m17x cooling

Hi!

I well be purchasing an m17x within the next week. I just have one simple question that i'm unable to find the answer to. Does the m17x have sufficient cooling for longish gaming sessions, say 2-3 hours? I ask this, because I see a lot of post on this forum of peoples laptops overheating. More specifically there was a post yesterday were someone stated they lost 30-40 fps after 10 minutes of playing. I just want to make sure i'm not going to be buying something that well just overheat in 10 minutes and be a $3000 dollar brick. I don't really want to open it up and start playing around with the inside of the laptop either, because my mother is fronting half the cost (it's my birthday soon). I do plan on getting a cooling pad.

Many thanks in advance!

 

Yes. I've gamed for 8 hours at a time. It has no problems. The guy you're talking about had a ton of crud in his GPU heatsinks, if I'm not mistaken. Nothing is maintenance free. Not cars, not computers, not anything. Keep that in mind. It will eventually need to be cleaned.

 

Thank you very much! I understand I well have to clean it. I'm ok with opening it up and cleaning dust out. I just didn't want to have to rip it open the minute I get the laptop and starting doing all the cooling mods I have seen posted to this forum.

 

I've only had my m17x just under a month and it keeps very cool for a laptop. I played Left4Dead 2 for over 4 hours yesterday and it was brilliant. No problems at all.

 

with the power of these fan i can,t see how the vent's can get clutterd by dust

any alienware laptop has sufisent cooling to maintain it self for indefinite gaming session as long as you don,t overclock and keep it cleaned

 

also, you may consider where you are living, dude, my place is really hot, i am at 32 C degrees and tthi need extra help, so, i am using Cryo NZXT cooler pad, is cool and helps

 

here it's 3C LOL so even a passive cooling setup would work and it's not the cooler we see sometime we get into the -30 here

 

I've had my M17x r2 for three weeks now, gamed yesterday for basicly the entire day with no problems, only the back gets a a bit warm but nothing bad.

It's about 26oC to 32oC where I am, I use a laptop cooler/stand, nothing fancy (it's actually for my 15" laptop), and I get about 10 to 12oC drop when I run Furmark which really pushed the GPUs (actually I got a 10oC drop just by raising the back of my laptop using 2 DVD on each side , just to help out the air flow.

So if your worried, and want to cool this down a bit get a laptop cooler/stand, it will help but it it not a neccecery requirement, and it only warms up when your making it work, not while typing or browsing the internet like for older laptops.

So enjoy your new toy