What customization's have you done with your laptop?

[Dackzy]

17 minutes ago, Icuw1pc said:

I know the feeling, I've even started board repair on MBP's gets pretty fun lol

I would more say it gets weird, some people do some weird shit with their laptops. The Macbooks I have had opened up and fixed had all had some weird looking thing in it. Apple is also not that friendly about giving information about some of the parts they use, which is a pain in the ass.

[Funtoink63]

Not too much.

- increased ram in my netbook from 1 to 2Gb

- increased ram in my ~2008 HP laptop from 2 to 4GB

- replaced broken screen on dads netbook

 

I have a ~2010 gaming laptop with socket based CPU and MXM GPU. I would like to replace both CPU and GPU to something better, replace dead battery, add SSD, replace SSHD with bigger HDD and if possible, increase ram from (its maximum listed) 8 to 16Gb.

 

The other two laptops would need SSD too. They are little bit slow.

[Pendragon]

LOL this topic is perfect. On my new bloody AW15

- Replaced the screen

- Sanded down the bezels

- Bent the heatsink array

- Bent the 3 screw design 

- Put in a 512 950 850 EVO

- Put in 2x8gbs of 2667mhz RAM

- Repasting* with LM

- Getting FJ 11.0 mk pads

- Replaced the Wifi Card with an Intel 8265

and the list shall continue until I get this in working condition. 

Edited January 15, 2017 by Pendragon

[Dackzy]

1 hour ago, Pendragon said:

LOL this topic is perfect. On my new bloody AW15

- Replaced the screen

- Sanded down the bezels

- Bent the heatsink array

- Bent the 3 screw design 

- Put in a 512 950 EVO

- Put in 2x8gbs of 2667mhz RAM

- Repasting* with LM

- Getting FJ 11.0 mk pads

- Replaced the Wifi Card with an Intel 8265

and the list shall continue until I get this in working condition. 

yep you got no warranty left  

[Pendragon]

3 hours ago, Dackzy said:

yep you got no warranty left  

Lol, the only thing that "technically" violated warranty is the LM. If the techs never check it if something goes wrong, then voila, warranty. And I highly doubt that many people use LM and that it's a common enough issue that the Dell techs would know what to look for.

[NA_NotAvailable]

10 hours ago, Pendragon said:

Replaced the Wifi Card with an Intel 8265

whats the difference between Killer 1535 and that?

 

[Pendragon]

7 hours ago, NA_NotAvailable said:

whats the difference between Killer 1535 and that?

 

Killer is fucking annoying as shit to all hell to use. I've tried everything to get it stable, but after 2 hours I was just like fuck it. Still dropped during random loads and I was done with Killer. First time trying Killer, never going Killer again until they fix their bloody drivers. I've went no drivers, suite, optimized my suite, nope still drops randomly. Need to enable airplane mode and disable to get my connection back. 

[NA_NotAvailable]

This is to give you a idea what type of company Dell is and how make your Alienware perfect

 

As a update to this thread I have decided to post customization that are taking effect on the Alienware 17 r4 (as soon as they release the 7820hk with GTX 1080) Price wise you are better of buying the parts because its only $USD 5 -1 100 difference between the parts and lets face it, if you are paying for fully specked you are putting considerable amount of cash down and you want it to have the best parts possible. IF you count have it come without the parts then I think you could save a lot of money lol.

 

(All Purchase)

Display: Alienwares TN panel to AUO B173ZAN01 IPS UHD +100 

Storage: Samsung 960 EVO 1tb x2 (USD 200 less than Dells) + Samsung 850 EVO 2tb + USD 500

RAM: Corsair Vengeance® Series 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 SODIMM 2666MHz CL18 Memory Kit (CMSX32GX4M2A2666C18) + $80 IF you upgrade from Dell Alienware 16GB DDR4 at 2400MHz (2x8GB)

Wifi: Intel 8265 +3.50 from Dell Alienwares Killer 1535 802.11ac 2x2 WiFi and Bluetooth 4.1

 

Basically subtract liquid metal but its dell, lol someone was asking me if I was making a laptop or IF i was buying a prebuilt laptop, from the list I handed to the IT department to get refunded, it sounded like i was building it from scratch lol.

On 1/15/2017 at 4:49 AM, Pendragon said:

LOL this topic is perfect. On my new bloody AW15

- Replaced the screen

- Sanded down the bezels

- Bent the heatsink array

- Bent the 3 screw design 

- Put in a 512 950 850 EVO

- Put in 2x8gbs of 2667mhz RAM

- Repasting* with LM

- Getting FJ 11.0 mk pads

- Replaced the Wifi Card with an Intel 8265

and the list shall continue until I get this in working condition. 

you can't call yourself HARDCORE till you build one yourself.... this technically counts right?

 

And I don't mean a PC desktop tower, those are easy.