Mac or PC - the age old question
Have done the questionnaire. This will be a family laptop. Kids are slowly learning about computers (oldest is 7). Wife computer illiterate and any time she touches my current laptop it breaks. Main...
View ArticleVRAM in Applications
I know only a few games benefit from having 8GB of VRAM that the 880m and 980m have, but what about other applications? I know that extreme 3D super detailed modeling applications can eat it up, but...
View Articlemsi afterburner fan control on gt70-dominator
hi so i have an gt70dominator with the 870m graphics card, i downloaded msi afterburner to change the fan speeds but i couldnt because the slider is locked. i have windows 8.1 64 bit and the latest...
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ThinkPad X1 Carbon (3rd Gen.) Broadwell
Just few notes on the cuff: * ThinkPad X1 Carbon (3rd Gen) > Lenovo Quick Pick it is coming * https://www.ptcrb.com/vendor/complete/view_complete_request_guest.cfm?modelid=26052 and it got some...
View ArticleRIP - Alienware 18
So now we know why we haven't seen the 9xx series offered on the Alienware 18. Alienware unleashes a pair of slimmed-down gaming laptops Well, it looks like there was more where that came from: Dell...
View ArticleThinkpad W550s Owner's Thread
My W550s was delivered today. Planning on using as a SolidWorks/Engineering workstation. Will send unboxing pics and a first impressions review when I get home tonight.
View Article850 Evo vs BX100
Trying to choose a 500 GB range ssd for under $200 and I found the 850 Evo for $196 somewhere and the BX100 for $180. Is the Evo worth the extra money? Would another different drive be worth it? I'm...
View ArticleUsing a m18x 330W PSU with a m17x R3: What's the worst that could happen?
Just recently, my standard 240W PSU keeps tripping (i.e. stops working and the blue light on the power chord goes out) when gaming on my m17x r3. I've turned off all overclocking, but it still happens....
View ArticleSager NP8250 / Clevo P157SM Replacement Keyboard / key question
By accident, my "U" key was ripped off. The key can't properly be put back in as one part of the key that snaps to the hinge broke off. Does anyone know of any other keyboard replacement models for...
View ArticleThrottling problem on alienware17(r5) with 980M
I recently upgraded my Alienware 17 (r5) to 980M (from Clevo), but there seems to be some throttling problems (not sure) with the 980M. Usually the 980M can reach about x4200+ in 3DMARK 11, but mine...
View ArticleIssue with GPU/CPU temp.
Hi folks Will try to elaborate best as I can. I bought my m17 r4 two year ago and I didn't have any issue. It was most of my time for video editing, playing movies and little playing CoH online....
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A key pulled off keyboard - NP8278..
I love my laptop, but seeing how they designed these keys, you can't just snap them back in, seems waste... I was cleaning my keyboard today and a cloth (thread)szq got stuck and ripped off the A key...
View Article7970M performance
While it is no GTX 780M or 980M, it still isn't too terrible. Latest drivers + overlocked GPU and CPU http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/9470470 Still waiting for a worthy AMD successor, or a windows 7...
View ArticleMr. Fox's GeForce 344.75 Desktop Driver Mod for 780M, 880M and 980M Mobile GPUs
I did this driver mod a few days ago and it seems to be working well for me in benchmarks and games, so I am sharing it with you folks to see if it works well for you also. It should work on any...
View ArticleNvidia 347.88 WHQL
Enjoy all http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/83082/en-us (x64)
View Article"Official" Alienware 13/15/17 order status thread
As was suggested by a poster in the AW15 owners thread, this should be the place to post your experiences with ordering your new Alienware laptop. Let's try to keep the conversation geared towards...
View ArticleDIY eGPU experiences
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**Official Clevo P75xZM "Batman" / Sager NP9752 Owner´s Lounge** Welcome to...
Alright people, since us prospective ZM owners are getting kinda impatient and are starting to suffer from claustrophobia in our little ZM thread, I decided to open up this Owner´s Lounge and welcome...
View ArticleProblems with P170EM
My laptop is a XMG P702 PRO with a Clevo P170EM, Radeon HD 7970M (+ Intel HD 4000), i7-3610QM and 8 gigs of RAM. The performance of the rig while gaming has never been very good, but I just took it to...
View Articleinsufficient video ram
Is there any way to increase the amount of RAM dedicated to graphics on a dell inspiron n5010 laptop? My specs are as follows: cpu: intel quad-core i3 processor ram: 4 Gb dual channel gpu: intel hd...
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