Prices start on the Alienware Web site from approximately £1,000 and go all the way up to around £3,350 for the all-singing, all bankrupting 'ultimate gamer' model. Download the latest driver from the AMD website (. The M17 supports up to 4GB of DDR3 1,066MHz memory, 1TB of hard disk space courtesy of twin 500GB hard drives, and an optional Blu-ray drive. Ensure that your graphics card driver supports the ATI CrossFireX technology. But why stop there? If you're lucky enough to have a bottomless pit of cash - or an extra £868 - Alienware will let you swap the entry-level 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo P8400 for an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300 quad-core CPU running at 2.8GHz.
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For an extra £182, Alienware will install a second HD 3870, which it believes will boost your graphics performance by as much as 80 per cent.īearing in mind CrossFire works best at high resolution, you'll probably want to spend an extra £145 upgrading from the 17-inch 1,440x900-pixel screen to its 1,920x1,200-pixel big brother. However, as the 8.3 version of ATI's Catalyst driver pack gets closer, more details about the CrossFireX technology are leaking out, to the enthusiasts' delight. By default, the M17 ships with a single ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 with 512MB of RAM. 4wd cars ATI Quad CrossFireX3-Way CrossFireXCrossFireXHybrid. We'll have to wait and see whether ditching Nvidia's SLI system reaps dividends, but it's always good to have a choice. for direct OEM fitment The Voith Group is a global technology company AU 317. The M17 - not to be confused with the M17x - is the first gaming laptop to use ATI CrossFireX dual graphics card technology. Alienware has just announced a new addition to its fleet of outrageously quick gaming laptops.