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starrywisdom
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September 24th, 2010 11:00
Alienware M17x drivers for 260M GTX SLI
I was wondering if my laptop(Alienware M17x) could have any of the Nvidia drivers for the Geforce 260M cards(running in SLI) instaled from the Nvidia website. I'm looking at the drivers Alienware have installed on my computer and they are up to date by the dell website - but are really out of date compared to the ones Nvidia have out now, by almost a full year. The current drivers(the one off Alienware/Dell) website are causing a lot of issues in my machine because they don't have the updated SLI profiles for any of the games released in the past year and a half! I have heard that installing drivers to a laptop off the non laptop manufacturers site is a no-no since most laptops are integrated all the way across, but like I said it's making it very difficult to game on my gaming laptop without the updated SLI profiles / general driver updates from the Nvidia website!
I'm fairly curious as to why the Dell/Alienware website has such out of date drivers in the first place!
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Posted July 22nd, 2012 10:00
well when i had my M17X R1 with 260's then dual 280's i ran drivers from laptopvideo2go.com/drivers <---- worked when i had my M17X in 2010 , maybe give it a try , although nvidia drivers did install aswell for me when they finally supported laptop cards, then my R2's were ATI so ......
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Posted December 13th, 2011 10:00
I'm frustrated by this as well. Dell seems to have done something to the hardware making it impossible for the vendor (Nvidia) support to work, yet Dell is choosing not to support a computer less than two years old. Do all $4000 Alienware laptops only get one year of driver updates then they expect us to buy a new one?