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Alienware M14x
Topic Started: Feb 23 2013, 07:01 AM (1,340 Views)
Jas
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Hey, everyone. Just ordered a computer I've been thinking of buying for nearly 4 months. I'm FINALLY going away from Macs.

Here are my specs:

Windows 8, 64-bit, English
Processor: 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3630QM (6MB Cache, up to 3.4GHz w/ Turbo Boost 2.0)
Memory (Not including Flash Storage):12GB (1 X 4GB, 1 X 8GB) DDR3 at 1600MHz
Hard Drive: 750GB 7,200 RPM SATA + 32GB mSATA Caching SSD
Video Memory: 2 GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 650M with Optimus™
14.0" High Def (720p/1366x768) with WLED backlight
Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 2230 With Bluetooth 4.0
Slot-Loading Dual Layer DVD Burner (DVD+-RW, CD-RW)
Flash Storage: 2TB

What do you think?
It cost me about $1,600 (Including Tax).
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The graphics card is okay, everything else looks pretty sweet, though.
If I were you, I would have splurged, and put the extra money into the GTX 680M card. It's such a damn beast... Planning on upgrading my laptop with it momentarily.
If you have the chance, I'd also downgrade to Windows 7, too... I've heard of a lot of issues with game compatibilities regarding 8, people say there's some really annoying features in it, and Gabe Newell called it the devil.

Apart from that, congratz on your new laptop!
If you've got a Steam, add me at Rehjul. If you don't, make one, and I'll send you some free games.
Edited by skull, Feb 23 2013, 08:09 AM.
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Feb 23 2013, 08:06 AM
The graphics card is okay, everything else looks pretty sweet, though.
If I were you, I would have splurged, and put the extra money into the GTX 680M card. It's such a damn beast... Planning on upgrading my laptop with it momentarily.
If you have the chance, I'd also downgrade to Windows 7, too... I've heard of a lot of issues with game compatibilities regarding 8, people say there's some really annoying features in it, and Gabe Newell called it the devil.

Apart from that, congratz on your new laptop!
If you've got a Steam, add me at Rehjul. If you don't, make one, and I'll send you some free games.
Yeah, I'm most likely going to downgrade, anyways. I got it with Windows 8 to test it out. After the reviews, I figure I'm just going to downgrade it within the first week.
I'll create a Steam later, but thanks for the help!
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That shit is amazing.
And you have 2 ram slots left also.
Also if you wanted to you could update it to 28gb of ram with two more 8gb sticks, upgrade the power supply and overclock pass 3.4ghz prob 3.6 or 3.8 ghz. Since the intel i7s can reach some pretty insane speeds @.@ highest I seen was someone overclocking one to 5.0ghz on a 6-core. That ivy bridge tech intel has create is so far above in computer tech its just wow.
Though I don't know why you want that much processing speed but meh. xD

@Knight O.o How do you upgrade the gpu in a laptop and were do you buy the cards for them?



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they can be pretty hard to find. Your best bet is to either look around on ebay, or go to your local hardware store or wherever. I found this cool little repair store near where I live that sells them, along with various other computer parts and accessories that can be kind of hard to locate.
This'd be my first time actually attempting to upgrade the GPU, but there's a good bit of tutorials available online. ;o

And@Jas, awesome, be sure to lemme know once you've made it. Always looking for more people game with, since the people I currently do are garbo. (=
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Edited by skull, Feb 23 2013, 09:30 AM.
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Feb 23 2013, 10:48 AM
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Jas
Feb 23 2013, 07:01 AM
Hey, everyone. Just ordered a computer I've been thinking of buying for nearly 4 months. I'm FINALLY going away from Macs.

Here are my specs:

Windows 8, 64-bit, English
Processor: 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3630QM (6MB Cache, up to 3.4GHz w/ Turbo Boost 2.0)
Memory (Not including Flash Storage):12GB (1 X 4GB, 1 X 8GB) DDR3 at 1600MHz
Hard Drive: 750GB 7,200 RPM SATA + 32GB mSATA Caching SSD
Video Memory: 2 GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 650M with Optimus™
14.0" High Def (720p/1366x768) with WLED backlight
Intel® Centrino® Wireless-N 2230 With Bluetooth 4.0
Slot-Loading Dual Layer DVD Burner (DVD+-RW, CD-RW)
Flash Storage: 2TB

What do you think?
It cost me about $1,600 (Including Tax).
That's a laptop? It has pretty good specs but I've never liked laptops for gaming I don't think they're ideal. For $1,600 you could of built yourself a monster desktop for gaming. But if you wanted a laptop then it's pretty good.



You should of gotten windows 7 though lol.
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It's so expensive because it's a laptop and I'm surprised at the graphics card you got at that price, too.
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Feb 23 2013, 08:06 AM
I'd also downgrade to Windows 7, too... I've heard of a lot of issues with game compatibilities regarding 8, people say there's some really annoying features in it, and Gabe Newell called it the devil.

Apart from that, congratz on your new laptop!
If you've got a Steam, add me at Rehjul. If you don't, make one, and I'll send you some free games.
Gabe Newell also said the Playstation 3 was horrible.
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Feb 23 2013, 05:35 PM
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Feb 23 2013, 08:06 AM
I'd also downgrade to Windows 7, too... I've heard of a lot of issues with game compatibilities regarding 8, people say there's some really annoying features in it, and Gabe Newell called it the devil.

Apart from that, congratz on your new laptop!
If you've got a Steam, add me at Rehjul. If you don't, make one, and I'll send you some free games.
Gabe Newell also said the Playstation 3 was horrible.
Why do you feel the need to post in literally every thread on this forum, when you never actually have anything to say?
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Never is a pretty inaccurate word.
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The people who work at Steam usually state how inefficient Sony's marketing and gaming is.
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Feb 23 2013, 08:39 PM
The people who work at Steam usually state how inefficient Sony's marketing and gaming is.
It's funny, because that's untrue.
Which is why Valve and Sony have their Steamworks partnership, while the other consoles don't.

Admittedly, Sony's marketing was bad. Everybody can admit that.
You've already created several threads regarding the discussion of gaming consoles, though, so why don't you take that there, rather than hijacking another thread?
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You haven't been paying attention to their comments about the steam box then. . .
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