*OFFICIAL* "All Powerful" M17x-R2 Edition Owners Lounge!

I hope it works just as advertised. That would be pretty awesome.

Now on a side note.

What's the deal with these PSU? Last night I shut down my PC, and noticed a weird sound coming from the PSU. And if I moved it it got worst. That might explain why sometimes when my computer is plugged in, fully charged, the alienhead pulsates as if it were charging the battery.

Anyway, I got a replacement PSU coming soon. I hope that one is fine.

Anyone else notice a sound coming from the PSU after shutting down the laptop?

 

Hi guys I have been reading this post for a while and have purchased the m17x-R2. Here are my specs:

Intel Core i7 820QM 1.73GHz
4GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1333MHz
1920 x 1200 RGB LED
Dual 1GB ATI Radeon Mobility HD 4870 in CrossfireX
320GB Raid 0
Intel Ultimate N WiFi Link 6300

I have a few questions and have not been able to locate all of the answers on the forums. I would like to find out how to install the modded ATI 9.12 drivers. Where is the link for the mobility drivers? How do I install the modded drivers? Also, does the turbo mode of the i7 come enabled, if not do I enable it in the bios? Finally, what is a good framerate utility for games?

Thanks to all for helping me make an informed purchase and thanks in advance for the help with these questions.

 

Download the 9.12 or the 9.12 hotfix drivers direct from AMD/ATI. Download Driverheaven's ATI mobility modder, and follow the provided instructions to mod the ATI drivers (it's a pretty easy process).

Then just run the driver install from the normal setup program. Nice and easy.

Not sure on the I7 turbo.
framerate, FRAPs is the most popular.

 

[QUOTE=rohan99;5897976
Mine came out with the turbo mode enabled. You can check it from the bios if its enabled. Dunno how is the 720qm bios but when you boot your pc press F2 and you get into the bios. There is somewhere that should say performance and there you enable or disable turbo mode.
Also download cpu-z. Using this program you can see exactly what's the clocks of your processor. If turbo mode is disabled you should'nt be able to see any more than 1.6 ghz.
As for the modded drivers I dont really know . But when I had mine and was serching for drivers I found that ASUS has a laptop with the same video cards ( 4870 ) and they offer newer drivers than DELL. Havent tried them though as I only had it for only a week. Hope someone else helps you with this issue

 

My understanding of the issue is that it's not how much power it's drawing but how the laptop compensates for the change in power distribution when it goes into dual or single core mode and ramps up the processor speed that's causing the flickering. Because it's a power distribution issue in theory it could affect any of the new 2010 Core i7 CPUs.

As stated by Dell disabling Turbo Mode fixed the issue on my laptop, so I'll wait to see if the BIOS update fixes the issue for good before getting into an argument with Dell over it. If I called them now they would just state that they are aware of the issue and are working on a BIOS fix for it, and in the meantime I need to disable Turbo Mode, it'd be a waste of my time.

 

Can't wait for official AMD drivers now. No more modding! Joker will love this.

 

Hey, so my r-1 is being replaced for an r-2 howver the replacement will have the non led screen. is there a chance for upgrade in the future?

 

There is but I think it would be prohibitively expensive. Best to fight them for it.

 

anyone knows what are the read/write speeds for SSDs that Dell offers with M17x?

 

220 reads
140-150 writes for the 256 gb

 

That's pretty good. Do you know any good deals online if I were to buy it separately?

 

My beast arrived today. Sadly, it flickers with crossfire is enabled Runs great without it! Tried playing Dragon Origins with crossfire, did well without flickering for about 10 mins, then pow. Guess I'll have to wait for the updated Bios to come out for the fix? Any idea when its to be released?

 

Originally Posted by The_Moo™
220 reads
140-150 writes for the 256 gb

Thats good SSD performance, however i'm waiting on this one.


The new 2.5" Crucial® RealSSD™ C300 drive offers mobile and desktop users scorching-fast read speeds of up to 355MB/s! The Crucial C300 drive:

•Natively supports next generation SATA 6Gb/s, and SATA 3Gb/s on legacy systems
•Available in 128GB and 256GB capacities
•Features a five-year limited warranty
•Expected availability February 2010


www.crucial.com

 

That's nice.

But you won't get those speeds without a laptop capable of Sata 6Gb/s

 

Yes. you're max out @ 26X MB/s

 

http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=3712 looks pretty imressive even with 3Gb/s controller

 

it's up. use the have disk method.

 

what a bad news, it suppoused than flickering on r2 will be less or none :/

 

According to Joker it's due this week or the next...

 

those numbers are for 8MB chunks of data though Moo, what I have heard is that lower file sizes like 4k are what are more important for the majority of use

for what it is worth......the samsung controllers supposedly suffer at those smaller file sizes

 

FYI with Crysis @ VERY HIGH on everything except shadows and post processing i stay in the 20's in FPS with my 5870 so just get excited

 

try 10.2 moo.

 

any changes in 10.2?

 

some people have a 200mb daily download limit

EDIT 10.2 says its already up to date


I don't really care to go all out o it tonight

 

200mb daily limit???????????????? oh hell 2 the no! that would be like one update for me...

you at school moo?

 

I'm with John, that would quickly be a no-go for me. Even out here we don't have limits.

 

Just ordered the NZXT Cryo LX Black and a bunch of 120mm fans to replace the stock ones.
Gonna follow this guide here to mod it. At least i will have something to be busy with while i wait, and wait and wait for MY PRRRRECIOUS

 

*Cries a river of tears for poor guy who's got flickering*... dude some of us would just like to GET our rigs....

Enjoy it until the BIOS fix comes out on one card.

 

+1
Wish i was in that position

 

I wish i was in that position too. *Had a rage fit*

 

well don...looks like you may get your chance to shine..hwbot.org is trying to figure out how they can work a global category for laptops and or components.

 

and i inject this thread with life!

 

john I will try.

 

Looks like I might be joining you guys soon. Going to see if Dell launches the 5870's at Cebit first, 12 days! Perfect timing

 

Excellent....I am well within my 21 days so I may jump if 5870's

 

He can shine in my shadow!

muahahahaha

Jk lol, but like a little competition

 

what clocks did you get for your cards? Stable and suicide?

 

Me? Highest I could get was 665 on core. 670 was pretty unstable even when outside. That is for vantage too. For crysis was 630. Memory was anywhere between 1100 and 1140 I think. Might have done a few runs at 1150 but it artifcacted a good bit

 

Guess I have good cards cuz I can max at 680/1200.

 

Not bad at all thats not far off the default clocks for the 5870ms which will be running on a lower process etc, I bet they go some given my tests on the 4850m's, are they completely stable at those clocks? What sort of Vantage GPU score do you hit? (I'm guessing somewhere in the 12-14k region).

 

wow... you can get 14,500 on vantage with those clocks

 

those were also with 9.12, got 10.2 now so may be different clocks

 

cool deal

you are just wrong...lol

still waiting to see 14k gpu...
was thinking this is something that should have been relatively easy...but proving to be a bit harder in the end....

bring on the bench marks buddy.

 

Will do some benches this weekend. And if you need to see a 14k GPU score just kindly direct yourself to my sig John

 

hahaha
talking about the i7 series
but then you already knew that.

 

i7 is unbelievable. the speed and power of the thing is just unreal.. I went for the desktop version but i'm sure the M17x R2 screams with it as well.

Its like 8 arms going around doing things for you

 

so far, only did one stock vantage run and GPU scores were comparable to the stock 9.12 ones

 

Ok so 680 wasn't stable after all It worked in L4D 2 but it froze on test 2 of vantage. 670/1150 works fine in vantage however. I've also discovered that the stock Dell drivers work better than all the rest so far.

 

what are the stock dell drivers for the R2? for the R1 they are lik 9.7 and suck hardcore

 

Joker, to revisit the revised BIOS, do the changes simply allow the 920XM to operate at stock clocks/multipliers (with or without the 5% BIOS kicker) or does it also provide additional headroom for further overclocking via E-Leet or otherwise?