*OFFICIAL* "All Powerful" M15x Owners Lounge - Part 4

Try uninstalling NST, run CCleaner, restart, run CCleaner, and then reinstalling NST. I had that issue some pages back and thats what was suggested to me and it worked.

 

If you have the money to spare, then I would take the 250GB HDD (or the cheapest avaialble) and go for SSD 250Gb. Also, unless you are doing some memmory intensive apps (e.g. Vide editing or VM's) you wont need more than 4GB.

Finally, the M15x looks a lot better (to me) than the Asus, and I have had better experience with AW than with Asus

 

Can you overclock to numbers less than that? If you can't overclock at all another thing to consider is the presence of stealth mode (make sure it's turned off!).

 

Hrmm I think i solved it. I DL'ed rivatuner just to see what the clocks are at. And it looks like it the Nvidia tool won't let me put the memory clock past 950. I doubled checked in the hardware montioring with with rivatuner and the clocks are 648/950.4/1620. So i guess everything is ok, just need to monitor temps now.

*EDIT*

Hrmm after a few reboots everything is working as it should for some reason... Oh well I settled on OC'ing the card to 600/1000/1500.

 

Try nst 6.05...

 

Hey, just came back with a razer DeathAdder.
Pretty happy with my purchase, I dont think the Mamba was worth the extra 100 bucks..
I'm now lurking to find a bluetooth mouse that I can bring with me when I'm moving!

thanks for your advices.

 

great choice deathadder is sweet, i would of suggested it but thought you wanted something that can run wireless.

 

Yeah I wanted a wireless mouse, but I want a Blue tooth wireless mouse So I'll simply buy a secondary mouse that I can carry around!

 

yeah pretty much the same for me, using deathadder and orichi. if orichi was the size of the deathadder then it would have been perfect for everything.

 

ok so i did a fresh install on my M15x and yet the dpc latency is still a problem with general 66000 spike every 60 secs and yellow ones occasionally with minimal applications is use. anyone got any thoughts on this

 

razer mamba should make a mobile version...you know, same great aesthetics, just a tadd smaller (and better battery life LOL).

 

What program is showing this?

EDIT: isn't it just CRAZY how torrents eat up ur bandwidth? downloading 3 blu-ray movies and when web surfing sometimes it says "page cannot be displayed". LOL. a quick refresh solves it tho.

 

dpc latency checker v1.2.0
this is the latest test of it just now

 

i have a suspicion its because with the i7's, when your cpu load is low, it downclocks your cpu, tricking dpc checker that you have a slow one core pc that can't handle media streaming lol, vs an ultra fast i7 lol... so i wouldn't worry about it in real-time. I dj and this thing never skips a beat bro...

I'm getting the same yellow spikes... don't worry

 

well i get the audio stutter with where it buzzes every time it has one of these huge red 66000 spikes

 

are you using IDT audio driver? can you name all the drivers you installed

 

hold the phone... i didnt see those red spikes!!! woah...

your getting audio stuttering? hmm i thought bios A05 fixed all those problems man...

lemme look into this gimme a sec...

@inap.. Uh-ohh. time for some tag-team

 

yes i have all three jack inputs showing also just realized i forgot to set the power plan to high performance lol

 

now you look at the link LOLOL yea i was freaking out dude

now these spikes are just anomalies that i cant understand how they are showing up before i did the fresh install was much worse but im still getting these monolithic spikes

 

^^^^ loll... did high performance work? and the ULTRA ANNOYING stleath mode check? is it off.. loll

 

here is my dpc with multiple apps and winamp playing.

 

same here.. all under 500...

 

Hey guys, so I've been following some of the older threads, and I just now got some money I saved up for a new lappy.
But now I'm torn apart between waiting the M15x having new graphic cards or just buying now the Alienware M17x with double cards.
What do you guys think?
PM me for suggestion so we don't flood with spam the forum

 

im all good except for the occasional uber spike of doom which sends a nasty noise through my headphones so should i do another fresh install and install the drivers in a particular order
stealth isnt on and high performance makes them happen even farther apart

 

what order did you install before?

 

before another fresh install.... id try uninstalling the IDT drivers...rebooting and seeing if the problem happens with the windows default drivers.

That way we could narrow it down, as to where the problem is

 

didnt really pay attention but
osd
audio
chipset
video
lan adapter
wireless card
i really was hap hassardly doing a fresh install so im thinking if i have a specific order i would go in that order other than that everything is good except for a single stuck pixel to right area of my screen
ok ill unistall the idt drivers brb

 

yup what jstar said but list what drivers you are using and the order you installed them.

chipset should always be installed first and osd and command center last. somethime if you do command center first it will cause issues with other drivers.

 

Lapo you don't gotta worry bout spamming here we aint like those other forums, with a bunch of kids talking nonsense. we all family here

And if i were in your shoes? as hard as it might be... i'd wait for the gpu refresh... but thats just me...

crossfire and sli configs aren't supported by all games and some games don't get a substantial boost from it. So i'd always prefer having one MOTHER of a card, instead of two solid, but not quite as good cards....

Single gpu card configs work in every game...whereas cf, sli configs don't. ya know what i mean?

5870's in CF on the other hand...now thats just INSANITY hehe

 

yup M15x with 5870 and 900 screen will be almost as powerful as M17x with 4870's in 1200dpi.
and M15x are way more awesome then M17x owners,lol

 

ok also the bluetooth peripheral isnt installing either becuase it says its unplugged.
heres a screen shot of my device managering still showing an unknown device

 

Totally get it.
Yeah it makes sense to wait, it's just I'm so excited about the fact that I'm now able to afford such a laptop that I would LOVE to have one now, but I'll just wait until they offer new GPUs, hopefully before the end of summer!
Thanks for your help pal!

 

ok so i uninstalled idt the huge spikes still keep happening so what else?

 

yeah i have the unknown device too. so that shouldn't be an issue. i guess you have to uninstall each at a time to see which driver could be causing the problem.
or it could just be a bad i/o card, which a few owners had a problem with.

 

What is IDT audio anyway? Can I take it off my startup program?

 

well this systems gonna be replaced cause of a stuck pixel tried JCscreen even hard reset which worked last night but come this morning it was back but not as obnoxious. so im not worried about this but the number of times i see the 66000 spike is a lot less since uninstalling idt drivers

 

just your audio controller and driver, and yes you can disable the startup.

 

I downloaded the trial for 3d mark advantage. About how long does this take to run? Since it's the trial I only get 1 run so I want to make sure I have time for it.

 

For both GPU tests and CPU I'd say like 6-7 minutes total. Oops nvm, I thought u were asking about vantage.

 

3d mark vantage* sorry i must have typed it wrong

the desktop icon is like a yellow circle with 3 dashes in the middle

 

Oh then yeah, what I said above applies. I'm not 100% sure, but I know for a fact its not over 10 minutes long for all four tests.

 

ok so after a few hours of dow ive noticed there is a definite sound issue with my comp will be contacting dell about that plus the annoying stuck pixel on my screen and get a replacement for this system. woohoo why couldn't i just get a perfect system right away lol

 

Does anyone know if the little rubber bumpers on the corners of the palm rest can be bought? one of mine came off and i've now lost it

 

Ok guys. For those who are interested, Dell just updated my system specs today for my new Alienware M15x.

1 224-7176 BASE,NBK,ANW,BLK,M15X
1 312-0205 Primary - 6-cell (56Watt) Batt
1 313-8570 Slot-Loading Blu-ray Burner
1 313-8792 AlienFX Color, Quasar Blue
1 313-8944 5.1 Channel Audio
1 317-2398 Intel Core i7 820QM 1.73GHz
1 317-2401 6GB Dual Ch. DDR3 at 1333MHz
1 320-0936 15.6-inch Wide FHD 1920x1080
1 320-0938 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M
1 330-6175 Standard Nameplate
1 330-6350 AUTO-UPDATES,CRIT,AW
1 341-9754 500GB 7,200RPM
1 410-0204 McAfee VirusScan Plus,15M Subscription
1 410-1883 ADOBE READER 9.0,MLANG,I/S/X NB
1 420-6436 PC-RESTORE, DIM/INSP
1 420-9691 DATASAFE LOCAL BACKUP 2.0 BASIC
1 421-1304 CyberLink PowerDVD SW, ANWNB
1 421-1305 Nero Media Burning SW, ANWNB
1 421-1360 Steam with Portal
1 421-1398 WIN 7 ULTIMATE,64,ENG,AW NB
1 421-1584 Alien Cyborg
1 421-1590 AW Command Center Software
1 430-0684 Internal Bluetooth Mini-Card
1 430-0686 INTEL WIFI LINK 5300 802.11AGN
1 465-8687 PLEASE CONTACT ME WITH MORE DETAILS

 

Sounds expensive!
Err i mean, very good 8D

 

awesome specs for a replacement unit, congrats bro!!!!

 

hey inap when you getting your 5870? sometime this week? i wanna know every step of the process and how everything goes ...you'll be my guinea since your a solid, reliable source hehe

I wanna know if all works out like it should with temps under 75

 

tracking shows tomorrow but probably won't have time to put it in till the weekend. so far the temps have been pretty good for other users, so i guess i should be fine. happy to be your guinea pig anyday bro.lol man barely have any free time to game, don't even know why i need the card,hahaha

 

lol same here but knowing you have it (even if you don't use it that much) feels damn good

 

lol, just paying for bragging rights. btw J you have the name for the slim backpack you are using, almost summer planing on taking my motorcycle to work and want something more easier to carry around.