Already in pre-prod, changes now or never!

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Accius

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Hi guys,

First post here. Probably should have done this a while ago but I got carried away!

Here is my laptop spec. I don't have a particularly techie background - but I'm a gamer and looking to replace my previous gaming ASUS that is 5 years old.

I play games like Total War and Skyrim and want to be able to run this badboy on full specs! I've only made 1 modification so far, and that is to increase my 500GB to 1TB.

I'm in day 6 of pre production with the below. Let me know what you think!

Chassis & Display Vortex II: 15.6" Glossy Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-2670QM (2.20GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM) 16GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (4 x 4GB)
Graphics Card 2GB AMD® Radeon® HD 6990M - DirectX® 11 (15.6" Vortex II)
2nd Graphics Card NONE
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 500GB SERIAL ATA II 2.5" HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (5,400rpm)
Change to: 1TB WD SCORPIO BLUE WD10JPVT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 8MB CACHE (5400 rpm)
2nd Hard Disk NONE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)
Memory Card Reader Internal 9 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/SD: Mini, XC & HC/MS: Pro & Duo)
Thermal Paste ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
Sound Card Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Surround 5.1 PRO External (£64)
Network Facilities GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® N130 802.11N (150Mbps) + BLUETOOTH
USB Options 2 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS AS STANDARD
Battery Vortex Series 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (5,200 mAh/76.96WH)
 
SmokeDarKnight

SmokeDarKnight

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I've ordered that exact same machine getting it delivered tomorrow. I don't have skyrim yet but Ive got saints row the third, mass effects and gears of war. I can let you know tomorrow how it goes.

I also joined a website http://www.game-debate.com/ you can put in all the details of your rig and it scores you components and gives you an idea on how it rates about the games minimum and recommended requirements

Our processor is scored 54% better than recommended and the GPU is rated 33% than recommended so it should run it very well.
 
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Accius

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£1380, VAT included... probably shaved off £1000 from a high street equivalent?

Basically I looked up the high-end Macs and tried to get specs along the same lines!
 
SmokeDarKnight

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Great news, my Laptop arrived early and im over the moon, I've never had a machine like this before. It starts up fast the screen is just amazing. The 1080 display even just browsing or on windows looks great there's so much data you can fit on the screen. The thing is just solid too its defiantly a top level build quality. I've just gone from a MacBook Pro and was getting fed up with not being able to play my games etc. Sooooo happy i just missed football oops

Im just installing Microsoft security essentials and some other must have programs before i get some games on, so far i have Gears of War, Mass Effects, Star Wars the Old Republic and Saint Row the Third to try out.

I'll keep you posted =D
 
vanthus

vanthus

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Microsoft security essentials is definitely a good choice,
that's what I've used along with Malwarebytes for the past year
and never had any security problems ,touch wood.:)
 
SmokeDarKnight

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Steam, Origin, its all downloading patches so im installing Mass Effect 1 at the moment while all that goes about its buisness. Installed Audi Surf and it runs it full 1080 with all settings up but it doesn't appear to be a very demanding game so thats not surprising. Tried to install Gears Of War however its not windows 7 friendly apparently so i'll have to google that one later. Saints row is installed then steam started doing something so it'll be ready in about 30 minutes too. Star Wars is also installed but downloading patches now too. Getting there
 
SmokeDarKnight

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Cool, got Star War The Old Republic working and it runs NOOOOO problem at 1080 and high settings with V-Sych on. Just played Saint Row 3 and it recommended high at 720 but i cranked it up to ultra 1080 and it just laughed it off. Its awesome =D
 
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Accius

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That sounds awesome, thanks for the updates!!!

How's the loudness/fan noise? Are you finding that it's overheating or is it staying cool? I have a fan cooler but my current ASUS still gets absurdly hot and it's one of the things I worried about when getting the 16GB RAM.
 
SmokeDarKnight

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I would say that it's not quite but it's not noisy either while playing games. The speakers are more than capable of drowning out the noise. There is a subwoofer on the machine to buy its tiny but seems to add a bit of quality to the sound as it doesn't distort with bass at high volumes. It's been very cool, I've just got it sitting on a computer desk. I had it doing multiple tasks ie installing two games downloading from Steam and origin at the same time and the processor was reading about 20% an the 8 gb of ram was about 40%

While gaming it was fast and smooth although I seem to be getting screen tearing on mass effect. If screen rating is what it's called and VSynch doesnt seem to help. Someone told me that mass effect is a poorly written game though and it just runs like that.

Running saints on ultra it remained cool and smooth same with starwars the old republic.I haven't played on it for hours so long term I couldn't tell you. I was operating it for about 6 hours last night though. It took a long time with all the windows updates as I didn't request an operating system.

Any other questions feel free to shout.
 
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