Notebooks Just bought an Alienware M18X R2 (£3.5K inc extras) - (3920XM Installed Page 13!!!)

Agreed, not only a king of the road but capable of pulling his laptop to pieces with the most delicate of hands! Fair play to you sir

 

jesus TG i would be more than happy with the standard spec maybe tear it down and improve after the warrenty is gone, but i guess this YOUR lappy and it would have to be the best one of em all.

cant wait for more benchies now

 

Ever considered trying Folding on it whilst driving around, employer pays the fuel and you get a warm cab all the time, just need a 3g dongle to upload and download the units

 

+1 to this

 

Lol Thanks.

Thanks mate

See - not all lorry drivers are dumb...

Lol. Thanks mate!

I will do some more benchies very soon.

Yes, well I do have unlimited data on my phone, so all I would have to do is connect to it.

 

Ordered the triple copper pipe heat sink to replace my Single copper pipe heat sink.
Should be good for up to 4.5GHz.

 

Theres no limit to truegamers wallet

 

Lies, he saved money by "only" getting the DVD RW - not the blu ray drive.

Cheap-sake he is.

 

Lol, I didn't think anyone would notice...

I have no reason for a BD player - Not until games start to come out on them.

 

Is that just a trick of photography, or do the screw spacings look slightly different on those coolers?

@Bennieboy: nah, he's just putting some cash aside in case someone develops a viable cooling loop for laptops.

 

It's not my Picture. I just borrowed it till it comes this week.

The screw spacing is the same. Also the place I ordered it from states for M18X R2. So it will fit!

 

I remember, a while back, that you were trying to buy a gaming laptop for under £2k, Simon. Looks like you went a bit over the mark there!

On the subject of cooling; I'm amazed you haven't already started plotting to hack in Water cooling or something similarly crazy.

 

Well you could say I went a little bit over...

If it was a laptop that stayed at home, I would have made a custom waterloop for it, but as I take it with me, air cooling is the only way, or until someone designs something small enough and efficient enough to replace air cooling.

 

There was that prototype with very effective vapour chamber style heatsinks. I don't think it was a full loop IIRC.

 

Yes, I saw that, shame they don't get into production for the M18X.

 

Bought this yesterday from Dell. Got 10% off and free shipping.

Very hard to find a decent well padded case for the M18X R2. So I had to pay the premium and go for that.

 

That's because, generally speaking, the US army doesn't make padded cases for items the size and weight of tanks.

 

Lol, very true!

 

Geekbench shows the laptop CPU i7 3920XM at the same clock as the 2600K to be faster.

Now I would like someone to run geekbench on their i7 3770K at the same 4.2GHz speed, and see how my CPU compares to it.

 

*Looks around*
*Sigh* I guess it has to be me then... Let me get GB 2.3.4 first.

EDIT: UGH short of money ¬¬