Hi Guys and bro TS raymondtong94

Just bit the bullet and got my very FIRST Alienware just yesterday.





Any tips and tricks for a newbie like me?

Thanks Sifu!

Good tips. Will do the backup image this week.

And also, later will hunt for a 512GB mSATA SSD for it, and do a fresh install of Windows in it.
If I install it myself, no issues right? Or is it better for me to call a Dell service personnel to come over and install for me?

Thanks bro! Well, the 1TB HDD with 80GB mSATA Caching also performs quite good surprisingly. Just that booting up times are still not as good as SSD.

LOL. Surprised to see you here. I thought you said you not a gamer ma.

TQ for the detailed advice man! I just downloaded the Alienware 17 manual meant for 2013 Aliewanre 17, I believe it's the same hardware layout for the 2014 Alienware 17. Hmm.

Hahah. Still remember me from Z2 thread yeah.

Saw his post yesterday.

He mentioned that his AW14 does not go to sleep after closing his lid. Not sure how he solved it though?

Yeah. The information would surely help AW14 users here.

empatempat, care to share what's the cause and solution to your issue?

That's bad. Intermittent problem. Your AW14 still under warranty, right?

One sad thing about the Alienware 17 series (R5 & R6), there seems to be no way to set White backlighting in AlienFX.

Sometimes, I just want it to be white, like how it is on the G750 series.

Hey guys.

Sorry for this newbie question. How does the switchable graphics in Alienware laptops actually work?

For example, I seem to be able to switch between the integrated graphics and discrete graphics by pressing FN + F5 keys, and it requires a reboot to switch back and forth between the integrated and discrete graphics.

I was thinking, with Nvidia Optimus technology, shouldn't this be automatic? Like when I'm 3D gaming, my discrete graphics turns on and vice versa when I'm not gaming.

And the funny thing is, when I first got my AW17, the default was set to the integrated graphics! lol. I couldn't even run TitanFall at maximum settings properly then, and after I switched to discrete graphics (FN + F5 keys) and rebooted - then only everything became silky smooth.

Any thoughts? I tried to Google up some info about this but found none, hmmm.

Whoever can shed some light, I would be most grateful!


*side note: for comparison sake, on my MacBook Preo Retina 15", under Mac OS X, the discrete GPU automatically kicks in whenever I'm doing anything graphic intensive, and it reverts back to the Integrated Graphics when I return to doing some light work.

This post has been edited by shockk: Jul 15 2014, 12:44 AM