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I have a mid 2013 AW 17 and I lovehate it. Build quality is excellent - it's hefty, but this was meant to be a desktop replacement and I don't use it in normal laptop fashion anyway. Connectivity isn't the best, but for my purposes, it's more than sufficient. Cooling is superb. The screen is amazing. The keyboard, even, is quality as far as laptops go. I would buy this again in a heartbeat - except I would probably have spent the extra $500 on the GTX780m. Or maybe got the 18 with 2 GPUs in SLI. That, in addition to not taking advantage of the warranty for some minor issues, are my only regrets.

Sager isn't bad, but they're basically rebranded Clevos. I don't have much experience with them, but it would seem that the quality does depend on who you buy them from. They're still more or less standardized and upgradeable, whereas the current generation of Alienware laptops now have BGA CPUs and GPUs - so if you don't already have one, and you want a laptop you can upgrade (other than the available Graphics Amplifier) DO NOT BUY A BRAND NEW ALIENWARE.

Kinda funny,

you said that the AW17 is hefty, so dell decided to improve, now you said that dell is not up to standard.

Is it possible to Bios flash a geforce to quadro?

Tried but the geforce 680m still remains a geforce.=( no K5000m

Use this nvflash:

http://forum.techinferno.com/alienware/9875-alienware-13-nvidia-960m-overclocking.html#post132989

It'll even flash a card which has no more content on flash ship at all.

The AW, stock MXM card is weird the card doesn't support ASIC quality test, and has a locked bios when flash through nvflash windows,

A force flash, with svet bios mod caused this mess..

Thanks anyway.

Hi, have a functional brick now..

, need help the Vbios mod i flashed made my card , into a ghost state, no hardware detection , card still works but the system believes no graphic , tried on my clevo P150em, and MSI 16F1 it boots till windows but cant install drivers, GPUz gives null hardware,

Tried to flash back using nvflash, but no hardware found....

Request for opinions.

MSI and ASUS are following the clan.......

the whitelist can be checked through the device id.

Hi Please send me Bios file GTX675MX

Alinenware 17

4710MQ

770m 3gb

16gb ram

512 samsing 850pro evo

Hi I just need to update my BIOS.

mine sucks

whats yours?

any way to rewrite the SPD for DDR3L onboard?

is Alienware included? able to volunteer...

Settings under Enduro settings... in AMD Control center.

i have a AW 17 with two heatpipe heatsink Is there any way i can mod the heatsink? for 980M

P150SM

4710HQ

R9 M290x

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