http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/dells-xps-motherboard-exchange-program-goes-live/ Engadget Comments for Dell's XPS Motherboard Exchange Program goes live http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/dells-xps-motherboard-exchange-program-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/dells-xps-motherboard-exchange-program-goes-live/I imagine this is the problem that people with XPS' had, that they couldn't get a replacement motherboard?
Does it even offer any advantages? Looks like a big area of wasted space to me.]]>Aug 16th 2007 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/dells-xps-motherboard-exchange-program-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/dells-xps-motherboard-exchange-program-goes-live/Aug 16th 2007 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/dells-xps-motherboard-exchange-program-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/dells-xps-motherboard-exchange-program-goes-live/Aug 16th 2007 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/dells-xps-motherboard-exchange-program-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/dells-xps-motherboard-exchange-program-goes-live/If it was because the old ones were defective then shouldn't everyone get it free.]]>Aug 16th 2007 6:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/dells-xps-motherboard-exchange-program-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/dells-xps-motherboard-exchange-program-goes-live/
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Basically, I'm looking for a straight answer to the following question: does the XPS 710 have a FSB of 800 or 667 MHz?]]>Aug 17th 2007 4:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/dells-xps-motherboard-exchange-program-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/dells-xps-motherboard-exchange-program-goes-live/
might as well do it, nothing wrong with newer components on the mobo.]]>Aug 16th 2007 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/dells-xps-motherboard-exchange-program-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/dells-xps-motherboard-exchange-program-goes-live/Aug 16th 2007 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/dells-xps-motherboard-exchange-program-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/dells-xps-motherboard-exchange-program-goes-live/
It hasn't really caught on yet amongst the DIY crowd, but the boards are out there.]]>Aug 16th 2007 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/dells-xps-motherboard-exchange-program-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/dells-xps-motherboard-exchange-program-goes-live/Aug 16th 2007 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/dells-xps-motherboard-exchange-program-goes-live/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/16/dells-xps-motherboard-exchange-program-goes-live/Your opinion on this is absurd. Do you work for Dell?
We (most Dell XPS 700 owners) bought a PC that we thought had dual SLI capability, was upgradable to 800mhz memory, and could also be upgraded to a quad core CPU if we wanted to drop one in. After spending a lot of money for this PC we found that most of the features available on the Intel motherboard were turned off. Their (Dell’s) stance was “we offered a PC that is stable, the upgradable options we shut down on the motherboard were done to insure that the PC will run to our specs” (read that as ‘proprietary’). That’s a load of BS, if you ask 90% of the XPS 700 buyers. We didn’t buy a Dimension; we paid a premium for the XPS. The advice in your post is better fitted to a Dimension owner, not an XPS owner.
We didn’t spend big bucks on a Dell XPS gaming PC just to find out, after the sale, that our PC’s weren’t upgradable. We raised hell, and Dell answered (over 1.5 years later). The free upgrade Dell is offering to XPS 700 owners is one that should be taken advantage of no matter what. You paid a premium for the PC you got because it should do it all, but in OEM form it doesn’t. They’ll even come to your house to make it right! For free! Everyone should take advantage of that. To tell an XPS 700 owner anything different is just furthering the rip off they already got from Dell!
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