Defiance III 15.6" Review

I ordered the Defiance III series laptop and have VERY few complaints with it. I'm currently paying £50 a month for a year, specs are below.
The only issue I've found so far is the heat and sound when playing some intensive games such as Payday 2 on max settings, however a cheap cooling tray is enough to cool this down.

The CPU and GPU can have turbo enabled at will, and contains predefined settings for entertainment, gaming and quiet modes. The keyboard is also RGB colour enabled, programmable after installing drivers with the provided disc, although this laptop doesn't come with a DVD drive, so an external one is necessary.

Over all extremely happy with this purchase and would absolutely recommend to anyone else interested in a gaming laptop.

Chassis & Display
Defiance Series: 15.6" Matte Full HD IPS LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i7 Quad Core Processor 7700HQ (2.8GHz, 3.8GHz Turbo)
Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE 2400MHz SODIMM DDR4 (1 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1070 - 8.0GB GDDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1, G-SYNC
1st Hard Disk
1TB SLIM SERIAL ATA III 2.5" HARD DRIVE WITH 128MB CACHE (5,400rpm)
M.2 SSD Drive
512GB SAMSUNG PM961 M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 2800MB/R, 1600MB/W)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
NOT REQUIRED
Memory Card Reader
Integrated 6 in 1 Card Reader (SD /Mini SD/ SDHC / SDXC / MMC / RSMMC)
AC Adaptor
1 x 200W AC Adaptor
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Sound Card
Intel 2 Channel High Def. Audio + MIC/Headphone + SoundBlaster X-Fi MB3
Bluetooth & Wireless
GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® AC-8265 M.2 (867Mbps, 802.11AC) +BT 4.0
USB Options
3 x USB 3.1 Type A, 2 x USB 3.1 Type C AS STANDARD
Battery
Defiance Series 4 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (60WH)
Keyboard Language
DEFIANCE SERIES RGB BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD
Operating System
Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
DVD Recovery Media
Windows 10 (64-bit) Home DVD with paper sleeve
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Google Chrome™
Notebook 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)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 8 to 10 working days
Promotional Item
FREE Halo Wars 2 with select INTEL® CPUs!
Promotional Item
FREE VR Game Bundle with select INTEL® CPUs!
Quantity
1

Price £1,739.00 including VAT and delivery

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Hello joswhi793,

Great stuff! It looks like a great spec for gaming to me. If you would like to get in touch concerning any issues with your new build, you know where we are.

Thanks for taking your time to review the system, it really does mean a lot!

Nice review, glad you are happy with your laptop. The cooling tray is a good idea and I would recommend them for almost all laptops as they will help quite a bit and, hopefully, extend the machine's life. I do not game but multi-task a lot with many windows and apps open on my Octane and the cooling tray makes a big difference. The one bit of advice for anyone thinking of getting one is that for 15.6" they are easy to find but be careful if you have a 17" machine as many that claim to be big enough are really pushing it with the laptop often hanging over the side, so the position of the tray fans is very important.