m15x owner

4k screen Alienware.

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

That's too much

With 1080p I can't even see my enemies in battle field (like tiny dots with zoom)

I bet the gpu is 880m sli or better hehe

You need lasik eye surgery

Oh my bad i meant without zoom hahaha!

My kill/death ratio always increases when i play games with laptops (17" screen is easier to spot enemies lol!)

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.

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.

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.

oh great

hm.. didn't know the gpu sitting can be a problem.

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.

that's how my friend and i trouble shoot aw 18 previously haha

edit: nice.. haswell-refresh is out! less months to wait for the unlocked K's then it would be the haswell-e with ddr4 ram support! (sk.hynix showed off their 128GB ddr4 already. samsung also showed off their 64gb versions )

That's too much

With 1080p I can't even see my enemies in battle field (like tiny dots with zoom)

I bet the gpu is 880m sli or better hehe

But we dont need 128gb for gaming only.

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

How does 880M compare to 780M?

Imagine you copy your games to ramdisk and run it from there

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).

for aw17 the heat from 780m is fine. the triple-heatpipe gpu heatsink is good enough. (however it's not in the case of cpu. my 4900mq generates a lot of heat during gaming. it's still bearable i.e. no throttling yet at room temperatures) r4 on the other hand are fine, the cpu heatsink are good for 3820qm and 3840qm with slight oc at room temperatures.

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yes it's possible with some tweaks here and there. however initially i think it's for desktops/servers only. (there is no laptop cpu that can handle 64gb ram yet :/)