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

I was debating between the m11x and m15x and finally broke down and ordered a m15x (i7-720, 260M, 4GB 1333, 250GB HDD which will be replaced with SSD). The waiting is killing me though!!!

 

good man Oliver!

 

Great choice you'll won't regret it M15x build qualty is much much better then the 11x. And welcome to the family.

 

You will love it. I currently have both an M15x and an M17x, and I was disappointed in the performance of the M15x until I discovered that McAffee's preload even with everything turned off was still hitting my disk causing delays in gaming. Once I disabled the realtime virus protection it was like night and day. Had I found this earlier I probably would have not opted to move up to an M17x, I was surprised how smooth it played once I got McAffee out of the way

 

heyy i got 4 bills to spend. its going to be either a 160gb x-25m ssd. or a 5870m. yea i'm finally taking the plunge, i couldn't resist! lol. What would you guys do? (just a note 160gb is really pushing it for me, as i have ~85gb of music that i NEED on the laptop for Djing)

Any comments would be very appreciated.

And hey inap did you get a chance to slap that BEAST in yet? .
I think im more excited about it than you! ahaha

 

Yeah got it yesterday and was to baked to do anything. Didn't even open up the box yet, hahaha I say go for the 5870 first. Ssd are getting cheaper everyday so wait abit and get the 256 when it is a decent price. Man so waxy today, I think I over did it last night lol

 

Go for the 5870 man, no doubt about it. I run a 160 intel SSD but I also carry a backup 320 with me lol for dls and storage. But definitely go GPU!

Just went into boxing today, will be part of the family soon. Man we sound like a whole bunch of mobsters lol.

 

... funny you should say that... loll jk..or am i?

 

I'd go with the GPU over the SSD too.

The 5870 just spanks the 260 BIG time.

 

hey guys, I was wondering if I got a good deal on this m15x yesterday at dell outlet, go easy on me I'm little lol.

Intel corei7 720qm
full hd led screen
1 gb gtx 260m
250gb hdd
6 gb ddr3 1333 ram
windows professional

all for 1100 out the door. Thanx

 

You did really good man. It's the same system I got except a smaller HDD but you got the I7 instead of my I3. Was the $1100 including taxes? Because that's strange how that pricing worked out, mine was $994 before taxes and $1093 with taxes. Either way very nice!

 

You're kidding me right? That's fantastic! Congrats on the purchase!

 

Before you can offically join the "family" we gonna need you to take care if a few things. I'll pm you the details, lol

and yes don't mess with j man. He's well connected.

 

I'll be sure to keep that in mind lol.

 

Yeah, be careful around here or inappropriate is gonna bust out the slap-chop on ya

 

yea thats with taxes, I am just wondering if I can put a blu ray drive in this and how good the gpu is comapred to a 5830 or 5850, and thanx guys for the help.
p.s I have been doing this for 5 hours to finally get one.

 

Holy smokes, How come you guys get crazy deals like that
Meh, bad day for me, got arrested for speeding on the highway.. Yay for throwing 120$ out of the windows
Besides, I bought a HDD exclosures for my current HDD, with and esata port and all for less than 40$, so it's not that bad of a day.

 

Dell takes care of us USA customers

 

Well, I thought I had the perfect computer as I haven't had ANY issues and the thing has just been blazing fast and stable since I got it - until an hour ago. lol

I ran furmark and intel burn test together while watching temps and multipliers with realtemp and clock tool.

I decided to pull the plug and when I disconnected AC from the system it shut off. I mean, it just turned itself off as soon as the plug came out.

So I started the machine back up on battery and decided to try the tests again while on battery to begin with (no AC).

I fired up my monitoring software first, then ran furmark. Everything was ok so far. As soon as I hit the start button on intel burn test the system shut off.

It isn't really a big deal just thought I'd share my experience.

Any thoughts?

 

What were your temps right before it shut down?

 

I made out like a bandit on eBay of all places (outlet was empty at the time), I got the system listed in my sig which included both a 128gb OCZ Apex SSD and a 320gb 7,200rpm sata drive. Still have like 280+ days on the 1 year warranty and no issues total was $986 after shipping and tax

 

ok just opened up the box to my 5870. probably install it this weekend. anything i should look out for when doing the replacement.

 

Stick some good paste on there (mx3, shin etsu) and make sure to double up pads over the mosfets on the edge of the card to get good contact with the heatsink. Mine arrives tomorrow so I'll be doing the same thing and posting results and benchys.

 

Temps have nothing to do with it (they were all within normal limits) because the benchmarks didn't even have time to run. lol

 

guys real quick is 6gb ram 1333 better than 3gb 1066 with a blu ray drive/ slot load, p.s what is slot load, but whats better the ram or the other thing.

 

ok guys 5870 officially install, now installing drivers and crap. hope all goes well.

 

blueray would be sweet, and also cheaper and easier to do ram replacement, then a blueray replacement.

 

ok I have 2 alienwares on order which one to cancel and which one to keep.

the only difference is one comes with 3gb ddr3 1066mhz 2 dimm and a slot load blu ray drive.

the other has a 6gb 1333mhz what to do also how many sticks is the 3gb u think and whats the difference performance wise, and how hard is it to add more or any ideas on what to get.

 

there are 2 ram slot, so 3gb is 1+2gb. and 6 is 4+2gb.
up to you most people get 4gb ram.
if you like to watch blueray movies then get the drive
if you do video encoding and alot of photoshop kind of stuff then you will benefit from the ram, otherwise it will just be wasted.

 

I'd go 3GB + BD over 6GB.

 

ok im getting this flickering issue when im playing bioshock or borderlands where when im scrolling around the screen flickers any thoughts

very aparent in borderlands not so much in bioshock

 

hey guys so i am gettin the m15x and it has 3gb ram 1+2 stick should I just replace the one stick with a 2gb or replace both, also could I change it to 1333mhz. Is it had to change the ram on this.

 

Yo i'll PM you. Told ya' borderlands needs ALOT of tweaking. nothing wrong with your system. its the game.

 

I'm about 22% sure that the battery can't supply the power needed to run all of that at once. Thought I read that once.

 

hey guys should I cancel my other order or sell it on ebay.

 

Why are you canceling or selling? I thought you were happy with the purchase.

 

I don't understand the point of asking something like that here. Do what will make you happy? We don't really know you or what you need the laptop for.

 

I bought 2 differnet ones lol and picked which one I liked more, I was charged for both of them so I could sell the other one that I am not keeping or just cancel the order. But I am happy with my purchase the one I am keeping anyway lol.

 

Lol good stuff. Yeah I thought you got a killer deal last night so I was just wondering what happened lol. If you can definitely cancel it imo. I'm not sure you can sell for much profit.

@s0ysauce45...why so offended bro?

 

I got one with a blu ray and a little less ram but it was 1013.00 out the door.

 

Lol my bad didn't mean to come off mean. I didn't know you had two orders. In that case you're better off canceling one of them.

 

Lol don't worry about it, it was one of those scratching my head moments where I went "was it something I said??"

 

its all good, I would have said the same. Any ways thanx for the advice guys i will cancell the one thanx

 

Aye man its soooo awsome.... especially for CGI modeling/animating/texturing (which is what i mostly do) other than that games are r like a no match, Running Crysis warhead maxedout @ 1080, with playble 20-30 fps.

I'v been through hell to get it (currently im in israel) but damn worth it =)

*installed the latest driver (197) w/o the "verde" thingy as i figured its mostly for running the nvidia 3D vision on external 120Hz monitor wich i dont have..

i really wish next driver will have the 3D discover option that only requires the usuall red/cyan anaglyph glasses and no 400$+ monitor

last thing - i didnt notice any changes after but it is still good to b up to date on drivers =), and ofc TY very much for the reply,

CHEERS!

 

hi

i have an issue in my alienware M15X
the lights(keyboard,speaker,etc) doesnt work after i reformated the laptop from the recovery disk, upgraded the bios to A05 and intalled the new CC
everything works ok only lights are off
what should i do? is there any solution for this problem?
when i open the alienfx there is a message
"The theme could not be opened"
and i cant see any colours on the alienfx editor
please please help me

 

press fn+F11, also did you install OSD then alienware CC last when you reformated?

 

installed osc and cc but still doesnt work
what bios version are you using now?
osd version and cc version?

 

you may check em from
run>type msinfo32
thanks

 

can you open alien fx at all?

well try this first
turn off
unplug
take battery out
and press power button for 20 sec.
put back and start up again to see if it works.

 

If not perhaps try reinstalling the Control Centre cos it flashes the AlienFX bios when you install it. That might fix it.. Just a guess, but no harm in trying