M17x R2 - Quick Review & Benchmarks

Yes, it's here guys.




First Impressions:

1) LED screen looks great to me, although i don't have the R1 to compare with. It looks much better than my unibody MBP.
/*The MBP is calibrated for photo editing, Alienware has more contrast, detail w/o tuning. Color looks much better on the Alienware, imo. 100% brightness on MBP, 6 bar 90% brightness on Alienware.*/
2) No throttle or latency issues.
3) Build quality is amazing, also it's not a "loud" system to me since I've heard about the R1 which can be easily heard across rooms.
4) Touch pad is actually quite good, although i don't know about the R1 issues to compare with here.
5) Sound quality is amazing imo. Again I'm comparing to my unibody MBP. Loud and clear.
6) Fans and Temperatures:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5819318&postcount=5
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5819353&postcount=11
Etc) Btw, no GDDR5 surprise here, for those who are still dreaming. loll

Benchmark will be up in the next hour. //Didn't know you need to pay for benchmark settings loll, i'm stuck with trial versions i guess.
Anyhow, if it's of any use, stock settings (Don't know why it's showing i7 950) :
3DMark Vantage Trial --> http://service.futuremark.com/home.action?resultId=1848126&resultType=19
3DMark06 --> http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5814243&postcount=43

 

Awesome I look forward to some more impressions + pics/vids if you got them.

 

Awesome, congrats man.

 

Nice! looking forward to some benches and good pics of the Lunar Silver. +rep

 

do check to see if it throttles...

 

How nice is the rgb led screen?!

 

So, welcome in the club of m17x owners Please don't forget to check dpc latency, I think all R1 owners are waiting for this (including me)

 

Just do a stock run of vantage that will tell me more then i need to know

 

If you can do something like a cut and paste of your scores would be good. Just use image shack to show the screen smaller.

 

i cant wait to see wat it can pull on crysis!!

 

PLEASe go into the BIOS and let us know what you can do

 

...... your worried about crysis when crysis 2 is coming out ?

ITs going to be the exact same ( give or take 5%) as the M17x with the core 2 duo with 4870's?

....

 

A picture of the performance menu you would be best

thank you for your help and contributions

the dpc latency checker would be a nice test

 

There you go.

 

Very nice! thank you.

PS: your 3Dmark 06 benchmark isn't visible when I click on the link.

 

Hmm you can only go to 5% overclock for the CPU?

 

No throttle and latency issues.

Thumbnails done.

It's the trial versions anyway, i'll leave the heavy benchmarking to you guys. loll

 

Nice thanks a lot for all the info. Would you mind posting a couple quality pics of your Lunar Silver in some decent light, if it's not too much to ask?

 

Thank you !

No way I'm paying for a 920 Now!

try evga e-leet tuning utility to overclock and if it works lemme know

 

5%...weak.

 

With a 55w tdp I can understand wanting to be very careful how much you give out

but evga tuning utility has worked on some systems

 

15K default CPU score in Vantage. At stock that beats us by over 1K....NICE!

We will be hitting 16K Vantage with this system thanks to the CPU.

Edit: oops..I meant CPU

 

I'm guessing it goes up as voltage changes. +5% each notch up.

 

Since the 06 score hasn't been marked public what was it?

 

Not sure if i have the time, it probably looks the same as the R1? But Silver sure looks hot. Am glad i didn't pick the Black one. This is my very first Alienware and I'm very pleased with it so far.

Gonna try fraps with L4D2, COD MF2, Dirt 2 and GTA IV tonight!

 

Cool. Keep us Posted

 

I spent the whole night doing research on headphone, tube amp and DAC not knowing that we already have a R2 here

Great! + rep!

Edit: And since you have a MBP handy, can you take pics of both R2 and MBP display in the same light condition, same picture (choose a really colorful one )? I know Im asking too much but if you can do that

 

julylogic, would you like to try "Empire; Total war"? I would like to know if this works with the ATI cards, (Steam provides a free test sample on the page) if it is not a too big of a deal? Thanks!

 

yeah especially interesting gta4

 

well it's very funny but the WHOLE country (Russia) dunno about R2

 

how much did u bough this thing ?

I hope u would post some pictures of your laptop too, or better, a video.

 

In Soviet Russia, R2 KNOWS YOU!

 

lol nowadays we're not Soviet, simply Russia

edit: BTW what about temps? idle or normal usual work?

 

nice nice. more runs please. can you max out the cpu and the ram and then run vantage and use ati 8.12 or 10.1 and lets see what the gpu can do.

 

He doesn't sound like much of a "benchrunner". Might have to wait a couple of days. He did an 06 run but didn't post the score.

 

i kind of saw that but congrats on getting your maxed out unit. i'm sure your going to at least play games on it so please post your scores of average min max when you get a chance.

 

Well this was all very underwhelming. Hopefully the rest of us get tracking numbers soon so vids/pics/benchmarks become plentiful. Thanks to the OP for the first few tidbits.

 

yes. i want to see what the led is all about.

 

Julylogic
Thank you so much for your efforts, that is a nice rig there!
First thing I do when using an OS for the first time, whether it was XP, Vista (which I hated) or Windows 7, first thing I do is to go to BlackViper.com and follow the Windows Services guide there, you'll be surprised how much performance improves after you disable several services that auto start by default and which are not really necessary, some of them do use a lot of resources...
I'll be waiting for your fraps report, thanks again!

 

Yeah I'm not into the whole benchmarking thing but ppl asked me to do it anyway. I did post the results but it didn't show after that, oh well. So i'll leave the serious benchmarking to the other NBRs.

Thanks mate, you and the rest of the peeps here will be getting your rigs pretty soon anyway. I'm looking forward to some tips on OC/tweaking the system.

 

nice..... do you have a regular laptop to compare the screen ?

 

Do you remember your 3dmark06 score? Even just a range...12K, 13K, 14K, 15K?

 

No problem, i just found the temp file i saved earlier. Hope this helps.

 

21,000 isnt far.

 

looks like this time you going to brake the 20,000 record on 06 mandrake

 

18,123 stock... nice. I'm getting very excited for the 5870's now.

 

you can get about 3,000 more with tweaks from 06.

 

ok that means 21,000 nice

 

if you tweak it doesn't it make the score invalid? i thought u were just supposed to open the program and hit run so everyone is on an even playing field.

 

no because every body has different cpu. ram, hdd so is no way this can be even, but you have a good point