Another M11x buyer Q's

I was going to wait for the m11x R3 but there are some really good deals on the R2. So I'm thinking I will go with the i7 8gb Bluetooth 500gb HD. I want to get a SSD with a potable external HD. Will I be able to install games on the External HD and play them smoothly? What SSD are people running? And is the 4 year warranty worth it, I'm starting college this fall and don't plan on upgrading with in 4 years?
Thanks
Kenrevo

 

first dont buy 8gb from dell. its way to overpriced. go to newegg and buy your own kit from there. Plus if your gaming and using it for general school work you dont even need 8, 4 would be plenty. Secondly, yes, buying a ssd and using an external hdd for games is perfectly acceptable. Load times might increase a bit but it should play smoothly. Vertex/agility II ssd are good, intel x25m are also good. You could wait for the new sandforce driver to come out and bring a new line of ssd's with it.
4 year warranty is not worth the money you pay for it. 3 years from now you'r laptop wont be worth enough to justify spending money on it to fix it. 2 years should be good, if anything happens after that just replace it completely.

 

Thanks for the quick reply. I'm getting 8GB because I'm doing engineering, so using Autocadd and it runs better with 8GB. Also it's what dell has the sale on now. I will definitely keep buying ram from newegg in mind.

 

Even when gaming and doing normal stuff 4gb ram can still get eaten up.

every sense i upgraded my desktop from 4gb too 8gb i saw a nice difference in games and normal stuff i do.

So when i got my m11x r2 from oulet i made sure too get the 8gb for that too even tho for what i use that for its kinda a waste but its nice knowing too have it and when i do need it.

Siting at the desktop on my desktop pc i idel at 3.8 too 4.0gbs being used 50$ out of 8gbs and sometimes more, Because i like too run alot of stuff in the background which mostly happens when you have more than 1 screen . And in game i see around 6gbs and one time playing for hours i saw 7s yes 7 something gbs.

Also helps when you play a game that has a memory leak too.


But ya if you buy a new m11x from dell get the ram at newegg, But for buying at the outlet its cheap there. Which my m11x r2 in sig cost me 820$ shipped

 

if you idle at 4gb there is something horribly wrong... i idle at about 400mb, 8gb is extremely pointless unless your doing really high end video editing.

your pc must not be that optimized. or maybe our definitions on idle are totaly different.
EDIT: idle doesnt mean you have a bunch of junk running and just sitting at the desktop, idle is when absolutely nothing is open.

 

Just wait for the R3 to release. Chances are the R1 and R2 deals will be ever better afterwards.

 

Sorry was in a hurry what i ment by idle is when im doing my normal things like steaming music and have alot of stuff in the background even when im not even on the pc.

And again its not pointless going too 8gb it help in the games i play and most of all the ones that eat alot of memory and have memory leaks.

just like fallen earth mmo i kept crashing if i play hours maxed out with 4gb but when i went too 8gb i never crash.

And if you run alot of stuff in the background like i do while gaming than its going too eat alot of ram

Sure if i boot the system clean when i restart or shut it down which i hardly do sense my desktop is on 24/7 my ram usage is really low, But like i said i run alot of stuff at the same time. My system is fully optimized.

I wouldn't even upgrade too 8gb if i knew it was a waste or i would've just sent it back but it helped me and i will never go any lower than 8gb now.

 

I don't think you will notice any difference at all using 8 gigs vs 4 gigs in autocad. It's been discussed that ram is not the bottle neck. I would be able to tell you what is the bottle neck but I only used autocad last year and not once this year.

 

Pretty much like he said too is dell is running a deal on the m11x r2 for 999$ which comes with 8gb and you cant pick lower either sense they took that option out.

And even if i didn't need 8gb why not go all out with 8gb ram when its cheap so you have it when you need it?

Nothing worse is having a game crash after couple hours with it having too do with ram, Or loose performance when it goes too the hard drive for the page file.

For me it made a nice difference. Mainly sense i leave my computer on 24/7 and the programs that's running also eats more ram when they running long, Even windows programs when on for days you see it much higher than when you boot up your computer from a fresh boot.

 

iv never had a game crash due to ram issues, and i run on 2gb of ram. i get that you run a lot of things when your not at your pc or just doing your regular things, but why would you keep any of that open while gaming?

 

So i can monitor my temps and the chat programs which is xfire and steam and i also keep firefox open in the backround which have like usely ten tabs open and sometimes firefox is taking like 1.2gbs lol and i stream music when i game. I like too have everything right there when i go back too it, pretty much why alot of ram is nice too have.

Ya not every game takes tons of ram but some do that has memory leaks, and fallen earth and apb can eat over 2gb of ram which i saw them take. Single player games isint much if a problem but alot of mmos take a good bit of ram, and i max every game out like 8x anti high res which is 1920x1080 right now. I was useing eyeinfity which takes even more memory in games. Than games with mods takes a good bit too.

But ya not everyone will need alot of ram even like you said 2gb is fine, But alot of peaple needs more like me, sense i have the power why not use it

 

along the lines of this discussion, will there be any bottlenecking from the core 2 duo cpu if I get the 599 base r1 model and upgrade the HDD and RAM to 500 and 8gb myself? thanks

 

In what applications? There is definately bottlenecking going on in certain CPU intensive games such as Dirt 2, RTS games and especially Bad Company 2.

 

mostly mmos, not much of any RTS, FPS at all. I believe most mmos are GPU intensive.