New owner of 2010 M15x, got it for RM1100 Battery and optical drive is dead but that's ok for me. Immediately cleaned the HSF and repaste with Arctic Silver 5.

Yeah it's a bargain. Thinking of buying the optical drive to harddisk adapter and new graphics card. GTX 260M is just 8800GT, getting long in the tooth but it still capable of playing new games, only thing is it's running hot

I found something weird, my GTX 260M is set at 1V by default as it supposed to be 0.9V for M15x. No wonder the temps reaching 90+C when gaming. Dropping to 0.9V makes it drop to 75C

Yeah, I guess maybe the one in this M15x were meant to be in M17x.

CPU market has been pretty stagnant past few years. The main reason I buy this laptop if I wanted more speed I just change the graphic card to a modern one. I surprised the CPU were able to handle GTA IV smoothly

True dat. Crysis is slightly lagging but change to 7070M or something and it would be rocking. But I'm not gonna play serious games on my laptop, just some fun old games.

Bought it this month for RM1100, bargain of the century

I need to upgrade the PSU too We'll see.

Agreed, old Alienware laptops looks unique, the new one looks meh and too conservative. Alienware is like Lamborghini for car, supposed to look radical and different. Taken that away then there is no point of buying it, might as well save some money and buy Sager which looks boring.

If you can get one for cheap, go get it!

This post has been edited by Najmods: Mar 29 2014, 08:35 PM

Is it? But I'm truly surprised how EASY to access things in m15x. Two screws out and you have access to the important stuff, like upgrading RAM, upgrading HDD and cleaning HSF. Best bit is cleaning graphics fan don't even require me to take the heatsink off.

Change it with NiBiTor. Take the vBIOS using GPU-Z and edit it in NiBiTor