m17x A02 bios out...

say the-moo-moo-cow ...

i was wondering if a quad 2.0 gig is enough cpu power to run most games ... crysis, farcry 2, fallout 3 included ...

this is of course if i have a sli gtx 260 m card as well

 

Its enough for many of them but you can overclock the CPU in the bios to about 2.4ghz maybe even higher with this new bios ? so you should be just fine .

 

2.0 is more then enough

 

so far I have had MUCH less stutter (and only a little at a high - 670 core - GPU OC)

Havent played with higher CPU oc yet, but you can bet I will

First impression, very happy

edit: And I'll add that the fans are much more agressive which aids in cooling. I don't mind since they are still much quieter than my Cryo (with 3 Scythe S-Flex G Fans) or whitebook were

 

Lol the whitebook was a lawnmower...

 

leaf blower would be more acurate

 

Wanna be leaf blower with a tiny fan

/off topic

 

I had heard that there was a new bios out to fix the quick and sloppy A01, it looks like this is it, nothing negative yet

 

Maybe I can get the 1 ghz oc now

 

I've heard that flashing your BIOS voids your warranty...?

As much as I want to update, it's not worth voiding the warranty I paid so much extra for

Is this true even though the BIOS are up for download on Dell's website and it even says they are a recommended download?

 

Nope not true at all go ahead and flash away . Old alienwares carried that policy but not these machines.

 

Rofl i can get the M17x much louder then the m17 . When all those fans are going full blast holy smokes !!! .

 

Oh good news then!

I just saw that somewhere on this forum so I was worried, but I thought it was a bit odd that dell had it as a recommended download with no warnings at all on their website

 

never mind i messed up my flash

Overclockign now

 

well guys i still cant get higher then 3.3

 

I can't get any higher than 3.0...

 

nubb ....

 

do you have a quad 2.0 gig ???

and how much mhz are you able to squeeze out with the new bios ???

 

care to report on your cpu temp ???

is it safe to run say hours and hours on end with the oc setting ???

wont the cpu burnt out ???

 

no ? it won't burn out and i run 3.01 ghz ALL the time and bench @ 3.22

my temps stay under 60c while gaming .... i applied MX-2 on my CPU

i also have a dual core overclocked by almost 1 ghz

 

lol those p8700 suck

 

Haha I figured "Hey, only $60, might as well get the upgrade." apparently it wasn't an upgrade at all .

 

didn't you get the 3 ex MB cache ?

i a nuub @ remembering specs (or anything)

 

whats a MX-2 ???

 

its thermal paste

 

arent the ones in them stock M17X setup good enough ???

if I oc on a stock setup ... is this ok ???

or it would fry the cpu ???

 

stock is perfectly fine

 

Stock paste on the M17x is probably a very poor paste, or just average paste, however the cooling system is that good you really don't need to bother changing the paste unless you want to overclock a lot.

 

Cool, my company has some guys in Talil....haha at least you have internet at your hooch. We cannot get access at all, for any price....

This BIOS update sounds very useful, but being born with cosmic bad luck, I loathe doing it while I am over here. Even for a simple process, something is always gonna go wrong, but this BIOS seems a necessary upgrade.

I have a feeling I'm gonna regret this....

 

You see anything in the BIOS about GDDR5?

 

Can't download from the Dell Euro site. Has it been pulled? Has anyone had any luck getting it from support.euro.dell.com/support/downloads/

 

Just get it from Dell's US site.....

 

Yeah. Just wanted to check it ain't been pulled for reasons of severe, hidden, nastiness.

 

nothing yet on gddr5 anywhere i can see

 

got A02 now and hope my QX9300 can now run 100% on 3.2ghz on A01 he runs at 3.06ghz 100%

 

im also being told by a few people the q9200's work now..

 

strange! i hope its nothing to serious.

 

I took it of through the Dutch Dell site? http://support.euro.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=nl&cs=nldhs1&l=nl&s=dhs&ServiceTag=&SystemID=ALW_LP_M17X&os=WV64&osl=du&catid=&impid=

 

Woohoo! My cosmic bad luck decided not to make an appearance today! I downloaded, transfered it to my M17x, and ran the install - from the desktop. It went totally flawless.

I can run stable now at 3.07GHz. Stressed it out with a 2+ hour session of Far Cry 2 @ max settings. The air venting out was definitely cooler (but he fans were noisier as well). No stuttering during the whole time (but lotsa dying).

A highly recommended BIOS update!

 

this bios update is awesome, i too can run stable on 3.07 GHz. it's amazing

 

Very disappointing.

 

my run now on 3.2Ghz and stable

 

the voltage allowance for the max cpu has been upped in this one...fyi

 

seconded..ded

 

Is back on the Dell Euro site. Installing tomorrow.

 

yeah how you now that please explain i am not to good with cpu voltages

 

Hi guys, just read about the BIOS update, but for some reason im getting an error "not found":


404 - File or directory not found.
The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

Did they pull it out for some reason??

EDIT: I forgot to mention I can't update mines because if this error

 

i edit and mod bios' i can see it in the bios itself

 

try ie if you are using something else