M17x Order Status Discussion - Part 4

Can i ask you if you ordered a 580m with yours.. That seem pretty quick to ship.. Trying to establish what is back ordered with mine.

 

yeah I did with the 3d screen

 

Ssd maybe bo'ed then .. Ordered the same as you nov 30.

From what i have read today.. It should ship from china.. Not IL.. Thats weird a little

 

It will be with you within 48 hours if it follows what mine did....

 

Got a notice this morning and like you... i dont see no china/shangai ..

"In transit in U.S. via U.S.A. Ground Linehaul depot"

 

I have received my alienware and everything seems normal but I did not check the gpu and cpu performance.

 

Hi Guys,

I ordered a brand new M17x from Dell UK on the 9th Dec with an expected delivery date of the 21st Dec. The anticipation is killing me!

When I placed the order, my credit card showed a pending payment and the order status went to 'Order Processing' then 'In Production' 3 days ago. However today the pending transaction has disappeared and my credit card shows no sign of anything from Dell. Order status on the Dell website still says 'In Production' though.

Anyone else had this issue? Is it normal? I would hate for the order to be cancelled this close to Christmas,

Thanks,
Tony.

 

it happens to me. they'll take your money after shipping. so don't use your card balance.

 

exactly, count on the fact that they will draw money the second you sign the item

 

Ok thanks guys, I just noticed its marked as 'Shipped' now, so I will make sure not to max my credit card in the mean time!

 

btw, what did you order specs?

 

for those of you who ordered an SSD in your m17x.. can you confirm that it was installed in the hd slot 1 ?

According to a post by slickdude.. the DELL staff install them in slot 0 which is suppose to be less reliable for an SSD

(i just got a confirmation my alien is delivered today, yesssss!)

 

I think mine is at bay 0 I am not sure though, will open the back today to check it for you Doc.

btw enjoy your beast today! install BF3, you WILL love it

 

that would be nice, for me and you, if you can check this info

as for the games.. i can predict a severe lack of time and sleep.

Skyrim, SWTOR, Arkham City 3D.. La Noire 3D.. and windows minesweeper is gonna be awesome.. lol

 

UPS delivery date is set for Monday, which is 2 days earlier than planned.

I used the 2 x 15% off and free delivery vouchers that stacked as was mentioned on another post in this forum. Almost 30% off is an absolute bargain.

The specs of mine is as follows (I'm planning on buying and fitting my own SSD):

Alienware M17xR3 : Base Stealth Black
Processor : Intel Core i7 Processor 2670QM (2.20Ghz, 6MB, 4C)
Display : 17.3in WideFHD (1920 x 1080) WLED LCD
Camera : Integrated 3.0 Mega Pixel HD Camera
Memory : 4096MB (2x2048) 1333MHz DDR3 Dual Channel
Hard Drive : 500GB Serial ATA (7200RPM)
Optical Drive : Blu-Ray Disc (DVD+/-RW + BD-ROM) Drive
Graphics : 2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
Wireless : European Dell Wireless 1501 wireless-N
Bluetooth : European Dell Wireless 375 Bluetooth Card
Keyboard : Internal UK/Irish Qwerty Keyboard
Operating System : English Genuine Windows 7 SP1 Home Premium (64 BIT)
Software : English Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Student (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, One Note)
Avatar : Alienware Logo
AlienFX Colour : Quasar Blue
Standard Service - 1 year of Next Business Day coverage included with your PC
Delivery required in time for Christmas (on or before Dec 23)

Subtotal £ 992.82
Freight 0.00
VAT £ 198.56
Total £ 1,191.38

 

OMG...Finally!

 

I am sure you will achieve a huge gain in minesweeper especially

 

my 460m really struggles with that game..... JK have fun playing those games doc.

 

yeah Doc, you deserved it skyrim will drive you insane

 

nice order Tony! welcome on board btw CHEAP, what did you do? any special discounts?

 

Well I expect that it was an unintentional glitch, but on the UK Dell website it was found that two separate 15% off voucher codes could be applied to the same order, to get nearly 30% off the price of a new system. That together with free carriage and the newly reduced GTX 580m gives a real bargain!

See this post by DarioG

 

man that is about the best performance/price ratio you will ever get on a brand new system, congratz! enjoy your new beast

 

Is it usual for an m17x to do a world tour before it lands at the destination country.

So far mine has been shiped from
China->Korea->Germany->Kazakhstan->Germany->Kazakhstan->Poland->Germany

It aint got anywhere near the UK yet..
Delivery is due before 23/Dec

 

don't worry. mine went all those countries and it managed to arrive UK within 36hour. btw. don't keep high hopes with delivery within the same day, because it's Christmas time. you might have waste two days. ups customer service is really great except depot guys who lost my package for two days.

 

Same here! Reached London this morning. Expected delivery date on Monday! Can't wait.

 

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Same here! UPS tracking site says its on target to be delivered on Monday, but it is not yet shown as reaching the UK. Hopefully the snow forecast for this weekend won't mess things up!

 

So is the turnaround time on these about a week now??

 

They will arrive mine did Germany, Stanstead, Feltham, out for deloivery in like 3-4 hours....

Good luck

 

Im a little concerned that mine is not going to turn up tomorrow any more. The UPS tracking page no longer says 'On time' and there is no scheduled delivery date, it just says 'in transit'

It only just left Dubai 2 hours ago.

Oh well, should still get it by Christmas.

I ordered mine on the 9th Dec, with scheduled delivery on the 19th (although likely to be a day or so later), so about 10 days.

 

Mine too :/ But it is already in London. So, I am assuming that it arrive on time. I ordered mine on the 9th of December too and I realised we ordered the laptop with the same specs. But mine went through a different route.

 

Weird. I suspect thats some UPS logistics software been put to good use there. That, or they lost mine in china for a day and had to ship it by a different route.

I would have thought yours is still favourite to get to you tomorrow if it is in London already.

 

they choose cheapest delivery route, so different routes is normal thing in courier services.

usually it'll arrive destination within two days unless it's weekend.

 

Well mine arrived at home only a few minutes ago....

Thing is, I'm working 100 miles aways from it... And won't be able to get access to it till Wednesday. Oh.. The pain..

 

Mine landed half an hour ago, 2 days earlier than the dell website indicated when I placed the order.

It's my first Alienware computer and without a doubt the most gorgeous piece of computing kit I have ever used!

I feel your pain Ken. But its worth the wait.

 

enjoy it..

 

Just ordered a new M17x from Dell. Ordered it first on Saturday, then noticed from reading on here that the 15% vouchers were stackable, as well as the free delivery that I missed out on. So cancelled that order this morning, and straightaway placed a new order, saving 30% off the listed price. Wouldn't normally bother ordering and reordering but it's a lot of money. Estimated date for delivery is 3 Jan, can't see it being much before then, with Christmas getting in the way etc. etc. Very excited though!

 

Is those vouchers only for the Dell UK site??

 

Me too!!! Arrived today and its definitely worth the wait!

 

congrats on your new system

 

Just placed my order...

i7 2760QM
8 GB RAM @ 1600Mhz
2 GB 6990M video card
256 GB Solid-State
1920 x 1080 60Hz
Microsoft Office Professional (I need it for my job... might get a refund from work on it too haha)

$2418 before tax and warranty + $194.65 tax + $418 warranty (3-years "even if I chucked it at a wall" warranty) = $3030.65

decent deal?

 

man I did the same thing for 2400 total 2 months ago, did you go through rep?

 

Exact same? Microsoft prof. is $200...

But yeah went through some guy in the US

 

oh crap 3 I don't have 3 years extra warranty, then it is about the same price, was just looking hardware specs

 

I ordered the 580m but now i am worried about the throttling, anyone with a nee 580 can confirm or deny this?

 

no one can confirm or deny it, it happens pretty much at random I am not getting any, but that is because i am not overclocking, i guess everybody who overclocks are doing some bios tweaks, widezu has nice solution to prevent the throttle, check his sig

 

So you mean that only some cards have this issue or that the throttle happens randomly?

Intel Core i7 2760QM 2.4GHz (3.5GHz w/Turbo Boost, 6MB Cache)
8GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1600MHz (4DIMMS)
17.3-inch WideFHD 1920x1080 120Hz WLED w/ NVIDIA 3D Vision Bundle
2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M
500GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s
Slot-Loading Dual Layer Blu-ray Reader (BR-ROM, DVD+-RW, CD-RW)
Killer Wireless-N 1103 a/g/n 3x3 MIMO Technology
Soft Contracts Consumer Accidental Damage Agreement for Alienware
Warranty Support, Initial Year

$2,206.05

I am considering getting a 6990 and removing the 3D screen but dell told me i have to pay a 100$ extra... for a downgrade ? Still considering it though

 

if you want to overclock, I guess do it, otherwise 580m is already enough to max any game nowadays (except metro 2033 and crysis 1), otherwise I think it depends on the paste job by dell tech, not the particular card, the cards should be similar in performance

 

I don't plan to overclock anytime soon but I do move a lot and will most likely go to lan parties etc, I am worried about the throttle and I don't think I will have the privilege to setup the laptop as people describe most of the time

I will go with the ATI, stability over performance I guess
As for testing the system, I don't think I can do it and return it. I will be shipping it to the UAE directly where I will pick it up, shipping will cost a lot...

 

Firestorm, I ordered a 580m that arrives in 11 days(edit:this is an awesome part done by the shipper, purolator) - there's throttle. I think everyone who buys from dell a m17 with 580 must know that there is full chance of throttle.

I managed to fix it with:How to remove bios GPU throttling for M17X-R3 580m with or without 120Hz screen, I'm a complete newb in modifying computers- took me time but I finally unleash the potential of this beast.

 

There is another throttle after it gets to 77c that you cant remove i heard