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Cheers Game - GTA4 is a mess on any PC. It will play on the m14x but it was just not designed for PC. You can fight it, but its probably just going to frustrate you . Splinter cell works fine, street fighter 4 smokes on the m14x. BF3 rocks, im sure skyrim will as well. The m14x is a mid-tier gaming notebook. Thanks for joining techinferno and let us know what you decide to get. Best Wishes, StevenX

Course, Kill 'em all, Ride the lightning, Master of Puppets and Justice for all are uber-albums when it comes to thrash, no doubt here.

Cheers Gamba. Nice to see you posting here rather than at NBR. 1. The Bios flashing over-writes what you have so you can go either forward or backward or modified. The flashing software usually has an option to (force over-write or allow previous version). In this case it just does it and doesn't even fight you on it. 2. You can flash older bios or newer. Again its just up to you as to which bios works best for you. 3. Stock A05 seems to run a little hotter due to the fans having more RPM stages . But again, its just what fits your lifestyle best. A05 might be better for classroom but A01 (a01 modified) might be better for all out performance. 4. Flashing the bios always comes with inherent risk. No way around it. The good news is.. A. your covered by alienware warranty. B. If you can't boot up they are not going to know that your bios was flashed. C. Other members have recovered their own machines from bad flashes. (key is to take your time and make sure power is NOT removed during flash). 5. Voltage mod allows you to increase the clocks on the GPU even higher than whats allowable at normal levels. This also increases heat. Most of us can get to 800/1050+/- for gaming. However for me I stay around 752/1002 as I dont get much more increased performance vs the heat that's generated by the card. (the law of diminishing returns). I can explain further if needed. Last - I noticed on the other site you are interested in I5 vs I7 performance. For most games, we have really not noticed much of a difference. We have benched quite a few games so far (Thanks Ninja!!!!!) and the difference is from 1FPS to 3FPS. Games like BFBC2 and BF3 will show little difference in single player missions because they are scripted responses. (example you get to this stage in mission, 10 enemies pop out, they always attack and flank, etc.. then mission is over and move to next mission). In MP which most of us play for, the higher the number of enemies on the map, the more EVERYTHING has to push to constantly refresh your screen. Increased network traffic for 64 players, vehicles, damage, environment changes, etc... This means increased CPU utilization as well. When benchmarking BFBC2 or BF3, I want to see real in game performance while playing. To do this we use FRAPS and enable the logging (which is started by hitting F11 <--default). It records your min max avg framerate. Its not perfect but done over time can show definitive results between systems. Many things can and probably should be done to every system to optimize for gameplay. Network throttling in the registry should be disabled as well as operating system tweaks to get the most out of your performance. I hope this has helped a bit. I too am looking forward to performance feedback from I5 users. My "gut" tells me that Bf3 is much more optimized than beta and the cpu utilization is actually really good. My guess is that on 64 player maps (full server) on a map like caspian border we may see 3-5 fps difference from the I5 to the I7. But again I may be wrong. The challenge when looking at benchmarks on websites is to determine HOW the benchmark was completed and the testing methodology. To me a scripted SP mission will not show the MP stresses that are placed on the machine. Good luck and thanks for posting!

Best thing to do is take it apart again and then carefully reassemble it and pay special attention to the cable connections.

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Strain : OG Diesel (one of my current favs) Smell:Smell like citrus, very strong and pungent Taste:Strong sweet, almost like orange zest, I love it Highs: Very nice high both heady and body. after a session I was high for like 2hrs.

All information regarding the volt mod and all available mods can be found in this thread: http://forum.techinferno.com/alienware-m14x/561-%5Bmod%5D-voltage-increase-nvidia-gt-555m-7.html#post12003 In the unlikely event of a bricked mobo due to flashing the BIOS there's still the relatively easy to use recovery method which @mw86 already described. And in the even more unrealistic case that the crisis recovery doesn't work there's still the possibility to let the BIOS chip getting reprogrammed manually

Welcome to Techinferno. Yes Yes, there's always a way as long as you can find the older bios files Yes there are always risks and they can be lowered by making sure its done while on AC power and everything closed nothing running in backround and better yet disable your overclocks to ensure no errors during the process. Yes there is a exe flash app with the bios embedded to install the bios while in windows for you. Yes there is methods even for worst case scenario which is less likely of bricking the system in which case there are guides at hand to make a bootable disk drive with the restorative flash on it... while doing it with no display on screen so typing in the commands on the right steps so its done since you can't see the screen from bricking the computer... thats worst case scenario. Read up on everything first and think about making that recovery drive in case you'd ever need it. a guide is here: Blind BIOS Recovery process for all M18X in case of corrupt BIOS Welcome to T|I and someone with more knowledge on this or has an actual M14x can assist you more...