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post #21 of 56
1/2/04 at 12:44am
blaze, what phase are you on now according to the website? Have you called to see what your status is?
Today, I'm still at phase 8 by the web site, but when I called AW on Friday they told me it was already built and going through quality control and it should be here by the middle of January. That sounds like bull sh*t to me.

My payment was received on 12/5, the same as you I think, and 1 day after Alienware 3.2. I did get the free $50 gift card (big deal).

I'm just hoping the woman at AW was wrong and maybe it will ship next week.

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post #22 of 56
1/2/04 at 12:51am
Congrats AW3.2. nice pics too. It seems my order is delayed, but who knows what to believe when it comes to the reps at AW.

They told me they couldn't ship 2nd day air several different times.



Enjoy your laptop Tom, I know I will once it gets here!
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post #23 of 56
1/2/04 at 1:06am
Cadman
The website says phase 9 but I think its in 12 and should be in 13 tommrrow.
I also asked how they were going to ship it and they said ground..but Im thinking groud for them is 2 day air. I'll let you know what mine is when I get my tracking number. Hopefully tommrrow. Once they told me I went into phase 9 on friday(last week) and then on tue. they told me it just went into phase 9 so it takes 3 days to go from phase 9 to 13 so by tommrrow it will be 3 B.D. and it should ship since they were off today. At the lastest it should ship monday.....unless *knock on wood* it fails there tests which means they'll build it over which I dont think ever happens...i hope...any other questions?
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post #24 of 56
1/2/04 at 1:08am
cadman, I think yours should ship tommrrow 2 b/c we ordered the same day. I dont see what the hold up would be..... I hope we both gets our tracking numbers tommrrow....
do u know what you are going to get with your $50??
If I dont get my computer shipped tommrow I wonder if Amazon sells Ammo JK .....maybe
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post #25 of 56
1/2/04 at 1:17am
lol.. i hope that im at least phase nine by tommarrow
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post #26 of 56
1/2/04 at 1:32am
Yes, lets both hope for tomorrow, blaze.

This will be my second computer from Alienware. I bought a $6900 DV editing desktop from them back in September of 2001.

As I remember, It took over ten weeks to get that system. When I got it, everything worked OK, except the DV hardware. (DV Storm PCI card.)

After many hours of tech support from AW, the problem could not be resolved. We're talking about multiple OS reinstallations pulling this card out, or that card out, but nothing worked. I finally gave up on AW support and decided to try and take care of it myself. It turned out to be a hardware IRQ conflict, and the only way to fix it is for the PCI cards to be installed in specific slots on the board.

Several other times I have tried to use AW support but always ended up fixing the problem myself.

Even though my first experiance with AW wasn't a pleasant experiance, I love my AW system and still think highly of the company (not so much on the support end).

So, this second order with the laptop is to give them a second chance and will pretty much decide the future with my ordering from Alienware.

I hope they don't disappoint me, as I really like the company and thier equipment

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post #27 of 56
1/2/04 at 1:55am
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by blazehenryson
let me know how the movie burning goes.
I bought DVD X Platium so that I can burn movies(I own of course ) just wondering how good it is.
Also did you get the Omega driver or just the ATI driver.....
I downloaded the new Omega Catalyst ATI drivers.
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post #28 of 56
1/2/04 at 2:34am
Thread Starter 
Alright, I ran all the test, and it scored a 2600 3Dmarks.

Is this good? bad?
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post #29 of 56
1/2/04 at 2:49am
AW32,

Did you order your machine with AlienAdrenaline (Powerstrip)? If so, overclock that GPU and the RAM...you'll gain an easy 400 points in 3DMarks. If not, head to Download.com and type "powerstrip" into the search engine. Its a free progy that will give you ubercolor control as well as Overclocking abilities.

But I'd play some games first...if you notice fewer frame rates than you'd like, then consider overclocking. If not, stay at default settings and frag away! If it ain't broke, don't fix it

-Craig
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post #30 of 56
1/2/04 at 3:17am
AW 3.2', i am starting a site with alienware pics on it, if you would like i could put your 51m's pictures on my site. if you would like that, email them to me at *******@earthlink.net (compress to no larger than 10MB please).


awacs

www.*******.vze.com
*******'s Alienware Asylum! Pictures, Reviews,and more!
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post #31 of 56
1/2/04 at 3:29am
Thread Starter 
Craig, Yes i did order adirenaline, and I am overclocking as we speak (im on teh vaio now) Well see how it does in the bench...Ill post.

Awacs, yea, id love that, ill get some action pics and some "posed" pics i guess, ill send them to you soon, peace.
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post #32 of 56
1/2/04 at 3:46am
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Alright guys, i jacked up the performance a little, went from a 2500 -> 2982. Ill see if i can get it any better tomarrow...off to bed
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post #33 of 56
1/2/04 at 4:40am
Glad to see that all's well in Alienware3.2's world

Congrats!
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post #34 of 56
1/2/04 at 11:47am

Great Review!

I been out for a day or 2 new years and all but I'm back now and this is an excelent review! Great pics too! If you have any trouble you know where to ask! There are not many problems we have yet to run into with these things but we have also come up with solutions to most of them!

Welcom to the club! I know this is just a forum but it truely feels like an elite club.
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post #35 of 56
1/2/04 at 12:16pm
Thread Starter 
Thanks guys, I do feel elite, lol! I just hope all of you guys do oo when you recieve yours. I cant say enough...its worth the wait.
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post #36 of 56
1/2/04 at 2:00pm
have fun overclocking, ill be posting an overclocking article probably around the time my area51m ships. I have already overclocked and collected data with my low end computer, next I will overclock my workstation's gpu, and thirdly my alienware 51m
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post #37 of 56
1/2/04 at 2:38pm
Natuto,

We look forward to that Overclocking thread. Nothing like hot roddin' a hot rod!

-Craig
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post #38 of 56
1/2/04 at 3:10pm
Thread Starter 
Whew, deffinatley looking forward to those stats!
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post #39 of 56
1/2/04 at 3:17pm
alien, what is your engine and memory clock set at now?
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post #40 of 56
1/2/04 at 4:41pm
Thread Starter 
My clocks are set at--Engine clock=351, Mem. clock= 202.5. When i overclock it for the benchmarks, to get that extra 500 or so score, I just push them up about 25 each.. hope thats what you wanted..
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