-->*OFFICIAL: Dell XPS M1730 Owner's Lounge*<--

I just got my XPS today with a SEC display...

It was loading windows and my dad was like, is the light from the keyboard leaking into the bottom of the screen XDDD!!

Nice, so tomorrow i will test how cool is to call a tech to replace the screen.

 

I gotta tell ya from reading the majority of posts here and the fact that my 1730 has been delayed for 4th time (past one month since order) and the fact that I can not get a honest straight forward answer of why it keeps getting delayed, My decision to cancel this order is starting to become clear. Seems like lots of problems. My last Dell was a XPS Gen 2 and the vid card recently crapped out on me.

Ordered XPS 1730
Ordered 11/2/07
Still delayed.
X7900 2.8GHz
4GB DDR2
120GB HD 7200rpm
Crimson Red
.........................

 

Did you try calling the Dell Automated Status Line?

Automated Order/Service Call Status 1-800-433-9014

 

It took a while to get my software and files from one computer to another. I see some people are successful with installing 169.12 Drivers. Are you having many problems?

One more thing... THIS IS A MONSTER OF A MACHINE. Just unbelievable.

 

Wow you serious? Everyone here has everything from speakers problems to severe drivers problems...

Are you sure?

 

Wow, I can not get any driver to work other than version 156.69. After removing all of the NVIDIA drivers and using Driver Cleaner Pro. I tried to install version 167.45 from Dells website. This was only to test and it failed. When I ran the setup program I got a message saying there was no hardware in my system to match this and it exited. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Should I have used the Select Miltiple Cleaners option in DCPro?

 

Yes and I got the same status as the previous 2 times.. It is in the boxing-stage.. (The check is in the mail) stage.. From what the automated service has been telling me it has been on it's way for half a month. With gas prices It may be on horseback.. yea that would explain it.. Fed-Pony-Express

 

You have to use the drivers from laptop2go and their accompanying ini file. Unfortunately their website has been down for a while now.

 

Ok, I did finally get 167.45 to install. What I did was try the setup.exe install and it failed. Then from Device Manager, right click, Update Driver Software, Browse My Computer for Driver Software, Let me pick from a list of device drivers. I noticed the 167.45 was not recommended by Microsoft. Well I usually do not listen to Microsoft so I installed them anyway. Rebooted, and went to enable SLI mode. Funny thing is when it said it needed to shutdown some programs before it could enable SLI mode it wanted to put Windows to sleep a few times. I guess windows was bored. I chose cancel on the sleep dialogs, then SLI was enabled.

I ran 3Dmark06 with the default settings, Areo Glass on,

Version 1.1.0
Width 1280
Height 1024


3DMark Score - 8431 3DMarks
SM2.0 Score - 3863
HDR/SM3.0 Score - 3316
CPU Score - 2511

to

3DMark Score - 8941 3DMarks
SM2.0 Score - 4024
HDR/SM3.0 Score - 3684
CPU Score - 2540

It is not great but it is a start.

 

I still cant figure out why I'm getting the same 3d mark score (around 7600) no matter what drivers I use

 

Are you sure it is updating? I noticed before some of the setup programs looked as though they updated, asked me to restart and when I looked in the Nvidia Control panel I still had the same drivers. It was frustrating to say the least.

 

The're some great scores!!!! Well done, I too cannot get much above 8,000 but as long as Crysis runs smooth it doesn't matter.

 

Hi can anyone tell me how much is the cheapest configuration for the M1730.

In singapore it's selling for USD$2699 for the cheapest configuration.

Same I think.

 

Yeah, installed steam and play CS source last night, did the video stress test, did avg 175fps on full res, everything turned on. Maybe my expectations are low. I have a 3 LCD's @ home, and this as good, if not better, than all of the others.

Also, if you buy a product, and it arrives, and works. Your not going to find a forum and tell anyone about it. There are thousands of m1730 owners out there that are really pleased with their purchase. You'll just never hear from them.

If you going to fuss about with beta drivers that haven't been rigorously tested, just to squeeze and few fps, then expect problems.

 

Ah nice to see a few words of wisdom cropping up now and again!

Good stuff -

 

contacted XPS service for the first time and...

F*cking awesome!!!

Me: Hey I got this screen with light leackage...
Him: IS your street blah blah,
Me: Yeah why?
Him: Tomorrow from 9 to 2 expect a new screen!!!!!

Sweeet!

So I asked for the LG ppl say its the best but unfortunatelly there is no stock of it atm... so im getting a vesa yu241, anyone heard of it before???

Very pleased with dell...

 

They have definately updated, but before I was getting over 8000 no matter what drivers I used, even the stock Dell ones that came with it. I have formatted and installed the Notebook forums 169.09 tweaked drivers and still only getting around 7600 and the counter strike source stress test has dropped from over 200fps to 158fps. I have installed all of the windows updates and the ones for direct x etc but still no luck, I suspect it is a problem with my motherboard because this only began after it was replaced

 

After some tweaking, and putting the graphics cards at 750/1500/875 im getting 30-40 fps on call of duty 4 no AA but the rest all at EXTRA and 1920x1200... Is this the expected performance?

 

Just ordered one of these bad boys here in Australia.

T7700 2.4 ghz
2 gig ram
2 x 160gig HD 7400rpm

Not the greatest spec, but should do for me. I'll see how it performs, if its not upto my standards I'll ask for a refund. But it should do!

Also got 8% discount due to be in the defence force out here. Didn't know they did one! Lucky I called to ask about how long they were expecting the delivery to be on these. The guy told me around 8 days, was about to hang up, then quickly asked. Good job I did.

Having it delivered to Sydney as Im going on leave this Christmas and will be staying in Sydney.

By chance, is there like a wiki up for this machine? All the drivers/issues/performance tweeks people have been talking about on this thread would be great if they were compiled into one easy to access article. Just hit me then, there's like 200 pages, with great info scattered throughout... The thought of going back over all the pages is daunting to say the least!!

Anyway, thanks for all the great info, and here's to me hopefully enjoying my new toy.

Pommie

 

That's about what I get, I have 4x AA on and the performance averages around 25-35 fps

 

Forgive me if you already answered this... did you get all the latest hotfixes?

http://www.nvidia.com/object/windows_vista_hotfixes.html

 

I see a new WoW themed 1730 is on it's way on the 11th December. The interesting thing is the spec says DX10 SLi graphics cards and not SLi 8700GT. I wonder if this is how they will break the 8800 to the world?

I'm really just speculating to be honest and I'm not into WoW so it doesn't really affect me

Nice idea though!

http://kotaku.com/gaming/breaking/dell-unveils-wow+themed-xps-laptops-329489.php

 

I'd say they're hiding the shame of 8700M's @ $4500!
But if it was 8800M's I might be getting into WoW very quickly! Whatever WoW is (All I know about it is from a southpark episode! http://www.southparkzone.com/episodes/1008/Make-Love-Not-Warcraft.html )

 

hehe that episode was awesome!!

 

Can you see what FPS you get inside CoD4 in the console? Or are you using FRAPS?

 

You can use either.

 

Is anyone using the 800Mhz RAM instead of the default 667Mhz,

and if so does it make much of a difference?

Just curious as I'll probably upgrade from standard 667Mhz 2Gb to 800Mhz 4Gb *if* I ordered a M1730.

72oo

 

what is the command for FPS inside CoD4?

 

WTF you get a discount for being in the defence force!!! I just ordered mine yesterday, damnit!

Btw, I'm posted at RAAF base richmond where are you at?

 

**EDIT** It appears that SLI has to be DISABLED to push two displays.

I'm sorry if that has been asked already but it appears that the XPS 1730 supports an additional monitor. I have attached m ViewSonic vx2025 but I can only use one of the other. I'm sure I'm just missing something. I've loaded the latest Dell drivers. I have not tried the drivers directly from NVidia.

Any help is appreciated.

 

Yes I had the same problem. Sli does not yet support two monitors, and nVidia aren't even making an effort to do something about this... It's a pity!

 

Yeah here is the Unboxing video page for the

WOW edition M1730, I wathced it even though i dont play wow, It comes with WOW preinstalled and every Wow Book, trading card, manual, strategy guide, and peice of art you could imagine.

Also it tracks your wow stats on the GLCD, The lid is probobly the selling point "alliance and horde" covers


http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/wow/dell...otebook-unboxing-looting-and-grope-329752.php

 

But wtf is with 4500$ starting price? The same config without the special edition is almost a grand less.

 

using fraps

 

Does he say anything about 8800M's?

(I'd watch the videos myself but my connection has crapped out this evening for some reason.)

 

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/...&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&dgc=EM&cid=26383&lid=601037

 

I got a 5% discount for being a student, I wonder why the offer discounts on their flagship XPS notebook yet they told me they give no discounts on the XPS m1330, not that I wanted one, but it seems a bit strange.

I have downloaded the ones from windows update and searched for all DX9&10 related patches that apply to my system but I will see if I have missed any and I will check the link you gave me.

Thanks

 

Hi,

I just came to realize that my computer is wobbly... the left side front of the computer, left of the mouse is not resting on the table so when you are playing on the computer keyboard and put a bit of preasure, like looking for key F or G the computer it will lose stability...

Is this fixeable?? I just emailed dell to see how to handle this...

 

i was able to install #2 and #3, performance didn't change for me.

#1 i couldn't, I signed up for microsoft to send it to me... anyone get it?

 

Most of us have that problem, I think because one of the feet is on the battery which moves a little bit, see what Dell say about it

 

Yea very true.

I have a question guys. The basic model starts at USD$2700. Is it a good value, or do you guys think that at this price point the M1730 should include dual 8800mGTX?

You see, I live in Asia and the chances of upgrading to the dual 8800mGTX (if Dell ever announces it) is pretty much next to impossible so if I get a M1730 I want to know that the price I paid is justifiable for just dual 8700GT.

 

Give the email time from microsoft.

 

I think the dual 8700s are around $1,000 so the dual 8800s should be much more. Dell might have already factored this into the Australian website as their prices have jumped up considerably since I bought mine (not on the base model though). But this is all speculation, we'll have to wait and see.

 

WoW Does that by Default - If you have a Logitech G15 keyboard (or the LCD Panel in the XPS) - WoW has native support for it - Much like Fraps and shows all sort of useful stuff about your Toon in WoW on it.

Much as I am a HUGE WoW Fan - There is not really alot in that package that I don't already have.

I have the XPS 1730, All the Books and Collector's Edition Stuff - The only things I don't have are the Quest Envelope and the Golden Ticket.

I do quite like the WoW Skin for it - But would I really want to return my XPS ust for a new Lid Design.? So for me - The Premium would not really net me much more than I have already.

Also not even sure if it will be available in Europe - Much less the UK - Smells suspiciously like a US only offer to me.

Frag. Out.

 

12h later i have got no answer, so i think i will have to call, my computer is not gonna stay "crippled" like dr house...

 

So, and after 25 min on the phone waiting for someone to pick up... They have told me that since there is a tecnician coming insite today i should ask him if he can fix it...

 

25 mins? did u call the XPS support? I haven't called Dell yet, I email them, they call me

 

Yeah I got it this morning. Performance seems about the same... I haven't noticed any real differences yet.

I'll have to experiment more when I get home

 

I got it, didn't really make much difference

Although mine is running well as it is

 

same... i'm not really complaining