M17x-R2 flickering stats by cpu type

Lol its gonna be a rough one thats for sure...

Im not forseeing the problems alot of others have had with the 920s so i might be very happy .... If it has even a single dead pixel though back in the box it go's thats for sure... I already made up my mind im not going to deal with having to call and complain right out of the box.... So im crossing my fingers on that one ...

 

Im just going to put this out here that,


Not every Alienware owner is on this forum. Maybe a very small portion of alienware owners are on this forum. Just because a couple people are experienceing problems, it does not mean that everyone is or going to have the same problem.

 

i have a 820 and didn't experience any flickering. my laptop does sound like it is going to take off right now though.
i7 820
4870 xf
4gb 1333mhz ram
rgb led
2x320gb hd in raid 0
spaceblack ha

 

Gta 4 installing
wprime 1024 8 threads
furmark xtreme mode
surfing the Internet

No flickering

720m
rgb led
4870 xfire

 

Aikimox, now you are seriously about RGB LED huh

...

I accidentally voted for 720 NO flickerring but I guess my vote is not a disaster like someone vote for 720 HAVE flickerring.

Dont blame me, blame my iPhone for that.

 

Why can't we have more posts like this? That's OK, Quad and I will be posting reports like this in a couple of days, won't we?

 

All because of you!
If it proves ill - you are to blame, and my conscience is at peace
Now, seriously, I'll make an attempt to upgrade to R2, if it fails - will do some heavy modding (improve the cooling system) then sell it and probably stay away from AW for a while.

 

well I guess I am not immune to flickering I got it playing L4D2 I guess I jinxed myself. Maybe I should have waited before I voted till I got some more time with this thing sorry about that. I think that rules out the screen and the color lol.

 

Ok, I'm trying to run Furmark and it runs ok, but I don't see both GPUs running. The temp on one goes up to around 60C while the other stays around 40C or so. It isn't being used it seem. I have the cards setup for Crossfire according to the CCC. Is there something I am missing or does it only test one card even though Crossfire is set?

 

Oh so LCD is not a cure... Luckily we have you who have LCD on R2. One assumption is crossed out.

Good luck with dealing w/ Dell. Im still camping and hoping for this flickerring issue to be treated. I actually thought a R2 is problem free. Sadly I was totally wrong

 

Are you running furmark 1.8 ? at the beginning it asks you if you want to run MultiGpu...

 

Yes 1.8 which I got from the link on the first page of this thread. I didn't run it right away after installing, but the shortcut on my dektop says (mutli-gpu) on it.

Sorry, but first time running these types of programs and still learning.

EDIT: I am clicking on the desktop icon that says multi-gpu. I noticed there are two of them.
EDIT #2: Ok, so maybe it ws because AI was off in CCC? Turned it on and both were being used after that.

 

I am going to make a video of the this with and without crossfire enabled. I even get it when I hit the refresh key now damn.

 

I would camp too, but made an inquiry phone call and suddenly got carried away when the rep asked about my stuttering/latency issues. Then I got even more frustrated when he said the fix is a couple of days away, showed him John_B' post and asked for the escalation.... Now I'm on fire!

 

Hey Luigo, did you get any flickering?
the difference from my system to yours is just the RAM that is 8GB in my case and the SSD that I have, wich is the 256GB SSD Samsung

 

I would suggest you guys to contact the media and get Dell's attention on this more seriously. It seems this is a big problem with R2....

 

we're waiting on AW answer which is due today on Joker's laptop. If they will not find a suitable solution i am sure Engadget will get a wind of what's going on...

 

Dell's attention is on this, with an initial progress report due today.

 

Well, my AC Power just died, now it shows a message that it is non-dell Adapter and cannot be used on my system.

Also it wont charge the battery anymore.

this...

 

I saw so many people with that exact issue...
this release had been nothing but issues so far

 

This is a real disappointment. I should be getting my M17x today. It's been delayed do to severe weather conditions. Once I use the laptop for a few days I'll let you all know.

 

Hey, on my last minutes using the computer just on the battery without the AC Power Adapter that just died.

I didn't have any flickering with the Xfire, the FPS were low due to not be connected to the Power Cord but no flickering at all.

Do you guys think that my problem might be just the AC Power Adapter?

 

i doubt that it's your power adapter specifically. It's the primary suspect AFAIK according to the guys that tried to troubleshoot the problem.

 

If they sent it to the area in Houstan Taxas. we are Screwed. I dont think they know how to change a light blub.

7 replacements parts not related to the system issue
1 replacements parts not related to the system issue

But I have to say they are getting better.

I would vote but still dont have a system. 37days they told me I would have one.

 

So far no flickering just running furmark, but I haven't had a chance to test it with Prime 95 running too. I will try that when I get home from work today.

Temps for one GPU ran at 59C max while the other one was at 62C max after 11 mins. Is it normal for one GPU to show 100% usage and another only 30% during this test? What was also strange was the one running at 30% was the one with the higher temp.

 

If you go into BIOS and disable the message that tells you the power adapter isn't compatible will it still not work?

 

congrats Luigo, happy to hear that you're fine. Also, if you have L4D at home, i'd try that too...

 

Agreed. This's not the first time I saw a guy reports his adapter die. Im sure we are having Toyota in computer world.

And if AC adapter is the cause then somehow people with 720 have better AC adapter then the rest

 

RECALL!

Wouldn't be the first time Dell had to recall adapters if in fact they are bad. They have a good history of doing that with ones made in China.

 

Or we're just not stressing them as much. I did a prime95+furmark torture test and was only seeing a power draw of 170W.

 

FurMark by itself doesn't seem to have caused any issues on my machine. I have the 1333 memory. Rest of the specs are in my sig.

 

I ran a quick (3 minute) test with Prime95 running at the same time and still saw no flickering.

 

I didn't saw any flickering on the FurMark...
But the games are unplayable.

 

Hey, any news from Joker? What happened? AW figured out what the problem is afterall?

 

i suggest you follow this thread for updates from Joker.

 

I am getting flickering in games, both ME2 and GTA4 so far.

 

Welcome to the flickering team.

 

Did Dell confirm the flickering issue like they had confirmed the DPC latency issue?

 

Yep, read the last post on this page for an update:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=450902&page=283

 

Disabling Turbo definitely worked for me. Waiting on the BIOS update now to fix permanently.

 

Yes, a BIOS fix is in the works for this. I have articulated this a bit more in the other thread.

 

Thanks Nags!

 

does it mean that my lappy which is scheduled to arrive on 2/23 will have this BIOS fix?

 

I personally highly doubt that they will fix it so fast but let's think positive

 

Chances are you won't even need it since you have an i720 based system. This bios fix is targeted more towards i920xm users (and a select few i820 configs). The power draw on your i720 shouldn't be enough to trigger flickering/throttling. Bios testing and QA usually takes a while, if I had to guess I'd say at least a month especially considering Chinese New Year is upon us.

 

Yeah i was thinking a month as well ... Hope its sooner though as id love to give this 920 a spin ... My M17x is out on the truck for delivery and its a bummer i dont want to even bother putting the CPU in it ....

 

I hope they also take care of the virtualization problem that those laptops have. It seems there is no Bios option to turn the CPU virtualization features on. This probably means slower vm performance and I assume it can be easily fixed by a bios update since our CPUs are supporting those features.

 

Well you could always put the 920xm in your G73. I'd be curious to see what your impressions are of the RGB LED vs the G73 WLED display.

 

The 920 will go in the G73 if i decide i dont want to keep the M17x thats for sure...

I imagine the RGB LED is going to smoke the Asus panel but at the same time the Asus panel is very nice and better then i thought it would be... Its the same Hanstar display thats in the 8760s.... I think its better then the LG i had in my M17 and i enjoyed the heck out of that screen... Horizontal viewing angles are about the only downside to the Asus screen but are the least important to me as its usually the Verticals that are horrid....

 

at soon as you see the RGB. screen your eyes going to bleed blood