there were updates released at dell support site, including the gpu drivers.

you can choose to not extend it if you're fine to sell it at a reasonably lower price, and if the machine is in good shape. i suggest you look at garage sales section for reference. (actually, having warranty might or might not be useful in boosting price also.)

yes i can buy warranty after expiry, but abit expensive compare to buy before expired

let me check out the update drivers later tonight

My settings for CS:GO




sorry for the poor quality as I captured using my smartphone

This post has been edited by Superman7: Jan 22 2014, 10:03 PM

there seems to be alot of updates for my AW14. Should I update all of them?

it depends. if you let dell to list the drivers based on service tag, it should list all the drivers that you need. to me i will install anything recommended or urgent. since i have disabled igpu, i don't need intel graphic driver; instead i grab the latest gpu driver from nvidia.

thanks horns
found out that it's best to set the GPU to always use the NVIDIA rather than set it to auto.
Somehow the games does not know which is the correct graphic cards to use.
I set it in the NVIDIA settings to always run on the NVIDIA GPU. Saw significant improvements on FIFA 14 and also significant fan speed increase

Thanks bruv. Mine works flawlessly after I let Nvidia Experience to optimize my settings.

How do you let the Alienware to always use the NVIDIA graphics for gaming?

right click on your desktop and you will see one. this one will lead you to the driver settings.

Yeah, I've checked the site that they've added Windows 8.1 drivers already. I might be able to update to Windows 8.1 without any problems (I hope).

This post has been edited by Aura: Jan 23 2014, 10:05 AM

w8.1 drivers were there for some time already. i'm just not sure about in-store updates.

update and inform us

Hi guys, need some advice.

I bought m14x R1 3 years ago, and now thinking of upgrading my system..

Should i consider the new m14x or just desktop x51...?

i would like to play witcher 3 & dragon age 3 in the future with high setting and full hd....


is m14x sufficient? my r1 cant even run witcher 2 properly...

The obvious answer is no. It won't be sufficient at all. What u probably need is a laptop which has GTX 770M or 780M just to get it running at that level of detail and resolution. That's only ensuring that it can run. Smooth or not, that's another question. The best is getting a SLI capable desktop which will be able to run a lot of games smoothly. That way, u don't need to worry much. If u don't have that budget, then u can go for high end single GPU desktop PC. That works as well. Mobile gaming is still a bit underpower IMO.

Guys, what's your settings on this? Do you enable or disable it?

Ic ic.... Well, I'm just waiting for that moment when they release Windows 8.1 drivers then I'll upgrade to Windows 8.1. I think now it's the time to do so.

Finished updating to Windows 8.1. No unexpected events fortunately. Everything is smooth. Now to try out some games.

Somehow after updates, the same items still reappears in the Dell website. I guess the detection doesn't really work

uh? where do you get that?

sweet

haha! i think it should be that way. what if you have all the latest drivers but decide to keep a copy offline? hiding them will receive many complaints

Thx for the advice, guess i will go for desktop then.

Right-click on the battery icon and you'll have that option. If I'm not mistaken is the first option after your right-click