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    My HD gameplay footage from the i7 M11x...(JC2, BFBC2, Crysis, etc.)...

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Billfordius, Jan 28, 2011.

  1. Billfordius

    Billfordius Notebook Enthusiast

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    Video has footage of:

    -Battlefield: Bad Company 2
    -DiRT 2
    -Crysis
    -Fallout: New Vegas
    -Call of Duty: Black Ops
    -Mass Effect 2
    -Just Cause 2

    the i7 has been OC'ed to 160mhz and is running stable, and I'm using EVGA Precision to OC the 335m. Specs are in the video. :D


    YouTube - Alienware M11x Gameplay Footage (i7)

    Overall I'm very happy with the quality of gaming that the m11x has given me. Never did I think an 11" notebook would be able to run games this good.
     
    Billfordius, Jan 28, 2011
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  2. slickie88

    slickie88 Master of Puppets

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    Excellent video and great editing.
     
    slickie88, Jan 28, 2011
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  3. BrokenKeyboard

    BrokenKeyboard Notebook Consultant

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    Great video.
     
    BrokenKeyboard, Jan 28, 2011
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  4. BatBoy

    BatBoy Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Nice video! Makes me want to go play BC2 right now! Just since I'm curious, which NV driver are you running?

    Thanks for sharing the video... +1

    -BB
     
    BatBoy, Jan 28, 2011
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  5. Kevinmcg

    Kevinmcg Notebook Deity

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    I would love to see one of these about the R1 as i just ordered one and im not sure how well it will handle bfbc2.
     
    Kevinmcg, Jan 28, 2011
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  6. Zathu

    Zathu Notebook Enthusiast

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    Nice video, thanks for including your game settings. Were you running ThrottleStop?
     
    Zathu, Jan 28, 2011
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  7. Billfordius

    Billfordius Notebook Enthusiast

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    I wasn't using Throttlestop, in fact I've never even heard of it. Thanks though! I'm going to look into it.

    And I was using the latest driver, 266.58.
     
    Billfordius, Jan 28, 2011
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  8. BatBoy

    BatBoy Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Interesting - glad to see your aren't having issues with 266.58. Regardless, nice video!

    (off to go play some BC2 now... lol)
     
    BatBoy, Jan 28, 2011
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  9. Mazzyrich

    Mazzyrich Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for that. Is it imperative to overclock/boost these computers to achieve performance or should they be good to go from the moment I get it?
     
    Mazzyrich, Jan 28, 2011
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  10. BatBoy

    BatBoy Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    my take on it, play with your system. If its fine and you dont run into any issues, then dont worry about it. ;)
     
    BatBoy, Jan 28, 2011
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  11. roxxor

    roxxor Notebook Evangelist

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    Here's the Throttlestop thread. TS is only really necessary when you're overclocking, since OCing in the R2 actually decreases performance in CPU-intensive tasks.
     
    roxxor, Jan 28, 2011
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  12. Voodooi

    Voodooi AFK for a while...

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    Love the videos! Thanks so much for sharing.

    Average FPS for Battlefield?

    Have you tried Civ V and SC2? If so, how well do they do?

    =) Gracias!
     
    Voodooi, Jan 28, 2011
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  13. brag

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    Are you having issues with slow loading times in Battlefield when connecting to a server?
    I have the R2 i7 with OCZ Vertex2 SSD and it still takes about 22 seconds to load.
     
    brag, Jan 29, 2011
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