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post #101 of 315
2/4/10 at 7:41am
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Sorry I haven't been posting many benchmarks. My system is experiencing "flickering" when in crossfire mode. I should have more time to troubleshoot this weekend.
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post #102 of 315
2/4/10 at 7:48am
Take your time Interesting about the flickering issue. Give us some screen shots on them when you can.

cheers ...
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post #103 of 315
2/4/10 at 10:15am
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Even better, a youtube vid. It's more noticeable near the end. I emailed my resolution specialist and I'll see what they say.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyZChVGFq50
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post #104 of 315
2/4/10 at 10:27am
That did not look good. A spike in heat or processing?

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post #105 of 315
2/4/10 at 10:34am
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Originally Posted by NWGuru View Post
Probably some time between March and July assuming they don't release a new system with dual 5870s. Then again I haven't seen anything yet indicating that the 5870s will have crossfire support.

Regarding the SSD it will help load times of games and in between scenes, of course it depends on the game. When you say dual SSD I assume you mean RAID 0 which I wouldn't recommend RAID to begin with. I would go 1 SSD + 1 HDD like I did with this one. RAID doesn't support Windows TRIM and IMO, it's weak in laptops.

I hope they will come out with dual 5870
maybe latter this year

Yes i was talking of Raid 0
cos i thought that made it more faster
but guess not

Thank you
God Bless
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post #106 of 315
2/4/10 at 10:38am
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That did not look good. A spike in heat or processing?

cheers ...
I would guess crossfire cable, if not power issue with the system board.
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post #107 of 315
2/4/10 at 3:15pm
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I hope they will come out with dual 5870
maybe latter this year

Yes i was talking of Raid 0
cos i thought that made it more faster
but guess not

Thank you
God Bless
Generally Raid 0 (stripping) is faster, as the data is spread across both drives. but in the case of SSD drives the RAID function does support TRIM which is really required to keep SSD drives operating a peak efficiency.

I would expect that this issue will be addressed in a later driver update
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post #108 of 315
2/4/10 at 8:13pm
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Another FYI, Dell is replacing my system. The flickering affect is affecting my benchmarking.
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post #109 of 315
2/4/10 at 8:58pm
wow GPU issues
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post #110 of 315
2/4/10 at 9:37pm
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power issues. I turned turbo mode off and the flickering went away. This is VERY bad. Buyer beware.
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post #111 of 315
2/4/10 at 9:49pm
Do i sense a trend here that since dell bought out alienware it seems that the systems have became to put it nicely ChiT!
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post #112 of 315
2/5/10 at 12:19am
I'd bet they just have a rush to get a whole bunch of these new ones out the door and the QC wasn't perfect. That happens to a lot of products when there is an initial surge in orders. Look at the problems with the 27" IMac if you think Dell is the only one facing issues.

Given just what this system is capable of, I don't think waiting to get a second machine and "get it right" is all that harsh a price to pay. Seems like the cooling is up to snuff, and the benchmarks are quite stunning.

Keep 'em coming as you can
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post #113 of 315
2/5/10 at 12:45am
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When I start pushing it the problems pop up. I can see a dramatic drop in the middle of 3DMark06 when it throttles itself down.
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post #114 of 315
2/5/10 at 1:24am
and confirmed by some other owners as well
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post #115 of 315
2/5/10 at 4:52am
Time for another (real) BIOS update and/or revision. My take is toward a BIOS update since the same issue can also be duplicated in "R1" (?) machines.

Bummer NWGuru.

cheers ...
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post #116 of 315
2/5/10 at 7:50am
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No my R1 system didn't do this.
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post #117 of 315
2/5/10 at 12:25pm
So is it a lack of power from the brick ?

Or is the 920 CPU too much of a power drain period ?
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post #118 of 315
2/5/10 at 2:58pm
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So is it a lack of power from the brick ?

Or is the 920 CPU too much of a power drain period ?
I am not sure about the 920 being too much for the comp. I have been trying to dig some more info about a competitor model (ASUS G73JH), and it does offer a 920 as part of its configuration. But I also heard over the grapevine that ASUS is still working on finalizing the BIOS on this model. Maybe there is some relation here.

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post #119 of 315
2/5/10 at 3:07pm
Asus better hurry with that Bios as right now should start getting in customers hands on the 25th.
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post #120 of 315
2/5/10 at 3:10pm
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So is it a lack of power from the brick ?

Or is the 920 CPU too much of a power drain period ?
Combo of dual 4870s and the i7-920XM

Here's a 20K 3DMark06 run. Now I have to beat 20284.

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