bro, Step by step guide =D
1) delete driver and use sweeper(safe mode)
2) Restart computer(now it will show vga standart driver)
3) install driver Ati catalyst
4) restart
5) rdy for game XD

This post has been edited by Blank86: Sep 20 2010, 10:18 AM

Guys, any advice given is very much appreciated. In term of overall performance in Alienware M15x laptop, which of these two graphic card is much better? 1GB GDDR5 ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5850 or 1GB GDDR3 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 260M?

Thank you for your information.

yah the hinge it self made out of metal which is the same material as the car engine block (or maybe ironman armor )
but the hinge it self are screw in a cheap made in china plastic base.
so when the plastic base crack due to high tension force the hinge will came out..

at least that wat i see when they change mine hinge and the base cover..

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Added on September 20, 2010, 11:15 amI go for 5850 anytime...260 suk
pic speak a thousand word
5850 vs 260 link

insome game game it even blow away GF285
this maybe a desktop version but i think the mobile one will be almost the same...i almost ...

This post has been edited by lksing78: Sep 20 2010, 11:17 AM

Thank you for your reply. It is quite confusing to see some contradicting reviews.

Notebookcheck: GTX 260M is better.

Tomshardware: HD 5850 is better.

I really do not know which I should trust. I am hoping to have a more clear cut answer.

Talking about m11x?

Well yeah, except that M15x's hinge base (the base that the LCD hinge is screwed on) is made of cast iron as well.
And you don't need me to remind you M15x chassis is made of Magnesium Alloy.

with that assurance I trust your statement...

@awyongcarl
adoi...i though we talk about M11x
nah m15x and m17x won't have such problem lah...the base cover is strong enough to hold the hinge.

that is why i'm thinking changing to m15x..but the size that hold me back
i can't even bare to carry my 3 year old 15' hp anymore let alone m15x

This post has been edited by lksing78: Sep 20 2010, 02:28 PM

ugh~...just check with dell my service tag...lol...its not registered zzz...doing follow up with dell
>.<

both of this GC is same, not much different. the performance different is not significant.
5850 u guys check in tomshardware is desktop version which is totaly different from the mobile version, the mobile version of 5850 is around destop5570-5670.
If u need CUDA/PhysX got for Nvidia(got better driver support for smooth gaming)
Ati cheaper and have same performance(sucks driver support)
For DX11, dont think about it, if u wan try DX11, go for M17x 5870 would be nice, when a game u cnt full detail, DX 11 is useless

me still wait for GF4 series to release in M15x then maybe i jump boat
hopefully they don release M15x r2
cause wan to buy eham eham unit

Pardon my ignorance, what do R1 and R2 mean?

Revision 1/2
different spec...

Thanks for the tip. Just what is the specification of M15x R1 and of M15x R2? The one advertised in Dell Malaysia website is R1, right?

Current one is R1,
R2 is unknown

NVIDIA - reasonable performance with convenient driver to support it...
ATI - performance looks good on paper... but with the drive it's crap...

Conclusion... NVIDIA FTW~

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Added on September 20, 2010, 9:10 pmthr's a probability R2 would come with AMD support~ who knows... even there's rumour of the MacBook Pro jumping boat to AMD platform with mobile Phenom chips by next year~

This post has been edited by Lil Kiasu: Sep 20 2010, 09:10 PM

m15x got good display? my xps screen just normal lcd. so when I doing photoshop, have to check at an angle because sometimes the white, is not pure white, thus when I print, got ugly marks.

currently eying for future gaming/performance laptop.

for this situation only macbook is ur choice, because it has good calibration for colour and view angle(best among the laptop LCD)
FOr RGB LED offered by dell, is over saturated, so when u print out the colour lagi teruk

Yeah the LCD of Dell's laptops are pretty crappy :/
When I processing photos both mata and kepala sakit - -

not only dell, Asus, Toshiba&HP(worse), the best is Acer for normal LCD, besides Apple

oh my, need to sacrifice my gaming habit la like this.. its really frustrated when u see ur end product print mahal-mahal got ugly mark
thanks guy.noted