*OFFICIAL* "All Powerful" M15x Owners Lounge - Part 4

thats not normal, prob call dell about it.

 

They won't allow this unless there has been at least one failed delivery attempt. I tried to pick mine up from the local fedex yesterday and that's what they told me.

 

They won't leave your BEAST at your door don't worry. It has to be signed for.

And yea, They're going to try bringing it to your house, you won't be home, and they're going to bring it to the closest FedEx Depot to your house. Don't worry bro, your package will be safe. Also, i called Dell when i was waiting for my package, and they told me they are 100% liable for your laptop untill you sign for it. So untill they have proof that you have it in your possesion (as soon as you sign it) even if it is lost/stolen ... You will not have to pay a penny. Might have to wait a while longer though...

But long story short.... Don't worry, Your baby is safe Trust me.

 

where u live at babakren, i can sign it and keep it safe for you

haha pissed because you got your lappy early,lol first time i heard that.

i'm bored J, any secret stash of "entertainment" you would like to share, lol

 

lmao... well actually yea im downloading a bunch of stuff right now... I don't have unlimited GB's at home for download... so im ripping the crap out of my university's bandwidth i just downloaded about 20gigs of content in about 1.5 hours LOL...btw thanks for the site you gave me... i added it to the collection

 

yeah that site is awesome, alot of useful stuff on there. it was a lucky find, when i was doing one of my searches. you have any other good ones?

 

hmm, may I ask what is this website all about :O
/me needs more stuff to waste his time on 8D

 

You have to call the main headquarters of Fedex and they make the arrangements for you for it to be held. Don't call your local Fedex site. I have done this a few times with no problem.

 

I called some 800 number so it seemed like it was a main office. I actually got 2 stories. One was that the container my laptop was in was closed and wouldn't be open until the next day, which was the delivery day. Then I tried again and they told me they would have to at least attempt a delivery and then I could pick it up, or I could call Dell and have them hold it for me. So I called Dell and they said they couldn't do anything. Oh well, I had to wait another day.

 

Just fired up Bad Company 2...And man this game really looks awesome

Also, after hearing that the game was demanding....i was surprised to see that with settings on : 1080p/Vsync On/HBAO off/AA 2x/AF 16/All on HIGH
i was avrging 30-40Fps sometimes even 50fps.... with my lowest dips down to 23-25fps but only for a second...quite amazing if you ask me...This game runs beautifully!

 

Yo thanks again Jstarino and pickles. I feel so relieved now. Oh and Soysauce, id still be ok if they have to hold it for 1 extra day but about the closed box thing, I dont understand. Do they open your box in the pickup place?
Oh and Damn inappropriate_name3, your beast is better thn mine and u still want it lol, greedy

 

I meant like the big container that comes off the plane with all our shipments, supposedly they have to open them at a certain time. Don't quote me on that though.

 

Man your maxxed out performance wise...Thats insane...only option you didnt get was the 256ssd... but who really cares? THe bottom line is you got the 920xm and 8gb of 1333mhz ram...sheesh...talk about a multi-tasking, Video encoding BEAST. Yes, im very jealous

 

Hey! J ... BFBC2 is awesome.... Already on 7th campaign.... Any reviews on multi player experience for this game...

 

Man slow day for the M15x thread. Well just to let you guys know, i finally did recover most of my external hard drive, so thats sweet. if anyone runs into this problem i recommend a program called getdataback, it totally awesome. i tried like 6-7 different recovery programs, this program recovered 90-95% of my files and folder with the directories and subfolder intacked. and it was really simple to use also.

 

rrrrrrrreeeeaalllyyyyyyyyy sssslllooowwwwwwwwwww....lol

On another note, i just finished watching Shutter Island.... and all i gotta say iss... whatttt an efffff'd upppp movie.... Its good though... if you like twisted story lines

 

Sorry guys, my time in here was short. Going with the M17x now..

 

Don't blame you!! M17x r2 is damn tempting...

And yes J and inappropriatename m15x threads is reeeeaaaalllllyyyy sloooooowwww... It needs a jump start.. Probably something like cpu o.c. Lol!!!

 

Thanks for this whitewizard. I've OCed to 600/1100/1650 and it's not 'stable' with ATITool but Crysis plays okay with this, max temp <75 degrees and I get an extra 5fps from this. Woohoo. Anyone have any thoughts on my question in post #524 of this page:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=408230&page=53

 

finally got my M15X.

very pleased with everything, a real mind blower.

happy new member of Alienware australia

 

Welcome aboard mate! You'll see, you can just love it more and more everyday!

though I have a little question for you guys, Can someone tell me is there a way to make the media buttons work with VLC? It's kinda odd

 

Congratulations! It's a great machine!

Enjoy it.

 

Congrats!

I'm still enjoying mine more every day (except for one day that I enjoyed it a little bit less). It's a solid built performer

 

I just got my 5th M15x...this one looks to be good, however the fan on this one is LOUD. Sounds like when you turn a fishing rod at a really slow pace and its VERY annoying.

I still have my other M15x....should I go ahead and swap out the fans before I send it back to dell? Any instructions on opening the M15x on these forums? Help would be appreciated!

 

Yep swap them out. It's a very simple process, remove the bottom cover, unscrew the fan, remove the power cable and you're done. Shouldn't take longer than 10 minutes for the entire process.

 

hmm must look awesome having these badboys side by side

 

Alright....Laptop is MUCH quieter now and about perfect. My media strip stopped working...if I remember correctly, I shut down, take out the battery and hold the power button down for 30 seconds? Can someone confirm this?

Here are the 2 bad boys side by side:



Here is under the hood:



I apologize for the bad photo quality, but the fan on the right was faulty...the brand is AVC:

 

^^^ yes do the steps above, and congrats again, last time hopefully,lol

 

awesome pics man....if you think about it price-wise thats like a small car right there loll...but that sure looks sweet...too bad you've got to give one back... see what else u can swap.. maybe check the ram sticks? and try to pair up two of the same? or do some research on which ones more reliable? why not... its not everday u got two side by side... ( well in ur case its about once a month lmao...sorry) hopefully... your set now...for good.

 

I have 6 gigs of RAM on both machines. They both have a 4gb stick of samsung ram and another 2 gig of some no name company. The WEP rating on the ram in this one is 7.4 vs 7.2 in the other, so I am guessing this one has better memory. Now what would be really scandalous is if I took the 4 gig samsung and gave myself 8 gigs of RAM, hehe. Unfortunately, I wouldn't feel right stealing from dell, even though they kept sending me duds. Plus I am SURE they would notice.

 

Course, they would notice some RAM missing from your return but not if your system is working correctly before its shipped.

 

It sure would be tempting. Actually they should give it to you after all you have been through. Congrats vafaskillz, enjoy your machine.

 

Congratz vafaskillz... I have 2 m15x's as well...

Can you check your jack information... From control panel>hardware and sound> manage audio devices> speaker properties

Do you just get a single c sub listed in jack information or does it list three jacks

 

single c sub

They gave me a free blu ray upgrade and a free headset....not too shabby.

 

do you get a tearing sound when listening to loud music on earphones...

 

Nope...just tested both laptops and no tearing sound, HOWEVER...I did have MAJOR tearing sounds before and uninstalling the SD card driver and letting windows automatically d/l the new drivers fixed it. I have no clue if that will help, but try it.

 

I have got my motherboard, I/O and connectors replaced and the issue is fixed for me. But just curious about the issue. Because few users have had this problem.

It seems like a two part problem one is linked to a driver issue and the other is linked to the I/O board and the connectors to the motherboard

 

Thats pretty damn sweet... and its good to know that some people have morals (u not swapping out the 4gb and giving your system 8gbs of ram) ...

Cuz if it were me... i wouldn't think twice hehehe...but then again im just awfully evil :wink:

 

I do have morals, which is why I called dell and told them I feel I deserve the extra 2 gigs I asked to speak to the manager, and at first he was absolutely against it, but after explaining to him that he must give it to me in order "to make things right," he obliged.

The long road is over and now I am owning an even more bad machine with some serious freebies. Thanks guys...and I will be hanging around to help anyone who needs it....my specialty is returns, patience, and some serious complaining skillz <3

Oh, speaking of which....now I have 2 4gig sticks of samsung memory...do I need to change anything in the bios to make the memory run faster? Before I had one 4 gig stick of samsung, and a 2 gig no namer...

 

should be automatic, but check bios aways. mmummmm gotta love free stuff. maybe time for me to break something, i love free stuff, lol j/k

man that stuff is strong airsinner, i think i got me some second hand action going on,lol

 

Just bringing this up again in case it was missed the first time. Would really appreciate some thoughts especially from thewhitewizard/Jstarnino/Mr Pras and of course Inappropriate. Thanks.

 

sorry i would of help earlier but i'm not really a pro at oc'ing, i just dabble with it from time to time and thought someone with better knowledge would of jumped in. From what i read from that posts, working with one parameter at a time, you can easily find the max of that parameter then set it back and start on another one, seem logical to me, the other method you method is good too, but when the clocks are not stable, your just taking a wild guess to which parameter is too high, while both works, the first method seem more precise. and again i'm not a pro but it just my thoughts.

 

Thanks Inappropriate. I agree that one shouldn't jump in with all three parameters OC'ed at the same time, but I reckon it also doesn't make sense to find what's the stable max amount of overclocking for one parameter while having the other two not OC'ed, and then expect the GPU to play nicely when all three parameters are OC'ed to the degree that they were each only ever stable while the other two parameters were un-OC'ed.

 

Different games stress different clocks. Some games like F.E.A.R. 2 will have more fps gains when GPU clock is higher. Since, games like F.E.A.R. 2 require more processing related to input assembler, vertex, geometry, and fragment thread scheduling, triangle setup, rasterization, texture address and filtering and all these are Core clock controls.

But some games which are more texture fill rate limited or shader clock intensive and heavily use SMS 3.0 will gain more performance with haigher shader clocks like Bio shock 2 .

Now, if you know the maximum clocks of your gpu's core, memory and shader you can set it differently for different games. In games which are shader intensive you can increase the shader clock and giving the core clock a slight push and you will have a stable clock because you are not pushing the core clock very high. Same goes with the core clock intensive games.

Very few games stress the memory clock. So it is not very useful to push the memory clocks.

So, you need to know stable max amount for you each parameter so you can use different combinations for different games with max stability and low temps...

Btw you can use both methods to OC. but it is about doing it in the most effective and efficient way(low temp, max stability, max performance). This can be done when you increase the parameter which is really required or limited.

 

Thats really just some excellent advice ^^^^ . Couldn't have said it any better.

If you want the MAX in all 3 though, you have to go one by one like you said....then raise all 3...and if unstable... either flash your gpu to 1.v for stability...or...if you dont want to do that...lower each one by 2-3 notches...one at a time.. and test for stability... this is a painfully slow procedure...but if you found your stable clocks in one shot... now that woul djust take the fun out of Ocing wouldn't it...

 

Does anyone have any ideas as to why the Just cause 2 Demo crashes on my M15x. It becomes unresponsive so I get no errors or anything like that. I think its a Graphic settings because when I down scale all the graphics it plays fine.

 

I've been playing Just Cause 2 Just fine on my M15x without changing the default graphic settings sans the resolution.

Perhaps it's a bad install or driver issue?

 

hows the game play on just cause 2, any good. didn't play part 1 so was wondering.

 

How does the game play on All high settings? Game looks great eh?

 

Runs a bit choppy for me on high settings, didn't get time to try turning them down though, just ran it quickly.