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Im hoping the audio internally will be adequate to power my headset. Thats what i read in audio forums but ill find out, push comes to shove ill get a amp.

 

A very good headphone.

 

Everki responded instantly during the weekend and has arranged for an overnight exchange of the Trolley as I will be between Taxi, Bus, Train and airports for the rest of the week...
Great service!

Is there anybody in this world still capable of doing things right?

frozenCPU.com has send me the wrong thermal pads:

They sent me the 11w/mk version of the the 1.5mm pads instead of the 17w/mk we paid for and instead of the 3mm pads they sent 2mm twice...great!

Asusparts.eu sent me the wrong Delta FANs as well, so that project is cancelled as well.
Hope to see at least my 70 bucks back...

EDIT: RECEIVED A FULL REFUND AND THEY ARE CHECKING THEIR STOCK TO AVOID FUTURE MIX-UPS FOR OTHER CUSTOMER!
Now I just need to find the Delta GPU FAN somewhere while on the go...

 

@Prema u gotta be kidding me *lol* this is slowly turning out to be quite the comedy sketch btw, have you proclaimed the detailed specs of your machine anywhere yet? curious!

oh, also, better get the 14w/mK pads, they seem to outperform the 17W/mK due to their more stable texture ill post a link in a jiffy

Edit: http://forum.notebookreview.com/index.php?threads/796820/

Sent from my Huawei Mate 8 NXT-AL10

 

I hope you!

 

Well guys, looks like I will not be joining

My machine arrived late last week so I got down to getting my games installed and setting up win as I want it.

Comment on XMG build: Pretty good, max performance profile, no hibernate, no telemetry, not bad if I did not know what to look for. Only criticism was a couple of unwanted apps, McAfee (not fully installed) and Avast. Also a couple of components had been installed in German but usually only showed up in the name.

So, first thing was a Heaven 4 burn-in. After around 30 mins I had seen no GPU throttle or even boost loss. Temp on OC fan profile was 86c. Not great in my eyes but acceptable.

Then a 3DMark 11 run. This is where it started to go wrong. During the run I got loud audio clicks and occasional screen corruption between tests. The results were 30 points lower than my X8 running at 4.2mhz and +135 on the GPU's.

OK, so how does it actually game? I started with a brief session in Deus X and at max it run fine. The only thing I noticed was when shooting opponents instead of blood it showed small x's. I never investigated if this was setting related and went on to GTAV.

Maxed out all the settings @ 1440 and it looked and played great but only five mins in the machine hard locked. After restarting I no longer had ANY working GPU's. Long story short, I managed to get one card working but not the other. It still hard locks on the single card but performance was so good I would seriously question Sli for the gamer.

I love the panel, I cannot see the lines others have mentioned. What little gameplay I managed was very smooth and responsive with good contrast.

Upshot is that the machine has lost it's appeal so I'll probably spend the next six months messing around suppliers ( @Phoenix, haha, is it on or not right now?)

 

Get the 14w/mk how @jaybee83 suggested, they are more flexible and perform therefore better than the 17w/mk according to a review.

HOWEVER: @Meaker@Sager suggested to use 0.5 , 1.0 and 1.5 mm according to the picture he posted in this thread and recommended to leave the thicker clevo pads untouched. I closely followed his advice and used the 14w/mk. For what reason do you need 3mm? Do you recommend thicker pads than Meaker used?

 

the Ec version is empty?

 

I'm sorry for you.
I also wanted to order at Schenker, but Eurocom had the WQHD displays first in the program and I absolutely wanted the WQHD display and Prema Bios Partner.
Hopefully, Schenker repairs your notebook quickly.

 

@Prema @Mr. Fox @Johnksss@iBUYPOWER @Meaker@Sager @Donald@HIDevolution @Papusan @Phoenix @bloodhawk @jaybee83

 

@Prema

ebay is your friend:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/181831706474

 

Ay Caramba! Now that was dumb....

 

That is just plain shame full.

 

no shame in that, cant hurt to ask especially when hes willing to donate

edit: as long as he asks @Prema and not a regular user concerning giving a donation for a dump just to be clear here ^^

Sent from my Huawei Mate 8 NXT-AL10

 

Hes not asking to donate to Prema. The moment someone accepts something in exchange for a BIOS dump , that will open up a whole new can of worms.

 

Why would the first course of action be to try to pay someone else for the dumps instead of PMing Prema or making a public forum post inquiring about it? He obviously knew something he was doing wasn't kosher.

 

how can a new machine have these issues? Was there no QC testing?

Regarding your question, it's on for now but I cannot guarantee anything

 

Bad story, I'm sorry for you man.. I don't know what I'd do if a machine like that would arrive here in such that condition

 

In regards to @TBoneSan's PM, it doesn't look like he lives in Clevo land. I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt and hope this was just a misunderstanding - http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...tman-3-0-lounge.794538/page-197#post-10381682

 

Thanks Phoenix, sorry that I fell asleep last night. Would we make one day and do it again? Or can you teach me and do it but myself.

 

sure, I can tell you what to do and not touch anything, this way, you know exactly what you're doing so you can do it yourself later

 

Any bro know the official Win 10 usb flash drive is UEFI bootable?

 

@MickyD1234

I thought you got yours from HIDevolution, how come you say it's from XMG? I'm confused unless I am reading your sig wrong

 

Thanks Phoenix, will PM you for detail. Thanks again.

 

yes, make the latest ISO by downloading the Media Creation Tool again:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

 

We are one team, EVOC - High Performance Systems team

 

Clevo land haha I just purchased my first clevo... I'm an alienware guy and every bios I have ever gotten for it was freely available. Again I had no idea there was such a huge issue with requesting this, dumps, donations are common practice with my alienware machine. But like I said if this is what the notebook forum community is like over here... Woah I should've stuck with Alienware... Geez!

Anyway I sent prema a message I am more then willing to donate to prema. The author and designer of anything deserves my money.

 

I contacted prema, would be more then willing to donate. Let the witch hunt end please. No more public shaming... But again maybe my shaming will help others so maybe I am wrong... I'll sacrifice and get publicity so others do not make this mistake and TBoneSan attacks them as well.

 

I figured it was something like that (Alienware), and if I'm not mistaken a Hoosier to boot . Joking aside. Welcome to the party pal!

 

Haha thank you for the welcome, anyway yes, yes I am. Currently at IU right now in class just trying to make sure this didn't explode, or if it did explain myself... Thanks for the users who patched things and gave me info and cleared this up for me!

 

Thanks to Phoenix, and thanks to all the experts here, I'm really learning a lot from you.

 

welcome aboard buddy.

 

Have you seen this??

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

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O&O ShutUp10 - Do not use Windows 10 without it!

 

Yup...just a reminder about it.

 

Anti-Beacon also great
https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/

 

How can ghosting be counteracted?
Also, how do games running in the 50s or 60s look like? Are they as smooth as if they were running in the 70s or 80s? Asking because on the LG display many games in the 50s and 60s of FPS does not look good. GSync is trying to smooth it out but they are not close being looking as smooth as on a 144hz 1ms GSync monitor...yes, this screen isnt exactly like that either but is it noticeably better then the LG 75 hz IPS panel? On the LG the textures in many games don't look smooth when moving around and they look if they were shaking or vibrating...for example Rise of The Tomb Raider on a 144 hz 1 ms panel look better running in the 40s then on the LG panel running in the 50s. Also, I don't know if its the game's fault but Far Cry 4 shows this problem also when its running with 75 fps...moving around and the movement of the textures don't look smooth its if they were vibrating or shaking...
Tried many Nvidia drivers and did not fix it. 3DMark points and temps are fine.

 

144hz is old school. 165hz is the thing now.

Just Kidding!

 

Gona be one of the first things i do prior to connecting my beast to the internet

 

What! Say it isnt so!

 

Ok, I wont. Make that 166hz.
http://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?Ntt=166Hz
Even though it only shows 165hz on screen.

 

I'll be a monkeys uncle

 

Aren't there 200hz panels available already? An example is the Acer Z35.

 

Yepper, I have a z35 and it runs 200hz overclocked. Battlefield is a beauty at 200hz

 

Hope You know Alienware isn't the same as before

 

Exactly that's why I moved to Cleveo but it's looking like a mistake this community seems to be all about the witch hunt.

 

Really need to let it go bud, im sure others have. You have apologized and stated you dont have any bad intentions, that is more than enough. And no, this is not a witch hunt, stop stating that again and again.
You cant blame people for jumping the gun, since we have been burned multiple times. And one unauthorized release will not only burn the author but multiple re-sellers as well.
If you are basing your purchases off of how people behave, then im not sure how you can even tolerate Alienware systems. End of the day its what makes your happy and keeps you satisfied.

Welcome to the community, im sure it was not the type of welcome you were expecting, but hey nothing in life is perfect. Hope you enjoy your system and do not hesitate to message me if i can ever be of any assistance.

 

I've owned 3 generations of Alienware systems. All were spectacular until they went to BGA. Anyway that's good we can drop this. Good day.

 

That is overstating the case.

Many have explained why it appeared you were looking for a pirated Prema BIOS and vBIOS, and why this was unsettling.

Many others have commented that once explained, you gracefully apologized, because you did not realize this was a private work of Member @Prema.

It is quite different from Alienware, or any other manufacturer, making the BIOS available to their users.

By still claiming the members here are on a witch hunt is simply stirring the pot, and not only unproductive, but unnecessary. Your honest mistake has been forgiven...it is time to move on and make the best decision about what laptop will serve your needs best.

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Yeah, gotta agree with that. The original Alienware systems were a thing of beauty. After the Dell Take over, things just went south pretty fast.
Well all we can do is hope for the best.