enable overclokc at bios will give 1.60ghz? or 1.73ghz?
cuz only 2 option enable and disable.

from dell website
Processor Options



Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo SU7300 (1.3GHz, 800 MHz, 3 MB)

how to overclock tilll 1.6ghz only? now is 1.73.. how to make it 1.60

eh sry , my bad , i tot it was on a class on its own , haha

use Cpuid to check on ur cpu speed not window system panel
CPUID is more accurate ..download the software and install them

@Michaelbyz,

If you're free, we can meet up and we diagnose your problems together. Truthfully, I find your problems perplexing. Just yesterday evening I was playing SFIV in a very warm environment with no aircon (the place has shut down its aircon to save money), and I've been running it from 6pm till 9pm, nonstop, smooth like butter.

I wouldn't wanna suggest things without looking into your configuration, sometimes it is as a simple a case as properly updating your Windows 7 using Windows Update. The high CPU usage may be because you have updates running in the background, be it from W7 updates or your antivirus. There are no driver updates needed for the M11X, the moment you run it for the first time, it is as updated as it should be. The only drivers you need updating are from the external accessories you'd add in after, such as your mouse, external DVD drive, and such, even those are supposed to have its drivers installed automatically without any prompting. Either your accessories are old and requires updated drivers specifically from the manufacturer, and is running on compatibility mode (you did mention one of your external DVD drives not working).

To make things easier without all these speculating, I'd suggest a meetup. If you're free, we can do so. In fact, we can do the very first Alienware gathering too. I would suggest Lowyat Plaza itself, specifically Starbucks in Low Yat Plaza, so that if you do need to replace your accessories, you can immediately do it there. Your choice, Michael. Everyone else is welcomed to come and bring their own Alienware as well, but this is mainly to help Michael solve his problem. I already have a request to meet from another forum member that wanna take a look at the M11X personally himself, so this should coincide with that nicely.

If you agree, Michael, we can set it to be on Saturday @ LYP, at the time of your convenience. To the rest, if you do wanna make this a proper meetup/gathering, then we need to set the time and venue (if this does not agree with you), but please do so to accomodate Michael.

Streamlining your M11X can be tricky. I know, I've wrestled with it for the past three days, sometimes without much sleep at night, doing software updates amd downloading patches for my game. I'm the type of person who don't rest until things run smoothly, and thankfully, my M11X is running as what I expected it to be now. The next thing to do is to provide a proper backup solution to it, so that in case something happens, I can roll back to its working state immediately. I've already created a restore point to which it is working properly, so that is a start.

@lksing
You sarawakian? From Miri? hehehe

Alienware gathering?not a bad idea though

Just wanna help Michael. Sounds like he's in deep over his head with his problems, which should not be since the M11X is ready to go, hit the ground running so to speak, from the moment it is unboxed. I did not even update to any new display drivers, there aren't any, nor are there any other device drivers required for any of its components. Win7 updates are the usual, but should not mess up the system's performance.

The only update i did is windows update and the sypactic trackpad driver which enable it to multi-touch.

Any michealbyz i suggest you go msconfig to switch off some off the startup..because thats many of them u do not need to it to start itself when u log in---for example: alienfx...and if u do not use the aliensense,it is good for u to disable it as well.

Oh yeah.. i remember this "Optimisation" thread for M11x over at NBR suggesting to stop Aliensense and AlienFX from starting up because it hogs the CPU..

kuching actually ...but now working in serdang selangor..
wow a meet m11x gathering ...woohooo...

the place need a huge table for our lappys loh.. HAHA where to find such big tables and power points? expecially for the m15x and 17x users..

I'm in China, starting price also RM 5k++. I think Dell thinks The Chinese more rich to own the spaceship. Hahaha...

I just got off the phone with Dell and they said ETA for my M15x is on Wednesday next week, and they only just confirmed payment yesterday.
Can I believe this date? Because that would be epic timing, JUST before my SPM results

Which is why the M11X is ideal, small footprint and does not consume the entire table when ported around.

Starbucks LYN has extension cables for multiple usage. So does Starbucks KL Sentral and Gardens.

On the search for the perfect controller for SFIV. The XB360 wired controller is real easy to setup, in fact no setup at all, plug it in and play. But performing Ultras and Supers, hell, even a proper Shoryuken on that horrendous D-pad is more like performing the motions and HOPE it comes out. In the end, had to play using the analog stick, but that does not offer precision control. The 360 wired pad is PERFECT for racing games though, so GRID and NFS:Shift will be using it.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Mar 5 2010, 09:47 AM

@Stringfellow Go for the Hori EX2, it goes for like RM150 on Play-Asia apparently

Pads, not sticks. I need to be portable at all times. If sticks, I already can use the Mad CAtz SF4 Tournament Edition that I have already.

Hori Fightpad?