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    Improving the M14X performance - opinions?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by libertine, Jun 23, 2011.

  1. libertine

    libertine Notebook Guru

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    Hi everybody,
    firstly i want to say that this is my first Alienware and i am in love with this little beast! :D (my old laptops were Sager)

    The questions for you are these:

    > how do you improve ur M14x performace????
    overcloking by bios, MSI Afterburner or EVGA's Precision, thermal paste like IC Diamond, Cooling Pad(i'm using the CoolerMaster U2)

    >Which Utilities or Apps do you use for monitoring, and maintenance ???? (aida64, ccleaner, CPU-Z.....)

    I made these questions because i was wondering how the forum get the best performance from their M14X...

    -in this link our friend BatBoy give us some good utilities > http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...er-install-order-guide-alienware-systems.html
    (the utilities are in the bottom)

    keep on gaming! :)
     
    libertine, Jun 23, 2011
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  2. xAtLx

    xAtLx Notebook Consultant

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    Well you can try to go set your power mode to Performace instead of balance :D try that
     
    xAtLx, Jun 23, 2011
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  3. libertine

    libertine Notebook Guru

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    yeaaah u are right!!! XD i will try that!! thanks! :D

    but....
     
    libertine, Jun 24, 2011
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  4. smokingjam

    smokingjam Notebook Evangelist

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    performance: i only us intel turbo boost. not to sure about overclocking, gonna buy a cool master u2
    off topic but does the cool master help keep it cool in your experience>

    i clean computer with spybot, ad aware and ccleaner and a heat app gpuiz (or something like that!)
     
    smokingjam, Jun 24, 2011
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  5. niko2021

    niko2021 Notebook Evangelist

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    You can improve performance by; Using Msi Afterburner, though improvements in overclocking gpu are negligible for me. Don't really want to overclock the cpu, i'll stick with the dynamic boost it came with. Putting an ssd in would probably be the best in overall performance. It will give you longer battery life, and game levels will load faster, though in game graphics will still be the same. I have heard some news about the sata 3 6 gb/s doesn't really work with the m14x, limiting the read/write speeds.
     
    niko2021, Jun 24, 2011
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