jsc_tidus: Mine says 4th of May, and I ordered on the 11th of April. The wait is killin me.

My M15x finally arrived!
Will post photos once I get the beast set up

Here's my humble Alien... Sorry for the delay ya.





This post has been edited by nitevision92: Apr 29 2010, 05:54 PM

4 something kilos, quite heavy. I don't really move around with it because my classroom is on the 4th floor...

Heh, thanks. I only noticed the reflection after the picture was taken

The Windows 7 Start Button changer not working for me, don't know why.
I've already done everything the readme file and website told me to do.

How much performance increase can I expect when I disable Intel SpeedStep?

Cool. Do update us on your progress then
Looking forward to step-by-step guide

Just disabled SpeedStep, seems like no diff to me..

This post has been edited by nitevision92: Apr 29 2010, 11:55 PM

When I don't even have an extra mouse lying around the house, the last thing I need is the tnmptation to buy HD5870....

Wanna ask, what will happen if I set my FSB to "Unlinked" and set my RAM to run at 1600MHz in the BIOS?

If M11x uses the GTX280M... Sure catch on fire... lol

Screemo: I noticed that after you buy Alienware, everybody's notebook looks smaller. Except for Sager users

Insydious: That's a real killer card right there. Imagine if my M15x packed one of these babies.

I kinda have a problem here. NVidia system tools will seemingly randomly refuse to load my custom frequencies, even though I specified it to load overclocked profiles once the system is booted. Any attempt to change the clock under Current Settings will load an error message saying the current setting is invalid and will not be loaded.

A little help here?

How do I OC "manually"?

Right, thanks for the tips.

@jsc_tidus: Around page 40+. Go look for it there.

I wonder if it's possible to send the M15x back for upgrades if the HD5870 comes out? As in let Dell technicians do it for us.

Just ran 3DMark06, and it only got 6156 points. What is wrong with the system??

I am running the system under "High Performance"....

I'm running the M15x bro... That someone might be using an M11x.
Notebookcheck's unit got 10k+ in 3DMark06....

I've checked almost everything, including the BIOS. Turbo boost is enabled, speedstep disabled. Perhaps I should re-enable speedstep?

BTW a desktop gadget from Intel I installed says that turboboost isn't enabled. I've enabled and checked the damn thing severall times in the BIOS already.

This post has been edited by nitevision92: May 4 2010, 07:35 PM

I disabled SpeedStep, re-enabled it, disabled Turboboost, re-enabled it, then ran 3dMark06. 11k+
I really don't know what the devil is going on... Must be the speedstep.