M17x R1 Teardown video

The first Dell/Alienware 17" laptop, offering one of the best cases in the market, dual gpu options and core2 extreme cpus, it soon owned most of the 17" market in its time. Due to power limitations issues, this model couldn't kee up with new technologies in the gpu field and was replaced with a seond revision.

nVIDIA MCP79 Chipset based Motherboard

Ports:
DC-in Jack (Back of system)
2 x USB 2.0 ports
2 x USB 3.0/2.0 Combo ports
1 x eSATA + USB2.0 Combo port (with USB charge function Support)
3 x Auto-sensing jacks for Line-out (2 line out; 1x SPDIF/Headphone)
Microphone Input jack
1 x RJ-45 (10/100/1Gb IPv6)
1 x HDMI-1.4 port with Audio
1 x HDMI Input
1 x mini-Display Port
1 x VGA Port (DB-15)
9-in-1 Media card reader 

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Core 2 Quad Processors

Intel® Core™2 Extreme Processor QX9000 
(12M Cache, 2.00 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB)

Intel® Core™2 Extreme Processor QX9200 
(12M Cache, 2.4 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB)

Intel® Core™2 Extreme Processor QX9300 
(12M Cache, 2.53 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB)

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Bios:

A05: ftp://ftp.dell.com/bios/M17x BIOS A05.iso 
8/9/10
A07: ftp://ftp.dell.com/bios/M17xR1A07-W64.exe
3/10/11
A07:  ftp://ftp.dell.com/bios/M17R1A07.zip
3/10/11
* Modified CPU throttling algorithm to be more efficient