*OFFICIAL* "All Powerful" M17x-R2 Edition Owner's Lounge - Part 2

You are right. I will ask him to make that window independant.

I know that. I also have agreed on an API with him.
What I am missing is css and HTML experience. I am more of a server side j2ee guy.

 

Good idea , bro!
The program is great lacking only the comfortable stand alone temps window or the all-in-one window similar to Everest.
+1.

 

Actually, it would be cool if whatever you guys released were able to sit the temperatures on the taskbar (next to the clock) when minimized like RealTemp does for the CPU cores.

 

That already exists now in hwinfo. I sensors window right click any reading and choose to put it in the taskbar. You can also autostart the program with windows and auto open the sensors window + start it minimized.

 

This gadget is probably pretty similar to what you're trying to accomplish. Maybe you can get some code ideas from it. The CSS, XML, and HTML parts look pretty straightforward.

 

i looked at that one, and at computer status from here..

thanks !

 

passed it along to the author, waiting on a response now.
i agree that having a standalone sensors executable is a plus, hope he'll agree.

 

Does anyone know what to use to clean the screen with? I opened my Alienware up today and it had all these specks on it :/ I cleaned them off now its covered in Smuges Or however you spell it...

 

microfiber cloth does the job pretty well for me, i've got one left from my m1730.

 

I just use a papertowel and water.....

 

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Paper towel with water do the job perfectly

 

Eek! No, don't use paper! Just use something cotton-a clean undershirt or hankerchief should work okay and be safer than paper, which can scratch. (Err...I have used paper before, but it's bad, bad! On something we look at all the time...)

 

Use a power/pressure-washer, it can also help make the screen anti-glare 100%

 

micro-fiber cloth and window cleaner since its plastic not the actual lcd screen.

 

How much perforance difference if any is ther between the 4870s with ddr5 instead of the ddr3 mem?

 

There are no 4870m's on the market with gddr5.

 

A papertowel is soft enough to use on the plastic e2e cover over the lcd......

 

BTW, did anyone ever removed the E2E plastic cover?

 

I never did remove the E2E cover. I believe 4 or 5 m17x that I went through, the E2E was still intact.

 

I lack the balls to do that....otherwise I would have tried to put a better screen in this thing already lol

 

Yes, Dell highly recommends not to do it other than in a lab/dust-free room. I'd like to know if the E2E cover adds some durability , and if not - remove it , cut the screen-sized frame out and put the frame back, covering only the black border and exposing the screen. Wanna make it anti-glare

 

My three year old son poke the screen when I had it. lol... Thats the reason why I never took it off when I did have it. lol...

 

You know, my old friend - ThinkPad R40 has an exposed LCD and it was poked zillions of times and I can still work on it at the office (can't be done on the R2 with all the reflections). Yes, you have to be more careful with the exposed screen, but heck, I need and anti-glare. Otherwise it's gonna become a home TV+XBOX COMBO and I'll stay away from it and get another system that will first of all let me keep my eyes. If you spend 2-3hrs near the glare screen in a room with dim lights - you're fine. But I can go like crazy for up to 20hrs every day (if I get the time) and it's burning retinas as Moo said before. The last chance for me to keep the beast is to make the screen matte.

 

I hear you constantly complaining a lot about this screen in quite a few different threads. Curious... why did you buy an M17x when you knew it was only offered with a glossy screen? or was it a replacement for another Dell model?

 

I didn't know back then before buying the R1 that glossy screens are that bad (for me) on the long run (because I never used one for more than a few hours). Plus, I hoped that a matte shield would be a decent solution. Unfortunately, to effectively use it you need the remove the glossy cover.

 

Ah I see, well I know most of them are total crap, but there must be a manufacturer somewhere that makes good quality effective matte screen covers. I wouldn't give up looking for a cover, the M17x R2 is too nice to have to get rid of.

 

I tried the ViewGuard, they're not bad at all, but the problem is that you can't put the filter on the screen itself and putting it over the glossy cover destroys the quality and creates a rainbow of colored dots.

 

Oh snap..I did...It made my RGB screen look like rubbish. D; So i took it off..Oh well My screen is gonna die. *Spazz*

 

Paper towel is a bad idea! It's a lot rougher than you think. Not counting on cheap paper tower where you can still find some micro wood fiber left in it.
I bought a 'Monster Screen Clean' from Ultimate Electronics a few years back for my TV and still use it today. The package has a bottle of fluid and lint free tower in it.
That's just my opinion.

 

we're in the process of testing a HWiNFO32 beta build with this functionality.
Also, we will add support of sidebar gadget that will display all temps all the time with the sensors window minimized.

 

Witcher4360 did. I believe there were photos posted in the LCD thread.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=391325

prolly located 1/2 to 2/3rds through all the pages in there somewhere.

 

Really? Why do you think it's gonna die? Does it look better without the cover? Is it matte?

Thanks, will have a look.

 

hi guyz.. juz got my m17x today..
there is a weird noise coming out of my laptop, sounds like a morse code or something.. is it normal? bcoz its abit annoying for me.

 

does it get worse when you scroll a window with your mouse up and down ?

 

yup.. that's right
i didnt realize that until you ask me to try it.

 

Dammit...

You got the R2, right ?

I am supposed to get an exchange from R1→R2, and was hoping this morse code would not be there...

For me, it's more than annoying, it's a real pain in my ears and head...

But maybe we are the only ones who can hear it; I know not everyone can, wish I was deaf to this particular bip-bip-biiiip-bip-biiip...

Any clue any one

 

Pretty sure thats just proccessor noise. Most laptops make that and it's the CPU under load I believe. It's normal. Mine did it. Actually all my laptops do it.

 

yup i got R2.
i was so excited and when i hear the morse code thingy my excitement goes to 0 since i know something is wrong.
maybe mfractal know about it. bcoz when i scroll my mouse it gets louder
and i just realize another problem about the screen, i don't think a LED screen should looks like mine. The screen is very normal, not beautiful like what everyone said.

 

the issue is called cpu whine.. it's a known issue with intel CPUs.
You can google it and it's been asked in this thread before.
Here are some links :

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=392928&highlight=whine
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=464596&highlight=whine

 

Not in my case, but I got an R1...

On a side note, I've owned several laptops, different manufacturers, never had that morse code B4...

 

Put on headphones, with the volume up but no music playing. You'll probably notice it more then as it leaks interferance it'll come through your headphones. It's not loud though.

 

I dun think that's a normal processor noise, because i just did basic web browsing and nothing more.

 

Thanks for the links.. mine start 'whining' after i start windows and it never stop since.. when i read the forums it seems that people only getting this noise occasionally, mine seems to be running continuously..

 

Mine does it on a continuous basis. The only time I can't hear it is when the fans start to go crazy. It seems to me like some kind of electronic interferences, which should be "controlled"; isn't there specifications against noise and interferences generated by electronic devices ?

 

What the heck IS that though? I mean CPUs can't make noise...right? Can capacitors or something?

I get whine from my second gen Playstation 3, but ONLY when viewing certain pages on the PSN store. How weird is that?

 

Two things you could be hearing, 1. Coil noise from the GPU, 2. CPU whine. Both are normal, but yes, they are annoying. It's from the load. Believe it or not but they can make noise. You pushing a lot of ops/sec. My 1720 and M17x did it when scrolling on webpages. Scroll...whine. Scroll...whine

 

wow.. i found something interesting, when i unplug my mouse, its stop whining.
o yeah.. how do i check if my ATI is in Xfire?

 

What I hear is some kind of biiiip-biiip-bip-bip-biiiip-biiiiip-bip-bip...

Exactly as if my lappy was trying to reach his alien mothership out there in space by sending some morse code...

Is that what you guys with R2 are hearing as well?

 

That's exactly what i thought. Since its alienware maybe they mod the cpu to sound like a morse code, make it more sci-fi-ish. LOL.

 

there was once a software fix for it but it was for the Pentiums so i am pretty sure it won't work on the new Core CPUs..
don't know about GPU noise, never seen one....