Got my hands on my new Vortex a little over three weeks ago and thought I'd post my review of the laptop. Here's the specs I went for:
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 SODIMM DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 970M - 6.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
2nd Graphics Card NONE
Memory - Hard Disk 500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk NONE
RAID NONE
mSATA/M.2 SSD Drive 240GB Kingston SSDNow mS200 mSATA (upto 540MB/sR | 530MB/sW)
2nd mSATA/M.2 SSD Drive NONE
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 2nd/3rd HDD HARD DRIVE OPTICAL BAY CADDY (12.7mm)
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® N-7260 HMC (300Mbps, 802.11BGN) + BLUETOOTH
Wireless Router/HomePlugs NONE
USB Options 3 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT AS STANDARD
Firewire 1 X 1394a FIREWIRE PORT
Battery Vortex 17.3" Series 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (5,200 mAh/76.96WH)
Power Lead & Adaptor 1 x UK Power Lead & 230W AC Adaptor
Keyboard Language INTEGRATED BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD
Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence
Awesome laptop. Does everything and more I wanted from a machine. The laptop runs games like Witcher 3 at ultra settings with frame rates a plenty. CPU and GPU temperatures are extremely well managed. The fans don't sound excessively noisy when the graphics card and processor are working to the max. The 500 and 250GB SS sata drives boot up, wake from hibernate and shutdown very quickly indeed. Keyboard is rock solid and the speakers are not too bad though I do use good quality headphones when I'm gaming. It's not the lightest laptop in the world but it has easily accessible rear panels and the overall dimensions facilitate the fans for efficient cooling. There's plenty of configuration options for the Vortex model and I got a dvd drive bay caddy fitted to install an additional solid state backup drive at a later date.
Overall I'm very impressed with my laptop. This is the second laptop I've bought from PC specialist and it's definitely an improved Clevo build over my last Clevo I purchased around three years ago. Looking forward to the laptop performing well for all my needs. Well done to the PC Specialist team. A happy customer.
Thanks, Alister.
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 SODIMM DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 970M - 6.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
2nd Graphics Card NONE
Memory - Hard Disk 500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk NONE
RAID NONE
mSATA/M.2 SSD Drive 240GB Kingston SSDNow mS200 mSATA (upto 540MB/sR | 530MB/sW)
2nd mSATA/M.2 SSD Drive NONE
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 2nd/3rd HDD HARD DRIVE OPTICAL BAY CADDY (12.7mm)
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® N-7260 HMC (300Mbps, 802.11BGN) + BLUETOOTH
Wireless Router/HomePlugs NONE
USB Options 3 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT AS STANDARD
Firewire 1 X 1394a FIREWIRE PORT
Battery Vortex 17.3" Series 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (5,200 mAh/76.96WH)
Power Lead & Adaptor 1 x UK Power Lead & 230W AC Adaptor
Keyboard Language INTEGRATED BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD
Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence
Awesome laptop. Does everything and more I wanted from a machine. The laptop runs games like Witcher 3 at ultra settings with frame rates a plenty. CPU and GPU temperatures are extremely well managed. The fans don't sound excessively noisy when the graphics card and processor are working to the max. The 500 and 250GB SS sata drives boot up, wake from hibernate and shutdown very quickly indeed. Keyboard is rock solid and the speakers are not too bad though I do use good quality headphones when I'm gaming. It's not the lightest laptop in the world but it has easily accessible rear panels and the overall dimensions facilitate the fans for efficient cooling. There's plenty of configuration options for the Vortex model and I got a dvd drive bay caddy fitted to install an additional solid state backup drive at a later date.
Overall I'm very impressed with my laptop. This is the second laptop I've bought from PC specialist and it's definitely an improved Clevo build over my last Clevo I purchased around three years ago. Looking forward to the laptop performing well for all my needs. Well done to the PC Specialist team. A happy customer.
Thanks, Alister.
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