Hi Everyone. One of my friend is working in Dell and she told me that recently got a Raya promotion in a so called "Dell Employee Purchase Program".

My friend told me that every employee only limited to 3 laptop purchase in this "special price". She is thinking of make some pocket money in here instead of wasted the nice offer. Like take a bit "commission" from buyer once the deal is closed with DELL.

Alienware 14
4th Gen Intel i7-4710MQ
14 inch (1920 x 1080)
Windows 8.1
GTX 765M (2GB GDDR5)
16GB RAm
1TB HDD + 80G mSATA
Free McAfee One Year
Free 14" Vindicator Backpack
RM 4399

Alienware 17
4th Gen Intel i7-4910MQ
17.3 inch (1920 x 1080)
Windows 8.1
GTX 860M (2GB GDDR5)
16GB RAm
1TB HDD + 80G mSATA
Free McAfee One Year
Free 17" Vindicator Backpack
RM 6799 <--------------This very special, I try to configure in Dell website and the price was 8k+)

Kindly PM me if anyone interested.

I don't think you need to "modify" the power brick. Is was like buying a 240watt power brick. Remove the middle pin of the power brick if throttle is happened. I think M17x motherboard is capable of receiving more than 200watt of power. so, just change it will do.

My M15x comes with 150watt and the motherboard default will limit the input power with 150watt.

I am currently using AMD 7970M + 740QM which is still ok for 150 watt.

But I am planing to upgrade my processor to 940XM. I already do a lot of studies in internet when planing to upgrade that. when it comes to that CPU, I'll need a 240 watt power brick. but one problem is motherboard will not accept more than 150 watt unless we removed the middle pin of the power brick. motherboard can draw up to 230 watt base on techinferno.com and notebookreview.

I note sure about the putting the id chip. the middle pin of the power adapter is "id pin", just remove it and the so called "trick" will be done. A lot of people already doing that in M15x.

So, I guess you no need to worry about that if M17x motherboard is limit the input power not more than 240w.

The only one drawback is you can't charge the battery once you remove the middle pin.

Erm... I have different thought about this.
Electronic device will not "take" how much power you "give". It will only "take" how much it "need".

For example,

Case 1
M17x Default needs 240 watt
CPU = 100 watt
GPU = 100 watt
Motherboard, LED, Fans and others = 40 watt.
Power source (240 watt), 100% of the power is used up. (No throttle happened)

Case 2
M17x Upgraded needs 290watt
CPU = 100 watt
GPU = 150watt
Motherboard, LED Fans and others = 40 watt
Power source (240 watt), 100% of the power is used up but still not enough. (Throttle might happened)

Case 3
M17x Upgraded needs 290watt
CPU = 100 watt
GPU = 150watt
Motherboard, LED Fans and others = 40 watt
Power source (330watt), The supply power (330 watt) is larger than the needed one (290 watt). (Throttle might happened)

In case 3, the system is still only need 290 watt even if you supply more than that.
The CPU is design to draw 100 watt, it will draw 100 watt max forever
The GPU is design to draw 150 watt, it will draw 150 watt max forever.

So, I don't think the lift time of the electronic device/chip/board of the system will be reduce.

I take a desktop system as another example.
By default, the desktop have a 300 watt power supply. If you change the power supply to 1000 watt it will never kill the desktop. Am I right?

I think there is something to do with the magnet on the "screen part" and "palm rest" part of the laptop.
My dell studio 1555, facing same issue like you last time. Dell came to change my motherboard twice and the problem still persists.
End up I get frustrated and open up the laptop myself to solve it.

If you call up Dell's tech to solve that issue, you can point to them this clue so that they won't have to change everything and can't solve the problem.

Haha! Glad to hear that!

How much?

What is the temperature while gaming?
If it is under 70, then is no problem at all.
If it is between 70 to 90, is up to you want to repaste or not.
If it is above 90, you will need to repaste already.

I usually will repaste if my laptop temperature is above 85 while gaming.
If the case is like gaming for 2 hours, the temperature slowly increase until 85. Then is still ok for me. I will just play anohter quater of half hour, then stop for a while.

Your hinge broken or the "plastic" that hold the screw broken?
I have a R2 (new type hinge) top cover and screen cover. I didn't use anymore, I don't mind to sell you cheap cheap RM 50 maybe. Or whatever you want to pay.

Maybe you can post your photo here.

http://www.cnet.com/products/alienware-13/


Have a video about Alienware 13 inside. Have a look!

Does anyone know how much I can sell for my spare 240W Dell power adapter?

isopropyl alcohol >90%

in lay-man term for easier understanding is IPA. you can find in hardware shop.

Where did you read that?

Removing optical drive won't help...
I don't think it can change after all..

Well, I am not familiar about the shop.
And I personally own a M11x R2 before. And yes, is possible to change thermal compound on this.
But you have to bear in mind that, you need a complete tear down of the M11x if you want to access the fan and heatsink.
The design is different from M15x, M17x and M18x which is very easy to access the fan and heatsink.

I must say, Yes! you have to buy one.
I bought mine last time before it become sticky.
You should really buy one for that. Especially the top cover.

Told you I not familiar with shop ma..

But M11x tear down you have to really be careful, there are few very fragile ribbon when you take out the cover at keyboard side.

Youtube got many tear down video la bro, can have a view.

I found one for you

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

Remember to watch closely at keyboard part, and 5:59 until 6:10, there are one tiny cable that need to be remove. Be extra careful, don't brutal.

I also attached some photo that grabbed from the video. About the ribbon and cable that you have to pay extra careful.





Hope it help.

Just be patient and soft when you disassemble the unit. Hehe...

I am very sure once you complete disassemble 1st time, you will be very confident to do it second time.

I have one M11x R2 top cover. That one is match with new design hinge. I not sure it is fit yours.
Tell me if you need it, I can sell it to you whatever you want to pay for me, I didn't use it any more.

I have both... the screen side, and the top side.

M15x still rocks bro...
Mine configuration

Intel i7 740QM
8GB DDR3
ATI HD7970M
3 USB 2.0 port
3 USB 3.0 port
80GB SSD as OS + 500 GB HDD as storage.