Alienware M17 *OFFICIAL* Owner's Lounge

Maximus have you tried 9.8/Hotfix drivers. I no longer had any sensor crash issues with everest, GPU-z or the likes after using these instead of 9.7s

 

Weird. I have 9.8 with the hotfix and Everest Ultimate still locks up the computer if I run it when crossfire is enabled.

 

I don't know if this is the right place to ask this but is
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148191

alright to replace the stock ram with? I want to replace the 2x1gb modules.

Thanks guys!

 

That will work fine

 

where has sleey0 been lately? where is reviews and pics?

 

Wrong owners lounge

 

everest still crash for me to with 9.8 when crossfire is enabeled



and any of you know what is the tz00 temp in cpuid and if there is a way to know the temp of the northbridge

 

TZ00 is your ACPI (Northbridge) Temps.

 

thanks

whats is the danger zone for a such chip cause i read alot about the stutering issue du to nb over heating

actualy mine run 2c hotter than my cpu all the time and cool down much slower than the cpu when i stop the workload

 

If you're NB is 2c hotter then your CPU then you're fine. Donda says it should be within 6c of your CPU. Its debatable whether or not the stuttering is NB heat related.

 

Can we Play the Games on Tv Screen
I tryed to connect my Laptop with HDMI to Tv

shows my Desktop, when i make a Mirror Image
I cant seem to get to see my Game that im playing on my Laptop

is there a setting to it ?

 

I don't use the mirror image, I use it to 'extend my desktop'. Then make the TV the primary monitor. Games should play fine on it then.

Dunno if you can do so with the mirror image but try setting your TV as the primary monitor. To do it, go into the Catalyst Control Centre, go to Displays, click on monitor 2 (Should be your TV if connected) and I think you click 'Swap' can't remember exactly what it's called.

 

Depends if your tv is the same res as you monitor ...

But yes you can

 

thxs guys i will try again & see how it goes

 

So my touchpad on my m17 just stopped working... I usually use my logitech mx revolution, but I took my laptop to a cafe without the mouse or the usb dongle for the mouse and when it booted up, my touchpad wouldn't work... any clues?

 

Try hitting FN+F5

 

just finish uploading a video on youtube about size comparisons between M17x and w90vp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPMWNGGd2So

 

Nice video Mazda . Makes me miss my W90 .

 

thanks quad. i just sent mine out to canada. the new owner is from germany. the w90vp is a very nice and powerful laptop. if asus kept up with the drivers updates. i would have never sold it.

 

Has anyone installed 9.8 yet? Any issues?

 

why is lord vader banned????????

 

Because he wasn't Luke's father.

 

well guys i am returning to the m17 side

there is one due to the house by the end of september ...



and lord vader is banned because of some comments he made .... i reported one of them but needless to say i wish i hadn't of read it

 

I LOL'd at that.

Just one question. WHY are you returning to the M17 side? I may love my machine but after seeing my cousin's M17x I honestly can't see why you'd want to change back to an M17.

 

im not i helped my brother get a m17

so ill be testing and doing some mods on it

 

Ahh, I see.

 

Any chance of coupons on the M17, even though its soo cheap? Maybe Free shipping?
Also there is absolutely no way i could get only one 4850, is there?

 

If you talk to a rep, you should be able to get free shipping. They were giving away free shipping left and right when I made my purchase. I searched around on the net but couldn't find any more coupons to use. AW might have something right off the website to get free shipping.

 

What about the 4850?

 

9.9 seems to be out...are they working for this unit?

 

Can't see any reason why they won't be once mobility modded (they sound like hotfix++ drivers from what I've read). As a new set of 4850s have arrived for me today will confirm once I'm up and running (providing the new cards work!), on the late shift today so just geting out in a few minutes (is almost 10pm here)

 

Nice Alex, I'll be getting mine Monday. Let us know how they work

 

yes, been waiting a long 9 months to see these cards in a m17 or a whitebook. glad to see the day has come.

 

Going to try the 9.9s out on my machine in a bit but theres no performance stuff in this set and only fixes etc. Still worth a shot though..


Well they fixed RE5 Crossfire in these drivers .

1920x1200

65fps under DX10 everything maxxed and no AA

8x AA 48 fps.

 

Im back, 9.9's seem to be running fine

Johnksss - if you want to see thr 4850s performance, check out my benchmark thread a little while back; I benched with a p8400, and also with my X9100 at 3.325Ghz, also did a BRIEF overclock to see how they'd perform running at 550/850 (they hit 10500 GPU score in Vantage).

They're pretty damn capable...just a little warm lol

 

at this point you guys can master performance if you can just get a good working crossfire going. i would rather have a bunch of fixes this go round instead of performance..you see what happend when they did it the other way around..lol 8.5 all the way up to 9.8..can 9.9 just fix all that isn't working..

post a link and show me the way.

 

Yeah as far as the 3870s go i dont expect better performance from anything at this point, so crossfire fixes are a good thing . Since i can not get the 4850s ill have to make do with what i have .

 

Quad, what other games and game benchmarks do you run? I'd like to see if we have similar performance since we almost have the same setup:

I guess most games I can run at max settings all right, but there are a few games (Red Faction: Guerrilla, Need for Speed: Undercover, Section 8), that I need to remove AA/shadows in order to get a decent framerate wiht the 3870s.

Like you, I wish we could get the 4850's...*sigh*

 

Not sure about Red faction Guerilla yet ill have it tomorrow when i go grab it from gamestop since they got it in early. But i know shadows on medium for that game along with turning off ambient occlusion,softshadows,sun shafts is supposed to help the FPS alot and the game still should look excellent . Thats what i have read on the boards atleast. Ill know more though tomorrow.

Section8 i was not interested in buying since im not a huge online player and its more multiplayer focused . Though with the Unreal Engine games the one that nails the FPS the most is post processing if they have the option for it in the game or you can edit in the inf.

Havent played NFS undeground on the m17 yet though i do have it kicking around some where.

The 9.9s really smoothed things out and i saw increases in GTA4 and Prototype.

Im running Dual boot Win7 RTM and Vista 64 depending on the game im playing since some perform better then others on each OS. Just lots of experimenting.

And yeah i would kill for a set of 4850s but oh well no luck .

 

I didn't know the 9.9s were out until I read the above posts 30 minutes ago. When you use the Mobility Modder, should you use the "Change Memory" function to set it to 512?

I've only messed with Guerrilla a little bit but I'll try your recommendations. Shockingly, I had to turn the resolution to 1400x1050 in order to play it at a somewhat decent framerate 45-60FPS with AA at 2x and shadows at "Low".

Do you usually play your games with V-sync on or off? So you recommend turning Post Processing off, what exactly does it do? Do you overclock the GPUs?

Wish I could just turn everything on and forget about it like those guys with the 4580s and 280s but looks like we gotta tweak to get the best of things.

 

Well guerilla is bringing many systems to there knees including I7 desktops according to an article i read. Also i never play with AA on period and i have to run at Native resolution or not at all.

Vsync is almost always off id say 99.99% of time because a little tearing does not bother me.

I never overclock the GPUs at all unless i was testing something which i havent on the M17 . I did it on my M17x for Vantage etc to see if i could bust some records but thats about it .

They use different names for post processing in Unreal games , its called Bloom or a few other names but just look for things pertaining to lighting like HDR etc and toy around with those and sometimes you can bring out alot from a game with a couple changes . At 1920x1200 on a 17 inch screen if i have to turn off a couple eye candy things it does not bother me in the least because the screen is small enough where it does not stand out like it would if i had it hooked up to my big monitor.

 

i was able to max out NFS Undercover with my whitebook no problems as far as i remember. i don't remember the exact FPS i was getting though...

 

Oh, okay, I don't feel so bad anymore if it's killing i7 desktops. I only played it a little and it didn't look THAT great, must be the way they programmed it. I love games that look great, but are programmed well (like CoD4 and FEAR2) so that it doesn't bring a decent system to a crawl.

dondadah: Lucky you. I could play NFS:UC at 1920x1200 but I had to turn AA down to 2x or off, shadows off/low, and world effects to low in order to get smooth, reliable gameplay out of it. And this is with 9.7/9.8 drivers. In that game, a little hiccup and I'd be in the wall.

 

The biggest issue i see is you want to run AA at all which will just nail the performance on these cards even at 2xAA . You should stay away from the AA .

 

There we go:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=404008

Initial post is a long one as I edited in the majority of screenies First bunch of about 10 pics are p8400 (2.2Ghz processor) second lot are with the X9100 at 3.325 (which was linpack everyday stable; Im just not running it right now as playing it safe with the Alienware BIOS instead of ZFactor 0.28!)

The picture at the end of the benches is running RE5 with the 9.8 Hotfix, 1920x1200, DX10 (as it didnt work properly with older drivers), I ran this again last night with the 9.9s and that score has increased to 78 average

Not sure where the overclocked picture has gone though, will try and dig that up for you, migth have been a seperate thread.

Edit: Ah the picture was hiding near the end of the thread.
Im not running these speeds at the moment mind, this was CPU@ 3.325Ghz, GPU at 560/840, standard clocks are 3.06Ghz CPU and 500/800, CPU will probably be re-overclocked in the future, but wanna be careful with these GPUs

 

i hate you, I want those cards! The SFIV score is all I'm familiar with and that's a 50% Improvement on the 3870.

 

Apart from GPU, the SFIV benchmark seems to scale heavily with CPU... look at the difference between the P8400 and X9100 to see what I mean! Still, wish I could run the GPUs at the same clocks as the 3870s...500 core to 625...would be a BEASTY improvement hehe

 

Yeah heres my SF4 scores .

 

wow quad. you aren't playing......

i'll have to see if i can find my 9800m gtx scores later.

 

Alex's scores are still crushing mine. Man what i would give to get a set of 4850s ........