Just to follow up on personal info being posted, forum rules:
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I am still on stock ATI drivers since all its been good from day one with them, might try 10.3 when I get the time.
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If they offer the 5870 in march I am going to punch myself right in the face. Thats how wizzed off I will be that I didnt wait a month to order
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Rengsey R. H. Jr. I Never Slept
I am through waiting on the 5870s. There is not one solid rumor regarding it. I will see it when it arrivies. I'll just go back to my corner now.
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NYC Drifter Notebook Evangelist
I have been waiting in my corner. My deadline is April Fools Day.
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My 21 days was going to be up on March 2nd. I did not even get a chance to really use it because of all the bad parts mine came with. So I sent a message to the mothership to call this one back home. Ill reorder when they have a fix and the 5870's. Got to try out the 10.3 beta Drivers though. WOW. The FPS went up 10-20!! Can't wait for the stable release!
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The Revelator Notebook Prophet
Any news about the revised BIOS?
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Is this DPC Latency issue affecting anyone? I was interested in this M17x-R2 and was going to pull the trigger on the i7-920XM / 8GB / 2x 4870s for $4600USD until I read about this show-stopping, horrible issue.
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The DPC issue doesn't affect the R2 its uses a completely different processor, Core i7. The 920 does suffer some flickering in certain games but that has been resolved with a new bios which is waiting to be released
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Has anybody checked his R2 for latency issues?
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Well that's interesting because I didn't see any issues and I have yet to see anyone else complain about it with the new R2. Also a good amount of people that have the R1 who have gotten the ATI replacements have gotten rid of most of their latency problems.
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The point is how can you be so sure that the R2 has no latency issues. Did you try any test? -
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I'll run a test when I get mine, or I guess I should say if I ever get mine.
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Imagine the R2 to suffer from latency too and have to wait for that long to find out? That would be really frustrating....
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Well I gamed a decent amount over the 2 days that I had my first one, me2 cod6 & fallout 3, and did a lot of multitasking but to be honest didn't run anything to see how it was doing. I can say that it definitely didn't affect my performance, at least from what I could see.
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Canadian Lurker here, have any canucks been able to get any sort of discount on the M17x-R2 (through phoning a rep or otherwise) like our neighbours to the south seem to be getting?
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By the way dell doing thing it will not be out untel Q/11 And no one will get it 2 months after.
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Current CPUs are already over kill my needs.
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That's why I am asking if anybody did actually bother to do an in depth search of this matter by tracing the DPC/ISR latency on his R2 rig. -
Just installed Dirt 2 this morning and wow this thing runs fantastic! FPS always stayed pegged at 60+ during races with settings at 1200p, 4xAA and max everything (it would only let me put post processing at medium). During replays it would sometimes fall to the 45-50 fps range but during actual races it never did or if it did, it was so rare I never noticed. I'll have to put up some videos on youtube soon.
BTW when the bios update does eventually surface, those of you with a 920xm configuration should check GTA IV. I've noticed that it still occasionally flickers. If I turn down the CPU 5% OC (using the bios) the flickering becomes almost absent. That said, I've fired off an e-mail to nagshead but haven't heard back from him. Hopefully the final bios release takes care of this but it is one area everyone should check. -
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Wish they still had a configuration option when ordering the system. I *LOVE* keeping one adapter at home, one at work, so I have one less thing to carry around, it doesn't get the wear and tear on it, etc. Plus I've seen several people who's power supplies have died on them and they're in trouble-if I have two or three of them, I just switch while I order another.
Really weird that they show the wrong adapter when you go through the 'correct' way, and that it costs twice as much...
The question remains...where the HECK are the 32nm quads? THOSE need 32nm a lot more than the duals do, which would have been just fine at 45nm I'm sure.
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First post here!
m17x - R2 ordered.... the wait is awful! ETA so far is 03/22/10. Been ordered for a week already!!
Order places is
M17x-r2 | i7 920XM | 8GB RAM 1333MHz | 2x120 OCZ Vertex SSD RAID 0 | Dual ATI 4870 | Windows 7 Ultimate | Matrox Dualhead2go DP Edition | 2 x 24" LCD 16:9 5ms
Can anyone confirm if this m17x is even going to work with the Matrox Dualhead2go? I didn't have the patience to wait for the computer and run their tests so i bought the monitors and dualhead2go with 2x DP to AVI adaptors.. .so i hope they work! -
which edition of Dualhead2go do you have ?
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wow... Dualhead2go arrived as i typed that message.
Matrox DualHead2Go
DP Edition
Part: D2G-DP-IF
Since the monitors only have AVI or HDMI they recommend AVI port as prefered for gaming, etc so i bought 2 x
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Cool device
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It makes a difference for me because the Vertex 1.5 firmware supports Garbage Collection which sort of acts as a firmware type Trim for RAID 0. -
Thanks!... looking forward to picking everyones brains on how to pimp this thing out.
The other question i had was how can i load my SSD's in there as raid 0 and port the Alienware recovery partition over. I'm an experienced IT guy so i get the technical lingo but is this is CD i can use or a download i can install?
Otherwise i'll be putting in my SSD's Raid 0 and just dropping that recovery partition and hoping to find all the alienware software tools as a download to install on top of my generic win7 ultimate installation. -
Can run the wizard here : http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/support/compatibility/gxm/home/ -
They DO NOT come with OCZ Vertex drives... those are drives a bought 6 months ago or so and did a RAID 0 in my macbook pro... however there are glitches with them in my macbook that were never resolved... so my macbook is running some generic blackscorpio 320gbs
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mfractal - SWEET thanks. I couldn't run it because i didn't have my system.
Nice! thats good cuz i'd hate to have to reallocate this thing haha. -
I actually don't have it yet too.. I went with the wizard.. (not the tool that detects your card) -
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Nice thanks. I have a 1TB NAS drive, will i be able to use the Datasafe app pointed to a network drive? I think it also doubles as a external drive i guess i could do that as well. I was thinking ghost but i ordered the 250s or whatever it came with in a raid0, i won't be able to get 4 drives hooked up to this bad boy i don't think. -
If you have a smaller drive laying around (maybe one SSD), maybe you can connect it via esata and ghost to a single, then boot that drive and create the backup disk from datasafe. it's goofy, but datasafe puts something in the image that won't let you go to a smaller drive than you started with. -
boo then i'm screwed anyway. going from around 500 to 240
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