Hi Everyone, I just joined the forum and I have done several hours of reading, and searching, I am just trying to get a cohesive guide to everything I need to do here, so I am sorry if I am asking questions that have been asked/answered before, but I tried... Basically I have been out of the OC scene for a while, but I just bought an Alienware 17 (I always wanted an Alienware, but by the time I could afford one, I felt that they dropped in quality, so I held off until the A17) So, I have an Alienware 17/780m 32 Gigs of RAM: I have been slightly disappointed with my experience so far, and it may just be a mix of the odd default configuration and my own ignorance. So please bare with me. It seems my OB Video is always active, even when I set the 780m to be the default video card for anything, if I run a benchmark, it says my video is Intel HD 4800 or whatever... Is this normal? If I press Function F5, it just says it will change and require a reboot, but the Intel HD 4800 is still active after the reboot. The only way I have found to force the 780m to be active was to uninstall the Intel 4800 driver completely (disabling the device doesn't work) I tried to update to the newest NVidea drivers, but it won't let me, I have heard installing the new beta drivers resolves this, but when I did that, I lost the ability to change my contrast via the function button, is that normal? (rolling back the driver fixed that). I understand the concept of flashing custom VBIOS to unlock previously locked abilities but I have a few questions related to that. 1.) Should I be flashing the firmware from: http://forum.techinferno.com/general-notebook-discussions/1847-nvidia-kepler-vbios-mods-overclocking-editions-modified-clocks-voltage-tweaks.html that is for 700m series? or is there something specific to Alienware 17? 2.) Once that is done via http://forum.techinferno.com/general-notebook-discussions/2166-%5Bguide%5D-nvidia-vbios-flashing.html, what application is preferred to change my values? NVInspector? or EVGA PrecisionX? Do they have different abilities or pros and cons? 3.) Are there guides for NVinspector/EVGA/XTU that can provide me with some values (temps, voltages/fan speeds, profiles) that are tested and not too crazy, to limit my chances of ending up with a burnt brick? 4.) Can upgrading the firmware on the 780m mess with the BIOS/vBIOS? Or are these completely different entities that have no compatibility issues...? Thanks, and again I tried, I am sorry if I appear to be an ignorant newb...(and the long post) It is just a lot of information, and quite intimidating to start.