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

hot n hot n hot. boh ngam wif aw17. gtx880m suit soldered not slot type

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZkkRfPwpdk

Alienware 17 using GTX 980M!

3Dmark11 over 10k! Insane!

no that was from eurocom. (manual upgrade) at least it's confirmed that compatibility is not an issue for aw17.

so all safe money for the gtx 980m now?

yeah.. it's like night and day difference with that card, compared to other previous versions.

hopefully a refresh will come out soon, with new features that are already populated in other brands.

1x pci-e x4 m.2 slot at least. (new clevo have that; asus g751/g771 have that) 3/4k display.

the rest should be maintained or improved. (like, more heatpipes for cpu lol!)
oh. tbh aw18 is much better. playing games with it for hours really bo rasa. (especially the gpu's) still, need to check the specs of the new aw17/18 first. (i'm curious about what exactly they did to allow cpu oc up to 4.4ghz)

i'm still skeptical about slim laptops being able to dissipate heat efficiently, particularly when it's under load for long time.

when i checked reviews about these slim laptops, their temperatures under load for both cpu/gpu are always at relatively higher sides. note that they're stock cpu/gpu with stock clocks.

right. for now, single high-end gpu's are still good for most games.

Wow cap at 60 fps and still sad? Haha! Did you try to disable vsync and see what is the max fps can go?

i chose 18 because i have a hot cpu, and 18 is doing a better job dealing with heat than 17.

however, later i found out that the choice of thermal paste also contributed to the less optimal heat dissipation. both my r4's came with hot cpu's (3820qm and 3840qm). they ran hot and could reach near 100c after long hours of gaming. i tried all sorts of TIM's but none could suppress cpu temperatures well. finally i tried coolaboratory liquid ultra. it's been months, and they are still running around 85c under same conditions, at room temperature. (impressive.  it's more than 10c drop)

stock cpu is fine. 4900mq is hot at stock clocks, with laptop pad with 3 fans at full speed (at least 10c above stock's temperature at idle). i run it with slight oc, @4.0ghz all the times.

Bro..why don't you try this?

http://goo.gl/izlrbH

Tell me how it goes! 

note: this is a lesson learned when you have all the stuff around you, but you don't actually test it yourself (taking everything for granted)

the 330W adapter actually works very well with m17x r4, without any mod. the bios detects the adapter as 330W, and the battery charging is working fine.

why use a higher-power adapter? it provides more juice to your system, especially when you overclock cpu/gpu, and put everything into full use (all hdd slots are full with ssd/hdd, including hdd caddy; ram slots are full with 4x8gb ram, etc.)

Er not sure about others, but not in my case. Actually previously the gpu temperature was fine (it's similar to the above. R4 gpu heatsink jangan main-main. it's good)

Note that 880m runs fine for general use in r4 previously. It's when i put it into heavy use (play games) then throttling starts kicking in.

77c is not hot at all.

yeah just saw that they just updated their website.

is RM4k a good buy for the low-end one?

yea. n the processor even worst... cant run well on multitask.. stick to aw14 better

i5 got Quad meh... ... without the AGA is a total lapsap

That's exactly what i suspected for aw17 with 880m. The gpu heat sink of these machines are triple-pipe, very efficient.

No I don't think it's the drivers either. I'm using the latest .75 now compared to the previous one that i tested few months ago. (I used the modded inf for .65 and it worked for .75 also)

Haha 17 has a good cooling system for gpu. Their temperatures rarely go above 80c. When you have that temperature that means it's time for maintenance.

Dell do some "evil" move on this.
The one who bought AW 17 at lower spec. (GTX 770M or GTX 860M) will get dual pipe heatsink.
The one who bought AW 17 at high spec. (GTX 780M or GTX 880M) will get triple pipe heatsink.