*OFFICIAL* "All Powerful" M15x Owner's Lounge, *Part 2*

@Zero2Infinity. Dell authorizes your account when you place the order, which disappears after a few days. Once the order ships, you will be charged for the full amount.

 

Well, my M15X is now just 30 miles away. Soooo excited.

 

My m15x landed yesterday and all i can say is wow...

Its a very solid build, i must say i'm really impressed. I haven't had to much time with it but ill let you guys know how well it does with 3d programs such as modo and zbrush... can't wait to test it out.

Someone mentioned dell ships in batches and I will confirm that being that the sales rep told me thats how do they do it.

Does anyone know or have any benchmarks showing the difference between 1066Mhz vs 1333Mhz of RAM in the m15x???? I'm thinking about upgrading to 8gb of 1333Mhz so any info would be much appreciated.

 

Hey JL3D, congrats to your new M15X. Could you try to install HWMonitor and see how's the temp of your i7 CPUs because the last time I checked mine, it has a reading of 60 Celsius degree! as I posted above. Running program were only IE7, Skype and remote connection in balanced mode. I know the program is not so reliable enough but worth a try though to give us the normal temp of our M15X.
Thanks in advance!

 

Hi,

I ordered my M15x on Nov 4, and I got and order confirmation e-mail but I do not see my order in My Accounts. Is dell just taking its time to update this page? How long does it usually for the information to be in My Accounts?

Thanks!

 

Thanks for the info. Hopefully, my order will ship sometime next week. We'll just have to wait and see.

 

ryuken,my i7 is idling around the 44-53 Celsius in High Performance on battery if thats of any help to you.
One core reached 67 in Supreme Commander but so far i think thats the highest temp I've had.

 

My laptop is now out for delivery!! This work day can't go by fast enough!

 

Mine just arrived. I now know why there are not so many unboxing videos out there. I started to take photographs of every aspect of unboxing it, and then I got to the machine itself. At that point the camera got turned off and I was completely absorbed.

It's a lovely machine. On the pro side, the design of the machine offsets the weight. I was quite surprised by this, but it's such a lovely texture and so well balanced that it really doesn't feel like you have 91bs of computer on your lap. Also, I'm love the face recognition security stuff.

On the cons - there's only one at this point. There's an awful lot of plastic above the top and below the bottom edge of the screen. We could have gotten a lot more screen real estate if they'd focussed onm mthat area a little longer.

I'll post up pictures for those that want them later, but for now I have to pack this thing up and get back to work (I did have a wonderful made up excuse to not show my face at work today, but then I got the notifcation that Dragon Age, my new mouse and the Alienware's DVI cable have arrived at the office 2 days early)

 

Well, few weeks in now and I'm still loving the M15X overall but..Blarg...TF2 and stuff still locking it up on me. It's really really annoying. I can't figure out exactly what's causing it either, which makes it worse.....I think I may have a small short somewhere tbh. There's no consistency to the crashes, and I've had it just lock on me while viewing pictures too. SOmetimes discharging the system makes it go away for a while, but it's really not an acceptable solution. Any suggestions? (otherwise I'll just call tech support again here in a few weeks when I have time)

 

Congrats froogle!!

Edit: @ foxfire.. are you using modded drivers or the ones from Alienware?

 

did you try changing the setting i mentioned in the nvidia control panel?

 

mm, which setting? about 30+ pages behind on the thread so I haven't fully caught up yet.

Hmm, so I searched posts and found the one you mentioned. Where abouts is the setting to force full power? I'm not as familiar with the nVidia Control panel as this is the first computer I've owned that wasn't ATi in about 5 years.

 

Mine is still in boxing stage from three days.I ordered on 30th morning and till now it is in boxing stage.Guess i am the unlucky one.Even with next business day shipping also i won't get it this weekend if at all it ships

 

same here subhash...i have a EDD of next friday the 13th. keeping my fingers crossed.

 

I appreciate you inputs Archaon. I will try to put it in idle mode with High Performance on battery.

I don't understand why is it goes as high as 67 when playing games where there are 2 powerful blowers to cool them up. Is that normal?
So do you think if our CPUs goes to 80, that would only be the time to worry.Or maybe 90!
Guess so?!?

 

As far as I could tell it only went to 67 once,and that was during a pretty heavy game of Supreme Commander (quite CPU intensive),airflow probably did play a part in that,playing it on my lap probably wasnt the ideal surface for heavy gaming

I wouldnt worry about the temps too much though,not unless they get into the mid/high 70s,then i might get a little apprehensive.

 

Bubbamel - Got the bluetooth card installed today without issue.

You should be okay if yours shows up without. After the tech installed I was able to install the drivers without an issue.

 

Thanks Apo! The problem has been corrected, as now any M15x ordered as of today will show the bluetooth adapter in the invoice. Thanks for keeping me posted on this.

 

Just in case you like to know what's in your computer

what it does, what the highest temps the GPU/CPU where running at.

Voltage, Bios version...the lot.

Try "SIW" you can find it at http://www.gtopala.com and it's free.

Might be useful for some?

 

does the M15x with corei7 720 overclock got some improvement in speed?
i saw some review that core i7 720QM overclock will decrease the performance instead of increase....

 

well my 920 chip just came in, I will install it and test it out later, if I have time I will take some pics.

 

My Alien just landed, looks so nice, facial recognition is a trip, lol. Will put up pics later on. Think I like the green scheme the best so far though.

 

This is what I've been looking for.Very useful!
Thanks bro!

 

Alright guys, need some help here. When I boot up my M15x, I haven't gotten a bios screen nor a windows loading screen. It just shows a blank screen for awhile and then takes me to the login screen. I've currently have the latest bios installed, any ideas?

 

Crysis players what settings do you play on to get the best quality picture with good FPS..

 

Yup, i'm on all green too! Then when it's off AC power, the alien goes to orange. Looks awesome! Love the speaker vent lighting in front too.

Well i'm playing far cry 2 on max resolution (1080P) with everything on ultra settings and it runs very smoothly. I know crysis is a little more demanding but i was playing last night with a VLC video open (paused) and a major newsbin download and self extraction going on and i experienced no stuttering in far cry 2. I think it can handle crysis on ultra now... i thought someone else said that too?

 

Well you have more memory and its faster, and the faster processor, so i'll be happy just running it on High @1900x600 not ultra...

 

well done! glad the tech support was effective and efficient.

 

For the best overall experience i would say that 1600x900 on high would be perfect.. The beginning portions of the game dont reflect the overall performance by any stretch.. When you hit the levels with snow be prepared for the framerate to tank... If it were me id play in DX9 mode on high .. Visually there is not a huge difference but the performance increase will be substantial..

If you want to know how to run the game in Direct x 9 just make a shortcut on your desktop and rightclick to properties then add -dx9 to the end of it..

should look something like this..


C:\crysis\bin64\crysis.exe -dx9

 

No problem

 

thanks for the link: really useful little program which makes you realize what device manager could do if the interface was more user friendly

 

When I have the TV hooked up during boot-up everything shows on the laptop screen but nothing shows on the TV till I get the the login screen. Sounds like yours is not using the laptop screen as the default. I checked the bios but didn't see any settings that may help. Might be one for Dell support.

 

Alright all, I have finally rejoined the M15x ranks with the following:


224-6812 1 BASE,NBK,ANW,BLK,M15X
317-2398 1 Intel Core i7 820QM 1.73GHz
317-2403 1 4GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1066MHz 2 x 2048MB
320-0936 1 15.6-inch Wide FHD 1920x1080 (1080p) WLED
320-0938 1 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M
341-9756 1 256GB Solid State Drive
313-8792 1 AlienFX Color, Quasar Blue
313-8569 1 Slot-Loading Dual Layer Blu-ray Reader
313-8944 1 5.1 Channel Audio
430-0686 1 Intel WiFi Link 5300 802.11AGN Half Mini Card
312-0206 1 Primary - 9-cell (85Watt) Lithium-Ion Battery
430-0684 1 Internal Bluetooth 2.1 Mini-Card - 2.1 Enhanced Data Rate
421-1360 1 Steam Pre-Installed with free download of Portal


woohoo!! Ended up paying about $2640 (includes tax) and free next day , but am happy I finally got an SSD drive!

 

Grats Bubba! I'd be really curious to know what kind of battery life you're hitting with the 9 Cell and SSD when it comes in!

 

LOL you remind me of my friend that buys something and returns it like 10 times before he makes up his mind! haha.

Anyway is anyone else bothered by the fact that you HAVE to have steam pre-installed?? I hate that...

 

order for Alienware m15x BLK as in signature placed on 10/30/2009
Est Delivery Date - 11/09/2009
Mouse Keyboard Tuner on backorder which is okay.

So I will have Alienware m15x BLK this Monday !!!

Excited about increment over current processing speed of my numeric intensive applications.

 

When I had the M15x originally with 9 cell I was pushing maybe 2:30. I would think with Win 7 and SSD, I will probably push 2:45? At least that is what I am hoping.

Hahaha.. Well, I was pretty bummed out when I first received it with the issues it had. I have had two other laptops, and I decided this one was the best, especially I got a better price then I did the first time and I am getting the SSD installed in it. So I am pretty happy about it. Now, in referrence to steam coming pre-installed, you can uncheck that option if you want. I just had it pre-installed since most of my games are on steam, and that is one less thing I have to install once I get it...hehe.

 

Hey guys,

Just heard that Dell will be updating their website shortly with information as regards pending orders. So if you've been checking on the status of your order and its still showing "in production", things should change for possible shipping for next week.

 

whats the difference between the solid state drive and the sata II drives ?

 

SSDs have no moving parts.

 

Hey vek, as Nero stated, one benefit of SSD drives are that there are no moving parts, and less of a chance of data loss/failure. The other thing about SSD drives is that they are much faster than your traditional disk HDD's. Hope that helps.

 

& much more expensive! ^_^

 

Mine shipped now. delivery on monday.can we go to fedex office on saturday and collect the package ourself or have to wait until they deliver on monday?does anyone know about it by chance?

 

This happened to me once when i was waiting for my old m15x after repair. it was at the dhl depot on a saturday,less than 20 km from my place but they said they havent sorted it so i cant go and collect and because it was sent via standard delivery they wouldnt deliver untill monday. but that is dhl and their standard delivery.

 

I have not even ordered....damnn iam impatiently waiting for the refund.. only if time could fly :-(

 

Wait until they deliver on monday. I tried to pick mine up on saturday when mine was shipped on a fri but my lappy was still in transit and wasn't there at the fedex office... they also told me they dont normally receive shipments on saturday that is being sent by fedex overnight...

But um, just check your tracking number and see if any local fedex office received your lappy... if you do, then call them up and ask them if you could pick it up. You will be charged extra $$$ though. Like 15 bucks.

 

Is it really worth the extra cost involved with the SSD HDD over the standard HDD? Seems like alot of money for some HDD performance improvement?!

 

Just installed the 920xm, still waiting for my 9 cell battery to come in and additional power adapter. If anyone needs an extra adapter, let me know I can snag one up for you for 60 bucks with my corporate account.