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    M17x Max SPEC!!

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by kenji_0045, Jun 27, 2009.

  1. bkral

    bkral Notebook Consultant

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    I thought 1333 Ram was a waste of money?

    And this guy does know he could have bought it without HDD's and max ram and saved money right?

    Nobody cares that you spent a ton of money, stop trying to buy friends.
     
    bkral, Jun 28, 2009
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  2. julian-nold

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    julian-nold, Jun 28, 2009
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    leguedin Notebook Geek

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    Hello there,

    I maxed out the specs on this machine. See sig. Even upgraded to a Blu Ray burner (I work with big video files). Still waiting to receive it though.
    Ordered 6/10
    cancelled twice
    EDD 01/01/001 (for real) but on the phone with a rep: 07/09

    "there's allways a flip side to the flip side"...
     
    leguedin, Jun 28, 2009
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  4. Mandrake

    Mandrake Notebook Nobel Laureate NBR Reviewer

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    Why did you decide to spend extra for the ram and not go for the SSD? How big are these video files? I would think you would want the faster reads from the SSDs.
     
    Mandrake, Jun 28, 2009
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  5. julian-nold

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    In his sig I read 500GB SSD Raid0?

    Greetings
    Julian
     
    julian-nold, Jun 28, 2009
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  6. leguedin

    leguedin Notebook Geek

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    I got the SSD RAID 0
    My video files range from 2Gb to 750Gb but I won't be with files bigger than 20Gigs. I do TV commercials and documentaries and need a good machine for watching my HD footages on site....and hard core gaming on my free time "if the wife allows it" (she pretty much does though"
     
    leguedin, Jun 28, 2009
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  7. Howitzer225

    Howitzer225 Death Company Dreadnought

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    Slap in a 1TB SSD on the maxed M17x and it'll be perfect. :p :D
     
    Howitzer225, Jun 28, 2009
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  8. leguedin

    leguedin Notebook Geek

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    I would've if it was available !!!
     
    leguedin, Jun 28, 2009
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  9. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    Charles P. Jefferies, Jun 28, 2009
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  10. Mandrake

    Mandrake Notebook Nobel Laureate NBR Reviewer

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    Sorry I need to learn to read. :eek:

    ...and those are some massive files.
     
    Mandrake, Jun 28, 2009
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  11. sleey0

    sleey0 R.I.P. AW Side Topics

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    Wow... That's really good news if the inquirer is right :)

    Can't wait to see some benchies on those new Intel SSD's :D
     
    sleey0, Jun 28, 2009
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  12. Quicklite

    Quicklite Notebook Deity

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    You've got to bench it when you get it. That is one sweet setup. :)
     
    Quicklite, Jun 28, 2009
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  13. The_Moo™

    The_Moo™ Here we go again.....

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    i expect 1tb SSD's by the end of the year going by the progression of SSD's now
     
    The_Moo™, Jun 28, 2009
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  14. leguedin

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    Thanks for the info, very interesting the intel 34nm. Apparently they'll be cheaper the current gen SSD's
     
    leguedin, Jun 28, 2009
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  15. leguedin

    leguedin Notebook Geek

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    Will definitely bench it with uncompressed HD 1080, games, 3Dmark....whatever I put my hands on. And post them.
     
    leguedin, Jun 28, 2009
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  16. BIGX333

    BIGX333 Brazillian Overclocker

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    Yeah i posted this news some page ago.

    TBH the inquirer isn't the most trustworthy source around but generally they r right :p .

    The point is price not capacity... :(
     
    BIGX333, Jun 28, 2009
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  17. Mandrake

    Mandrake Notebook Nobel Laureate NBR Reviewer

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    good, need more people posting in the benchmark thread. There have only been 2 of us lately.

    On a side note we need to get some people with the 260M SLI in there. I'm sure there are plenty of people on the fence between the two cards and would like to see the numbers compared.
     
    Mandrake, Jun 28, 2009
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  18. bkral

    bkral Notebook Consultant

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    Man. Never thought I'd end up spending $1000 on a harddrive. hahahaha. /sigh
     
    bkral, Jun 28, 2009
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  19. The_Moo™

    The_Moo™ Here we go again.....

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    with the smaller manufacturing i expect them to be able to increase the amount of storage :)
     
    The_Moo™, Jun 28, 2009
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  20. Mandrake

    Mandrake Notebook Nobel Laureate NBR Reviewer

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    As long as it makes the smaller sizes cheaper I'm all for it.
     
    Mandrake, Jun 28, 2009
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  21. The_Moo™

    The_Moo™ Here we go again.....

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    Yea might wanna sell my vertex before this one comes out ....
     
    The_Moo™, Jun 28, 2009
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  22. leguedin

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    lol, it's completely crazy!!! 10 times the price of a regular HDD
     
    leguedin, Jun 28, 2009
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  23. Mandrake

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    I was thinking of getting the Corsair P256 to match up with my Samsung or someone may sell their Samsung to get the newer SSDs.
     
    Mandrake, Jun 28, 2009
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  24. BIGX333

    BIGX333 Brazillian Overclocker

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    Talking about vertex...

    http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=610
     
    BIGX333, Jun 28, 2009
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  25. The_Moo™

    The_Moo™ Here we go again.....

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    discussion for SSD shouldn't be here but i couldn't afford a 250+ SSD got it on sale for 110

    :)
     
    The_Moo™, Jun 28, 2009
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  26. bkral

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    Does anybody have any numbers on exactly what the read/write speeds are when comparing Solid State to 7200rpm?
     
    bkral, Jun 28, 2009
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  27. BIGX333

    BIGX333 Brazillian Overclocker

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    Something like 230 vs 60 sequential read...

    TBH I'm not even sure if 7200RPM can get 60 :p
     
    BIGX333, Jun 28, 2009
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  29. leguedin

    leguedin Notebook Geek

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    We're talking about SSD's,
    Who remembers punched cards?
    I was a little kid when I received my first computers in 1982: ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 with respectively CPU: 3.5MHz and 1.02MHz
    Games came in tapes or 10 pages of "BASIC" programming

    What to expect in 20 years from now??? Alienware implants....and direct to brain drives...
     
    leguedin, Jun 28, 2009
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  30. bkral

    bkral Notebook Consultant

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    I had a Commodore64 with tape drive. And I remember playing ZORK and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... the old school text based adventures.
     
    bkral, Jun 28, 2009
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  31. ryujin

    ryujin 2B or not 2B

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    ok - lets get back to topic please... :)
     
    ryujin, Jun 28, 2009
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