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    New Laptop Question

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by wanakanabe, Jul 28, 2017.

  1. wanakanabe

    wanakanabe Newbie

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    I have had an alienware r17 for about 3 years now.I have never been happy with this laptop.While it runs most everything,it has little quirks and the biggest complaint is that everything seems to be proprietary.i can't upgrade the gpu using nvidia website because it's a dell laptop.Took me a week to get my laptop back up after installing software that wasn't from dell.I can't run newest drivers because i have to wait for dell to release their version...

    I am looking at the Sager NP8177 (Clevo P670HS-G) My question is,will i have the same update issues with this as the alienware? If so are there any laptops that won't restrict me like this
     
    wanakanabe, Jul 28, 2017
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  2. MogRules

    MogRules Notebook Deity

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    What? You can install drivers straight from Nvidia and it should work fine. No one waits for Dell because they are slow to release updated drivers, especially for the GPU and eventually will just stop. Are you running on the iGPU which could be messing with the Nvidia GPU being recognizable maybe? It's all I can think of.
     
    MogRules, Jul 28, 2017
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  3. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Do the drivers from the NVIDIA website really not allow you to install them? You can look into modded drivers if you want the latest.

    What was the software issue that you experienced? Has it been resolved?
     
    namaiki, Jul 28, 2017
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  4. Rothcall

    Rothcall Notebook Consultant

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    Make sure you download for your specific OS too. The nV driver packages arent cross compatable between OSes, and despite win10 being out for.. 2? years now, it still defaults to 8.
     
    Rothcall, Jul 28, 2017
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