Noob question how do you

I am sorry but i just got my alienware m17x and i was wondering how can i check that all the components i ordered are in it like graphics card thank you.

 

When you receive your Mobile system there is a white sheet of paper with your configuration written on it. This sheet should be inside your Alienware parcel.

 

Device Manager?

 

i checked device manager but it dosnt show my radeon crossfire :S

 

What do you mean? It's not under Display adapters?
You can try GPU-Z if you want.

 

Well under my video card it says geforce 9400 m and i ran a 3dmark06 benchmark test and i got a score of 1799 which is horrible and i dont know whats up

 

You have your main cards as WELL as the 9400m which may be used to save power, you need to switch over to your main cards

 

How do i switch cards :S

 

Go into the bios and under Graphics options set both things to disabled disabled.. This will force the ATI cards and only the ATI cards to show up...

 

Thank you for the help

 

Sure thing, let me know how it works out for you ..

 

Hybrid is grayed out no matter what with the ATI systems.

 

you means all the time ATI cards going to be working even in battery power ?

 

Nope it just means you cant run both the ATI cards and the 9400m at the same time. .. Its one or the other...

 

ooo.. i am glad you say that i start to think about battery life running the ATI's on battery power

 

Yeah it would be pretty horrible running both ATI cards and a overclocked Qx9300 on battery ...

Thats why i think it might be a bit longer for the i7 and dual video card machines to come out until Intel releases there own IGP solution so you get more then 20 minutes of battery life ..

 

if is going to be a long wait to see a laptop with i7 and two cards imagine i9 and two cards lol.

 

Lol i dont even want to think that far ahead..

Im anxious to see what intel comes up with though ..

 

I rather imagine dual i9 with quad cards. Its more logical that way By that time people will keep telling me they dont understand how can I live with such a weak machine like an All Powerful M17x =))

 

small improvments :S i am running a q9300 6mb 1333 mhz dual radeon crossfire and when i do a benchmark on 3dmark06 i am getting a rating of 4095 and am overclocked to 3.07 gz please any help would be awesome

 

thats cant be right what res you running the test at? What settings are you using?

Mine Laptop in Signature Defult res 1280X1024 no AA and i only had ONE 280 Being used during tests. I got a 12,366 4281 (CPU)

 

it's not that bad a quad and dual 48xx series i manage to get over 2h of batterie life how ever disabeling wireless or bluetooth or even downing brightness has a ridiculusly low impact on life time