1. Alienware M17x Drivers Windows 10

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It's hard being an alien. Fans of Alienware hardware have come to expect a level of craftsmanship, aesthetics, and performance that sets the brand's gaming laptops apart from the rest of the field. These machines have to maintain excellence on a lot of fronts, but the late-2011 refresh of one of Alienware's biggest-screen gaming laptops, the M17x R3, doesn’t disappoint.

This hulking gamer, with a 17-inch screen, offers all the accoutrements found on previous M17x models, with one exception: Alienware no longer offers the option for dual graphics processors on this one. (You’ll have to opt for the even bigger M18x model for that kind of graphics muscle.) That said, the M17x’s updated Core i7 processor and Radeon graphics will satisfy your need for speed and look good doing it. The quibbles we had with the R3 version were ones we see with many big laptops, gaming and otherwise: You won’t get much playing time off the power cord, and it can run a little noisy when the action heats up. One big thing hasn't changed, though, from generation to generation: Alienware systems can be pricey, especially when configured with the latest high-end components. Our review model, equipped with a 2.4GHz Core i7-2760QM processor, 1.5TB of RAID storage, 8GB of RAM, a 1080p display, and a Radeon HD 6990 graphics processor, added up to a hefty $2,938.

If that's too rich for you, you can start with a $1,499 base system, and configure it to your liking. The configuration options run deep: You can outfit an M17x R3 with one of three Core i7 CPUs, up to 24GB of RAM, one of four graphics chips, and either solid-state (SSD) or traditional hard drives, with or without RAID.

A 3D screen is also an option, and you can choose between a Blu-ray drive or a DVD-only burner. Apart from the fact that all of these options are high-end, they're also plentiful. Smaller boutique vendors often offer the fastest components, but they don't necessarily give you this much choice in the overall configuration.

No small part of why the M17x R3 is an Editors' Choice winner for us is that pinpoint configurability. Design The M17x R3 looks identical to the that we reviewed back in May 2011. It features the same Soft Touch Stealth Black finish, beveled lid, and illuminated grillework. (The finish feels pleasantly rubbery, and Alienware also sells this model in a Soft Touch Nebula Red finish.) The familiar glossy, backlit alien-head logo graces the top of the chassis, which is held in place by two very sturdy hinges that give the laptop a solid, well-built feel. Weighing 9.9 pounds, the M17x R3 is lighter than certain other big-screen notebooks we've tested, such as the (13.1 pounds) and the (10.1 pounds). It's not nearly as light as (6.7 pounds). Note, though: The power brick will add another 2.2 pounds to your total travel weight.

The traditional-style keyboard sports large, black keys with bold white lettering, It's extremely quiet and easy to type on. The surrounding deck has the same grippy-feeling Soft Touch finish as the lid.

It's anchored by a wide touch pad with two oversize mouse buttons that are as quiet as the keyboard. Both the pad and the buttons are responsive and a pleasure to use. At the top of the keyboard is a set of media-playback buttons for volume control, mute, fast-forward, rewind, and play/pause, as well as an eject button for the slot-loading optical drive. You'll also spot a Wi-Fi on/off button and a hotkey that launches Alienware's Alien Command Center.

Alienware M17x Drivers Windows 10

The Command Center is home to three utilities: AlienTouch, AlienFusion, and AlienFX. The first, AlienTouch, you'd use to adjust the touch pad's sensitivity and scrolling. AlienFusion, meanwhile, is for power management; you use it to create and enable power plans. There’s plenty of typing room on the spacious keyboard. The third, AlienFX, is what the real enthusiasts will appreciate most in the Command Center: It controls the M17x R3’s lighting effects. And if you want dazzling lights, the M17x R3 sure has them.

The keyboard has four separate lighting zones that you can set up with the AlienFX utility and its palette of 20 colors. You can also assign colors to the front grilles, the touch-pad border, the media controls, and the alien-head logo on the lid. You can even assign a custom color to the tiny alien-head power button at the top of the keyboard, which is a nice touch and will help you personalize the system.

Fancy lighting isn't the only extra that some of the top gaming notebooks come with: Sound quality is also key to providing an immersive gaming experience. As with the 3D version of the M17x we tested, this one employs embedded Klipsch speakers offer plenty of volume and a smattering of bass. You can crank them up without worrying about distortion or buzzing. Create your own lighting scheme with the AlienFX utility Speaking of volume, the M17x R3’s cooling fans can get quite loud. In order to keep internal components from overheating, the fan speed automatically increases when the CPU and graphics processor are working at full throttle.

While the fans here are not quite as loud as the fans in the Maingear Titan 17, they are still pretty noisy when operating at top speed. On the plus side, the M17x R3 remains relatively cool in the heat of battle.

Features The jewel in the M17x R3’s crown is its excellent 17.3-inch display. The 1,920x1,080 panel is protected by a single sheet of edge-to-edge glass and delivers outstanding color quality and a high-def picture that’ll blow you away.

We gave it a workout with The Green Lantern on Blu-ray; image detail was crisp, and the picture was clean and free of motion artifacts. Also, the display’s ability to reproduce dark blacks gives the colors a good deal of pop. We were happy with the high-res playback, but given what this machine is, that's not all that's important: More crucially, action games look incredible on this screen. We tried a few rounds of the game Assassin’s Creed II, in addition to our slate of benchmark-test gaming titles (more on those in a bit).

All played smoothly, with no blurring or lag. Background detail was exquisite, too. Bravo to Dell/Alienware on sourcing and implementing an excellent LCD on this machine. The Webcam was similarly high quality. The 3-megapixel camera embedded in the display’s upper bezel offers much better picture and video detail than the 1.3-megapixel devices used in most notebooks. Plus, you can spice up your video chats with the included Creative Live!

Central software. It lets you add video effects and avatars to your sessions, as well as capture still photos. Look around the edges of the M17x R3, and you'll see a plethora of ports on the chassis.

Most of them are packed onto the left edge. Here, you’ll find three video outputs (HDMI, VGA, and DisplayPort), an Ethernet port, and two high-speed USB 3.0 ports, as well as two headphone jacks, a microphone jack, and an optical audio output. The right side is taken up by the loading slot for the Blu-ray reader, plus a pair of USB 2.0 ports. You'll also find an eSATA/USB combo port, equipped with something Dell calls PowerShare. (It lets you charge USB peripherals without powering up the notebook.) Finally, you get an HDMI input, seldom seen in laptops of any stripe and useful for plugging in cameras and other video-playback devices. This machine is thick, so there's room above the optical drive's load slot for a flash-memory-card reader.

It supports today's most common media formats: MultiMediaCard, SD, Memory Stick, and Memory Stick Pro. On the left are LAN, VGA, and HDMI ports, a FireWire connection, two USB 3.0 ports, an optical audio output, a microphone jack, and two headphone jacks. In addition to wired Gigabit Ethernet, the M17x R3 offers wireless networking via a Killer Wireless-N 1103 adapter (as the name suggests, it supports 802.11n) and a Bluetooth radio.

Our review unit also came equipped with an internal WirelessHD transmitter that lets you send uncompressed HD video from the notebook to an external HDTV or monitor. You can save yourself $99 if you exclude the transmitter option, but if you do want to use it, you’ll also need to factor in the cost of a receiver for your TV. Alienware sells two kits that include both the transmitter and the receiver: the ZyXel AeroBeam WirelessHD ($198.99) and the Vizio XWH200 kit ($262.99). Above the slot-loading Blu-ray drive is a multi-format card reader followed by two USB ports, an eSATA/USB combo port, and a rare HDMI input. Our test unit came with dual 750GB hard drives configured for RAID 0; the data is striped across the drives for speed. That arrangement provides plenty of storage (1.5TB worth) for games, photos, videos, and other sizable multimedia files. If absolute drive speed is more important than capacity, though, you can configure the M17x R3 with a pair of 256GB solid state drives (also in RAID), but that will add another $450 to the price.

A variety of single-drive options is also available.