Have you tried vacuuming the outlet roster of the cooling fans? If done decently it can significantly improve your overheating issues.
August 12th, 2009, 01:35 PM
ThePlague
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How would you go about doing that Lodex? Mine has the same overheating easily problem.
August 12th, 2009, 01:49 PM
L0d3x
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Well in the case of my laptop I just turn it off, turn it around, and literally vacuum the roster from which the cooling fans blow out of.
You'll have to err, "suck" real "hard", and it may take a little bit untill the dust starts "coming" loose, but eventually you'll see it appearing, and you can either suck it out of the roster of use your "fingers" and err, fiddle it out.
Of course you could also just unscrew the roster, but I'm too lazy to do that.
August 12th, 2009, 02:39 PM
Alwin Roth
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Originally Posted by L0d3x
Have you tried vacuuming the outlet roster of the cooling fans? If done decently it can significantly improve your overheating issues.
yeah I opened up the bottom of the laptop to clean it up a bit.
Did nothing really.
See, its my laptop, it sucks rocks, it can't even play halo on max.
August 12th, 2009, 03:17 PM
Futzy
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The factory installed water cooling in my laptop is so pro
August 12th, 2009, 09:13 PM
legionaire45
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Originally Posted by MrBig
The factory installed water cooling in my laptop is so pro
I know, mine is p cool to. I use urine as the coolant. :).
How exactly do the Alienware back-lit keyboards work? I'm configuring one to buy soon (M15x 15", not a big fancy M17x 17") but there's two options I'm confused about... One is "AlienFX" which lets me choose a bunch of colors, the other is "AlienFX Illuminated Keyboard". I assume I need the "Illuminated Keyboard" option to get the back-lit keyboard, but what does the "AlienFX" by itself cover, the Alienware logo illumination?
How many color options can you switch through on the keyboard? I see you've shown blue and red, can you do more?
E: I saw a video on YouTube of a guys Alienware laptop doing a nice rainbow ambiance and I want it, can you do this?
August 13th, 2009, 03:41 AM
legionaire45
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I think that AlienFX only covers the pretty lighting on the Alienware logos, the Alienware text if it's there and the ring of light around the trackpad. Not sure though - M15x is a little bit older of a design and it might not have some of those features. I'm pretty sure that you'll want to go with the illuminated keyboard design since backlit keyboards are win :P.
Color options are in my attachment.
Regarding the fades and stuff, you can make it fade to different colors like that using the included software. The software gives you the option to watch some tutorials on how to set the lighting up when you first run it. The M17x in that vid looks like the older version, but the software itself is exactly the same and so are all of the zones that you can have light up. I haven't set up any fades or strobes or anything yet but when I get some more packing done I might play with it :P.
