*OFFICIAL* M14x R2 Owner's Lounge Thread - READ BEFORE POSTING

Hmm...how to proceed?

First, let me answer some of your questions:

1. I am not a member of the U.S. Military. I work for a private contracting company and am currently (for the last 2 years) at a small FOB that does not have AAFES. Nor do we have much of a postal system, thus the need for someone to hand carry my laptop here via Blackhawk.

2.When I said I have money to burn, it means I make alot of money. Not sure why I'm responding to someon who uses "lolz" in a response...but what the hell?

3.If you could read, or at least comprehend what you are reading, you may have noticed that I said " perhaps not upgrading the screen was an oversight", indicating that I regret not having done it, but I didn't so I'll live with it in the meantime.

4.Could I have just maxed out the RAM myself in after-market fashion? Sure. Did I feel like it? Not really. Again, the amount of money it cost me to upgrade to 16GB of RAM was not a whole lot...and the convenience of the M14x coming to me ready to go out of the box outweighed the few dollars I would have saved doing it myself.

5.Did you not read where I was going to purchase a new Gaming computer within the next year? The 1GB 650M will suffice for now, the 2GB is just pointless given that the additional 1GB of VRAM is seldom used when gaming, if at all. When I purchase a new computer it will either be one of the larger Alienware laptop models (assuming I end up pleased with this purchase at all), a desktop model, or something from a completely different manufacturer (laptop or desktop) in the event I am not happy with the M14X. In all three cases, it will either be a larger model or a desktop, all of which can house a superior GPU.

6.Is there a reason you attempt to make yourself feel better and/or superior to others by attempting to insult their decisions regarding the customization of their own personal laptops by comparing them to your own subjective choices and/or opinions on the matter?

7.Why exactly is an Alienware user (largely considered within the PC Gaming community as people who overpay for name brands) expecting people who buy Alienware laptops to nickel and dime the customization? These are all laptops in excess of a thousand dollars (unless you happen to buy an entry level unit) so why are you worrying about what I do with $100-200 of my own money?

 

Oversight can be fixed with a simple phone call to dell and they will change the order, or cancel so you can reorder. Guess what if you want to still be stubborn and keep the 720p by calling in and mentioned your situation about how you want to go back and order the 900p the rep will offer you $75-$100 just to keep the order as is and that will help pay for other aftermarket upgrades. I just have a hard time believing how somehow can justify 16gb of ram but not a simple screen upgrade which is extremely expensive to do later on down the road versus flash memory which keeps on tanking in price everyday. I would put the $300 towards ssd and screen upgrade versus anything else. ALAS you work hard for your money so I can't tell you how to spend it just voice my opinion and as you know opinions are like a.........

 

Here's the deal:

I didn't realize the error until the laptop was already being shipped. I am forced to work within a very specific timeframe as I actually had to coordinate with an associate who was going to be home and able to receive it for me and then hand carry it back into theatre. As a result, I didn't have much flexibility with the shipping dates and just decided to live with it. I am quite sure the screen will be perfectly acceptable while not necessarily being ideal. I can live with that.

Also, you do know the USPS no longer ships lithium batteries to overseas locations, so FedEx or not it has to go through the APO and can't accompany the laptop to Afghanistan, right?

Another complication of not being in the U.S.

One has to make concessions and compromises when ones circumstances are not exactly the status quo.

Ideally I would have upgraded the screen during customization and we aren't having this conversation, but I didn't...but I can definitely live with that. A SSD? Would be nice, but not something I felt was necessary. Again, a matter of opinion, though when I do get a larger laptop or desktop I will certainly have dual harddrives, one being SSD, if not both. They will also have dropped significantly in price by then and as such represent a greater value. The price differential for RAM during cutomization versus after-market is nothing compared to the inevitable differential in the price of a SSD now versus a year from now.

 

Sorry the way I read your original post was that you just ordered it and I figured you can easily call in and make that change. You typically have 21 days to call in and return the laptop so I would try to atleast get some sort of credit from customer service to keep the laptop as is. Keep an eye on ebay when you will see 1600x900 complete LCD assembly pop up or on NBR and you can swap the assembly down the road and sell yours if you want. I would pick up these External lcd like a quality 27" or 23" ips panel korean displays at 1/3 of the price around $250-$350 with WORLDWIDE SHIPPING.



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I should have been more specific. I "just ordered" on July 27th and it's already been delivered and will be on it's way to me quite soon (though I'll be in Thailand when it arrives). Being that it isn't in my possession and I won't have it physically in my hands for around a month due to a myriad of factors (waiting for the individual who is bringing it to travel from the States to Dubai, Dubai to here, etc. then until after I return from Thailand) it still feels like I just ordered it.

I can't see how the stock display can be that terrible...I have a GAEMS G-155 and the 15" LCD display on that is far from excellent but is good enough for me...and the way I figure is if it's comparable to that, I'll be perfectly content with that in the short term.

I very well may do the upgrade at some point (again I wish I had clicked that damn box before), but it doesn't feel like a priority. Maybe I'll hate it...but I doubt it just because I'm pretty forgiving with my electronics.

We'll see, but overall I don't disagree that the LCD upgrade versus RAM would be the logical one, but in all fairness if I had it my way I'd have done both, not one or the other. In retrospect I also feel as though I should have just gone with the 3820QM and pushed the price over the 1999 benchmark to get the 15% discount as opposed to the 10%. It's one of those things that you can look back on and overanalyze each component you bought and think "I should have done this instead". Overall, I'm generally happy with the specs, will have to wait and see on the LCD.

My biggest complaint was not having a true option for a GPU outside the 1GB vs. 2GB of VRAM...but for what it is I can live with the 650M based off the benchmarks I've seen. However, that is the true bottleneck of this laptop. The 3720QM can handle about anything whereas the 650M has its limits.

 

The screen is not the one you should be worried about. Prepare for the 65c celcius throttle horror that m14x r2 is having plus the jetcraft engine and hairdryer at full blast when gaming.

 

Really? I can play SWTOR, quite a demanding game, on high graphics for over 3 hours and have never once got throttling. Maybe i'm just lucky. As for the noise, it gets loud when gaming sure but only to the extent of most other gaming laptops. Certainly not unbearable.

As for the posters above - I agree with gcates. People make mistakes when choosing their specs and regret it - its fairly inevitable and there's no need to attack people over it. I can also understand why in your position you would purchase the 16gb ram with the laptop. Sure it makes more sense to upgrade yourself if you live in an accessible area and have the time and materials to do it. If however your in Afghanistan the situation is completely different. Getting the ram delivered in not as easy as entering your address and waiting 2 days. It's a mission.

 

Im in Afghanistan in a Fob as well I dont have any postal issues except the Battery Ban but got lucky and got mine before the Ban. I ordered mine loaded 3820 I7 bluray 64 msata the works. I had nothing but issues with it but Dell has been helpful and sending replacement parts it takes 3 weeks but at least I got parts. When I first got it my touch pad had a bad hit mark like someone wasnt handling the laptop right and my 64 Gig Msata was dead so they sent me a new front panel and an Msata. Well those problems are resolved until now my Bluray keeps ejecting by itself every time I put something into the USB. Dell sends me a new Slot drive and motherboard. I swapped the drive nothing still have that issue but it doesnt do it with a DVDRW (Took the one from my Macbook pro) I decided not to swap the motherboard and just installed a Caddy drive problem solved and been working great. I decided to order an external USB blurray burner instead. Its not a bad laptop and I probably would have sent it back if I was in the states but here well we just have to live with it the way it is. It plays all the games I throw at it and I installed a second 24" monitor (A spare montior we have out here) using mini display to DVI and it works perfect using both screens. All in all its a great machine but if your out here its best to wait and get it at home to iron out any issues if you have any.

 

Weird, hasn't happened to me.

 

The only way i've managed to get mine to throttle is by overclocking and running furmark, and even then it took over 10 minutes before it hit 65C with a 105/300 OC. The fan is also not nearly as loud as my M11x R1.

 

After ages of lurking about here, I'm finally posting to announce that I've ordered myself a Spectre MLK. Expecting it within a couple of weeks.

Anything I ought to know? There's a lot of material up here in NBR and I haven't gotten it all down yet, so anyone want to give me a condensed version?


Intel Core i7-3720QM
16GB DDR3-1600
GeForce GT 650M 2048MB GDDR5
750GB 7,200RPM + 32GB S.R.T. caching
6x Blu-ray + 8x DVDRW
Killer 1202 wireless
1600x900 HD+ TN
Nebula Red

 

Yeah but why would it throttle at 65c? 65c is too low to be a threshold range for throttling isn't it? Other gaming laptops w/ gtx or gt geforce cards has a threshold of 105c and they don't throttle unless it hits 90+ centigrade. So tell me, why did Alienware/Dell design this to throttle at a whopping low and cool 65c? That is the big question.

 

Has Anyone tried the 304.79 Beta Drivers from Nvidia?
Is their any increase in performance?
I am currently planning to download it.
NVIDIA DRIVERS 304.79BETA

 

So i've finally decided to push my laptop to see how far it can go via overclocking with the software msiafterburner. The steps i followed are:

1. BIOS
2. Disable Turbo + Enable Overclocking
3. Set unofficialoverclocking (2) & eula (the statement) in msiafterburner.cfg
4. Saved my default to profile 1 and made a overclocking profile with (Core:+135 & Memory:+405)
5. Checked GPU Z core mhz default (735 mhz) and after (880 mhz)
6. Benched default & overclocked on furmark

and this is where i've entered problems. Upon 'overclocking" i didn't notice any extreme temperature changes NOR any performance gains. Furmark test scores ended up being 1200 both default & overclock on the same presets.

Can anyone tell me what my problem is or what i may have done wrong?

One more thing//
When i ran GPU-Z standalone, the cuda checkbox wasn't checked so i'm assuming cuda isn't enabled. Is this normal for all you other R2 users or am I supposed to download drivers to activate CUDA?

 

Using them currently but can't comment if they are any better thank previous ones because i never used any previous ones. Works fine though (SWTOR, Diablo III)

 

Hi! I purchased an Alienware M14X R2 laptop from Dell.com and should be receiving it tomorrow with the following configuration:

3rd Generation Intel Core i7-3610QM (6MB Cache, up to 3.3GHz w/ Turbo Boost 2.0)

16GB DDR3 at 1600MHz

14.0" High Def+ (900p/1600x900) with WLED backlight

2 GB DDR5 NVIDIA GeForceGT 650M using NVIDIA Optimus technology

32G mSATA caching SSD

750GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s

Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Service Pack 1, English, w/Media

Slot-Loading Dual Layer DVD Burner, DVD+-RW

Creative Sound Blaster Recon3Di with THX TruStudio Pro Software

Killer Wireless-N 1202 a/g/n 2x2 MIMO for Gaming and Video and Bluetooth 4.0


I just ordered a Crucial m4 256GB mSATA Solid State Drive CT256M4SSD3, and plan to replace the 32G mSATA caching SSD. Wish me luck!

I am assuming the OS is installed on the 750GB HD. Should I simply swap out the current mSATA SSD with the 256GB mSATA SSD?

I've heard mixed reviews about the m14x supporting the 256GB upgrade. If anyone could confirm this works, I would appreciate the input. I plan on running Revit and 3Ds Max (and a few old games like Counter Strike) If anyone has any advice, please chime in.

Thanks

 

I actually want to do this too (if XoticPC will sell me a MSATA drive since I can't seem to get one anywhere else as an international customer), so that I can install a 128GB M4 MSATA to use as C: for Windows and the most commonly used workstation programs (e.g. CS5.5/CS6, 3ds Max) because those take millenniums to load.
But the disassembly procedure for the M14x is rather convoluted (it's understandably complicated due to the M14x's small chassis, leading everything to be stacked on top of each other - so most components have to be removed to get to another) and doesn't mention the M-SATA drive at all.

I've read a thread here that talks about the Crucial M4 M-SATA drive in M14xes and they have been confirmed to actually work, but I'm not sure about the replacement procedure.

 

msata is super easy to get to.
Take off back cover
remove battery
there it is, right next to the wifi card.

4 screws and your at the msata slot.

 

Could you do me a favor and point me to something with pictures?
Would be fab. Haven't quite seen something with the M-SATA pointed out specifically.

 

It's very obvious.

BTW be careful about stripping the mSATA screw. Mine was very tight and the way it is set in the chassis allows it to push down as you are trying to turn it. If you're trying hard to turn it, and it flexes down, real easy to striiiip....

 

My laptop was delivered at my house today, but I am out of town until Tuesday. I will be doing the hdd swap Tuesday night and will supply pictures for everyone.

 

How can I unleash the full potential of the Gt650M? When I am playing some games, the GPU usage is low. FPS is about 50-60 but not completely smooth. It feels like the chip is not fully utilised. When I play games (TF2, Dota2) with the Afterburner Overlay, it shows about 50% in TF2. Not sure about the cause of the problem. Temps are not that high and I am already running the newest 304.79 drivers. Any people experiencing the same issue? My M14xR2 is my 1st laptop that has Optimus.

 

Now legit lounger.

 

Congrats. How you likin the red?

According to FedEx mine should be here tomorrow

 

It's actually absolutely gorgeous in the plastic - I'm liking the soft-touch a lot more than I expected - it's not rubbery as I thought it'd be, it feels like well-treated plastic instead.

Nebula Red doesn't quite 'shine', instead it has a very vibrant specular that has a kind of gorgeous sheen to it in the light, especially bright light. The surface is, on close inspection with a macro lens - rough and almost gritty, which results in a look that seems almost like an ultra-fine powder-finish.
It's very classy, without being loud - it's very attention grabbing but looks quite refined. The color appears close to crimson and responds very well to light, while turning a more muted duller tone indoors.

Spoiler

You can especially see the way it has that specularity around the ports on the side.
Turns out that the velvet bag it ships in is color-matched

The centrally placed power port is actually a bit of a hit and miss - it's good in a way, but due to the sloping rear and how recessed it is, it can be hard to plug in and locate from the front blindly. And it feels strange in a notebook of this size, I'd rather it be on the side really.

You can see the roughness best around the edges:

Closer look at the red color:

As for my actual out of the box experience, it's not been perfectly rosy;
1. the screen hinge is atrociously creaky, and is far from firm and sure (When I rotate it, it creaks, when I let go, it wobbles, and I can detect some play if I try to rotate it sideways as if it were a tablet-PC)
2. HDD was only partitioned into C: and the hidden recovery partition, used Windows Disk Manager first thing out of the box to split it in two (shrink volume, then new simple volume)
3. It had a BSoD while I was away for lunch!
4. The GT 650M won't ramp up to 735/835MHz if it's set to 'Balanced Mode' in Power Options. It has to be on 'Max Performance', otherwise it only runs up to 405MHz (and even then, sometimes it still stays at 405MHz. Afterburner also reports that it's permanently at 405MHz, while GPU-Z says otherwise).
5. Screen is definitely color inaccurate. But not as bad as I thought it'd be.
6. Keyboard backlighting along the bottom is noticeably dimmer, and has a number of completely dark spots altogether.
7. Temperatures, as posted in benchmark thread, are nigh-on-boiling with a recorded maximum of 95℃ in Cinebench R11.5 (room is a little warm, but still - this is with the fan screaming and the GPU mostly inactive)
8. Factory installed BIOS is A03... And I seem to see A04 on the Dell website, but I can't download it
9. I noticed I'm missing the 'Alienware placemat' mentioned in my order invoice/confirmation! Or is this normal...

Other than those concerns, it seems to be running perfectly and operational right now. I'll probably post a full review soon. As for the good things, it's definitely got the performance it claims and plenty of aesthetic appeal. Plus the speakers are every bit as good as people make them out to be, though you'll want to tune the SoundBlaster panel a bit to compensate for the approximately 1kHz frequency response hole. And the keyboard is pretty good though you'll need a bit of adjustment as with anything, due to their smaller actual-usable-surface. And apart from the hinge, the sheer weight makes it feel incredibly solid (if not absurdly heavy for the size).
Anyway, current AlienFX setting (all-aqua was the factory default):

Looks nicer with some better color matching. As you can see on the side I also went and got myself a Logitech G300 to match the Nebula Red.
Keyboard in solid blue (the slightly brighter one), status lights in green, 'eyes' in red.

 

Those are some great pictures. The red looks awesome. I thought about getting it but decided it'd be a little to flashy to bring to and from class. Hope some of your issues get resolved though, good luck!

Edit: Just got here
So far everything's perfect. Only one slight problem, the backspace key squeeks sometimes. But it doesn't bother me.




Also what do you guys recommend I do. Should I do a clean install of windows or is it not necessary. And what about a battery drain?

 

Considering how 'clean' Alienwares come, I didn't do any clean installation on mine. I simply used Windows' Disk Manager to do my repartitioning. As far as I'm concerned, all pre-installed software looks reasonably useful, with the exclusion of Dell Stage and Zinio Reader, but nontheless the only thing I uninstalled was McAfee (a fifteen month subscription was included with my system... well, I registered it, but uninstalled McAfee anyway).

However I've updated my GMA HD 4000 drivers (one popped up in Windows Update so I said OK) and installed nVIDIA 304.79. I'll see how they work in games later.

 

When I run the benchmark on GTA IV it says the video adapter is the Intel one. However all the settings are on very high 4x AA and it's getting about 35fps so I'm guessing it's using the 650m but I could be wrong.

 

That's about right, one of the quirks with Optimus. The Capcom benchmarks will show the HD 4000 too (Devil May Cry/Resident Evil 5), but the performance will be well above what the HD 4000 is capable of.

 

@Tail - Thanks for confirming that

Anyone know where I can find a killer wireless card for this laptop? Also where I can find a good price on SSD's. I'm thinking about getting a 128gb one.

 

NewEgg, Amazon, TigerDirect, etc. sell 2.5" SSDs. MSATA SSDs are a bit harder to come by.

As for the Killer network card, you probably should have ordered it from Dell/Alienware to begin with, shouldn't you?

 

I was going to but didn't since I wasn't sure if it made much of a difference. Just trying to see how much they are cause I probably will end up buying one since they are very simple to install and the wireless at my college isn't great. Thanks for the comment though.

 

Also Msata SSd is easy to buy all day long....not sure why it is hard to find


Amazon.com: msata ssd

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pick up the SSD asap the hyper x for $169 which is 240gb and deal ends very soon

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When I said they're a bit harder to come by, I meant that they're not easily available in several countries, and more importantly have a far smaller selection available.

 

Just ordered m14x r2.. hope i did right thing.. not wanting to have to buy another kne in a year to be able to play new games.. not sure the graphics card is that great from reading some reviews.. anyone thst can reassure me?

 

As long as you are not expecting to play high end games like Crysis 2 or Metro 2033 at maximum details, the GT 650M is absolutely fine (It will play the aforementioned games at medium-high details). I've played Bullet Storm, Diablo 3, and do Playstation 2 emulation with no issue performance-wise.

It'll blow the first generation M14x with the GT 555M out of the water and butt heads with my old Asus G53SW in gaming performance, that's more than enough for me.

 

Blah blah blah blah blah......btw I am in DFW Area around if you ever wanna grab a drink and talk nerd.

 

It'll play anything fine from at least Medium and up, especially with its 1600x900 resolution. Apparently it seems about 15% faster than the MHD5870, and that's almost a HD5770 (desktop card). So it's plenty of performance in a small chassis, but you'll want to be careful you don't get struck with throttling issues.

If you want a more direct comparison, the GT 650M is still easily faster than the Xbox 360 or PS3's graphics processors. Not by a humongous margin, I'm afraid, but still some 30% faster in terms of pure processing power. Of course, this doesn't take into account optimizations, drivers and the like, but you can feel assured that you will at least have a visual experience comparable if not superior to the consoles.

 

Just ordered mine . Looking forward to the next 4+ years and it not dying 2 days after my warranty expires (poor xps 1530).
3610QM
GT650M 2Gb
750gb HD (will replace with an SSD)
8gb ram (may upgrade later)
900p screen
4 year CC warranty ($$$)

I've always wanted an AW, now I finally get to experience one.

 

Anyone getting a lot of bass distortion when using the built in speakers when turning up the bass? It really sounds quite bad if I turn up the bass using the equalizer. If I am using headphones it sounds great. Are my speakers bad or is this just how they are?

 

That's just how they are. Unfortunately you really can't expect the level of bass of frequency response from a "subwoofer" the size of your thumb as you can with your home theater or car.

 

I wasn't expecting the bass to be impressive but I also wasn't expecting i to be so badly distorted. I use headphones most of the time anyway but the times I don't have them on the sound is just awful unless I turn off the equalizer.

 

Cheers for reply

30% faster than a 7 year old console? To be honest was expecting pc to have far superior graphics...

 

I think it's actually much faster than that. The XBOX 360's GPU is based off the ATi R520 architecture, which is close in performance to the desktop class Radeon X1800XT. The Playstation 3's GPU is practically a Geforce 7900GT with half the memory bandwidth. Both of those GPUs get around 3000 to 4000 points in 3DMark06, and the GT 650M seems to averaging 13000 to 15000 pending on memory configuration and clock speed.

The performance difference between the same desktop GPU and their mobile counterparts are getting smaller with each generation, but the desktop GTX 680 and HD 7970 will still tear their mobile counterparts a new one.

 

The Sound Blaster software comes enabled. If you open the cpanel, there is a master on/off button. I turn the SB software off when I use headphones or connect to a home stereo. The only time it sounds better is when you are using the internal speakers. Even if you haven't trained your ears much, you should be able to hear how the sound gets perverted when you enable the SB software (listen on headphones).

It's interesting, because my r1 sounded just as good without the SB software installed. I did not buy that upgrade, yet it still sounded awesome. But the r2 needs to have the SB software running for the internal speakers to sound good, I guess?

Otherwise, it's always better to leave the sound as pure as possible and adjust it further down the chain. If it's coming out of the notebook distorted, you have already lost the battle.

 

I'm not too sure since I don't usually drive any range of an equalizer more than +7dB in general, because under most circumstances, this always leads to distortion. Distortion, is in practice, the result of the audio hardware/software being unable to cope with the extreme buff in response.
If you want to do this, I'd recommend raising the bass to the point where it does not distort, then raising the system volume till the bass is to your taste, then lower other frequencies to the desired ratio of bass-to-everything-else.

I was basing this purely on GFLOPs ratings. In actual practice, the GT 650M is far more capable than the RSX.

 

This is really random, but high five to all us M14x R2 owners :3 huhuhu. Those of us that settled for this compact sized beautiful laptop instead of the too big to travel M17x and so on~. Though...I was so tempted just for the higher specs.

The only thing lacking in mine is an SSD...but I think I can live without it.

 

So I was just playing pool on miniclip and randomly Windows switched over to the high performance mode (where it turns off aero effects etc.), my fans kicked on loud like I was playing Crysis or something and the pool game actually started lagging. I wasn't doing anything else. It went back to normal after about 3-5 minutes. Has this happened to anyone before and does anyone know what could have caused this? My machines not even 2 weeks old and has had absolutely no other problems.

 

I wanted the M17x... but its weight, extra price and shoddy speakers sent me downwards, yeah.

 

Just got my baby yesterday, it's beautiful in every way. I had to do a little tinkering with the settings because the fans were going insane and almost causing the laptop to achieve flight even though temps were fine. I'll have to do some more tests with some more intense games than League of Legends, but the 30 minute game I played on high settings, temps never reached more than 60 on the gpu, 70 on the cpu, which I think is average.