philrobbo89
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- Dec 11, 2013
Hello All,
I'm new to this forum so would firstly like to say hello to everyone, any response that I get is much appreciated.
So, in the past 3 weeks I bought myself a shiny new M14X Alienware, the specs are as follows;
8GB RAM DDR3L at 1600MHz
750GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M with 2GB GDDR5
4th Gen Intel Core i7-4700MQ processor (2.6GHz with turbo boost option)
So, I've gone and spent around 1,500 dollars on this machine, thinking it would be able to handle pretty much any game thrown at it.
Unfortunately I wasn't correct with this, I've been playing games such as Starcraft II and Diablo 3, now the games don't even run that smoothly on High settings, nevermind the ultra or extreme. I'm getting around 50fps on average for the settings on high, but they radically change once action starts occuring on screen. I have tried using Afterburner to boost the GPU stats, but even at core clock of 405 MHz and a Memory clock of +805, the games still don't seem to be running as smoothly as expected.
Now I upgraded the GPU specially so that this laptop would be able to handle current games that I threw at it, was I naive in thinking this? Or is some sort of component not working to it's full extent?
I ran 3DMark and the first few scenes (it's the version that starts with the star ships fighting in space) were getting great FPS, then once it went onto the physics tests, I was getting pretty terrible FPS, then once the fire scenes started, the FPS dropped to around 2-10.
What are my options here, should I lower my expectations, or is something else occuring that is dropping my performance here.
I will definitely look at upgrading this laptop in the future, maybe installing 2x graphics cards to work simultaneously? I am not very clued up with computer talk, so try to keep things as basic as possible.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Phillip
I'm new to this forum so would firstly like to say hello to everyone, any response that I get is much appreciated.
So, in the past 3 weeks I bought myself a shiny new M14X Alienware, the specs are as follows;
8GB RAM DDR3L at 1600MHz
750GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M with 2GB GDDR5
4th Gen Intel Core i7-4700MQ processor (2.6GHz with turbo boost option)
So, I've gone and spent around 1,500 dollars on this machine, thinking it would be able to handle pretty much any game thrown at it.
Unfortunately I wasn't correct with this, I've been playing games such as Starcraft II and Diablo 3, now the games don't even run that smoothly on High settings, nevermind the ultra or extreme. I'm getting around 50fps on average for the settings on high, but they radically change once action starts occuring on screen. I have tried using Afterburner to boost the GPU stats, but even at core clock of 405 MHz and a Memory clock of +805, the games still don't seem to be running as smoothly as expected.
Now I upgraded the GPU specially so that this laptop would be able to handle current games that I threw at it, was I naive in thinking this? Or is some sort of component not working to it's full extent?
I ran 3DMark and the first few scenes (it's the version that starts with the star ships fighting in space) were getting great FPS, then once it went onto the physics tests, I was getting pretty terrible FPS, then once the fire scenes started, the FPS dropped to around 2-10.
What are my options here, should I lower my expectations, or is something else occuring that is dropping my performance here.
I will definitely look at upgrading this laptop in the future, maybe installing 2x graphics cards to work simultaneously? I am not very clued up with computer talk, so try to keep things as basic as possible.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Phillip