OMG I love my new m17xr2

Received it yesterday and i am blown away by the quality! way better then my XPS m1730

first thing i did was update bios to A09 as i have 940xm extreme and then installed 3Dmark06. No OC CPU/GPU i got 17288 3DMARKS.
Installed Blackops patch 4 (No OC GPU/CPU) and getting 60/85 fps.
The RGBLED screen is truly the best screen i have seen & the colour pops out of the screen. No issues with my unit so far & no charging problems.

Has anyone got the link for using throttlestop to overclock etc

 

use it wisely,long life to it and hope you will enjoy it!

 

Cool I get mine soon I'm excited!! When did you order? Also any deAd or stuck pixels? Does aw have a 100% deD/stuck pixel guarantee? Coming from a MacBook pro 17 I'm having nightmares of turning on my new aw on and finding bad pixels and getting freezes and crashes lol.

Btw your thread is useless without pics !!!!

 

Nice laptop man. You'll really enjoy it. http://forum.notebookreview.com/hardware-components-aftermarket-upgrades/531329-throttlestop-guide.html <---Unclewebb wrote the program, and it's amazing at unleashing the XM CPUs.

 

Awesome stuff fellow alienware peeps.

5abivt ordered 7/12/2010 was here 17th(friday night) at depo received 20th
and no dead pixels

 

Nice configuration, enjoy it!

 

You bought that 940XM retail from Dell? The $1,250 one?

 

just guessing but hopefully it was a warranty swap


this is his sig

Dell XPS M1730 C2D X9000 | 9800M GTX SLI | 4GB DDR2 RAM | 1TB RAID 0 | 1920x1200 | BLURAY| Win 7 x64 | 3DMark06: 14476 | Returned & Will be Missed

 

Is it just me or is this score a bit on the low side for a 940xm with 3dmark as stock? - i aint bubble bursting here but shouldnt it be like almost 20k stock afaik.....seen other people say thats what they get as stock.....my 840 setup gets 16.5k.....doesnt seem right ???? - with those specs above, i would have expected ALOT more as a stock run on 3dMark 06 but maybe im wrong?

Other than that...nice system man, im glad your well pleased with it as you should be !!!!!...they are great!

 

I got the m17xr2 as replacement for my m1730 with x9000 cpu. Was extremely happy to get a 940xm and brand new m17xr2

 

Yes it is low but it was when i first turned on machine. no tweaks, overclocks etc. i think it will hit 20000 no probs once i have tweaked/cleaned the OS

 

I dont think you should have to do that really but if you can get it to almost 20k without OC then that wouls sound more concurrent with the spec to me....

Amazing system you got there.....one heck of an M17x

 

with nvidia cards 20k without oc is not gonna happen.

i barely made over 20k with 5870's on 5% bios overclock with the same cpu and ram.

 

just booted it up for the 3rd time no OC GPU/CPU and got 3DMARK06 score
18639

 

I guess what i have seen regarding stock scores for this kinda system is based in those with AMD 5870's and not Nvidia....if the Nvidia's wont score as well, then I guess that the OP's latest score above is pretty much on par for his gpu's eh?

 

Awesome score mate, its on par with my desktop that runs an E8500@4,25ghz plus a slightly oced GTX260 SOC sp216.

Oh well, too bad i cant swap this xps for an alienware, the international warranty is expired, plus is refurb, and it doesnt have any problem lol.
So jealous, but soooo happy to see you...ehm...happy again, after all the "pissed-off" moments you've been thru with dell.

Mate, enjoy your new beast! Congrats!

 

Thanks mate dell has made amends and i'm very very happy! will miss the old m1730 though when it was working lol

 

congrats! nice specs~ enjoy it mate all i could get out of dell was a 840qm but its alright, even a 740qm would of been a upgrade hehe

 

congrats, nice to see Dell come through again