Dell XPS 17 (L702x) Thread

[Paul.Mason]

I was having the same problem about a year ago. I found comcast switched to DOCSIS 3.0 standards. I purchased a new cable modem that supported DOCSIS 3.0 and have had no problems since. I hope this helps!

I just don't understand it, no one else I know has this problem. I can't change anything to do with the modems as I'm connecting to wireless networks that I don't own (the college, the house I stay at) but I never have the problem with my old HP.

Has it got to do a faulty wireless card in my laptop? Can I bring the problem to dell?

[dealstokie]

Can someone confirm the best ssd for this model? also should it be in hard drive bay 1?

[Sam_A_1992]

Can someone confirm the best ssd for this model? also should it be in hard drive bay 1?

Imo the crucial m4 is the best, doesnt matter what bay its in.

[Sam_A_1992]

Question about SSD.
I saw the guide for moving user folders onto a regular secondary hard drive. Why would it be wrong to leave it on the SSD?

I just checked my dell vostro and after about 4 years of usage my C drive uses 60.5 GB and that's without any significant optimizations and cleaning (I have videos and other things on different partitions). Granted it's running winxp so it doesn't take up that much space.

Would there be any disadvantages if I just left everything on SSD and used the other HD more like a media storage?

Well that guide is for smaller ssd's but mine is a 128gb and i used that guide as i would not fit my users folder on there! Depends how much data you'll use. It also saves writes to and from the ssd, which it has a limited number of them.

[oc_masta]

Ive ordered abrand new sealed xps l702x off pcworlds/currys online outlet
For the insane price of £500

Its roughly the same as my m14x but ill be saving £300 once ive sold my m14x
Ill try and do a short comparison when my new xps arrives.....cant wait

[Sam_A_1992]

Ive ordered abrand new sealed xps l702x off pcworlds/currys online outlet
For the insane price of £500

Its roughly the same as my m14x but ill be saving £300 once ive sold my m14x
Ill try and do a short comparison when my new xps arrives.....cant wait

Holy crap thats a good price, specs?

anyway does anyone else get random spikes of cpu usage when it appears to be doing nothing?

[Bubloo]

WOW sam, brilliant wall paper! Mind sharing, and what is that bar on top with icons? how can i replicate it?

[Sam_A_1992]

WOW sam, brilliant wall paper! Mind sharing, and what is that bar on top with icons? how can i replicate it?

Thanks, Yeah course i can. Took the default alienware wallpaper then customised it in photoshop to suit an xps, ive got green, blue and red ones which change every 30 secs. The text at the bottom actually says XPS L702x in alienware language

The bar is a program called rocket dock, About RocketDock - RocketDock.com

what would be the best way to share it? i suppose i can upload and add as attachments on here? also got custom logon screens too if you want those and i use custom start up sounds

EDIT the attachment manager isnt working atm so i'll try again later

[pkalein]

anyway does anyone else get random spikes of cpu usage when it appears to be doing nothing?

Oh yes I do so disabled turbo boost just use it while playing BF3 or NFS run

[oc_masta]

its entirely normal to get those spikes of 'cpu usage' because the cpu clocks itself down in idle to conserve battery and clocks up when required.
what your seeing is the usage at the base clock which is usually only around 500mhz, which isnt much. background tasks will make use of this base clock so you will occasionally see it spike like that.
the usage at that clock doesnt matter because the cpu is downclocked and operating at lower voltage at the same time so using hardly any power.

check CPU-Z to confirm this.