Posts by SagerMeister

Don't be. The grass isn't always greener...I've had to put up with my wife's "cooking" for almost 15 years now, so I see the M17x as my reward for toughing it out!

Ty, ty! Specs: M17x Black Metallic Intel Core2 Extreme Quad QX9300 2.53GHz (12MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB) 4GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1066MHz 2 x 2048MB 17.0in, WUXGA,LCD,ANW,M17X CrossFireX - Dual 1GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 1...

An M17x. Yeah, the FedEx guy in the pictures isn't sporting a Santa beard, but who cares; he's carrying my M17x! Attachment 19336 Attachment 19337

The ATI vs. nVidia thing is a flavor of the month decision, imho. The pendulum swings back and forth, and it just depends on the timing of your personal hardware upgrade cycle as to which manufacturer holds the current lead. Four...

Quote: Originally Posted by NWGuru and what's wrong with black and red? Nothing, except they're not ours.

Great news that the awareness has reached a critical mass. Hopefully there will be a complete fix soon. I'm ready to fork over $4,500 of my moolah to purchase a decked-out M17x, but I won't do it until I know this problem is...

I would, but I don't own an M17x (yet). Other forum threads point to the down-clocking of the video cards as one culprit. For the nVidias, one solution working for single card owners has been to disable Powermizer, but for the SLI...

No doubt. For them the machine is basically a paper weight. BTW, here's one screen shot of DPC latency checker from an affected M17x.

I needed some cooling off after I over-torqued the vid card screws, lol. Ultimately I put the video card in the oven and baked it at 385 degrees for 10 minutes, and then let it cool slowly. I kid you not. The thing worked after I put...

Have any of you M17x owners run into audio or gaming stuttering issues? This seems to be a problem for more than a few folks in other forums, but I don't see it being discussed here in these forums. Some people are severely affected,...