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

I'm saying buy one from dell. You will get warranty plus they will install it for you too.

 

Unfortunately I can't, bro. I have to order from Dell Panama and have it sent to Margarita Island. That comes out a lot more expensive then buying it here. Anyway, I will probably have the Dell tech build it in there for me so I'll keep the warranty. If I can find an Nvidia card everything is good, because it will be warranted by Dell. If it is an ATI card everything will be covered except the card, but that will be covered by the place I bought the card, so I'm not worried about warranty.
Don't worry about it, bro. It'll all work out in the end. I'm sure my baby will be up and running in the couple of days. With my luck the tech will show up with a suitcase full of 240 cards because no one wants the buy the damn things, ha ha ha!

 

Oic, well either way. I just hope they take care of you bro. Sad to see any m15x not working.

 

Thanks man. Appreciate it.
I've only had great experiences with Dell customer care, so I'm sure they'll fix it for me.
I'll be looking around for the cards that are on the market here as an upgrade, unless Dell decides to upgrade it for me, of course.

Well, bro, I'm gonna call it a night. Have a great evening, Inap. I hope you can squeeze some more fraps in tonight!

See all you fellows tomorrow!

 

hey! my m15x died too, doesn't power up at all with the batt/AC in. and the AC jack's blue light goes off whenever i plug it into the laptop, with or without the battery.

tried the discharging trick but didn't work, anyone have any ideas? otherwise, i'm keeping my fingers crossed that the dell tech can fix it by tmr

btw, do u guys know if its possible to purchase more warranty just before your current one expires? (i'm covered for the 1 year warranty till nov, thinking of getting 2 more years nearing the expiry.. under Dell USA)

 

Looks like your mobo failed.

Yes you can buy extended warranty at any time before your current one expires.

 

Why isn't my fav thread stickyed any longer?!?! this is madness

 

heads up!!! 10.7 preview is out.

GPU-74: ATI Catalyst? 10.7 Preview Driver for OpenGL ES 2.0 Support


hahha i guess they were making room for the resource disk announcement.

 

Just ordered the system in my sig. I hope I'll be a happy Alien!

 

nice setup man, you'll love it. welcome to the family.

 

Thanks inap. I didn't get the 1080p because I thought in the long term I can get better FPS from games with 900p and my eyes may not be able to stand 1080p lol. I thought about crippling ram and some other parts for 920XM (you got it!!) but still I couldn't have enough money for that. I think I'm going to use this setup a for a very long time then start replacing parts myself. The only negative point is 8GB limitation :/

 

hahahah geez, 8gb ram is not enough. man times have changed.lolz. don't worry the 8gb will last you a very long time. i just got it because i found a great deal on them. otherwise i would of just stuck with 4gb. i'm using the 1080 screen with no problem and i have a stigmatism. but 900 is great also. great choice going with the advance warranty.

 

So i got an offer for an intel 160gb g2 for 320$.... Should i jump on this? i know its a good deal but the truth is, i need min 256gb

Dammit why do i have to be such a Storage HOG!!

 

Man, J, this is a great deal! Just jump on it and save some of your less important stuff on an SSD-card or an external drive. You don't need to have everything on your computer, dude, and 160G gets you an awful lot of goodies on there with the highest speed possible. What are you waiting for, J? Get it already!

 

Yeah i didn't think 160 would be big enough either, but with some management, and a external hdd, every is good.

 

I'm sure you'll be a happy Alien. Welcome to the family!

 

Ha ha ha! Great minds think alike, bro!

BTW - Dell guy should be here tomorrow to fix my baby.

 

well advanced warranty was around 60+ USD so I said why not

lol your first sentence got me xD yep times have changed
I was simply referring to future I can always update HDD and other stuff but I'll be stuck with 8gb in future thats what got me worried.

 

Thats great new. hmmm i wonder how much dell techs get paid over there. good pay plus living in paradise. would be sweet.

 

I will ask him tomorrow, bro. I wouldn't think they make more than about $400, though. The living in paradise part is nice, of course!!

 

when the tech came to my house, he was trying to sell me the job practically lol. said he got 45$ a visit, and he would get booked for 10-12 visists a day, from 9am to 9pm. Thats like $450+ a day!

He said all i gotta do is take an online test, and if you know your stuff you don't even got to pay for teh course. Once you pass the test you get your license, and you can start working for companies like dell, hp, acer etcc. And you have your own schedule and you're on-call. He was trying to recruit me cuz he was amazed that i knew more bout my laptop than he did. After all he did say it was the first time he ever saw an ALienware LOL. From that point on, i knew there was no way he was touching my baby. And he was literally taking notes on what i was doing. Like the paste applying. HE said he usually put five dots (one in each corner and one in the middle), and was surprized to see me put one big drop in the middle, and spread it out with a glove.

Anyways he actually got me thinking bout going for it. Might be pretty cool, and the money is good. Only downside is that you have to drive using your own car and gas, and that you might have to drive across teh city a few times to go meet all your clients.

I was just thinking about all the splifs i'd be smoking on that job, LOL. Would be awesome.

 

All my papers are ready dude, just give me teh address! xD
Thats weird but interesting. Field technical person usually doesn't have much information, thats correct. However it depends on person too, one can be extremely experienced and trying to learn more(cause of personal interests) or he/she may be just after the money and doesn't even care if he/she is doing right or wrong.

 

Hi Zaidbaby, just open the forum on your mobile, and in the left bottom corner choose mobile view. Good to see all is well.

 

@J
Jump on that! I got mine for 350 +20 bucks shipping. Should be here next week.

 

yea well most people would call me crazy but i turned it down.

I'm going to stick with my initial plan, and NOT get an ssd right now, and wait 6months-1year for newer, cheaper tech to come out, so maybe i can get an ultrafast 256gb Sandforce 1200 drive for 300$. That's what i'm going for. The tech is too new IMO and i spend about 20mins calculating how to allocate the space in a 160gb drive, and it turns out i'm left with about 20gbs free. I dunno but i want some breathing room, and i HATE worrying about how much space i have left. 256gb is actually a comprimise for me, but is actually as low as i would go. The only affordable 256gb ssd drive right now is the Samsung PB22J drive.. at about 375 used or 500 new, but performance isn't great compared to the intel g2..which is already becoming old tech as the new SF-1200 drives crush it.

So i'm going to stick with my not-so-slow HDD for the time being (since i don't knwo any better as i haven't gotten used to using a system with an ssd yet ) , and live with the extra 20-30 secs it takes to load up win7 ( which is actually quick because i always set it to not launch any apps upon start-up).

At least i'll have something to look forward to down the road, and it'll feel like i'm getting a totally new processor once i slap an SSD in here and all the apps snap open. Can't wait.

 

should of got it when i had the super awesome deal,lolz.

man tf2 is dropping major items today. got like 5-8 items per drop. also just got a hat too. sweet.

 

I'm installing Stacraft II right now

Just downloaded it. Can't wait to see what the whole fuss is about. I mean i played starcraft + bradwar back in the day... wasn't a favorite but this game looks legit. Plus i haven't played a strategy type game in years. could be sick.

 

LoL, I could never get the hang of those strategy games. In Uni my mates all played Red Alert so when I had to play I just built heavy defenses and tried to be annoying

 

I was in the sc2 beta and I can tell ya the game is HELLA fun. I'm actually standing in line at a futureshop midnight release shindig and I've got like 30 mins left to wait. Thank god for my iPhone haha.

Pm me your battle.net ID if you want to do 2s or something. Maybe we can get another couple M15x guys in the action and start a 4s team? Gahhhh can't wait to sink my teeth into this campaign!

 

Hey Jstar.. U cud get a ssd and a 2nd 1tb hard drive in ur M15x.. instead of the DVD drive..

U can also use the internal slot drive outside ur m15x using a USB/Esata combo cable...

 

Yea i know, i was thinking about that...As i never use the cd drive anyways...

 

i am going to get 2nd hdd on there soon ... just waitin for intel g3 and will get 1tb as a 2nd hdd inside m15x... and use the internal hdd in a esata enclosure..

 

I bought the collectors edition. It's coming in tomorrow.

 

I'll be leaving for the FutureShop really soon, can't wait to try this game

 

here is something funny, i don't know what i did when i swap the bodies, but k=now every time i eject a disk, it literally goes flying out the slot and lands a couple of inches away,lol kinda cool, hehehehe

 

lol inap are you sure you cant get it to fly faster you could have the slotload of death with a bit of tweaking.

 

Played it alll last night! Sweet campaign! and it runs beautifully on Ultra with the 5870m! even with a fullscreen battlefield with alot going one at once! very impressive. can't wait to play you guys online once i get the swing of things. Its been so long, that im practically a noob at this game... but it is coming back to me.. slowly...

Sweet! I wanna try i wanna try! lollll

 

What driver is everyone using for the 260? I'm getting around 30fps with 8.15.11.8647 with everyone on ultra and 1600x900 res but a few times it'll slow down and dip into the 18-20's.. seems like I should be getting more. Stealth is also off

 

On the newest driver I get over 80FPS at stock clocks.. So thats a weird issue you are having..
EDIT: Ohhh, on ultra setting I get 30 ish too Gotta love overclock now.

 

@ Steelcurtain:

you're talking about Starcraft II? I wouldn't be complainging with those FPS! Those seem about right for the gtx 260m. And as i don't use the 260 anymore, i wouldn't be able to tell you ... but i used to use 197.45 which were real solid, as they were designed for the desktop version of the card. But they released newer 25x.xx drivers on nvidia, i don't know what they r called exactly cuz i havent really been following nvidia now that i got an ati. But i'd try out the latest ones on nvidia.com.

And it seems like Physx is doing you real good with those frames, as you wil notice in the graphic settings there are alot of physics-based graphics settings.

I'm getting 40-50fps avrg while on Ultra 1080p and mouse smoothening. Lowest dip so far is 28, and highest is like 70 something. And that's with my 5870m stock! I'm friggin loving how this card rips through everything

EDIT: WOAHHH Soccertheirry... 80fps? Settings aren't maxed im guessing?

 

The 197.45 are still the best. Be careful not to download the latest drivers from the Nvidia site, they suck!

 

im using the latest drivers no problems to report

 

so how is sc2, nevered play a strategy game before, good time to start?

 

Oh, I had some issues with the latest (beta) drivers. I went back quickly to the ones I had before and everything worked fine again.

 

yea i had the beta then my comp had an os failure so i lost the beta but meh that was last week. dual boot madness with this comp.

other than that it looks awesome graphics are such a leap from the original sc.

 

Bro i'm hooked! The game just looks awesome! And the story is good too! Lots of character development and and and... well lets just say i usually don't play strategy games...and liek i said... im hooked. LOL

Definately give this game a try. A MUST HAVE in every gamer ( and non gamer, since i barely even play games anymore) game collection. Do yourself a favor, and buy this game ASAP. Blizzard has done it again. Only 5 star releases it seems


I can only imagine how Diablo III is going to change the RPG standard . As Starcraft II Defiantely up'd the Strategy game standard, tenfold!

This game is just awesome. The campaign feels like im playing/watching a movie.

Honestly I'm really impressed ( as you probably noticed) I had low expectations and im blown away. Now i know what all the hype was about...geeze louise, i should've jumped on the beta!

Now i'm going back to playing the campaign! See ya!

 

My kit came in today, I was a bit surprised. So far I like it.

 

sweet sound awesome, will gave it a go.
man the collector edition looks awesome.

 

I found
Version:
258.96 WHQL
Release Date:
2010.07.19
Operating System:
Windows Vista 64-bit, Windows 7 64-bit
Language:
English (U.S.)
File Size
143 MB

Is that the one I should try? I'm not too experienced with video card drivers and installing/uninstalling

 

Yeah, thats the one I have, it's great.
The installation is very simple, just run the setup.exe and it'll install it for you.
After the installation run a CCleaner scan and it should be top notch!