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Hi all, just FYI I merged the R4 posts in the same thread so that various posts about the same thing aren't scattered around. Thanks.

Hello everyone, After about 100 hours, extensive fine tuning, benchmarking, re-testing, system crashes (and a possible re-installation of Windows 7), I have finally made a guide that can offer much assistance to overclocking/overvolting as well as reproducible results. Free File Sharing Made Simple - MediaFire That is the folder I saved the document in. There may be more revisions to come. Maybe even another laptop, will see if any of the students in this campus has an Alienware Here is the latest revision, stored in this site: Alienware Overclocking Guide [rev 2].pdf Note: This guide can be used on any laptop given there is the unlocked BIOS for it, the procedures will be the same, the numbers will not. Might want to ask svl7 if you are not overclocking an m14x Raymosrunerx PS: To make life a lot easier, please download the latest revision, I already saw some major errors and pointers I left out in the first revision. I was too eager to post this.

Ok so, I was thinking and decided we need a thread to share pics of our areas where we live during all the different times of year! Here in NH we have a lot of awesome wilderness shots around. Post pics of your favorite things around where you live. I know there are so many of us from all over the world and would love to see whats around all of you.

Direct link for beta drivers Win7 Source

Posted this on NBR, But figured you guys would be interesting in looking at it too. Just found this review featuring the m17x r3 and a battle with the intel 6300 and the killer wireless 1103. Looks like the 1103 is the way to go for wireless gaming.(if you didn't know already). Looks like ill have to pick one up off ebay here soon. Killer Wireless-N 1103 Review: Can Qualcomm Take On Centrino?

Hi! As someone already mentioned seems like there isn't that much love here for the little man, M11x. Since I just received M11x-R3 as a replacement for my old cursed R1, I thought I can give some short info about the differences and similarities between the two releases. (Even if its what, 9 months after its original release.) Comparing to the old M11x-R1, this one has: - significantly better screen - Klipsch audio (the on-board speakers sound fantastic), - nicer matte exterior - gigabit lan instead of 100mbit - USB 3.0 - lacks VGA port - faster CPU - better battery life - most importantly faster GPU; it's now nVidia GT540M instead of GT335M Specs. Intel Core i7 2637m 1.7GHz (2.8GHz Turboboost) nVidia GT540M 2GB GPU 8GB RAM 1333 MHz 750GB HD 7200RPM Looks. New matte surface looks really nice and does not have old gloss. Screen. Significant improvement from R1 in terms of both viewing angles and color reproduction (even though R1 I had had kind of blueish tone; but we're assuming here an average M11x does not own a professional screen calibrator) and I didn't manage to do much better using a Windows Calibrator. Its a bit brighter too. The brightness levels match when R3 is set to about 75% of its max brightness. It's difficult to give a good impression of the screen quality through photos but I'll give it a shot. Here we see, from left to right: M17x-R2 RGB LED, Thinkpad X200T Samsung PVA SuperBright screen, M11x-R1 screen, M11x-R3 screen: This is how far screen can be pushed on each laptop and how the picture looks like then: The two things about the screen that I don't like is that it is still glossy and that black colors are poor (like on any "standard" screen). Performance. Stock Settings. GPU clock: 672 MHz, Memory 900 MHz, Shader 1344 MHz. 3DMark06: ~8500 3dMark11: 984 Fan is roughly the same level as on R1, it has a deeper hair-dryer tone when its working and I didn't find it distracting (it's a bit less loud then M17x). (Updated data will come during next couple of days; lost the screenshots when I restored the hard drive.) EDIT: I tried overclocking the CPU in BIOS, but for some reason it won't let me change the settings. Any ideas? Also, which software do you guys use for overclocking the nvidia cards? EDIT2 (04/03/2012): Overclocked. GPU clock: 815 MHz, Memory 1050 MHz, Shader: 1631 MHz. 3DMark11: 1169 (about 19% increase) Crysis 2: DX11, high resolution textures, all settings maxxed out on Ultra, around 15-20FPS outdoors with action going on. (no screenshot provided) Battlefield 3: Ultra settings with Shadows on High (see screenshot for settings; close to maxxing it out), getting around 25-40FPS outdoors with lots of action going on. Tested single player only however. Overall temperatures look pretty good. With this overclock (if I try going higher, the card automatically downclocks on stock), I am getting around 70-75 C max on full (100%) GPU load and no artifacts whatsoever. With stock setting its only few degrees less. Also, this is with CPU on stock settings, haven't played around with CPU overclocking, which is possible using the standard Alienware BIOS so no modding required. I'll try to get some more games on this computer just to see what we can expect. So far, it definitely looks like a beast with a nice overclock potential without requiring anything special -- I simply used MSI Afterburner and worked like a charm. EDIT 3: Added the screenshot of the M11x-R3 screen information if anyone is interested in the exact model.

It read 0.925V before flashing the BIOS? That's weird. But it's only a reported VID label, not an actual voltage value. With the modified BIOS you should be able to overclock slightly higher than before. There's no way to increase the voltage even more, it is already at the maximum value which can be set in the VBIOS. The mobile Sandybridge CPUs are bad overclockers, and I doubt you have a BIOS option for overclocking it anyway. Your GPU is soldered to the motherboard, you can't upgrade it. All you can do to increase the gaming performance is to overclock the GPU, as you already do. A faster hard drive simply decreases load times and makes the system feel snappier.

Hi, ofcourse I can upload the flash tool. I created a DOS bootable USB drive used this older version of aflash2 (the newest version gave me an error). AFUDOS just crashed my machine everytime i tried to flash. This finally worked: AFLASH2.zip

UPDATE: Added a fixed A08 version to the main post. It adds support for the newer 555m revision (GF116) which apparently for which apparently the voltmod hasn't been working properly before. Thanks @7r0jan for testing. Please report any possible issues, general feedback welcome as well. Have fun overclocking!

looks good now 3dm has gone up from: P6734 to P7148 I tried 770,1540,1100 & 750,1500, 1000 but I get artifacts and crashes. I'm going to work now,later on i will up it slowly till I get some better results... Thanks Pete.

This should hopefully fix it. I don't have an M14x to test it myself, so please report back if you (or anyone else) are going to test it. After flashing the BIOS please enter the BIOS, load the default settings, save and exit & reboot. As always, you are responsible for the changes you made on your system. EDIT: Removed the attachment and added it to the main post .

Hi and welcome to T|I I have an idea, let me take a look at it.

The world famous Budweiser Clydesdale horses, Merrimack NH has the plant and of course the stables hehe Im so lucky I can just drive and see them anytime, a sunset over the city and an older building in the city

looked what i rolled up behind today. hhahah just had to take a pic

You asked for it.

Well, in case the VBIOS isn't compatible you won't get any picture an might have to blindly flash the card... but as far as I know this won't be necessary. You have a desktop system, you should be able to simply use an integrated GPU (e.g. the one on the Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs if you have one) or just another PCI card in case you "brick" your 6970 with the flash. Then you still got a picture and can simply flash the VBIOS to the according PCI slot. As I said, I don't have a desktop myself, but I think it should work like this.