Nothing beats wired anyway Oh well you do .. with all that SSD space.

Also Horns I think it's high time you update your signature with your two babies full spec+ model info like you used to have previously. I am sure a lot of people will be drooling after you update :'D

lol! er there is no need to do that i think; mine are just normal aw laptops like yours there are a number of laptop specs that make me drooling also haha!

lies lies!.. i drool over your 2"3" aw's lol if it's aw i'll drool all over it.. hopefully my drool will wet the mobo and short-circuited it~

lol! maybe it can help to solve the current water issue in Selangor

if i could produce that much, next issue that would come up is are they willing to use it? lol! aiyah i'm coming back don't know what's the situation there =.="

.. they don't use it. plants do hahaha!

hi to all d sifus again...
i jz hard format my alienware 14...
windows in on a d 750Gb HDD...
dun have SSD currently as i plan to get a bigger space...
but d boot up speed is alot slower den d factory install one...
ani idea y?
i forgot to install some express software or setting?
as last time i couldn't see d windows 8 loading screen,but now can see...
last time onli wait for 15 secs,now is more den 30 secs...
thx in advance...

i guess you haven't enabled the ssd caching. if you didn't do anything to the bios, then to enable it is pretty simple. just make sure you have install intel rst driver package in full (i.e. not the drivers only but the full suite)

read here, http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshootin...en&docid=564442

Well, even if my router is beside my laptop, I don't think it can go any faster also. At least my router really is value for money after using it for so long. For RM150, been using it since college times.

Well, most of the time I'm using wired but even on wire, it's not on gigabit Ethernet but I have an AC router coming soon. Will be changing it to that.

wired is much more reliable. even if it's slow, it should be more than sufficient (unless, well, you really need more than that to live lol!)

Hi all sifu,

i'm alienware desktop user.

i think already few year i been using this.

my cpu getting louder... i think is the water cooling.

how is the maintenance for the water cooler?

what i need to do? thanks

which aw desktop are you using? a more straight forward way is to contact dell for maintenance service. (if it's still under warranty)

wait i think cpu will not make noise so i assume you're talking about the wc fan noise. have you tried clean up the rad? you can take it off easily and do the maintenance yourself.

if the wc unit is confirmed spoiled and not under warranty anymore, you can also replace the stock unit with third party units like corsair h55. (in terms of aurora)

i'm using alienware area 51

its over warranty already...

so the water won cost any problem?

oh ok. the wc unit could be a problem (either water or something building up inside) if after cleaning maintenance was done and it still have loud noise. then you should replace it with a new one.

you can google a bit to find out which wc unit is compatible for your system.

Anyone knows where to get spare fan for the discontinued Alienware M15x laptop? Might I add that the warranty is dead for a few years too.

The fan just died like yesterday, hardly spinning as no air can be felt at the end of the vents, exactly opposite for the right side, which is constantly spinning at 4k - 4.7k RPM. And by looking at HWiNFO, sometimes the fan for CPU isn't displaying any monitoring data, even if it is, it is only less than 1k RPM.

And the overheating is causing they system to auto shutdown once it reaches 100 degrees, even without any major game play, it's pretty much stuck at a reading of 90 degrees.

Still waiting for Dell to send me a quotation price for the fan, but for the time being, I'm also looking for alternatives.

"Reviving" the warranty is gonna cost me RM990

Thanks

find on ebay and get it shipped. I would suggest you to replace both the fans also replace thermal compound too after cleaning. This will solve your problem (y)

P.S. you can also check on taobao.com. If you find it thr.. you can get it shipped from china through taobao agents on LYN. Shipping from China is cheap.

This post has been edited by mansooriqbal: Mar 7 2014, 03:15 PM

.. or you can send a pm to putochip123.

mansooriqbal, i have tested this: for aw, you literally do not need thermal paste for cpu and the cooling is as effective.

heh. Didn't try that. But I notice after re pasting after almost 2 years, my GPU and CPU temps both of them got a LITTLE better. Also I don't mind buying a good thermal paste and re pasting seeing the notebook itself costs a lot.. And I am out out of warranty so it's more of a self service thingy lol.

oh ok to me i don't see significant differences (it might have dropped for a few c hehe). of course it's better to apply paste haha! i haven't replaced the thermal paste on gpu. (still stock paste/pad from dell until now) it's always below 73c (bf4; 4+ hrs non-stop)

This post has been edited by horns: Mar 7 2014, 05:34 PM