 Day Service -- $27.51
Grand Total:$1,952.38

This is a similar system. Differences:

• No Vista in that price (no biggie)
• NVidia GTX 275OC instead of 4870X2 (better for most games, and wow isn't exactly going to take much advantage of 4870 rendering advances)
• SATA SSD hard disk instead of crappy 7200rpm
• Slight step down on CPU (why pay twice the price for extreme edition unless you wipe your ass with $100 bills?)
• 8GB RAM instead of 12GB; won't notice this for WoW multiboxing
• Much better motherboard and RAM quality
• Much better heatsink for OC'ing the CPU
• Much better rated case for cooling and noise

IMO, I'd much rather manage where I cut corners than have some company do it for me.

[edit] DYING!