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

There u go

 

loool. i am not doing well with those shortcuts.

 

To Be Honest

 

Where on Dells site would I find pricing for the 5870's CF ?

 

Hey guys question about laptop cooling here I have the m17x and just bought an antec notebook cooler 200 it looks like the cooler blows air down sucking out from the bottom of the laptop. My question is does the m17x suck in air from the bottom or blow air out?

 

It sucks air from the bottom and blows it out from the back. You need to have a cooler that blows air into the laptop's bottom...

 

Ugh I hate how these stupid coolers don't list fan direction.

 

You might be able to switch to polarity on the fan motor to make it spin backwards.

 

hito i got the same cooler it blows air upwards & M17x sucks air in .Thats what you want Switch it on feel the flow

 

Weird I tried it out in my car when I picked it up and it felt like air was going down away from the top maybe I'll test it at home first.

 

Well i can guarantee that it blows air upwards to the bottom of your M17x.I have also read numerous reviews on the Antec Notebook Cooler 200 & all had mentioned air flow /direction.So you must be mistaken.

 

I must be unless mine is messed

 

Let us know how you get on after a home test

 

Dell posted the Breed Theme to our downloads today:
Drivers and Downloads

 

can somebody post screenshots of this breed theme ?

 

Have you reinstalled your computor?? I havnt done that yet.. The driver crash dont happen when i am gaming, only when im ideling.

 

Breed is kind of cool, playing with it now

 

Here are a couple:

 

I just received Jubbing's M17x-R2 today and while I was putting in his 940xm, I took a shot of the new revised motherboard that doesn't have the CCFL connector like the old R2's: New M17x-R2 board without the CCFL connector.

So I'm guessing the newer CCFL based ones may not have the RGB LED connector on them either. Either that or they switched both panels to use the same connector which seems most likely.

 

Wow that's a completely new connectors from what i remember, so joker i hope you are getting paid for that, we college students need to make as much as we can!

 

Yeoooooowch!!!!

These things really are edge to edge glass! I was opening mine and i guess i applied pressure incorrectly and now I have a nasty deep slice in my thumb.
:cry:

 

So using the Antec Notebook Cooler 200, I noticed maybe a 3degree drop during CPU testing. And GPU testing showed no benefit whatsoever.

 

So after getting some advice from folks here about the issue that I was having with COD World at War (namely extremely laggy response) I disabled Crossfire the other night. The computer promptly crashed. Ever since my alien head power button only lights orange, despite multiple restarts and a few full power drains. Now the good news is that COD runs great with xfire off, the bad news, the computer has been horribly unstable. It routinely locks up after sleeping, won't display the login screen and even if it does manage to log me in at the black screen it goes to a 'desktop' with no icons that is completely unresponsive; no start menu, can't shut down, have to hold down the power button for 5 seconds and hard shut down.

I just re-enabled crossfire and I'm hoping that updating the game itself will improve performance and that the computer will go back to being stable.

I did check with Dell and I'm running the "latest" drivers that are on the support site. Should I upgrade directly via ATI or hold off?

 

thanks alot for telling me what i need, now just gotta order it and my gaming career will take off from having this old inspiron 8600

 

Yeah, just felt my top left and right, they are pretty sharp. Sorry for your thumb.

 

You're welcome bro, was glad to be of some help. Keeps us updated with what you decide!

 

roger that probably gonna go for the 8gb ram so im safe for a few more operating systems.

 

For what it is worth...the CCFL and the RGBLED have always used the same connector....this was confirmed by 2 members who successfully put the RGB screen in an M17x R1 (which only has the one plug)

I have no clue what the 2nd connector was for - but I guess it is no longer needed

 

having the R1 before and now the R2 i can confirm that.

if someone wants to use windows 7 theme but Alienware Breed Theme icons here i made this for tuneup utilities. use this app to automatically install icons

Code:

 http://www.zshare.net/download/774942939fcac3e0/ 

if someone wants to manually use all Alienware Breed Theme icons and wallpapers download this

Code:

 http://www.zshare.net/download/77494333ded7653e/ 

i was asking for this for one month and noone with this theme spent time to do it. now that its released it took me 5 minutes to do it

 

Can you please add some pictures?

 

there you go my friend :
http://forum.notebookreview.com/6379524-post2977.html

 

guys can you properly set the touch buttons to white with the new command center?

 

So I bit the bullet and bought myself a Razer Mamba. Anyone use one of these? How has your experience with it been along with your M17x.

 

Mamba is awesome! best mouse i owned so far. there should be a review of it here, but i think that you won't need a review once you get it.
One thing you should do is to get a good pad for it.

 

I got similar results with my cryo lx, about a 5-8 degree drop in temps for my cpu and like a 1 degree drop for my gpu. Currently in the process of replacing the fans with something stronger.

 

Ya I read a few reviews and saw all the people recommending it. I have 2 mouse pads, The Razer Goliathus, and the Razer Vespula (dual sided) Both have been great.

Ya let me know how that works out. I'm considering picking one of the cryo's up but for the price it better be worth the money otherwise i'm going with something nice and cheap that will at least elevate the laptop rather than bother with blowing air into it.

 

Razer Imperator is a very good mouse as well, IMHO.

 

ya its like the big Orochi.

 

What are all these gaming mice good for?..

I use a logitech mini-optical, which is a compact laser mouse,

and I see no problems with playing games with it..

Do these special mice really serve a specific purpose?..

I'm not being rude in any way, I honestly don't know and I want to be enlightened.

 

The difference is felt the most when gaming becomes very important (ex. FPS clan wars) when every few pixels and the swiftness of the sensitivity switch on the fly directly means - victory or defeat. I had quite a few frustrating moments in such games when playing on an inferior system/average quality mouse/poor I-net connection/etc.
But for a single player gaming with no money at stake - screw it

It's just that without a true gaming mouse the entire AW set feels somewhat cheap.

 

i remember you mentioned you fragged the hell out of mamba owners with a touchpad
It's not the car, it's the driver

While i do own a mamba, i was given it for free by dell,and i would never consider paying 130$ for a mouse.. I agree that a logitech laser mouse does the job 99.9% of the time

 

That was a track point But you're right, Bro. I'm getting lazy and all. This might change if OnLive is successful. Than we can play Crysis on netbooks using touchpads, hehe.

 

A mouse can make a big difference. I had a crappy non-laser mouse and my shots weren't accurate at all in FPS games. Soon as I got my logitech performance MX, my accuracy went right back up. The only thing I'd change about this mouse is it's weight, it's too heavy. I liked how the mamba is so light and it's shape is perfect. It's a shame about it's bulky receiver. In fact, I may go buy another mamba now and use it exclusively for when I'm on the desk and then use my logitech when I'm chilling on the sofa.

 

So, I was looking around to see what I could do to improve drive access/read/write times and short of a SSD (I know I want but cant justify that kind of cash for a 256GB drive) and I came accross this review of a drive I was looking at:

Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB Notebook Hard Drive - Seagate Momentus 7200.4 Hard Drives - Legit Reviews , if you look at that on page 6 of the review is the CrystalDiskMark v2.2 benchmarks, I ran those exact tests and my scores are in the screenies below.

The drives I have are shown in the screenie, mine are 320GB, 7200 RPM and the rewiewed drives is a 500GB 7200, but what strikes me is the almost 30% increase in read/write speed, along with the space increase.

Like I said, short of a SSD, which, I cant justify, this looks klike the best option, since I can get the drive for a litle over $80.00 each....

opinions ?

 

@ Wwoods,

Go for Momentus XT. That's the closest you can get to the SSD performance for just a bit extra over the regular HDD's.

 

WOW...nice...lookin at em now. So the SSD part of the drives serves like a huge cache or ?

 

More or less. The speed is very close to that of an SSD in booting and frequently used apps.
Plus, a good storage capacity and if you will, improve this further by making a RAID config.

 

Just finished reading a few reviews on this, yummy.....gonna see if I can get 2 of these delivered before I go to chicago on buisness this comming Sunday, but not finding anything with it in stock to ship next day, avalible now.....go figure

WOW...no one has these in stock that I can find, everyone is 2weeks or so back ordered.

 

I might get those if Intel delays their G3 beasts further.

 

I'm waiting for these also. What's the latest news on them?