M17x DPC Latency

[cueball12]

It is pretty nuts... now when a message comes in via Messenger and it plays that sound effect... It crackles and pops... What the hell... Fortunately for me I use this mainly for work and seldom listen to music or play videos or games but I bought the XPS1730 so I COULD do it if I wanted to while on the road. Now after 6 months with the M17X replacement I am in the same boat I was in before....

I can see how people who use it more for multimedia and gaming are ready to go beserk.... It is driving me nuts!

[Aristotelhs2060]

i was playing cod mw2 multiplayer for 15 minutes and dpc latency checker left checking at the background. here is my dpc latency immediately when i closed the game.

http://i48.tinypic.com/oh0h1k.jpg

this is how it should be with the ATIs..

[stamatisx]

i was playing cod mw2 multiplayer for 15 minutes and dpc latency checker left checking at the background. here is my dpc latency immediately when i closed the game.

http://i48.tinypic.com/oh0h1k.jpg

this is how it should be with the ATIs..

Now that you are back to the default vbios no latency....

[Aikimox]

Now that you are back to the default vbios no latency....

Did I miss something here? What vbios?

[stamatisx]

Did I miss something here? What vbios?

Aristotelhs was feeling brave lately and tampered with the clocks of the GPUs that caused him stuttering. I sent him my stock vbios and now he is good

[ArmageddonAsh]

Being that i want a Alienware M17x does this effect EVERY m17x or can you get lucky?
Anywhere near fixing it?
does it effect m17 as well?

[lewdvig]

Get the second revision M17x. The one with Core i5/i7 CPUs and Intel chipset.

[illucid]

I for one am not going to accept the ATi cards as a trade in my m17x, unless Dell also refund $1K off the laptop (the difference between the ATi and the NVIDIA cards). I rang my contact manager at Dell (Australia) and after a tiny 30 minutes, have been offered a full credit refund, if I want it. I now have a return authority in my inbox, just not sure if I want to go through with it just yet as I am sure there IS a software solution.

Backtrack 4 installation is perfect as it can be, so the hardware is fine.

Under windows 7, now that software RAID has been replaced, I can listen to music all day and work with very few 10K spikes - unless I push the strip button eject which causes massive stutters (up to 10 seconds the system freezes completely)

Happy to wait another few weeks, and get a new BIOS and new NVIDIA drivers to finally fix this.

[Aristotelhs2060]

Now that you are back to the default vbios no latency....

i never had latency in games since i got the ATIs even with the oc vbios. red spikes appear when resizing-switching windows and scrolling large pdf files.

Thanks for the vbios. still testing them :0

however this may gives an idea for nvidia gpus. Reducing their clocks may cause less stuttering or something but this will reduce their performance

[ndudsz]

i never had latency in games since i got the ATIs even with the oc vbios. red spikes appear when resizing-switching windows and scrolling large pdf files.

Thanks for the vbios. still testing them :0

however this may gives an idea for nvidia gpus. Reducing their clocks may cause less stuttering or something but this will reduce their performance

Well if dell's "fix" involves downclocking my gpu permanetly... I don't even know...