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    Repair Depot

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by alienwolf, Jul 3, 2013.

  1. steviejones133

    steviejones133 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    That is a bummer. I guess on the brighter side, you still have Wednesday evening and all day Thursday to have a good old play around with it, eh? :thumbsup: - I hope everything is 'spot on' for you, Bro.....have fun!
     
    steviejones133, Jul 24, 2013
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  2. alienwolf

    alienwolf Notebook Deity

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    Well I don't have the 17 yet but the Samsung 840 500GB drive came and the usb to sata cable. Going to clone the OS to the 840 and pull the two 750 HHD's. I will put one of my 750's in and save the originals in case I ever need to. The 840 should speed things up and the 64 mSATA will be great for the 750. I would like to increase the mSata down the road. :D
     
    alienwolf, Jul 24, 2013
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    My 17 came yesterday 7/25 out of the box the machine looked great, but game play was lacking any luster. I Cloned the Samsung 500g SSD with Data Migration disk that it came with. Installed the SSD and ran Samsung SSD Magician, really very impressed with it. Pulled both the Raid0 750g WD blacks and put away in case I ever need them. Installed a Seagate XT that already had all my steam games on it, using the 64 mSata for caching it. Then updated the Bios from A01 to A03. Last I installed the new Nivida 326.19 drivers. Must say I am impressed now. Plays Neverwinter on Ultra settings 50+ to 61 FPS Tomb Raider over 50 FPS got a 3Dmark11 score of P7440 no OCing. I see no throttling or problem with the temps. Alienware did good this time good job. :thumbsup:
     
    alienwolf, Jul 26, 2013
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