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    Corsair ram

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by pathfindercod, Mar 8, 2011.

  1. pathfindercod

    pathfindercod Notebook Virtuoso

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    So I got my 8th Corsair last week and just put it in today. My machine seemed to be a little slower on boot and my pings went up some in gaming in cod2. I booted into digs and ran extended test and the memory failed. Sending it back to newegg...

    Think I'll order the hyper even though my r2 won't really use it.


    I noticed poking around in the bios a lot of the options in OC'ing etc u
    Is all grebes out. Because I do not have an extreme CPU?
     
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    Yes, Overclocking options are only available with an extreme CPU.
    However, there's a new modified bios floating around that allows you to unlock those overclocking features with a non extreme CPU.
     
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    pathfindercod Notebook Virtuoso

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    Thanks! I am not very interested in overclocking if its not available natively. I do not want to void my warranty. Im enjoying this machine very much and hope to make it last for a while. This is the first AW laptop I have owned I like and am keeping. I have owned two before this 6-7 years ago and was not happy and had issue out of the box and sent them back for refunds. I haven't looked at them again until recently when deciding I don't want to use my Macbook Pro to game anymore.
     
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    fair enough, just wanted to let you know the option exists.

    Cheers!
     
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    No thank you very much for the info! I am trying to soak in the vast knowledge of everything available for this awesome machine. Its amazing the stuff available for this machine.
     
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