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    Stutter and FPS drop

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by morpheus2480, Apr 24, 2012.

  1. morpheus2480

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    Hi guys,

    Like I said on a previous thread, I just got my M17xR3 last week and now I am getting this weird audio stutter and sudden FPS drop... here is the youtube video with the same problem.

    This happens randomly when I play Starcraft, Diablo 3 beta over the weekend or just playing a video or mp3. It happens on both the stock dell video drivers or even when I updated to the 12.3 drivers.

    I have also made sure audio drivers are updated.

    Stutter or strange sound on Alienware M17x Part 2 - YouTube

    BIOS: Stock A10
    Video card: 2gig Radeon 6990m
    OS: Windows Home premium 64 bit
    CPU: i7 2760 QM
     
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    Heihachi88 Notebook Deity

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    Offtopic: your m17x R3 came with A10 bios? o_O
     
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    Yes it did... is that bad or good? =/
     
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    its bad if you have a SATA III ssd drive - because A09-A10 bios downgrades it to SATA II speed.

    What RAM you got? What's ur temps on GPU idle and under load?
     
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    dont have ssd drives.. just 750 gig 72000 rpm...

    ram= 16GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM(4x4GB)

    Any help is appreciated guys.. ... tech support guy wanted to help me update bios.. .I said if I have to go into that level of troubleshooting, then they need to send me a new laptop.. not a vid card, or part replacement. didn't save all this money to have something be broken out of the box
     

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