Laptop Ordered - will provide review soon

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forbiddenloli

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Chassis & Display Vortex Series: 15.6" Glossy Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i5 Dual Core Mobile Processor i5-3210M (2.50GHz) 3MB
Memory (RAM) 2GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (1 x 2GB)
Graphics Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 675M - 2.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 250GB SERIAL ATA II 2.5" HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (5,400rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)
Thermal Paste ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
Network Facilities GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® ULTIMATE-N 6300 (450Mbps)
Power Lead & Adaptor 1 x UK Power Lead & 180W AC Adaptor
Operating System NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Warranty 3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Price (excluding VAT) £771.67
Price £926.00

Processed Date 12-09-2012
Pre-Production Date 18-09-2012
Build Date 24-09-2012
Test Date 25-09-2012
Awaiting Dispatch Date 25-09-2012
Dispatch Date 25-09-2012

Built By Ben Alderson
Tested By Carl Auckland
QC'd By Carl Auckland
Packed By Anthony Cunliffe

For those who notice - the I5 is to take the order within my budget while still giving gaming performance as much as possible
The laptop will be used for gaming and general use.
I will be using a copy of windows 7 professional provided to me by microsoft msdn and will be upgrading the ram (to two 4gb sticks making 8gb) and the HDD will be upgraded to a momentus xt 750gb when I have the funds

Opinion tomorrow - review sometime next week :)
 
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sid9221

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forbiddenloli said:
Chassis & Display Vortex Series: 15.6" Glossy Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i5 Dual Core Mobile Processor i5-3210M (2.50GHz) 3MB
Memory (RAM) 2GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (1 x 2GB)
Graphics Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 675M - 2.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 250GB SERIAL ATA II 2.5" HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (5,400rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)
Thermal Paste ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
Network Facilities GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® ULTIMATE-N 6300 (450Mbps)
Power Lead & Adaptor 1 x UK Power Lead & 180W AC Adaptor
Operating System NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Warranty 3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Price (excluding VAT) £771.67
Price £926.00

Ordered 12-09-12 and will update this page as my order goes though production


For those who notice - the I5 is to take the order within my budget while still giving gaming performance as much as possible
The laptop will be used for gaming and general use.
I will be using a copy of windows 7 professional provided to me by microsoft msdn and will be upgrading the ram (to two 4gb sticks making 8gb) and the HDD will be upgraded to a momentus xt 750gb when I have the funds
Click to expand...

Seems like it will be a beast, although I would recommend you swap the hdd for the 128 gb v200 ssd it's only ~£10 more right now and the difference would be MASSIVE.
 
Enzyme

Enzyme

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Once you have finalized you're upgrades it will be a pretty decent set up. Look forward to seeing pics.
 
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forbiddenloli

Active member
sid9221 said:
Seems like it will be a beast, although I would recommend you swap the hdd for the 128 gb v200 ssd it's only ~£10 more right now and the difference would be MASSIVE.
Click to expand...

decided not to get an ssd since it would SEVERELY limit how many games I can install (its a 1 hdd bay laptop) while the momentus xt will give me a "best of both worlds" scenario, plus the reason I chose this is because I wont be using the hdd or the ram installed in the system

thanks for the suggestion though

forgot to say, i would still like to have some gaming before the momentus is bought as I already have dark souls, oblivion and will get borderlands 2 on friday after my wages get in
 
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forbiddenloli

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Processed Date 12-09-2012
Pre-Production Date 18-09-2012
Build Date 24-09-2012
Test Date 25-09-2012
Awaiting Dispatch Date 25-09-2012
Dispatch Date 25-09-2012
Who Worked on This Order?

Built By Ben Alderson
Tested By Carl Auckland
QC'd By

Carl Auckland
Packed By Anthony Cunliffe

YAY
 
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brukin

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Hi Forbiddenloli,

Doing the same as you, although I've taken the 128GB Kingston V200 as I thought I could use it as a scratch disk for fast image access for my Lightroom 4.1 catalogue on my desktop. But I have now put an older 500GB momentus XT into the machine. Seems to still give speedy bootup. Best of both worlds. I've since ordered a Crucial M4 256GB mSata drive to put into the laptop in addition to the 500GB drive. mSata is an option if you wish to add an SSD in the future.
 
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forbiddenloli

Active member
sigh
It got to local depot at 9 - i'm still waiting :'(
it'll be here today but I want it NOW :'(


Edit - in predictable DPD fashion - the driver went home for an early night (I assume) because I still had 26 minutes in my delivery window but it went back to depot........ I am disappointed immensely (at DPD, not at PCS)

Heres hoping its going to arrive today.....
 
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