arctic cooling mx-4? actually any decent thermal paste will do. the most important thing is still to make sure to clean up the vents and fans regularly.

sometimes when we look too closely to those comparison charts about thermal pastes, we forget about how indifferent in the differences. between the 'best' and not so good ones, the temperature difference is not really significant (3c?)

yeah finally, a few months of puny 130Mbps later haha!

sweet. what's the part number of that 55W heatsink fan? wait do you also think the stock heatsink can dissipate heat efficiently?

http://forum.techinferno.com/alienware-m17...fm-10-4cfm.html

man.. you made me wanna do the above also :/ maybe i will do it after my custom rig.

i have 1x aw18, 1x aurora r4, 2x r4.

wo wo wo! the very first AceCombatWare lol! this is what i'm talking about!

maybe you wanna get a dell 380 bt instead.

.. don't use pink, please :/

ah.. it's nice to not waste them when they are still usable i am not sure if it's good. it's just the default in an r4.

please don't say that. i am not rich, seriously :/

pink takes away the macho'ness of r4. bad.

right.. it's unique for sure hehe

plastidip is nice to use. can revert easily. previously i sprayed an r4 with it too. (too bad it looked too ugly so i just removed it lol!)

like this mah! in macam balu cantik and mantap!

janji can point and click sudah

i have ss.rival still got killed a lot in bf4 lol! cpu power; gpu power; monitor power; all power except skills.

3840qm for surfing good mah Tarak lagging lol!

alienware with a valid warranty is not overpriced. without it, yes. (normally people are looking at tangible part of the deal, and forget about the equally important but intangible part, i.e. the after sales tech and warranty support)

8 beeps is usually about lcd screens (lcd screen failure). (i got hit with that once. it's due to lcd cable issues caused by my itchy hands; NOT factory defects)

no, dell helped.

edit: there was a lcd issue after transporting the laptop from one place to another. i was trying to fix it, but failed. then dell came and helped.

This post has been edited by horns: Jun 4 2014, 04:01 PM

none. all the 'issues' were actually caused by myself (fixed by myself also. all except the damn lcd cable :/)

edit: it's a long distance trip. i suspected that the rough road conditions caused the display to not work when it arrived. (well i should say it partially worked because the screen showed everything, only with distorted colors)

This post has been edited by horns: Jun 4 2014, 04:20 PM

er.. if that happens do not try to fix it yourself, leave it to dell? i told you that incident was purely my fault haha

normally it will not happen. (i have brought the laptop to many places also. local and overseas. no problem.)

uh? sorry to make you think that aw is so weak in terms of build quality haha! no you don't need to have extra precautions of any sort. just use the laptop normally. it is sturdy and well-built.

batteries these days have charging protection to help prolong its lifespan. (i.e. it will not charge when the battery is above 95% full). i always put my battery in. after more than a year's use this way, the wear level is just 12%.

by the way the battery is for you to do light tasks with your laptop, not gaming. (by gaming i mean bf4 kind of games, not freecell or solitare) always connect to an external power source (plugged in) when you game. do not ever game on battery only, because battery power alone is not enough to feed the cpu/gpu during gaming (you will get lousy performance and experience), plus you stress the battery even more. (it's like your ac adapter, if you use a low-power ac adapter to play games, it will get stressed and hence result in much shorter lifespan)

oh. i have a good unit. my 3d r4 is very steady

it happens everywhere. the question is still how manufacturers respond to it. i don't know about others, but for aw, i can tell you they keep their words.

there is a dell shop at ground floor, main entrance. or, another shop at top floor. this one has a number of gaming laptops and accessories (forgot the name)

welcome

actually, i don't really understand what your problem / dilemma is. please share. unless we can understand what caused your dilemmas, we can never give you sensible answers.

if it's just about the price point, well, just go for rx-17 and be happy

for warranty extensions, you can talk to sales agents at dell for quotes. or, you can contact putochip123 for the same. just state clearly what you want for warranty extensions.

aw 17 r1 is the latest. don't be confused with the previous m17x r4. when we said r4 it means the previous version of aw.

don't worry you will get what you ordered.