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March 23rd, 2017 05:00
Alienware m17x r1
Hi,
I have just bought a used alienware m17x r1
The specs are below
"laptop Nvidia GTX 260 1Gb graphics cards Sli x fire and Ati 9400 HD graphics. Twin sata drive bays with 250Gb main drive (2nd bay empty).Screen has Tru Color HD screen display of 1920 x 1200. Comes with face recognition software and is reset to original factory defaults but updated to all latest Window updates. Intel QuadCore Q9000 2.0Ghz (very fast) , 4Gb DDR3 memory. 250Gb hard drive with all original Alienware software, Windows 7, Office Word & Excel starter, HDMI, WiFi, Webcam, DVD-Rw, Usb , "
It was about £300 so I thought why not but then I did research and it find that I cant update to Windows 10 and the drivers aren't supported etc. I want to play leauge of legends, dota 2 ,minecrafthe, wow , style games not stuff like cod or racing or gta etc not console style games as I have a ps4.
My question is will I be okay with the specs I have or should I return it ? Also is there anyway of bring that laptop fully up to date ? Drivers or tech wise ? I never mod laptops so I'm new to it all
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Eimy_B
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March 23rd, 2017 10:00
Hi sxf-11,
Windows 10 is not supported on this model, if you want you can install Windows 10 but with all the Windows 7 drivers (it should work, we have tested it) . Also is very important that you install the Windows 7 video driver from our website, since that one is the validated one (the Nvidia driver has a history of not working well with this model). So make sure you install this driver.
The configuration should work fine with the games you mentioned.
sxf-11
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March 23rd, 2017 12:00
Is it worth keeping as will it not become worthless in a year or two as games update and may stop being compatible with these ?
89fordprobee
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March 25th, 2017 05:00
honestly .. its far fr being able to upgrade or update .. its a 7/8 year old system pending when it was originally built .
i owned 4-5 M17x R1/R2 's they were great machines but if you want to keep it i would advise learning to mod drivers and such to use latest nvidia drivers or it can be donwloaded at laptop2video.com (think its the site) since most games wont run on 7 year old drivers and will ask to be updated (just saying lol)
ram, upgrade to 8 gigs (2 X4 ddr3 1066/1333) add a solid state hard drive maybe find a QX9300 extreme cpu(best you can get 2.53gig quad core ) and be done with it also you have the ability to upgrade to dual 5870's for more power(ati cards , or 485's (nvidia) but i never tried myself but it is known working upgrade but research on this would be your concern since its been awhile since i have owned one.. (2011)
I would keep windows 7 , you will have less issues along with the command center and OSD was known to have issues running on windows 10 , not sure if it was fixed being since most drivers on dells site for this machine are older then god himself haha ..