*OFFICIAL* "All Powerful" M15x Owners Lounge, *Part 3*

yea, sorry i couldn't help, normally that would work. and yeah waiting is the hardest part, so i feel ya.

 

Nothing hurts more than having a brand new Lappy with a ton of games and cant play with it because I have a tons of homework to do

 

This is rubbish! I can't wait any longer!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

 

I'm quoting this because i'm curious which drivers are universally considered better by all of you guys as well. I'm currently on 186.47

 

your current driver should be fine and is recommended, it just certain games works better on different drivers, for me 186.47 was a little buggy on my system, so i went with 195.62. i get lower fps but it got rid of a few glitches i was having. i haven't had time to test out the other drivers yet but if i find something i'll keep you guys posted.

 

Jesinak

Tell them it is very important for you to get your laptop on time for a 'business presentation' a few days before your expected date of arrival. You will have to cancel your order it is that important. My rep told me it is some sort of law they have to follow to put the ETA date up and it usually always arrives earlier than that but by law they have to state that buffer time. As you can see from my previous post above I tried my hardest to get some free stuff

 

Can we overclock the 260 M using ntune? Anybody try and if we wanted to in the future will our motherboard support DDR5 360 chipset so we can use DX11?

 

Using 186.47 Far Cry 2 was unplayable (<10fps), even with everything turned down including resolution. Very bizarre. Magically with 192.67 WHQL it flies at native resolutions.

By the way InappropriateName_3, the Australasia Dell folk tell me there's no free DP->HDMI converter in local M15x packages. I'm waiting on them to tell me if there's one in the AW2210 box. Very sad, two current AW products don't play together without third party hardware.

 

My order had gotten kind of messed up. Like I ordered OnLine. Then that got cansled. Then I called to get that UnCanseled but it never really did even though the laddy on the phone told me she got it to go through.

Then I called on the phone to the # InappropriateName_3 gave me (Thanks again I gave you a Rep Point but it is not showing...) I got a New Good Deal order put through with all that good stuff at a cheaper price.

Then that New Good Deal order got removed from my account and Yet An Even NEWer order got made to my account. This newest one had all the same stuff and the OnLine one that is still Canceled except it had Free Shipping.

So, I had to call today and got that Newest one Canceled and confirmed the Oldest OnLine one was Still canceled. Then had the Good Deal Order confirmed as "All Good" "Paid" and "In Production" 2/12/2010.

Now the dell.com web site has both the Old OnLine order as Canceled as well as the Newest one Canceled. However, it still doesn't show the Good Deal order at all. BUT, when I click the link in the email it DOES bring me to a Dell.com web page that shows my Good Deal Order as "In Production" ETA 2/12/2010

So, in conclusion I think everything is A-OK with my order BUT I would advise not to mess with your order to much. Things can get out of hand vary fast.

 

Overclocking the 260M GTX and Flashing the Bios

DOX NVIDIA DRIVERS
260M GTX (575/950/1440)- OVERCLOCK SPEEDS
Flashing GPU BIOS using NiBiTor 5.0 - http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=388335

DOX NVIDIA DRIVERS
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_64bit_196.34_beta.html

dondadah88 has some good tutorials

I saw someone flash thier bios to a 9800M GTX or in the process of chaning it to a 280M GTX halfway through the thread ( http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=400299)

Any Thoughts?

 

Wow that sucks, free for some and not for others. I would complain about it, nag them untill they gave you. If you cant find one let me know, i have a spare one that i use at work. But i'm sure they would send you one if you bug them enough.

 

I think I started a war on the G73 thread. There are alienware bashers and Asus bashers. I created a separate forum to keep it out of these:::

ENJOY

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=455633

 

Anand you are so gonna get banned lol.

 

Why can’t we compare. There are so many vs forums. I just did a vs manufacture forum?

 

Is the power button on the m15x touch sensitive too like the area51 model? or is it just an ordinary push in button? I can't seem to find any up close and detailed videos showing off all the neat stuff

 

I did a bit of trolling....I LOLed at ferrari vs pinto. IMO, Id be happy with either. All around me, people have old laptops, or new acers, apple thinnies, gateways, and supermarket lappies. I honestly feel anyone who can pack as much power in a laptop, whether asus or AW, should be proud that they can own such a machine. And to those saying one breaks more than the other...come on! No machine is perfect (except a bmw M3), so it is inevitable that any laptop will have issues! Whats important is the customer service and how quickly your issues get resolved.

In all, I call for mutual respect between asus and AW owners because we are all fortunate people to own such amazing machines.

 

How about the HP Envy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3LBGI66AH0

My vote it still on the M15x

 

no its a push button, i like it much better than the older area 51 model. the older one that button is to finicky. i think they got it right this time with the new model.

 

They removed my thread . Oh well I tried to move the craziness and drama to one forum but I guess that didn't work out. I have a Steel Grey E46 so I agree the BMW M3 is almost perfect.

 

Owe ya any BMW is certainly a Drivers Car

I posted on this thread.. G73 vs M15x
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=452861

 

Does anyone know what it means when the Alienhead (power button) is alternating colors as opposed to being a solid color. The laptop is plugged into AC so it should be solid green.

 

Were you running on battery at all prior to going back to AC? Typically, this means its charging the battery.

 

Its official...

running bad company 2 on my M15x with 1600x900 is a dissapointment..

at 1x AA and high settings, it runs terrible..

after a night of overclocking i got it to run at medium ... arghhhhh hopefully it gets better once its out of beta, who knows..

 

That must have been it. Thanks.

 

Can we hook up 2 external monitors to the m15x?

hopefully it does otherwise this might be my only option: Matrox DualHead2Go Digital Edition Dual Monitor

 

Do you have an overclocking guide?

 

Did Alienware ever release this screen?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yT6OuGXmGo&feature=fvw

 

Corrupt05, try different drivers, it does affect FPS for different games. Crysis couldnt run well on one driver, but kick in other driver, so dont give up if you havent tried different drivers for your GPU.

 

nope, just flashed to 1V 3d, then set clocks with rivatuner, but I'm about to edit the bios so then ill flash it to 675/1675/1100 1v ... which is very stable so far with furmark and several hours of BC2... If you want I could post the bios so all you have to do is flash it(instructions on flashing is in joker's throttling thread)...

only thing I would suggest after flashing is running furmark to stress it for a few hours to see if its stable, and then run gpu-z to confirm the clocks and to see if it throttles (which it shouldnt when its flashed to 1V)

I have, first I had the official latest nvidia, then switched to latest beta which made no diff .. It's the GTX 260m that's not upto the task, right now im running it at medium 1600x900 with my overclock it runs perfect... just dont expect to run it at high .. or with any AA on..

 

Speak for yourself! Put everything to high except shadows and effects (medium) then turned the last option (its a 4 letter abbreviation) to off instead of on. I have a the increased screen res and this game ran beautifully on mine. Not to mention I havent OCed my GPU.

 

hmmm are you running win7 64bit or 32bit?? and what version of nvidia drivers? Also where did you get the drivers from, official nvidia ?

 

You need to turn off HBAO. When I first started playing that's what caused me to get low FPS. I also turned down effects and shadows to medium just to get absolutely no fps issues at all.

 

186.81, 64bit. official site yes. stock clocks

 

But yeah, BC2 has already brought back a lot of good memories about BF2... Nothing like seeing an apache helicopter spinning out of control and crashing 10 feet in front of you while you're trying to snipe that mofo who just happened to line up perfectly in your sights .

Maxed out the recon kit and ruined my stats going for the assault XD

 

Not to mention this game kicks MW2's just because the buildings can all be reduced to rubble !! Okay enough ranting.

 

Enough quadruple post too, let me introduce you to the edit button.

Besides, my M15x is always so cool, I have yet to find something to make it lag 8D

 

I disabled bhao and set everything to high except AA = 1... runs smooth now.. do have occasional heavy lag at the start of a round... but cant complain to much since its still beta.. game is great so far..

 

Haha, nice one.

+1!

EDIT: Or not... Seems I've been to generous over the last 24 hours, though I truly don't believe it!

 

I just refreshed my order screen and it shows Shipped!!!!!!!!!! so it must have shipped Friday which is seven days early from the estimated ship date! Thank god, i dont know if i could have waited much longer.

 

Congrats, you'll love it

 

InappropriateName_3 what is the OSD mod in your sig? what does it do?

 

its just some replacement pictures for your OSD. here is a link that will explain it better.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=390865&highlight=osd

if anyone chose to use it please rep alienen for his work

 

Thx and I will Foo Shoo

 

Can you upload a printscreen of the icons and all?

 

you can just download it, it all just jpeg's, so you can preview them. i too lazy to do a printscreen right now, sorry.

 

Oh snap, what did I do? Its not working

 

it not a program or anything its just pictures that replaces the old ones. if you did it right it should just ask you if you want to replace the existing ones. this mod does not affect system performance of any kind.

 

Lol, yeah I noticed, but for a while my icons where just gone, hopefully I fixed it 8D

 

french canadians.. always such dicks. anyways hope the game works out for ya now corrupt.. what's your tag i'll add ya. Mine's Avenge.

 

Can someone finally answer this question....

Can we hook up 2 external monitors to the m15x?