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

Adsl speeds depend on your distance from the nearest telephone exchange. Larger the distance lower the speed. The isp's advertise upto xx mbps... "UPTO" sorry about that bro...but its best to phone them up and check if there might something which they can do
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same stuff happened to me... Had to go with cable connection... Currently on 50mbps ... lol!!!

 

Crap, it is windows, I just did a fresh install when I got the laptop like 3 weeks ago. I'm going to try a system file repair hopefully that fixes it.

Ubuntu had the control working perfectly.

Thanks for the replies.

 

Good luck!
btw guys, bought a Vaio mini, 10,1" for my work on the go!
I'll be traveling light now

 

ohhh yeah nice new toy, congrats.

 

yea but im remote area but i called them up said it shouldn't be that slow so they are coming sometime next week so we will see if there is something they can do.

 

Ah, sorry I have to do this to you guys, but I am leaving the Alienware game. Already put my M15x and backpack up for sale. After a long week of deciding, I think mobile computing is just not for me. After wanting an AW for so many years, I guess it just didn't impress me as much as I would've hoped.

This is not goodbye. I wouldn't leave you guys if it was the end of time itself lol. Just had enough fun and it's time to get my desktop back out.

And of course, all my guides (all two of them...) are forever supported by me until the end of this forum's lifespan.

 

I followed your guide to put an SSD into my m15x, I also would like to get rid of the m15x but I won't get what it's worth. I can't find any laptops that appeal to me, the closest thing was the MBP which is stupid expensive and not worth anywhere what the cost (I use one at work) and the Envy, but the lack of touch buttons is a deal breaker for me, I hate using FN + "x" key to perform actions.

 

Thanks Bro for your Contribution to the Alienware Forums, wish u all the best and hope u find what u are looking for. U are always welcome back to us.

 

Hey guys, I finally got caught up reading this thread. You have a great group of people here. I am also a proud owner of an M15x! My XPS M1730's GPUs died in March and they offered to replace it with an M17x but I opted to "downgrade" to a loaded M15x and I don't regret it one bit! Here are my specs:

Alienware M15x, Cosmic Black
Intel Core i7 920XM
1GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 260M
15.6-inch WideFHD 1920x1080 (1080p) WLED
4GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333MHz
128GB Solid State Drive
Slot-Loading Dual Layer Blu-ray Burner
Primary - 9-cell (85Watt) Lithium-Ion Battery
Intel WiFi Link 5300 802.11AGN Half Mini Card

It sounds pretty much the same as Inap's, except I haven't swapped the GPU. I also don't have the faster Intel SSD, but hey, all of this was a free replacement, so I can't complain too much!

I followed the advice on this thread and bought some MX-3 and I'm going to apply it tomorrow. Should I take pics? I'm not sure yet whether I'm going to use the Pea method (doesn't reach the corners) or Spread method (might contain air "hot-pockets"). I might actually go with the X method, but getting just the right amount of paste might be tricky. I found this video pretty interesting: How Thermal Compound Spreads

I've also not overclocked it, since I've been using RivaTuner to prevent throttling in SupCom2, but RivaTuner doesn't overclock well, and it doesn't play nice with NST at the same time. But now that the new 257.15 beta drivers are out, I might have to uninstall RivaTuner and try NST again so I can get some of your crazy clocks. (Where can I get NST for 257.15?)

Anyway, I'm glad to be a member of the family. And I hope my avatar doesn't get me banned.

 

Oh, and just for grins, here's my speeds at work

 

welcome to the M15x family Identifier. awesome setup bro. also nice find on the videos.

dude villosa, sorry to hear that your selling your system bro. but you'll always be my aw brotha, hhahaha. hope you stick around man, hit me up if you ever play tf2.

 

Thanks bro. Of course I'll be sticking around and pitching in when I can. I'm actually very new to PCs and Laptops. It wasn't until late last summer when I built my first rig and started learning. I only know two places, NBR and OCN, like my two internet homes.

 

damn that's fast. That connection dwarfs mine

 

Too much to read up on in such short time, so if I forget anyone, my apologies!

Thierry! Nice toy man! Saw one a couple of months ago, just before I ordered my AW. Loved it and the misses wanted to buy it for me. I said no cause I had other plans, which, of course, was the M15x! Congrats, man!

Identifier, welcome to our little family! You got a great set-up and your internet speed is to drool over (of course, I'm the guy with the slowest internet on the entire forum!). This is a great group we have here, man (especially if Villosa keeps dropping by!), and trouble is solved here faster than anywhere else.

Villosa, bro! Sorry to hear you're not into mobile computing. Maybe you should have started with one of toys Thierry (soccer) got, ha ha ha! Stick around, man. You're part of us now!

J-man!!!! Ah, no. You're still missing.

Inap! What's up my brother? Still covered in work? I am, but the project is great. Lots of crap about computers, networks, CPUs, GPUs, overclocking etc. Luckily for the customer I am better in translating those things than actually implementing them, LOL.

Man, I miss you guys but the deadline is way too tight to take any chances by hanging out here (miss the deadline, don't get paid a penny!).

Well, anyhow, soon "I'll bi Bahck!

Enjoy your weekends, guys!

 

man gonna go home a buy a 40oz and pour it out for my lost homie, hahahha
glad you be sticking around bro.


hey nice to see ya harry, yeah been flooded with work myself. hopefully we can get some time off soon. glad your work has been fun. incased you missed it bios A06 is out and new command center is out too. but new command center is not really worth it, don't really see any changes.

 

Hi Inap. Enjoy the 40oz!!!! I'm having a couple myself right now after working from 7 am till 11 pm, but don't worry, as long as I can't afford a second home, this thread is my second home, bro! I'm not going anywhere.

I don't think I'll go for BIOS A06 as I'm still on A03 and I haven't had a problem with my system -well, besides the DVD drive, but that was hardly a BIOS issue - and you know what they say, never change a winning team, LOL!

 

o yea there is firmware for the dvd drive on dells website Harry

nice to see you drop in always

lol post #666

 

Thanks for the tip, Tuenkamen. Right now the drive is fine, though (well, I think. I hardly use that thing). The problem was that it stopped working a while ago, after I had popped in the third cd of my young lappie's career. But after calling Dell they fixed it next day with a new drive, so no prob.

Devil's post, Tuenkamen! Be careful or you'll get banned, ha ha ha!

 

lol I've been cursed since i was born man lol life has been fudging twisted for me like i don't have anything normal happen for me its always an extremely bad event every year during Halloween at least. Also this was told to me in online fortune teller "you will be eaten by a classmate in 2011" i was like wth does everyone get this crap or is just me.

 

that could be a good thing

 

yea it didn't say i was going to die or anything lol so i'm thinking positive as i'm going to a new university next semester lol

but it had an animation with a grim reaper lol

 

anyone want some m15x area 51 invisible shields that are new? i have them in the market place

 

Also would it be safe to sell something to someone in indonesia? my t9500? thanks

 

International sales are usually safe if you allow the funds to clear into your bank first. Just document all your shipping, emails, PMs, and other communications and you'll be fine.

See guys, I haven't left you lol.

 

would he beable to retract his payment?

 

Not if it's in your bank. It really depends on method of payment and if you are protected from chargebacks. IMO internationals sales are a hassle and not worth the time.

Honestly, go with your gut. If you really don't like the deal then don't go through with it. You're the seller, you have the power to say no.

 

i wouldnt want to get s#$#ed. lol

 

Hey guys. I'm sure you've seen the core parking thread by Mr Pras, and although I don't notice any difference on my 920XM, here's how to disable parking in these three scenarios without editing the registry:

1. High Performance mode, when On Battery
2. High Performance mode, when Plugged In
3. Balanced mode, when Plugged In only

Open a command prompt as Administrator and run:

1. PowerCFG -SetDCValueIndex 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c 54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00 0cc5b647-c1df-4637-891a-dec35c318583 100
   
2. PowerCFG -SetACValueIndex 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c 54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00 0cc5b647-c1df-4637-891a-dec35c318583 100
   
3. PowerCFG -SetACValueIndex 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e 54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00 0cc5b647-c1df-4637-891a-dec35c318583 100
   

And then reboot. The first GUID is the power plan (The ones I've shown are the default built-in power plans of Windows 7. You can run PowerCFG -List to see which plans you have on your system), the second GUID specifies the Processor Settings, and the last GUID (the one on the first page of this post) specifies the "Processor performance core parking min cores" setting. In english this means "The minimum percentage of active cores". The last value, 100, specifies that 100% of cores should always be active. (By default on Windows 7 it's set to 10%, if you're curious.)

 

I have to ask Identifier from your internet test do you work at MS.

 

Hello everyone

I hope you all are fine

@Identifier

Hey really do you work at MS?

 

Okay guys, got a GPU Vantage score of like 6k something, is that good or bad? Stock drivers I guess, BIOS A05.

 

yea that's good for stock drivers but you should get better drivers to have a higher stock score

 

Okay was just wondering ! Wanted to check so everything was okay you know. I´m going to send this one back though, think I´m going for the M17x instead.

 

Yeah, I work at MS. And no, that's not me in my avatar pic

Kael Rowan - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

 

must be nice to have that kind of speed. I'm really jealous of that since i only have like 1.5 mbps lol

 

Well that was just for fun since Microsoft has a huge pipe. My speeds at home are pretty normal:

 

wow sweet!!! and yeah those speeds are incredible. super jealous also

 

That's mine. No wonder people hate playing with me on Xbox Live LOL

 

thought yours was bad, lol

 

Woah! I know Harry's was bad, but what in the world? Are you sure your sig shouldn't be:

M15x Cosmic Black | Intel Core i7-920XM | 4GB DDR3 1333MHz | ATI Mobility Radeon 5870 | 1080p WLED | 160GB Intel G2 SSD | 1200 Baud Modem

 

@villosa

Oh better then me...i bought 4MB and get around 600-700KB/s, I will complain the isp today

 

Hey U installed ATI 5870 and Intel SSD?
Enjoying??

 

No that's what Inap's sig should be if he's really only getting .54 Mb/s.

 

Yeah Harry don't have good connection speed but for sure he's very good person and soft.

 

Oh sorry !! so how are you??enjoying your M15x?

 

hahhahah normally its better, but i think someone else in the house is downloading something. but moving to comcast next month.

 

Yeah I'd be willing to live with Harry's internet speeds too if I was on a tropical island like he is

LAN party at Harry's place anyone???

 

hahahah count me in.

 

I'm there!

Honest opinion, is my asking price for the M15x too high? I mean I have obo next to it and it's really new. I didn't even remove the touch button sticker...lol

 

hey friends which one is more powerful

GeForce 9800m GTX or GTX 260M