M17x review finally

I go to work early. I woke up 45 minutes ago. I'm going to go hop in the shower now.

 

for all the german speakers:
http://www.notebookjournal.de/tests/review-notebook-alienware-m17x-945

= very good stability and ?processing?. Everything very sturdy and massive.


Display:

in Short:
Glare type Display with glass plate, wuxga, 1920x1200. manufacturer: Samsung.
avg. brightness: 222 cd/m².

contrasts: 1268:1 at max brightness

viewangles: 35° horizontal, 50° vert. no colorbleeding, just reducing brightness.

 

my Gpu core is on 70 degree C while im installing fall out 3.. is that normal?
everything else is around 50

 

Glad to see that you got the M17x Moo. Sorry to hear that the fan was a dud.. Hope they get that resolved for your quickly.

Nice touch on the Milk.

Man Away for a day and all kinds of stuff happens..

Looking forward to your vidoes.

 

i have a quick question on the lights. can they pulse to different colors?

 

Yes they can... you can literally set the lighting to strobe or slowly change there are many options for colors as well

 

Lol i like the video from E3 where the game he was playing was effecting the lighting system and i also like the fact that they keyboard will flash when you have Mail.

 

Yea they are doing all sorts of cool things when they have the licensing... at least we know Darkvoid will interact with our keyboards

 

What games support the changing keyboard and also how do you make it strobe? Wait..my lights are broken!!

 

sweet, I cant wait to get mine! i think i will always have it on pulse!

 

Well thats always one way to find out if your Epileptic or not .

 

lol nah i think the pulsing would give me some ideas for photoshop on mixing colors. that is one of main reasons for the pulsing plus i was going to have it on a slow pulsing not the strobe effect. i think that would be a little to much

 

that was really good Moo! i like the pics, must've been quite fun having the photo op eh?

 

DOH!!!!


10char

 

hehe I just got my second one, waiting for someone to come home so they video it, im feeling classical music and I open it very slowly, also. Seriously what games have the lights react to the game?

 

So far I only know for sure that Jumpgate Evolution will react to the lighting. The same youtube review that demoed the lightening changed also said that all the games that Alienware demo'ed the M17x with at E3 2009 also had the reactive lighting. Which was quoted at the time as only being 5 games.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ4q...946AA21D1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2

 

Here you go guys, sorry to post it in two threads, cant resist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx_274U5O9g

 

thanks for the kind words what else do i need to add to my review?

Any programs ?

 

updated things on the review

 

put CPU benchmarks ....

Re wrote it and added pics

 

Can you run a 1MB superpi?

 

SIGH***

I guess

 

ok its up there

 

I have been skulking around the forums for a few months now trying to decide what bloody laptop to buy. First it was the Clevo 8662 but then realizing I spend way too much in front of my laptop that a 15" was too small I started looking at 17"+.

For over a month now I debated between the M17X and NP9850. I had decided on the Clevo with a single 280 and base CPU. With the NP9850 pushed back and single GPU no longer an option I decided M17X it is.

I had not really configured M17X until just a few days ago as I thought the system would be well out of my price range. With the EPP 7% discount and only upgrading the LCD and 260 SLIs it is around $2165. I pulled a Keanu and said WHOA that is not a bad price at all!!

Still I was reluctant to drop $2350 for a laptop I kept thinking I am bonkers (ya ya I know an M17X can cost a lot more but heck that is half a supercharger for my truck). Now after reading your review I am excited about buying this laptop! Gonna call Dell on the way home and see if I can wrangle any further discount from an agent hehe.

TLDR: GREAT review I am now truly excited about buying an M17X. rep given

 

CL11?!

 

????

ummm confused?

 

Thank you i can take any picture or run any test you want.

 

Your memory timings are high. I never checked what mine reads at 1333Mhz. Your CL should be 9.

 

Basically... 1000MHZ @ CAS 5 have the same performance of 2000MHZ CAS 10.

While i highly doubt that it will affect your performance (C2 don't need that much bandwidth) i would say that trying to use 4:5 can be a pretty good idea.

I'm just curious about why BIOS set that high CAS

 

Sorry im no memory Guru is it bad or good ?

If i remember correctly good right ?

 

The bios might read something different. Worth checking.

 

very nice =)

 

Jesus Moo that lighting system looks amazing and very unique...good on ya!

How come you have satelite broadband mate? Are you a little isolated out there?

 

i live ina town where there are more cows then people

Louisiana ... my graduating class was 8

No DSL for 20 miles

 

Broadband just isn't widely available yet. I'm in a suburb of Chicago and my only broadband option is cable.

 

How did you field a football team? lol!

 

we played 8 man with 8 people

I played DE on defense due to my size n speed and QB/FB since i was tall n big

QB/FB was because we ran Wildcat offense all year

 

So no girls in your HS?

 

Yea more then Boys

40 in the HS

Its where i met my fiance 4 year together, whooo im going to see her tonight

Can we keep this to PM's?

 

I'm wondering...

1066 probably don't have SPD for 1333 so the bios just put the max CAS available.

 

I just checked mine at 1333 and it does read 9 in cpu-z and the bios.

 

lol @ the milk

 

Thanks for the great review!

 

Could we get some pictures of the BIOS as that is something that really sets this notebook from other.

Also, slightly unrelated, any programs that can control keyboard colors for the M17 (whitebook)? That looks awesome haha

 

I remember back when i lived in Texas in a small town and we played 6 man football due to size.. I mean the classes in the school contained everyone in that grade... Very small town outside of waco of approx 200ppl.. That was years ago..

 

@ MR.moo


wen will you post dissemble "guide"
or photos ? it wold be really nice to see it inside ....

 

Ask Mandrake he has already done so

 

my fan is workin yay !!!!!!!!!!

 

Did you get it replaced?

 

lol yea .... come on now mandrake ... i got to keep the old one so imma see if i can get it to work so i could sell it