I have the Alienware m14x R2 for about 2 months and have noticed severe performance drops playing various games such as WoW, BF3 and CS:GO. Upon various troubleshooting methods, including the on suite dell doctor, I have installed CPUID software to monitor my CPU and GPU temperatures.

I am having ongoing problems with my computer freezing, and then sometimes 'crashes' and a message pops up that says intel graphics accelerator for windows 8 (r) stopped responding and has been successfully recdovered. Is this wird that it says windows 8 when I'm using windows 7?

Oh no ... really? It's happening on this monitor too? I have the Dell 2740L as well which has this issue and I thought it wouldn't happen to this model. It's really bad on the 2740L, and Dobr and nokey (another post thread) captured the exact way it shows up in photos on the U2413.