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I'm just about to look for some =)

I'll le youknow how I go.

Out of curiousity, what setup were yo looking at getting?

 

Forgive me if I am wrong, but didn't someone say there was a 6% discount for Australia? Might have been on this thread too. I'm not sure.

 

thanks Wolverine.

I am looking to get what most people in this part of forum are getting.... M17X2. i7-920XM,duel video card, 256G SSD.... but that would come out to be more than 5000 AUD on standard Dell price (about 4800 USD).
So there is no way I am going to purchase without a coupon code of significance.

 

Hi everyone in australia, need a coupon for 6 %?? i got 1 step better, PM me with your e-mail and or a phone number and i will give you my sales rep.

10% massive discount right off the bat no questions asked. =)

my system was 4110 online configuration, through my sales rep i got it for 3667.26 !!!!!

 

Hi all, looks like I've followed a few over from the G73JH thread. I'm REALLY tossing up between these two now.

I'm sure all the pros and cons have been dealt with and it's really a matter of preference now. Here is my "Bargain hunter"s dilemma

Asus is $1599USD in US and $2345AUD here. $749 diff.
M17x-R2 is $2819USD in US and $3118AUD here. $300 diff. (with crossfire)

So I'm actually paying a HUGE premium on getting the Asus to Australia because it's not a core market. It's actually more of a bargain for me to get the Alienware.

We have some strange customizations here. Starts off with i7-720, RGBLED 1200p screen. I will definitely miss the 4 RAM slots, and maybe DX11, but this guy is really looking the goods now.

Now, excuse me while I look through the last 50 or pages and see how much I just repeated.

 

Could you guys provide some screenshots from Everest with the chipset temps? Very interesting to compare with the Nvidia MCP79 which is rather hot.
Also interesting that you have a separate HS on the chipset but no pipes to the fan. I wonder how it affects the temps...

 

Update about my SSD woes: I contacted the seller and explained the situation to him. He claimed he had the drive in raid0 prior to selling it to me (something he never mentioned in his ad) and that he read about drives like this getting stuck in raid 0 mode. He apologized for doing that and asked me to enter the Intel raid menu to reset the drive. So I went into the menu and it wasn't listed as a raid disk. I let him know this and said I believed I was entitled to a refund. He said his policy was no refunds, that the drive was working fine when he sent it (obviously a lie) and that I could take it up with Intel. I filed a case against him with eBay but who knows how it will go.

So to get to the point, I switched the ssd to be a secondary drive and then set it in raid0 with the 500 gb drive. Windows 7 now recognizes both as a single 300 gig raid drive but obviously that's not what I had in mind when I bought this. Anyone know if there's a way to break the raid, put the ssd back as primary and get windows to pick up on it? And will Intel even provide warranty work for this?

 

you will not have a warranty as you are not the original owner I believe

 

I would contact Intel anyway.

You never know.....

 

ummm when my 256 SSD wouldn't detect it was exactly because it was just coming out of RAID 0

You need to format it decently...


Try Gparted live CD and then do a extensive format and that should break the raid ...

Does it have intel RAID or Nvidia RAID?

 

Yeah they might be cool about it and just fix it or replace it .... Definitely worth a shot....

 

R2 doesn't have nvidia mcp

 

but it was raided on the machine of whoever sold it, so we may never know

 

Took me about 2 hours trying to disable and format somebodys SSD .... i don't know who's it was....

 

Exactly Sleey0, its what i asked. Intel RAID may not pick up Nvidia RAID they do hate each other. So it may extent into the RAID market as well

 

Oh, my bad.

Well, I think joker said he did format it. If he was able to do that, there is no way the RAID volume is still on the disk.

 

i formatted mine and it still would not detect it.

Try a vista disc or a XP disc. If you can get a OS to load it will over write anything.

I had the same thing happen to me and its a pain in the butt trying to get it formatted correctly

 

Just ran Gparted and set both to fat 32. Crossing my fingers that this works.

 

Its a pain and i was baffled why my SSD was not showing up.

I formatted everything under the sun and it just poped up after i booted and formated it to NTFS

go figure :/

 

Joker, If you used paypal you can dispute the purchase as item not as described. and explain to them how he never explained the drive was in a raid format. that is all you need to do, paypal will auto refund you your purchase out of his account. make sure you ship it back to him with tracking and a sig otherwise they will give him back your money after a few weeks for no proof of delivery. happened to me.

 

Dude you're a genius, it worked! SSD showed up in the Windows 7 installler after I set it as fat32. It had a warning that it needed to be formatted to NTFS so I did it and now it's installing Windows 7 Can't believe I wasted my entire day on this...

 

Marvelous. Now you can play and explore the new edition. Await dispatches. All's well that ends well.

 

lol well least it works now

FAT32 was purely to get it to show up. Since it can't address files over 4 GB

 

Right on!
Glad you got this worked out, and let these be a learning experience to those of us who never did a OS instal to an SSD drive, no doubt about it, there is always something new to learn....

On another note, my package made it to California, should be delivered tomorrow

 

Thanks guys, I'm looking forward to getting some games on here and seeing what it can do. I'm going on about 36 hrs of no sleep but that's what 5 hr energy drink is for lol.

 

As am I, I only slept 2 hours in the past 2 days due to some issues.

I am beat. I wanted to have some stuff up by today but im exhausted. I was going to have a i7 920xm but it seems there are issues witht he PSU.

My 720 can pull up to 55w according to HWmonitor

 

Yes, but it does have a chipset and I'd like to see the difference in temps if they can be monitored. Hopefully, Everest Ultimate can detect them.

 

You're a trooper. Good training for residency.

 

Ha already had enough sleepless nights during basic sciences. So if you guys get the system with a single HD, just know that AW cheaps out and doesn't send the second HD cage or connector. I lucked out with having an old sata connector laying around that I modded to fit the 2nd drive but i had to use plastic air bubble packaging to fit the drive in so that it wouldn't move when the system shifts. Guess I'll have to call and order the proper parts.

 

As will I

Other news since i didn't fully loose in court today i have money for my Website

 

Does any of you have a guide that i can use to reformate my extrernal from ntfs to phat 32 i want to be able to use with my ps3 thx

 

You should be able to just hook it up, right click, click format and able to reformat it from there.

 

Good to know, know I'll just order it with a 2nd HDD and use my current as a back up. Worth the hassle IMHO

 

i really dont want to format the hardrive i want to convert to phat 32 with files left on it. my friend converted it to ntfs while the files were still on it and it worked fine, but that was before i knew that ps3 does not take ntfs

 

AFAIK you can't easily go back once you've converted. Maybe partition magic can do it, but it's been years since I used it.

 

ok thx guys i may have to just suck it up and reload all that crap

 

BTW, you'll need to go out there and find a modified format for Fat32, since the normal formating don't allow formating of big HD, it can only format HD of like max 10gb or something... but if you google it, you'll find 1 easy. I had to do it to format my external 500g to plug it on my PS3 also.

 

Anybody find the 240W AC adapter for sale anywhere? I saw one or 2 on e-bay, but I am not sure they were the actual Dell one. Only one I can find on the Dell site shows 210W (It hink it's the same one my M6400 uses).

 

I'm curious about something. Anyone wonder if the 260/280 nVidia cards would work in the R2? I know dell doesn't offer them...but I'm wondering if they might still work. I know the BIOS might need to be changed, but it would be interesting to see if they ran stutter free in the R2. Just thinking though the keyboard since I'm at work and it seems everyone is sleeping...stupid time differance.

 

Who'd want to downgrade.

 

I think the cards themselves work, but SLI is not supported by new Intel chipsets because of disputes between Intel and Nvidia.

 

Disputes like...Latency, stuttering and poor craftsmanship?

 

and royalty fees

 

Hey guys, Congrats on the new system! I was trying to pour through the pages, but was unable to find if anyone has started overclocking the mobile4870's and core i7's yet. I am waiting for my G73 with the 5870 to come in and would like to find out if the Catalyst Control center functions for over-clocking like it does on my desktop Ati cards. Can't wait to crank this card up! If there is already an over-clocking page that I have missed for this new system, could you please point me to it?

Thanks,

Chris

 

go here http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=455435 Mandrake already did some of it. and Joker made rivatuner working for overclocking ati cards

 

The G73 only has 1 gpu tho right?

 

Really need to find out if the 5870 Asus is using will be a standard MXM 3 card or not. If it's a proprietary card as they have used in the past it will more than likely not be the same procedure as with the 4870s.

BTW, you cannot use CCC to OC the 4870s in the M17x.

 

Yes, first system to be released with the 5870 mobile card.

 

And competition -- infringing on each other's core turf.