bigchuk00 Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Hello everyone. Please I'm looking for an online store possibly in the US where I can buy an original charger for my r4 or possibly an alternatuve that's good. I've been searching but been having mixed feelings about it all so I need your opinions please. Thank you very much for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runix18 Posted November 1, 2014 Share Posted November 1, 2014 ebay.com its a realy good site that you can start with...pay very big atention dough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigchuk00 Posted November 2, 2014 Author Share Posted November 2, 2014 Yeah. Saw a lot there from hong Kong and China,and that's why I'm here asking. I hear an m18x charger works for us too. Is that true? I want to upgrade my GPU to a 780m and possibly future proof it for a 980m Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runix18 Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Yes i think it work, and if i'm not mistaking here on the forum it's a special tread just for that:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antriach Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 that PSU power is necessary for a alienware m17x r3 with nvidia gtx 680m?240w or 150w is enough?thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rewben Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Yeah. Saw a lot there from hong Kong and China,and that's why I'm here asking. I hear an m18x charger works for us too. Is that true? I want to upgrade my GPU to a 780m and possibly future proof it for a 980myou need to modify the m18x adapter before it can be used for m17x. for 780m, 240W is fine.that PSU power is necessary for a alienware m17x r3 with nvidia gtx 680m?240w or 150w is enough?thx240W. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigchuk00 Posted November 11, 2014 Author Share Posted November 11, 2014 Read on notebookreview that m18x charger works. Meanwhile what's d probability that a charger spills quickly due to reaching its max amount of output too often. Also heard of slight performance gains using a 330 watts charger due to more current available to the board Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rewben Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Read on notebookreview that m18x charger works. Meanwhile what's d probability that a charger spills quickly due to reaching its max amount of output too often. Also heard of slight performance gains using a 330 watts charger due to more current available to the boardi have found the thread about this at nbr. sorry if i was totally wrong. i have read about the mod here previously.edit: yes, i was wrong. the 330W adapter for my 18 work well with m17x r4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigchuk00 Posted November 15, 2014 Author Share Posted November 15, 2014 So I just got an original 240 watts adapter yesterday from a local store cuz I couldn't wait long enough to order the 330w online and it wasn't available locally and it works great. But now I've run into another problem. When playing tomb raider, my laptop automatically stops collecting power from the Ac and switches to battery after 3minutes of gaming. I quit the game, unplug n plug back in and still doesn't recognize it. But after a shutdown, it does. But entering tomb raider again brings up the issue. Anyone had this? BTW GPU was over clocked to 700mhz from 620. Its a gtx 675. Just tried with battlefield 4 and ultra street fighter. The same thing happens even without over clock. GPU temp at 71°c and CPU at 76°c (core i7 3820xm) when it happened. Their max temps ever before now with hardcore gaming are 78 and 84 respectively. I forgot to check the chip set. Anyone have any ideas?EDITFound the issue. The new charger was refurbished and thus couldn't carry my system under full load. Now I'm stuck on this ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigchuk00 Posted November 16, 2014 Author Share Posted November 16, 2014 Please can someone give me an m18x charger out of good will? Currently can't afford one and I'm stuck with two bad chargers. Pretty please. You could pm me if u wannna. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jallar1234 Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 I had the same thing happen to me, but somehow when it showed it was "disconnected" i just unplug the part of the power adapter that hooks to the wall and wait for the green power supply indication light to go off and then replug for the light to turn back on and it has worked back to normal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red97gst Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Sounds like something faulty inside the power adapter, I wouldnt use that thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigchuk00 Posted December 2, 2014 Author Share Posted December 2, 2014 Ouch. Currently playing NFS underground 2 because if this. Any game more demanding and the charger shuts down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spere Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 I've heard, but have no personal experience, that the charger sends a data signal to the laptop to confirm capabilities and authenticity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigchuk00 Posted January 28, 2015 Author Share Posted January 28, 2015 I eventually got a 330watts charger and on the first day my system was super fast. There's a theory that when you give the system more power than it needs it gets more efficient and you may get up to 10% more performance. On my first day, that seemed to be the case as my processor ran on overclock flawlessly and my gpu ran on 800mhz oc without any issues. However, from the next day, the situation changed. Now everything is running like it is using the 240watts charger. read somewhere that the 330watts defaults to 240watts after some time on the m17x and people decided to mod 2 240watts or 2 330watts together. Any one know why it defaults to 240? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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