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    3 Year Old Alienware M17X vs New X51??

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by EamonnW, May 31, 2012.

  1. EamonnW

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    Hi all. I am looking to upgrade from my 3 year old M17x. Spec below:

    INTEL CORE 2 EXTREME QX9300
    4096MB (2X2048) 1333MHZ DDR3
    SLI DUAL 1GB GDDR3 NVIDIA GTX 260M

    I am thinking about getting the new Alienware X51 as it seems to be a very reasonable price and still quite portable. However I am not sure if it would give me that much improvement in performance? I use the PC mainly for online gaming.

    Would really appreciate some feedback. Spec for the X51 is below

    Intel® Core™ i7-3770 (3.40GHz, 8MB L3 Cache, 4C)
    8192MB (2x4GB) 1600MHz DDR3 Dual Channel Memory
    1GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 555

    Thanks for help!!
     
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    katalin_2003 NBR Spectre Super Moderator

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