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post #21 of 92
5/5/10 at 11:30am
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Very. I work in IT, and build my own desktops.



Yes.
If you get it before I do I would love to test it.
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post #22 of 92
5/5/10 at 2:23pm
For a while I was buying a new Alienware every year. I've since slowed down... and it's becoming every other year. I really think my next purchase will be the M11x soon.
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post #23 of 92
5/5/10 at 5:27pm
I read mixed reviews on the m11x Steve.

Many do not think the screen is all the great.

Have you checked them out yet at a local BB ?

( I am going to have to drop in one myself)
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post #24 of 92
5/5/10 at 5:30pm
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I bet I'm going to need a new system bios. How computer literate are you? Do you know how to back it up?

Wouldn't dell have a new bios for DL with the release of the 58xx series cards ? (soon)
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post #25 of 92
5/5/10 at 5:32pm
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Wouldn't dell have a new bios for DL with the release of the 58xx series cards ? (soon)
Not necessarily. Admittedly, this is my first notebook purchase, but I've never had to update a mobo BIOS to install a new GPU on a desktop.
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post #26 of 92
5/5/10 at 5:42pm
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Not necessarily. Admittedly, this is my first notebook purchase, but I've never had to update a mobo BIOS to install a new GPU on a desktop.

I had to, when the ATI 4870x2 desktop cards came out, Mobo would not boot with them before the BIOS update, was a real pain in the a..
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post #27 of 92
5/5/10 at 7:23pm
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For a while I was buying a new Alienware every year. I've since slowed down... and it's becoming every other year. I really think my next purchase will be the M11x soon.
I returned my M11x 3 days after I bought it. It was honestly one of the worst screens Ive ever had. Keyboard also left a lot to be desired. It played Borderlands just fine.
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post #28 of 92
5/8/10 at 7:17am
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Not necessarily. Admittedly, this is my first notebook purchase, but I've never had to update a mobo BIOS to install a new GPU on a desktop.
I take it you didn't get it on Friday.
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post #29 of 92
5/8/10 at 7:43am
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I take it you didn't get it on Friday.
No, but it did ship.
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post #30 of 92
5/8/10 at 9:29am
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OK well that at least means the bios is out there in the wild.
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post #31 of 92
5/9/10 at 8:49pm
I would pay 1300 for the m11x if it came with a RGB LED, no joke. I suppose I'll be waiting for the revision and until then I'll just stick with my m17x-r2 and Area-51 m15x combination, so far so good.
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post #32 of 92
5/10/10 at 11:16am
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My M17x is dieing a slow and painful death. It has "eaten" 3 hard drives, 2 sodimms and 1 keyboard. My system needs to be returned but I'm trying to hold out for the new bios to test the 5870. Sooner or later this thing won't boot anymore.
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post #33 of 92
5/10/10 at 12:36pm
What do you mean eating Hard Drives? I'm kinda shocked/worried about this statement I have nearly 600-700 dollars locked up in SSD Drives across the board, and if my system eats them that'll be quite painful and costly
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post #34 of 92
5/10/10 at 1:17pm
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Three drives have died on me. One was kind of my fault because I initiated a firmware upgrade. Although that should not brick it, it did. Then I lost the original two hard drives the system came with. When this kind of high failure rate happens with hard drives it's more than likely a faulty controller. I'm just afraid to keep adding more hard drives.
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post #35 of 92
5/10/10 at 4:22pm
Maybe that's why they are taking sweet time to test out the refresh version.

cheers ...
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post #36 of 92
5/10/10 at 6:31pm
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Well I got my RMA number, it's going back. Back to playing with just the Asus again. I think I'll just do a desktop next time.
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post #37 of 92
5/10/10 at 6:39pm
Maybe you can squeeze a refresh (as replacement) out of them

cheers ...
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post #38 of 92
5/10/10 at 8:48pm
I use a desktop and 2 laptops now and hopefully by spreading out my usage none of my systems break. I'd be upset of all of my systems break . But I know I've been through 4 INtel SSD drives starting with the G1, so hard drive failures are common themed for me, yet I still love them .

I've always said that once you go SSD, you'll always go SSD, just sucks I had to get 3 of 'em, lol. including the ones that broke I've been through a total of 6!
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post #39 of 92
5/10/10 at 9:02pm
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Maybe you can squeeze a refresh (as replacement) out of them

cheers ...
I didn't even fight it. I see some of the bugs that existed in my first R2 that are still there. It gets frustrating after a while.
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post #40 of 92
5/15/10 at 9:27am
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Very. I work in IT, and build my own desktops.



Yes.
If you did end up getting yours I wouldn't mind a backup copy of the vbios of one of the 5870s. TIA!
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