Monty
Member
Hello everyone,
I'd like to share with you my review for my 17.3" Vortex IV gaming laptop.
I started looking over a year ago after my Sony Vaio 16.4" started to struggle playing some of my games and as I paid £900 for the Sony seven years ago this was my starting point with a limit of £1300. Any replacement would have to be very good spec with a 17.3 screen, 8Gb of RAM and a really good graphics card. Now, I work in IT and I'm certified with the big four PC - laptop makers and even though I could get some great deals, none of them was exactly what I wanted. I was about to give up when my brother in law said "have you looked at PCSpecialist?" and I'm so pleased I did.
Everything has been such a joy. From selecting what I wanted on the web page, all the updates and even the time it was being delivered, it's been perfect.
Now to the laptop.
Chassis & Display: Vortex Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU): Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-4710MQ (2.50GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM): 16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X IMPACT 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 970M - 6.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Hard Disk: 1TB SEAGATE HYBRID GEN3 SSHD Drive, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (5400 rpm)
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
Sound Card: Intel 5.1 Channel High Definition Audio + SPDIF/MIC/Headphone Jack
Bluetooth & Wireless: GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® AC-7260 HMC (867Mbps, 802.11AC) + BLUETOOTH
Keyboard Language: INTEGRATED BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD
First of all a big thank you to the guys for installing Windows 7 on the laptop. I did state that I'd be installing W7 myself (I hate W8 with a passion) so I was pleased to see it installed, all I had to do was input my key and that was done.
For:
Almost everything
The laptop also has the Intel Boost technology and will run (when pushed) to 3.6GHz (I did take a photo but didn't catch it in time).
I love the fact I can install another HDD at some point in the future if I need more space.
My gaming frame rates with everything on is amazing.
Against:
The case is very shiny and shows finger marks very easily but it's easily cleaned off. My other complaint (and I'm nit picking here) is the return key, I keep hitting the hash key by mistake but I'm sure I'll get use to it being small.
Other than that, I'm very happy. All I've updated was the NVidia drivers, installed my anti virus and installed a few of my favourite games.
Would I recommend PCSpecialist to other people? Yes, without a doubt.
My rating is 9.8 out of 10.0. Almost perfect if it wasn't for the keyboard layout.
I'd like to share with you my review for my 17.3" Vortex IV gaming laptop.
I started looking over a year ago after my Sony Vaio 16.4" started to struggle playing some of my games and as I paid £900 for the Sony seven years ago this was my starting point with a limit of £1300. Any replacement would have to be very good spec with a 17.3 screen, 8Gb of RAM and a really good graphics card. Now, I work in IT and I'm certified with the big four PC - laptop makers and even though I could get some great deals, none of them was exactly what I wanted. I was about to give up when my brother in law said "have you looked at PCSpecialist?" and I'm so pleased I did.
Everything has been such a joy. From selecting what I wanted on the web page, all the updates and even the time it was being delivered, it's been perfect.
Now to the laptop.
Chassis & Display: Vortex Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU): Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-4710MQ (2.50GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM): 16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X IMPACT 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 970M - 6.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Hard Disk: 1TB SEAGATE HYBRID GEN3 SSHD Drive, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (5400 rpm)
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
Sound Card: Intel 5.1 Channel High Definition Audio + SPDIF/MIC/Headphone Jack
Bluetooth & Wireless: GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® AC-7260 HMC (867Mbps, 802.11AC) + BLUETOOTH
Keyboard Language: INTEGRATED BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD
First of all a big thank you to the guys for installing Windows 7 on the laptop. I did state that I'd be installing W7 myself (I hate W8 with a passion) so I was pleased to see it installed, all I had to do was input my key and that was done.
For:
Almost everything
The laptop also has the Intel Boost technology and will run (when pushed) to 3.6GHz (I did take a photo but didn't catch it in time).
I love the fact I can install another HDD at some point in the future if I need more space.
My gaming frame rates with everything on is amazing.
Against:
The case is very shiny and shows finger marks very easily but it's easily cleaned off. My other complaint (and I'm nit picking here) is the return key, I keep hitting the hash key by mistake but I'm sure I'll get use to it being small.
Other than that, I'm very happy. All I've updated was the NVidia drivers, installed my anti virus and installed a few of my favourite games.
Would I recommend PCSpecialist to other people? Yes, without a doubt.
My rating is 9.8 out of 10.0. Almost perfect if it wasn't for the keyboard layout.
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