Alienware m9750

I'm looking at buying a new Alienware m9750, but i have some questions and have emailed alienware, but they haven't replied back yet.

my questions are:

I am wanting the dual video cards, so thats not an issue.

I'm gonna order the minium ram and purchase 4gb of third party ram, cause that's the cheaper way to go.

but what i am wanting to know is if i just get the smallest single hard drive config, can i upgrade the laptop to dual drive raid 0 myself instead of paying out the nose for alienware to do it?

does the laptop support raid 'out of the box' even if i order it in 'single drive config'?


thanks for any help!

//kneehighspy

 

the Alienware M9750 will not be able to see the full 4GB of RAM due to its old Napa Platform (limitation of the mobile Intel 945 chipset).

It will only see up to 3-ish gigs.

 

As for the hard drives, for the 2nd one ALienware may not provide you with a 2nd hard drive bracket to place your hard drive in, so you may need to "pay extra" to get a 2nd bracket.

 

thanks for the help so far guys, so the hard drives do require brackets to mount in the laptop? anyone else know for sure that the raid is built in, and i just need two of the same hard drives?

also, on alienwares site, they show the laptop is capable of 4gb of ram, is there a chipset limitation on what is seen or is this a vista / xp problem?

thanks for all the help!

 

thanks for the help, does the alienware m9750 hard drive require a bracket to mount them? alienware finally responded today and said that i could upgrade to raid 0 or 1 anytime by adding a second hard drive and that i didn't have to purchase the raid option at purchase of the laptop.

i'm going to order the 9750 with the dual 8700M GT sli, wide uxga monitor, core 2 duo T7600, 1 gb ram (gonna order 2 2gb so-dimms separate from newegg), 80gb single hard drive (gonna order 2 200gb 7200rpm drives from newegg for raid 0) also gonna get the 2x blu-ray drive while i'm at it.

what memory would you guys recommend for the 9750?