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Originally Posted by kirant
Thanks. Though I am a little confused at the overclocking comment. Never tried it before. How would you?
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Download a program like Nvidia Inspector. Then you just drag two sliders. One for the Shader (which is tied to the core clock) and one for the Memory. If you get this laptop, I can show you.
The stock speeds for the GTX 460M are:
Core Speed * 675 MHz
Shader Speed * 1350 MHz
Memory Speed * 1250 MHz
Just by dragging two sliders (Core and Shader are locked together), you can get:
Core Speed * 800 MHz
Shader Speed * 1600 MHz
Memory Speed * 1400 MHz
This works out of the box for almost everybody with this graphics card in the Sager systems and it's 100% stable.
The only nitpick I have for the Sager is that the videocard fan (there is a separate fan for the CPU and GPU) is usually on most of the time at a low level so if you are sensitive to that, it might be a bit annoying. I usually play music at a low volume and don't notice it anymore. I don't know how quiet the Alienware is. The Alienware also has a backlit keyboard.
I forgot the mention that the Sager has 4 ram slots (most laptops only have 1!) and two are empty if you buy the 8GB version so you could be crazy and still have room to upgrade in the future although more than 8GB is overkill for most people already.
Sager also has a mini subwoofer (a small low frequency driver) built into the bottom and a nice THX sound system that makes the speakers sound great.
I'd also recommend you get an SSD now or in the future since the Sager has SATAIII. I boot up in 10 seconds, can be on the internet in 15 seconds.