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Video/Graphics Card: 512MB NVidia® GeForce™ Go 7950 GTX

Chassis: 17" WideXGA+ 1440 x 900 LCD - Stealth Black

Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T5500 1.66GHz 2MB Cache 667MHz FSB

Memory: 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 667MHz - 2 x 512MB

Operating System (Office software not included): Genuine Windows Vista™ Home
Premium

Notebook Tuners and Remotes: Without Media Center Remote Control or TV Tuner

System Drive: Single Drive Configuration - 120GB Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s 5,400 RPM w/ 8MB Cache

Optical Drives : 24x DVD-ROM/CD-RW Burner

Wireless Network Card: Internal Intel® PRO Wireless 3945 a/b/g Mini-Card

Sound Card : High-Definition Audio with surround sound

Mobile Essentials: Belkin® AC Anywhere 300W Vehicle Outlet Adapter

Warranty: 3-Year AlienCare Toll-Free 24/7 Phone Support w/ Onsite Service

Security Software: McAfee® VirusScan Plus – 30-Day Free Trial Factory Installed!

Games: Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
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right now it is on phase 3.


had a HP ZD8000, not a bad laptop, 256Mb ATI x600. but the video card died so i looked around found the Alienware m9750 was a good price for the bare system.

i Plan on upgrading to the 2nd video card as well as 2-3Gb of ram. also will duel boot XP and Vista.
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For the game your playing, 1 video card is more than adequate especially with the WXGA lcd. Let us know how the 1.66ghz processor performs while gaming and congrats!
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Congratulations on your purchase.
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Originally Posted by Bryan'sM505x View Post
For the game your playing, 1 video card is more than adequate especially with the WXGA lcd. Let us know how the 1.66ghz processor performs while gaming and congrats!

thank you.

at the time i had very small amount of fund due to my college starting back up. so a few things had to have cut backs . but from talking with the reps from alienware, looks like most things are upgradeable, but just to make sure I'm going to put the higher CPU as the first upgrade.
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if you put a CPU in yourself you will void your warranty alienware will upgrade your CPU the reason for this if you dont know what you are doing you can screw your processor motherboard and GPU up at the same time... now GPU are upgradable by the user and so is the RAM and hardrives....
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if you put a CPU in yourself you will void your warranty alienware will upgrade your CPU the reason for this if you dont know what you are doing you can screw your processor motherboard and GPU up at the same time... now GPU are upgradable by the user and so is the RAM and hardrives....

I'm going to let Alienware do the CPU install. my friend owns a Dell laptop and his HDD had died on him. so he call Dell and get this the tech said it was the HDD, now she wanted my friend to do the install but it was going to void his warranty.

but something like the CPU i would rather pay Alienware to install that.
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-update-

phase 5: 10-23-2007
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I'm going to let Alienware do the CPU install. my friend owns a Dell laptop and his HDD had died on him. so he call Dell and get this the tech said it was the HDD, now she wanted my friend to do the install but it was going to void his warranty. but something like the CPU i would rather pay Alienware to install that.
you are right. If I were you, I will go with highest CPU I could afford and the higher reso for screen. Screen is too expensive to upgrade (even with Alienware). There is labor-cost and stuff included. Last time I wanted to upgrade mine it could costs me up to 700 bucks minimum. If I would have know that earlier, I would rather spend my 190 - 200 bucks now for the higher screen resolution.
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congrats on your 2nd AW purchase!
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Originally Posted by Spartan-117 View Post
congrats on your 2nd AW purchase!

This Would be my first one in a long line of laptops, but if everything goes great with it, my next laptop will be from alienware as well.


btw: Phase 8 @ 10-24-2007
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when i got my m9750 i was in Awww for like days looking at it...the thing is sleek and clean... like a fat kid in a candy store with money to blow...
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when i got my m9750 i was in Awww for like days looking at it...the thing is sleek and clean... like a fat kid in a candy store with money to blow...
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when i got my m9750 i was in Awww for like days looking at it...the thing is sleek and clean... like a fat kid in a candy store with money to blow...

LMAO
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Should be shipping today
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Should be shipping today

Damn, your right on the money. it was shipped on the 25th.

thankfully i live about 30min away from alienware.
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wow, have you ever taken a trip to Alienware.
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update & ES4: Oblivion test.

Sorry I have not post in a few days, been working and imaging the new laptop.

Tested ES4: Oblivion. First I installed it w/ Vista to see how it will run, ran ok, but was problem with user made mods. (Vista I think I was getting about 20+ FPS in doors. default setting oblivion does not know the GPU).

Now, since Vista is still a bit Buggy I have switch to XP Pro, but will go back to vista once SP1 comes out and I get my 2nd HDD. (Duel boot, w/ XP as main OS). I have tested ES4: Oblivion in XP runs really good. Maxed the Rez to 1440 x 900, and I have messed with a few setting, but mostly about 30FPS+ (w/ one or two spikes here and there, but my setting are not done yet)


But all in all, this Laptop is kick A@#, the 1.66MgZ processor feels like it is way faster than my HPZD8000 P4 HT (which was a desktop processor in a notebook), must be the duel core.
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