Just received my i5 GTX660 X51 and first impressions are horrible. Basically, any game I run is starting of great (High Settings/60fps) but very quickly (within 30 seconds or so) drops to sub 10 fps until it grinds to a halt. The closest thread I could find on the topic was this one:
http://en.community.dell.com/owners-club/alienware/f/3746/p/19465979/20181968.aspx
The thread recommends installing MSI Afterburner to set the Fan Speeds to maximum, which I did, but this only ups the 30 seconds to about a minute until performance is brought to a halt. The above thread is also from Sept 2012 and several posts mention waiting for an Nvidia Driver fix, but we're in April 2013 now so I thought the latest drivers would have fixed this by now?
I'm extremely p***ed at dell/alienware at the moment - how can such a major issues like this still be present over 6 months since it was reported?? Solutions please - Thank you.