Wednesday, April 30th 2008

Alienware Area-51 m17x Gaming Laptop Now on Sale

Alienware started selling its fastest and meanest gaming notebook, the Area-51 m17x. It comes with some serious power and let's hope it won't overheat as the little brother m15x. The Area-51 m17x comes with a 17" display supporting 1080p (1920x1200 resolution), variety of NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX, 8700M GT or 8600M GT dedicated graphics cards operating in SLI mode, up to 4GB of DDR2 memory, and up to 1000GB of hard drive capacity using two 500GB HDDs. The laptop comes with a 45nm Intel Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Extreme processor and can also be offered with a DVD burner or Blu-ray optical drive, a 64GB solid state drive and 1GB Intel Turbo Memory. In Area-51 m17x you'll also find two speakers with subwoofer and a built-in 2-megapixel webcam. The m17x runs Windows Vista OS and starts at $2,199. It is available now through the Alienware's online store.
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57 Comments on Alienware Area-51 m17x Gaming Laptop Now on Sale

#51
Xaser04
TripriftThe biggest problem with lappys is cooling ive resorted to elevating it with a book at the back when gaming as the games will crash numerously if i dont.
The clevo chassis (M570RU-U) has massive vents at the back which aid with the cooling along with quite a high rear end (ie the back sits quite high up compared to the front).

Of course thermals are still a problem for overclocking however I reckon taking it up to 2.4ghz shouldn't be a problem. (ie the speed of the next model up from mine)
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#52
Triprift
Go for it man u can do it :toast:
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#53
Xaser04
TripriftGo for it man u can do it :toast:
I think I may have to.

I will have a go in a minute at clocking the gpu. I wonder how far I will be able to push it. :cool:
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#54
Guarana
If I didn't buy this laptop a few months ago and if I had only a quarter of a brain.. I'd consider buying an alienware.
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#55
Xaser04
Double post please see below.
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#56
Xaser04
GuaranaIf I didn't buy this laptop a few months ago and if I had only a quarter of a brain.. I'd consider buying an alienware.
Why pay through the nose for an alienware laptop when you can get comparable laptops for much less?

As for the overclocking well at the moment at least its a no go(ntune the only program that reads the clocks properly doesn't allow me to change the clocks). However reading on the notebookreview forums this is quite common (something to do with different bios versions on the cards causing problems with different drivers- I may have read this wrong as I am really tired - damn UK group VAT returns :banghead:)

I will be trying a different driver tommorow.

Juding by what I have read so far on different forums some people have been able to hit 600 on the core (up from 500 stock) and 900 on the memory (up from 800 stock), there was no mention of the shader clock. I can only assume this would put the card in line roughly with a desktop 8800GT (as its standard performance is somewhere between a 9600GT and a 8800GT).
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#57
Triprift
Let me no how it goes man if ya can get the eqivalent of a 8800gt that would be sweet as
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