oo ic..thanks for the good info bro... 

actually i deleted my windows 8 due to lack of compatibility with many software and decided to use win 7 ultimate...
i think later will try uefi boot n observe if there any differences in booting time.. 

UEFI vs bios boot. Definitely UEFI takes the cake. It's significantly faster, IMO. Maybe difference is minimal. But u can feel it definitely.

As for RAID-0 setup, the only benefit of RAID-0 is in gaming when u r playing open world games. Compared to single drive, the transition loading between sections is seamless. The other obvious benefit in RAID-0 is reduction of loading times for apps but this one is hard to see.

As for Windows booting time, u can't do much by changing ur setup. It will definitely be faster but comparing side by side between Windows 8 and 7, Windows 8 will always prevail bcos of how the way that Windows 8 handles the operations within the inside. In other words, better architecture.

If zat_90s really wanted to reduce the loading times on Windows 7, I recommend RAID-0 4 SSDs. Yet again, comes down to cost and also max bandwidth that ur motherboard supports.

My only final conclusion is if u really wanted that superior boot time, change to Windows 8 instead of sticking to Windows 7. That would be the cheapest alternative that u can find at this moment.

hi guys, i have an issue with the M17x R2 display. yesterday, after i helped my friend to clean and repaste his M17x R2, the display appears to be bluish and if looked closely it appears to be thin blue vertical lines. the blue vertical lines suppose to be black in colour as during boot up, at alien logo the entire screen suppose to be black except the alien head logo.

as i cant find any solution, i decided to head home 1st as it is very late in the night and solve it by tomorrow. then, i was told by my friend that GPU-Z is showing that crossfire is not enabled, and in Catalyst Control Center there is no crossfire option anymore.

can someone help me to identify the issue?

well i did tried to resit it a lot of times but no luck. i worry it might be the cable being faulty.

i resit both. to access the CPU i need to remove the LCD cable as well. i just hope it can be resolved due to faulty GC as he is having crossfire issue.

no cable. does ebay has R2 ones?

M18x is different than M17x R2. i didnt go further to remove the LCD just to clean and repaste the CPU and GPU.

i will try with drivers 1st, then the cards. im a little worried as this is the 1st time i ever encountered this, and i will be blamed for this.

thanks. i will identify and fix 1st, then only order.

4k screen Alienware.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCdFoITy638

You need lasik eye surgery

ok so i need to change to win8 UEFI later.. haha.. 
thanks for info bro 

finally managed to solve my client's M17x R2 screen issue.
actually the faulty part is just the graphics card sitting, resit the graphics card and blue vertical lines gone. now works like charm.

well, i tried by dismantle one of the cards and turn on. it appears that the main graphics card is not running at all, as there is no display. tried fit in the secondary graphics card and removed the main, there is display. then i tried install both, and works like charm again.

But we dont need 128gb for gaming only.

Another video mentioned it's dual 780m. Impressive.

i think 20% boost from 780M, and of course lower TDP, means less heat generated compare to 780M.

i'd like that too.
but i hope its possible (or if i never heard of it).

That's why I love R4 huehuehuehuehuehue

planning to 'songlap' R4 once the price drops to 3k-4k

How to know the specs! you never update your signature!

this 3820qm is better for oc than 3840qm

hmm why so?

But does OC really helps in gaming? I mean CPU OC. GPU i understand. Until now I don't have the balls to OC as no more warranty for my R4 so I use it carefully and i've maintained it very well!

I cleaned and repasted thermal on my Asus zenbook today

OCing both CPU and GPU does help in gaming. Gaming is not about how many cores u have. Most games are not optimized for multi core CPU anyways. It's about the speed. The higher the speed, the better it is. That's why many ppl invest in cooling for desktops for this purpose. Both CPU and GPU must be able to keep up with each other. If not, u'll get stuttering. Most ppl don't know that this is another determining factor for stuttering. Most of the time is the multi GPU setup but sometimes if the processor is too slow, this will happen also.

Nowadays we are more focused on OCing the CPU more rather than the GPU cos no point in OCing the GPU a lot cos GPU nowadays have overtaken the CPU. So, the CPU is the only one which needs to play catchup.