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The best setting to have is physics and post-processing on low and shaders and the rest on medium, res at 1280 x 768. (If you're planning to play a long game.)
Shaders on low would make the game smoother unless you don't mind the units looking flat.
Physics on low would make a tiny explosion when marines die, instead of the standard bloody one. and the zerg death animations would be just blood poof.
Shadows can't be set to low.
This laptop is really an "on-the-go" laptop, playing quick 1v1 games..
YES, i hope the i7 and optimus will perform better, because the campaign will definitely use more CPU power. -
as for SC2, I've played several 4v4 maps vs people on b.net and it ran well on my machine. You do notice some hiccups once you're in battle with 2-3 of ppl's swarms or masses. Playing some Use map setting games you'll def notice slowdown once you get like the 400+ units on the map lol This was on mediums/highs setting native res. -
Yeah I think it was. Someone posted a code that gave you 21% discount and stacked with everything else.
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Am I correct on the following?
1) The i7 doesn't have the intel gfx card with it because it has one built-in? And it'll use the optimus to throttle between the built-in card and the Nvidia?
Did someone verify this?
If they didn't, and just going by intel specs page, it also says the i5 comes with the built-in intel gfx, so why does the i5 list on Alienware that it has the other intel dedicated card?
2) And on Alienware's page, it states the i7 can do 8 hyperthreads. And i5 can't. But on intel's specs page, both the i5/i7 has 2 cores 4 threads. So shouldn't the i5 do the same?
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I kinda like turtled my entire forces to test the limit.. You can play, on bnet with real players because you wont be ale to turtle that much. Sorry for not clarifying.
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The I7 should support optimums switching because even though it carries the I7 name, its still an allendale core.
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BTW, when it starts to choke up, do you find it just annoying or does it get in the way of gameplay.
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I have ordered an M11x with the core i7-640um (EDD: 2nd of July) and am eager to find a review from someone who has already received theirs.
I was looking on the Alienware site and found this review:
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Damn those are some good numbers. too good to be true imho lol
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http://forum.notebookreview.com/hardware-components-aftermarket-upgrades/484698-seagate-momentus-xt-hybrid-hdd-w-built-4gb-ssd-coming.html
It was really chugging, choppy.. Its only because I was playing with AI from my M11x. I would think that the gameplay would be better if 4 computers or 8 would be playing on network since their using each other's CPU. And for a game, usually you dont accumulate a lot of units.. I maxed out 200 with zerg, plus overlords and I massed zerglings. It would show that that's the limit of the M11x in StarCraft 2. if you're using 7 AI players.
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I was using the momentus XT on my m11x r1 and I was booting in 26 seconds and opening games a lot faster than I did with the WD HDD black (320gb).
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Err so does that mean you're saying the CPU for the 11x (i7/i5) Both have intergrated GPUs? Just that Alienware decided to say the i5 had it, and just didn't mention it for the i7?
I'm all for getting the i7, if it rocks harder, yet still able to get good battery life while not gaming. But if it's really just gonna just shut down cores and leave the Nvidia 330 to do graphics chores, I can see the battery life being alot worse.
And err.. again. Are you saying that both the i5/i7 have 8HT paths, yet Alienware again desided to only mention that the i7 has it, but not the i5?
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M11xR2 with either core will have Optimus, so nVidia GT335M will actually be turn off when you are not gaming, and under light load TurboMode would not be activated either, so the power usage should be very small. Basically both CPU & Optimus will help manage power more intelligently than M11xR1. I actually expect it to have better battery life on normal operation like web surfing and office application when compared to M11xR1. But that's just my thought base on how I think the technology works.
No, that's not what I'm saying. The core i7 in the M15x is i7-720QM which have quad-core 8 threads, while both core i5-520UM and i7-640UM in the M11xR2 only have 2 cores, 4 threads. Where exactly that you see core i7 have 8 threads? If that's not on M11xR2 page, then you obviously just assume that all core i7 have 8 threads. -
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Yes admittedly I run my desktop at 1680x1050 and usually with AA on 4x or 8x. But he says he's running Crysis on 'Highest' not 'High'. It depends where you are (in the game) of course, but if he's talking about Crysis (vanilla), DX10, Highest settings, native res... he will not have those framerates in general gameplay. The GPU just isn't up to it.
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Hey i'm planning to get the same build but it's like $1250 total for me...can you please tell me how to get the 10% EEP off and the $100 coupon?
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The R2 would have zero chance of maxing out Crysis with a playable framerate.. both the CPU and GPU are far too weak to run the game fluidly. Even with the majority of options set to medium i'd still remain incredulous.
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Gday from Australia All! I find it funny every time someone i know gets a new computer, there is always someone else who asks Can It Run Crysis? My friend has a
C2d @2.13ghz and a GT 230m (which according to notebookcheck is slower than gt335) and he can run crysis @ 30+ frames in medium so especially with the cpu refresh in the M11x i would assume crysis would be fine @ medium. -
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After discovering I qualify for the EPP and that $100 coupon on top of it I decided not to wait for benches and went ahead with the i7.
ETA: 7/6
Should be a bit more portable than my Sager 9850 lol.
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Hey guys, is there any point at all to get 8GB Ram into the i7 unit?
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most of my 4v4 gameplay came right after b.net unlocked it and that was also around the same time with all the battle.net lag. I experienced more internet b.net lag than any gameplay lag. THAT is the annoying part, internet lag. When the system chugs it's not a stop/go type thing but rather scrolling the screen is done slower but units still move and do work. If you get what I mean. not sure the difference bt/ SSD vs standard HDD since I've only played on my m11x. I do notice I load up faster than most everyone when it comes to the load screen lol. I imagine the SSD helps when it comes to scrolling across the map quickly and loading units on screen.
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When your create your 11x, when selecting the CPU, look at the description on the left at the i7, it says 8 threads or 4 threads for HT.
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If you do qualify for Dell's EPP via one of these groups, check with the group coordinator/benefits coordinator for access to the latest offers/discounts.
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Hmm too bad the canadian coupons only work for the c2d. Will wait till they release the newer version. Anyone know of any canadian codes that work on the i7 version?
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Ok, if this has been addressed ad nauseum just point me to the right post/thread and I'll STFU, but...
I'm really feeling an itch to sell my R1 and get the R2 with the core i7, however several things:
1. From all the years of benchmarking crap I've read the graphics card can be a reall bottleneck, especially since it is a 128bit memory bus,
2. The processor isn't really that much faster since MHz will matter more than technology of the chip. 1.73 vs 2.26 (I know 500MHz more but won't point one invalidate this?) and both have a 3MB L2 cache.
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^ that's basically what you'll get.
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2. First, you get it wrong. 1.73Ghz on SU7300 is based on OCed CPU, 2.26Ghz on i7-640UM is based on TurboBoost mode, and un-OC. That said it's highest Ghz on a single core, on dual core mode, it's more like 1.8Ghz. Then there is a difference that core i5/i7 have HT, while SU7300 doesn't and lastly i7-640UM have 4MB of cache, not 3MB. Not to mention there are other architectural difference also. So, it's not as simple as comparing raw GHz. -
These are the only two games I have loaded on my Envy 15, Dirt2 and SF4. Both do not require much CPU. How do I know? Because this #$!@%! Envy 15 when on battery will not ever go above 1.2GHz. These two games on battery (@1.2GHz) or on AC power (boosted to 2.5GHz while the games are running), I get the same fps. Both instances CPU utilization hovers between 30-50%.
I had the M11x (SU7300), XPS16 (T9600 2.8GHz and ATI4670), and my Envy 15 (i5 430m, ATI5850) side by side running the SF4 and Dirt2 benchmark, I wish I would have taken screen shot of CPU utilization on them. Everything on high, all 3 laptops on 1280x800 and AA off, the M11x was ~75fps, XPS16 ~83, Envy 15 ~95 (at the time with stock OS, now with my tweaked OS and new drivers it's ~105).
I'm very pretty light duty, far from hardcore gamer, but I haven't seen a game where the CPU holds back the GPU, at least not the laptops I sampled here.
No I don't know what this proves. Just posting what I saw myself.
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Truth be told, I view the M11X as an "ultra-portable on 'roids". It's great while I'm in my traveling status but I want a main system to handle the 'tough stuff' when I get home. -
Source based games really need a decent cpu to keep minimum frames rates up. Also in general, the 640 will smoke the Core 2. I am glad I held off. R2 will be a much more balance notebook. Lets just hope that Dell fixes the fan issue.
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Thanks for the input, guess I'll hold off and see, but for my use I'll be still more than happy with what I've got.
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Quick question, are the cores in the Rx2 Westmere cores?
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