80'c is normal for a proceesor

don't worry CLU will do the trick pretty well. the max it can go is 88c. (non-air conditioned room temperature, about 30c) imo as long as it's not above 90c under load it's fine. (i am talking about playing games non-stop for more than 6 hours each session hehehe)

the gpu temperature on the other hand is like 75c max. the good of triple pipes

now my problem is the PCH. if i do long-hour gaming it will reach over 100c for sure.

bigger doesn't mean better. however they should have put in more powerful fans.

there is a fan mod tutorial at techinferno, http://forum.techinferno.com/alienware-m17...fm-10-4cfm.html (using m14x r2 fans. cfm is much higher) but seriously, don't do that

yay. finally something worth waiting for

i have the same question on my mind lol! as long the card has same layout design i don't see any problem. we can use the same gpu heat sink. (talking about standards, they should share the same layout theoretically hehe)

i am not sure about the price. if it's 3k i will just throw another 1k in to get gtx980 sli for my desktop first

GTX 980M Is below 3k. 
GTX 970M is below 2k 

GTX 970M perform better than GTX 780M and GTX 880M.

Maxwell (9xx) starting price is cheaper than Kepler (7xx, 8xx) cards.

I hope can bring some cheap GTX 780M and GTX 880M to sell here with lower price than my current selling price.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZkkRfPwpdk

Alienware 17 using GTX 980M!

3Dmark11 over 10k! Insane!

Theoretically yes.

he never told me tat.... we had placed for aw17 la.... if m17xr4 then must be very low price de.... last round 3300... now should be 3000...

u means the lower spec... This 1 below 3000... 2950 highest

3820 1 only 3299rm

256 ssd rm 470
8gb ram rm230 max....

5k mark aw17 wif gtx 770M de....

great news! clevo's 980m works well natively in aw17/18, without bios/vbios modding (a.k.a. plug and play, literally). previously aw18 was reported to be unable to run slevo's 980m.sli. it turned out that it can. the catch is to run them in uefi mode (w8.1 was confirmed to work. let's see if w7 uefi will work as well)

great news! clevo's 980m works well natively in aw17/18, without bios/vbios modding (a.k.a. plug and play, literally). previously aw18 was reported to be unable to run slevo's 980m.sli. it turned out that it can. the catch is to run them in uefi mode (w8.1 was confirmed to work. let's see if w7 uefi will work as well)

Bought from Putochip around 2 months ago with awesome price. if not mistaken around 3.5k. This baby really make me happy until now  . I just upgrade to SSD Evo 840 and thinking to upgrade to 16GB of RAM. With power adapter 240W is it ok to put more RAM?

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I can bring but I doubt people will buy with that price.

Clevo GTX 970M RM 1999
Clevo GTX 980M RM 3299

Note: for those who wish to upgrade their gpu in m17x r4, don't go for 880m.

From my extensive tests after updated everything to the latest under w8.1 in a m17xr4, it's true that all latest drivers are crippling performance of the card, resulting in very terrible performance for gaming.

The only place it can go now is aw17/18 with the right vbios.

What a disappointment :/ nvidia has done something to make their own product to run at lower than advertised speed ://