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Yea just my luck that i have one bad card from each set. What happened was a that i think when I put up the 5870 some moisture was on my hand. Probably from eating a popsicle. Lol. Anyway ot was on the corner of the card. Cause enough corrosion to eat some solder and kill the card. At least Dell will replace that. My fear is that since I've already had a mobo replacement and two gpu replacements they will push me for an M18x which I don't really want. I want to continue benching the M17x R2. For the 6970s issue, Pkhetan is on it and working on an RMA. If I can keep the gpu at 24k and push the cpu to 22k. I think i can get a 24k overall score. If I can get a modded bios I think i can even get 25k with a 330w psu.

Hey guys, I'm about to design a custom heatsink for my system. I've got a little question and I'd like to hear your thoughts about this. As you probably know, the screws which are fixing the heatsink on the GPU are hold by two pieces of spring steel which get slightly bent when the heatsink gets screwed on the GPU. Now one possibility is, I could try to design the heatsink in a way that allows me to reuse those two pieces for holding the screws and fix them to the heatsink. The other option would be to just make a copper plate with holes for the heatsink screws. Do you think this would work as well? I imagine it'd require some care when mounting the heatsink on the GPU in order to prevent to much force getting applied on the die. I somehow think it may be difficult to get the heatsink flat on the die with such a design. What do you think? Are these spring steel screw holders necessary or not? Here's a pic in case you're not 100% sure what I'm talking about, it's the stripped down heatsink (no heatpipes, no copper plate, only the two pieces which are holding the screws are attached).

Project 1 The back panel Some time ago some one over the NBR forum had an idea to improve the cooling on the alienware M17 by creating a custom back pannel. I decided to give it a try the goal is improve the size of the air intake and the airflow across the laptop so i though about it that way if i put someting directly over the fan and a hudge air intake just beside it should force the air to cycle inside the laptop. click on the pictures to get a bigger version so we start with this And this is the fan positionings (note that pic is not from my m17 i found it on the web and it was faster to use it then take a picture of mine after i was done with the mod and wanned to game) so the idea is to build something like that (ya ugly i know my picture manipulation skills are VERRY lacking) Material used this mesh use a cuting tool in my case a dremel 4000 with a flex shaft and the metal cutting wheel cut the shape in the mesh after that cut the shape of the air intake in the back pannel (that's water on my back paneli had to clean it cause cutting through a sort of plastic/rubber makes an anoying powder that stick and "burn" your finger) once done assemble both part and ajust the mesh to be sure it fit with mounting holes and other stuf then glue all part together and enjoy. i also covered the original grills that where just over the fans Project 2 a preview of what is comming The pcb you see has been custom designed by me for that project my projects are posted faster over there Granyte and cie but i'll end up posting them here anyway i have quite some modifications plans for that laptop so what do you guys think?

hmm just remembered i have a metal bong, maybe i can turn that into a heatsink lolz. let me try to find it and take a picture. that would be sick, benching and taking bong hits. 2 of my favorite things to do combined into one. hahaha

Just thought I'd make note that I ordered a DV6z notebook with the following specs. I plan on pitting it up against my Sager NP8130 for build quality, screen, general use, and gaming performance. 15.6" 1080p matte LCD A8-3530mx quad core AMD CPU Radeon GT 6750m GT GPU 6GB DDR3 1333 Blu-Ray Reader / DVDRW combo drive 9-cell battery Even though I know the 6750m GPU can't hold a candle to the GTX 560m in the Sager NP8130, the HP has the advantage of 6+ hours battery life compared to 3 in the Sager, and is about $450 cheaper similarly equipped (primarily blu-ray and 1080p screen).

I would like to compile a list of tests and procedures new owners can perform to help ensure they have a solid build. As we all know, there have been a few (very few) issues with GPU temps, Aero, Xfire, and some minor build flaws. Also, any help with how to record, post and share the info would be great. Again, there are very few problems with the M18, but I want to try and indentify any ASAP. Thanks in advance for your help. <!-- / message --><!-- sig -->__________________ Alienware M18x Space Black, Intel Core i7 2920XM OC, 6GB DDR3, Dual 6990M CF, 750GB HD, Win 7 Pro, Blu-ray Reader, Killer Wireless-N 1103, WirelessHD Transmitter

Check the first post. Let me know if you have any problems

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I've just read the article on Nvidias blog, and to be honest I think it's not such a big thing, the Nvidia control panel is very different from the CCC, and it has indeed higher standard settings as far as I remember, but power users adjust the settings anyway so that they fit their needs (no matter whether there's an AMD or Nvidia card in the system) And even if you don't change the standard settings, a lot of in-game graphic settings overwrite the CCC/NCP settings anyway, so I don't think that's a big problem. Lower quality settings is definitely an advantage for benchmarks, but most people tweak the settings for benching since they want to score as high as possible. At least Nvidia didn't forget about their crazy tweaks in the past And well, we can't be 100% sure whether there aren't any hardware tweaks (for boosting benchmark performance) implemented in the GPU itself, I think Nvidia and AMD as well have both some tricks for this.Even though good drivers are crucial, the possibilities of software optimization are limited, a lot of things are hardware-bound and depend on the architecture of the GPU, not every architecture supports the latest AA modes and some are better at Tesselation than others. I think this is more interesting than the standard software settings of the GPU control panel, they can get adjusted, whereas the architecture of your GPU can't. What's really interesting imo are (besides the overall performance) the post-processing capabilities of the GPU, this can make a huge difference in how a game looks and feels, and there are big differences between different GPUs regarding the quality of depth of field, shadow mapping, HDR effects etc. Way more important than the standard settings of the GPU control panel, just my 0.02

I just installed my HyperX I bought in place of stock ram and since 4 sticks of ram requires you to open keyboard and bottom of M18x up I found one of the keyboard ribbon cables that's folded over gnarled but not broken. I was a bit annoyed but unless it acts up I see no future probs with it. The builder must of just jammed on the keyboard to lay down and didn't care about the ribbon cable. One fans wires were out clearly of their guides and been being pinched in the bottom cover since the factory, i put them through the proper guide. One screw on my bottom cover (there's 4 screws under battery) was over-tightened and the piece of cover that gets screwed down is split in half. These are all minor flaws but nonetheless it shouldn't happen. None of them take away from the performance of the computer. I'll check stock paste GPU temps and update my post when I install my SSD's, get the latest drivers and a clean install of windows.

LMAO, that's hardcore

I want to see some CPU tests as well

yeah charging $75 for oc'ing is really stupid, but paying for it is even stupider, hehehe

i would not fear the die to crack but the whole board under it yes or scratching the die it does not surprize me they expect desktop user to mess with thier hardware more then laptop i have no idea of the prices but i guess it would be worth it to cheq how much it is maybe it could be made rentable by selling a couple to oher m15X owners i have the same plan for my m17 if there are enough m17 user left around when i get there XD Cooliance - Heat Sinks, Heat Pipes, and Heat Sink Resources

You forgot to read the fine-print *limit, 1 per universe

Thanks a lot! I actually created my username at random on the keyboard, but it turns out that it DOES actually mean something in Greek. Was... Ironic, to say the least.

StamatisX: I think I had some similar results when testing on a Core i5 desktop but couldn't figure out why something that consumes less watts can result in more turbo throttling. When designing the TS Bench, I had one eye on the Kill-a-Watt meter and I kept adjusting the algorithm by adding some ugly looking math functions until I saw a big number on the Kill-a-Watt. Very scientific. The Kill-a-Watt is not 100% accurate but the one I have seems to be fairly consistent from day to day. Gives you a rough idea how much torture you are putting your PSU through. Did you try any quick Prime95 or LinX testing for some comparison numbers?

ya but on the m14x they are butting on that limit and compain about it ...