*OFFICIAL* Alienware Area-51M Owner's Lounge

I'm honestly not sure why they would waste throughput on such a port over USB C/TB3. Honestly I would have rather had another TB3 Port over the graphics amp port...

 

Thanks, I’ll for sure read more about it while I wait for reviews.

I don’t believe I have a micro center around me (Indiana). I just checked squaretrade and its over $500 for a 3 year warranty!!! At that price I would just go through dell

 

I know the internal monitor will not work because G-Sync ties the screen directly to the inbuilt GPU. It might work for an external display but I am not sure. If you don't get a definitive answer here try the Graphics Amp forum.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...ll-13-15-and-17.770323/page-415#post-10861205

 

With Dell you can't get money back LOL and can get refurbished replacements, etc. You will probably want to compare the terms of different options closely.

'sides that I probably would't take a 3 year warranty out on a laptop anyways. Even if you can update GPU/CPU/ETC. Some big new thing (like PCIE 4.0) is bound to come out within 3 years anyways.

 

I found this in a review by Laptopmag.com
"I was surprised to learn that the Area-51m comes with an integrated Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU. When you're not gaming or doing some other GPU-intensive task, Nvidia's Optimus technology kicks in and switches to this lesser graphics chip."

Link https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/alienware-area-51m

 

For some reason my 3d mark acct is broken so I can't see my individual benchmarks, but they are still showing up in comparisons...

Comparing the top prev posted Area 51m Benchmark to my last 3 laptops...
The newer 1070 sli Titan bench is stock I believe. @Mr. Fox
CPU definitely makes a difference.

Just for some sh*ts and giggles:
https://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/18207499/fs/16736320/fs/12925841/fs/8357459#

 

So finally, there is G-sync and Optimus working together without any manual input in Area-51M?

desktop work >> auto Optimus (only Intel gpu used)
launch a game>>auto G-sync Nvidia

WTF???

 

Gsync could have been disabled or not present in the review model for performance reasons.

 

Oh no, switching between graphic cards have never been a good function for me. That's just a good way to hide thermal weaknesses. And it makes me feel like I bought a plane to drive around streets

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Yeah! WTF! I am currently running a Clevo with a i7-6700K and a G-Sync monitor and I can assure you my Optimus isn't working. I re-read the review and he mentions G-Sync and he mentions Optimus. My understanding was they can't work together, hence my original question regarding non G-Sync monitors.