First PCS Order Placed (Vortex III)

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farhie

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It has arrived! :D I am going to post a video review soon, I'm in the middle of the exam season at the moment though!

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Sorry for the low quality.

Well I have done, I pulled the trigger a few minutes ago on my first PCS order a Vortex III with the following spec:

Chassis & Display
Vortex Series: 15.6" AUO Matte 95% Gamut Widescreen (1920x1080) (£79)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3630QM (2.40GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (2 x 4GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 675M - 2.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
120GB INTEL® 520 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
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
Intel 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack
Network Facilities
GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® ADVANCED-N 6235 (300Mbps) + BLUETOOTH
USB Options
3 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT AS STANDARD
Firewire
1 X 1394a FIREWIRE PORT
Battery
Vortex Series 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (5,200 mAh/76.96WH)
Power Lead & Adaptor
1 x UK Power Lead & 180W AC Adaptor
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Keyboard & Mouse
INTEGRATED BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD
Mouse
INTEGRATED 2 BUTTON TOUCHPAD MOUSE
Webcam
INTEGRATED 2.0 MEGAPIXEL WEBCAM
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Dead Pixel Guarantee
1 Year Dead Pixel Guarantee Inc. Labour & Carriage Costs (£19)

Can't wait to get it, games are going to be silky smooth! I shall review it after a bit of use.
 
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tom_gr7

tom_gr7

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looks sweet dude ;)

although i'd prefer to have a second drive for storage of games etc etc.
 
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farhie

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tom_gr7 said:
looks sweet dude ;)

although i'd prefer to have a second drive for storage of games etc etc.
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Yeah that's a fair point! That's the plan long tern a 7,200 RPM HDD at some point. Budget ran out unfortunately. So I'll just have to wait :-(
 
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IROverRated

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I was gonna say...where's the 2nd HDD? :S lol But nice man, that is pretty much the EXACT same as mine, apart from mine's a 17" and I'm using the 675MX rather than the 675M :)

Mine's in Processing at the moment so I'll race you :D
 
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farhie

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IROverRated said:
I was gonna say...where's the 2nd HDD? :S lol But nice man, that is pretty much the EXACT same as mine, apart from mine's a 17" and I'm using the 675MX rather than the 675M :)

Mine's in Processing at the moment so I'll race you :D
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You're on! ;) I'm in building at the moment.

I decided to go for the 15" as I want the portability and just don't see how I could wedge a 17" into my bag to get to uni.
 
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farhie

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My missus has scribbled on my uni notes! Hippo is such a nice nickname. :tooth:
 
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JoshEly

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Nice one dude! I'm at uni as well, student loan came in the other day so I ordered a 17.3 inch vortex III this afternoon, I'm so excited, but I almost home it comes after exams!!

Is that a zeppelin I see behind the laptop? I'm tempted to get one of those to plug in for audio, but they're so expensive.... but look so nice.. and I'm ridiculously broke again!
 
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farhie

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Very nice, let me know how it is! I couldn't hack the size of the 17", I needed more portability.

It's a Zeppelin indeed you can get sounds just as good as from a Zeppelin for far less tbh. You're paying a lot of money for the brand really.
 
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