Guess I have to wait till SLI/Crossfire cards are M15x "equipable"
What actually makes those dual GPUs hard to be equipped in a M15x? The size maybe?
I'm just too lazy to actually Google all this! Leave it to the experts here!

The heat?

Size and heat combined. With an additional card we need more copper pipes as well as an additional fan. Thats why the structure of a 15.6" is limited to be able to house all these unless they've solved a way to reduce the size of the cards and fan. I doubt the M15x will be SLI/CF as it would be a feature reserved solely for its flagship model the M17x. What they should do however is allow the M15x to at least carry a single highend card like the M17x running on a single card for the GPU. If there was a GTX 280M SLI for the M17x, I felt there should have been an options for a SINGLE GTX 280M for the M15x back when I bought my monster in Dec last year....

even if GTX480M already reached Alienware, i highly doubt you will able to fix that into your M15x. preparing for upgrade perhaps, bro Julchin?

since we already reached Q4 of 2010, 'IF' games will be popular again, i guess

nope, i did never tried it before. is it safe? logically, it the power supplied by M17x will somehow overload the limit that was set for M15x mobo. i am afraid that will fried M15x mobo or somethin....

like what had been well explained by Julchin, there are few reasons why M15x will not be equipped with SLi / CF technology.

1 - so far there is none 15" that successfully SLi / CF configured due to its size. (note that size will affect the heat management)

2 - SLi / CF is exclusively dedicated to M17x to preserve the special factor of M17x.

3 - for Julchin, GTX280M cannot be pair with M15x because M15x using i-Series CPU (& mobo) and it not compatible with GTX280M.

4 - eventho GTX285M is basically overclocked version of GTX280M, there is some modification in their architecture's aspect so that GTX280M (basically) can be pair with i-Series CPU (& mobo)

it will shows a warning that power adaptor is not compatible. My friend GTX480M full load reached 89'C, wondering inside M15x will be how

putochip123, your friends still not send me the quotation..

Ok...
Time to save me some money and get M17x

i think you guys should watch this :/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYV89w-T9uw

I don't get what they're stating...? Mind explaining it simpler? sry I noob~

wow and the M15x comes with default 150W Power Adapter right? M17x?

that video means....m15x require more than 150 watt...however the PS that dell give us only 150 watt...so it may trigger power overload when you run high intensive test such like prim 8 thread + furmark..

No, it won't overload, logically you can not overload something that is limiting the hardware. it will only cause throttling due to insufficient supply.

Ie, a m15x suppose to draw 180-190W from the power supply under heavy load, but our standard issued m15x's PSU is just 150W, throttling caused because the hardwares can't work at it's fullest due to insufficient power supply.

oohh...sorry...to me power overload mean m15x require more than the PS can support..hehe..yup, one is PS is 150 watt, other is BIOS limit the power input..do read in NBR..that a lots of folks discuss about throttling..

Any m17x user mind lending their adapter to m15x user and see whats the result? lololol

you can read in NBR..there were many expertise had done the experiment..

This post has been edited by hackcremo: Sep 5 2010, 10:22 PM

Ah right, it's bios-locked

Guys... I've just downloaded the A08 BIOS file.. and burned the ISO into a CD... but when I opened the file there's only one README file in there~ WTF!?

try on usb boot..maybe this way works..i flashed using usb last time..so far no problem..

I tried copying it to my Kingston DataTraveler G2 16GB but the application refused to copy to my usb drive... tried another attempt on my 2GB one also refused to copy~ so guess I have to try the CD burning again.. but I'm out of CD-Rs~

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Added on September 5, 2010, 11:47 pmor I guess I'll just skip another one till they release an ISO file which doesn't waste my CDs~

This post has been edited by Lil Kiasu: Sep 5 2010, 11:47 PM