What did your alienware get for christmas.

I bought my alienware a 780m for christmas. It couldn't be happier.

Anyone else get there alienware anything for christmas or did it receive something from someone else for christmas.

Please share.

 

Well I bought myself a 970M upgrade kit for my R4 for Christmas.. Correction, my parents didn't buy it I had to

 

Still have no job so I'm still stuck with my alienware m14x r1 with it's gt 555m

 

dac+amp+headphones...... dac+amp didnt make it before christmas so i will have to wait till after....

 

GPU fan but i gave it a really early one in the form of a slot-load BD drive.

 

I've ordered my Aw17 on november, so i was SURE it would arrive here for Christmas
Christmas without Alienware it's a non-sense

 

lol .....

 

don't you mean madness?

 

My M18xR2 got a 980M SLI upgrade and my M18xR1 got a 780M SLI upgrade from me. The Alienware 18 got a 2133 RAM upgrade from a friend. In 20/20 hindsight a Eurocom Panther 5 big brother for them to share companionship with would have been a better gift, but I saved about $3,000 with these hot little stocking-stuffers.

 

TIM Gelid with an iFixit kit plus a notepal U3+ here & that Decalrus carbon fiber skin

 

Correction got myself a 970M upgrade kit for my M17x R4 which is being delivered by Fedex and is somewhere in Memphis or just left Memphis, home of Elvis..

+ a Notepal U3+ which is somewhere in the damm post being delivered by hermes, most useless courier in the UK....

Hopefully both arrive on Monday although i really doubt the Noepal U3+ will..

 

Oh yeah, I almost forgot that I ordered a second U3 cooler, another set of three 85 CFM 120MM fans, filters and fan controller for replacing the U3 stock fans. That way the R1 and R2 won't have to share any more. Should have the U3 Plus on Monday, but no telling on the fan stuff from NewEgg because they have gotten to be slower than a 10-year itch on shipping, especially when they use that morphodite hybrid setup that uses FedEx or DHL to the local post office and then hand off to USPS.

Will be like this when it's done. The 15 CFM stock USB-powered fans are worthless. Now I'll have 2 sets of them in my junk drawer, LOL.

 

Hey Mr Fox, can you post how you make this mod? I'm an engineer but this circuits stuff is something I don't dare going into.. Would really appreciate if you could take some pictures while doing the mod

 

Brother Tom, everything just plugs in. No soldering or shrink tubing. I used two-sided exterior grade rubber mounting tape to attach the fan controller to the rear lower crossbar on the U3 and a few zip ties to bind up the extra wire length. Take a closer look at the photos. Here are the parts you need to order:

SilenX IXA-FCEX Controller, Panel - Newegg.com

Rosewill RFX-120 120mm Case Fan - Newegg.com

Rosewill RFT-120 Case Accessory - Newegg.com

Of course, the main thing is the fan controller. The filters are optional (but work really well at helping to keep the laptop guts clean and dust-free) and you can use any 120MM fans you wish. The main thing is to get 85 CFM or higher because the surface of the cooler blocks about 50% of the air flow. (This is the case with almost every cooler, but the U3 is impossible to beat on aesthetics and build quality.)

I will take a few more photos after the parts get here.

 

I got a mSata to install my OS and made some Win8 vs Win7 benchmarks and after 3 hours of benchmarks I ended installing Win7 with some heavy mods to make it work like Win8. I still miss my start menu screen :\

 

Same goes here, the U3+ I cannot buy it here as the price is 2x, I would be getting that as a new year gift

 

A rock!

/ Charlie Brown

 

A stick would of been better . You could of burned it to stay warm.

 

are there any better then stock fans for he GPU's ? I know there is certainly for the cpu's but I've not noticed any for the GPU's that are more then 4-5CFM unlike the cpu's all having 10-11 CFM

 

My Alienware got a nice box for Christmas and a "Happy Holidays" sticker. It's taking a trip.

 

Actually got both my 970M and Notepal U3... Not liking playing at an angle so probably Notepal U3 is being returned..

 

Well, I got the parts and the Notepal U3 Plus. I wish I had purchased the older style U3 instead. The Plus version isn't designed as well. I had to do my fan mod differently because of the undesirable design changes. There are fewer holes and the outer fans no longer accommodate all four screws. The back plane area is also made differently and I could not place the fan controller where I wanted it.

Here is the new design...

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Versus the older (better) design...

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that's much more simpler though it's unfortunate that the controller is out of stock!

EDIT: would like to get a nzxt sentry 3 to control the fans but the fact that it's an internal bay device it has no case for it.

 

A new owner - for free.

 

We're sorry sir but your post is to short . You either have to delete it or elaborate on it.

Just kidding

But really what is it.?

 

in the sig - got stolen!

 

Try FrozenCPU or Amazon. Both have it in stock. SilenX 4 Channel Fan Controller w/ AC/DC Adapter (IXA-FCEX) - FrozenCPU.com

 

cool, saves me from having to buy a dremel