Fry Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Quite happy to have a new laptop show up today, as Dell emailed me yesterday to expect a week for delivery. Standad AUS build with the upgraded processor.Was sad to see the screen resolution was worse than my M17 R1 though. Guess I will learn to deal with only 1080 instead of 1200 /sighRun the initial Benchmarks out of the box.3D Mark 11: P6456, but with awful fps. Rates around 20 listed in the summary. It did mention that the display drivers were not standard or recognised so that might explain it. Should be fixd when I reinstall - Crosses fingers. Which makes sense after noticing it only has dx10 installed. Seems like an oversight on Dell's part.Windows Experience overall at 5.9 due to the raid HDs. 7.6 or 7.7 for everything else so happy with that.Time to swap out the HD and memory for the upgrades I got in preparation.Initial plan is to swap out the HD/memory, then do a reinstall and rebench. Is it worth changing the bios at this stage to the new A04 or see how it runs with the A03 considering I don't have Nvidia cards.Any other gotchas for new players I should take note of? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Brian Posted October 13, 2011 Founder Share Posted October 13, 2011 Welcome to T|I Fry. Congrats on the new M18x, what's your system specs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fry Posted October 13, 2011 Author Share Posted October 13, 2011 i7 2960xm factory overclocked6990 CrossfireInstalling my own sata3 SSD and 16gig 1866mhz hyperX memoryOnly thing I really missed out on that I was somewhat curious about was the wireless streaming HD, but it wasnt availible for Australia when I asked 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffreybaks Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 (edited) wow, beastly! I keep dreaming of m18x's, I suppose they wont go away untill I eventually get one. Edited October 13, 2011 by jeffreybaks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Hey Fry, nice to have another Aussie M18x owner around, awesome specs you got there. Where in AUS are you? This is my best result for 3dm11, only one GPU test in the 20s. AMD Radeon HD 6970M video card benchmark result - Genuine Intel® CPU 0 @ 2.40GHz,Alienware M18xR1 score: P8563 3DMarks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPhantomhive Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 Hey @Fry , FYI that's the top score above~ Lol.PS : Welcome to T|I and Alienworld~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Michael Posted October 13, 2011 Founder Share Posted October 13, 2011 Welcome to T|I @Fry!You got a beasty machine there! Congratz! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 welcome to Tech Inferno Fry congrats on the new system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fry Posted October 15, 2011 Author Share Posted October 15, 2011 Around Adelaide at the moment Jimbo. Looking forward to atually having time to set it up tomorrow. Thanks for the warm welcome all, I'm sure I'll end up with some questions along the way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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