Can someone check this please and give me some advice :)

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iFantasyX

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Hi, Can someone just tell me if this would be suitable for my needs, :)

Budget: £900-1300

I need a high performance laptop, which will run with %90 of its ram being used on games, and will be on for 10-12hours a day with the games running, i also need it to be quite and have a decent amount of battery.

Can someone adjust the setting to get a similar performance but a slightly less price? :)


Also, i would appreciate it if you could take a look at my other thread, its in this section as well.

Chassis & Display
Viper II: 18.4" HD+ LCD Backlit Widescreen (1680x945) Super Clear Matte

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Mobile Processor i7-840QM (1.86GHz) 8MB Cache

Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 4GB)

Graphics Card
1GB ATI® Radeon™ HD 5165 PCI Express

2nd Graphics Card
NONE

Memory - Hard Disk
500GB SERIAL ATA II 2.5" HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (5,400rpm)

DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)

Memory Card Reader
Integrated 4-in-1 Card Reader (SD, MS PRO, MMC, MS)

Network Facilities
INTEGRATED GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N CARD (AS STANDARD)

USB Options
3 x USB 2.0 PORTS AS STANDARD

Bluetooth & Infrared Options
Integrated V2.0 Bluetooth Adapter + EDR Capability

Battery
Viper Series 9 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (6,600 mAh)

Power Lead & Adaptor
1 x UK Power Lead & 90W AC Adaptor

Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)

Office Software
FREE Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Limited functionality Word & Excel)

Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL

Stands & Port Replicators
NONE

Carry Case
NONE

Stand-Alone Monitor
NONE

External Keyboard & Mouse
NONE

Notebook Mouse
INTEGRATED 2 BUTTON TOUCHPAD MOUSE

External Speakers
NONE

Webcam
INTEGRATED 1.3 MEGAPIXEL WEBCAM

Headsets (VOIP)
NONE

Surge Protection
NONE

Printer
NONE

External Hard Drive
NONE

Home Installation
NONE

Insurance
1 Month Free Laptop Insurance inc. Accidental Damage & Theft

Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)

Data Recovery
NONE

Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)

Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 4 to 6 working days

Quantity
1
 
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Sleinous

Sleinous

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Umm, first thing I notice here is that there's a load of RAM, considering the lower-end graphics card in this laptop, you're never gonna be using 90% of that 8GB when you're playing games that that GPU can even handle :) Slight imbalance there. Also, could you let us know roughly what is your budget for this computer system?
 
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iFantasyX

Member
Sleinous said:
Umm, first thing I notice here is that there's a load of RAM, considering the lower-end graphics card in this laptop, you're never gonna be using 90% of that 8GB when you're playing games that that GPU can even handle :) Slight imbalance there. Also, could you let us know roughly what is your budget for this computer system?
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Which laptop would you suggest then? D: which will have most of its ram being used.

budget: £900-1300
Also what do you think of the macbook pro

Also, what is the GPU? :S
 
Sleinous

Sleinous

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GPU - another word for graphcis card, graphical processing unit. I think macbook pro is a pile of cack lol, its a rip off, like all macbooks. You pay for a glossy finish and an old Intel Core 2 Duo with integrated graphics or... an Nividia 8400M GT.

Something like this for your laptop?

Chassis & Display
Vortex i7: 15.6" Full HD LED Backlit Widescreen (1920x1080) Super Clear Glossy
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Mobile Processor i7-620M (2.66GHz) 4MB Cache
Memory (RAM)
4GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 2GB)
Graphics Card
1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX260M PCI Express
Memory - Hard Disk
500GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD5000BEKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)
Memory Card Reader
Internal 7 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/MS/MS Pro/MS DUO/SD/Mini-SD)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N CARD (AS STANDARD)
USB Options
4 x USB 2.0 PORTS AS STANDARD
Bluetooth & Infrared Options
Integrated V2.0 Bluetooth Adapter + EDR Capability
Battery
Vortex Series 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (3,800 mAh)
Power Lead & Adaptor
1 x UK Power Lead & 120W AC Adaptor
Firewire & Video Editing
1 X 1394a FIREWIRE PORT
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
FREE Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Limited functionality Word & Excel)
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Notebook Mouse
INTEGRATED 2 BUTTON TOUCHPAD MOUSE
Webcam
INTEGRATED 2.0 MEGAPIXEL WEBCAM
Insurance
1 Month Free Laptop Insurance inc. Accidental Damage & Theft
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 4 to 6 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,291.00 including VAT and delivery.

With this, you get a GeForce 260M GPU, 4GB of RAm, and still an i7. Also upgraded the HDD from an 8mb cached drive to a 16mb WD Scorpio :)

Now, you can ALSO, downgrade to an i5 540 CPU and upgrade RAM to 8GB for £1300 if you wanted, but, that imo would only really be useful if you spent the little bit more on the GeForce 285M GPU instead. :)
 
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iFantasyX

Member
Sleinous said:
GPU - another word for graphcis card, graphical processing unit. I think macbook pro is a pile of cack lol, its a rip off, like all macbooks. You pay for a glossy finish and an old Intel Core 2 Duo with integrated graphics or... an Nividia 8400M GT.

Something like this for your laptop?

Chassis & Display
Vortex i7: 15.6" Full HD LED Backlit Widescreen (1920x1080) Super Clear Glossy
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Mobile Processor i7-620M (2.66GHz) 4MB Cache
Memory (RAM)
4GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 2GB)
Graphics Card
1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX260M PCI Express
Memory - Hard Disk
500GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD5000BEKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)
Memory Card Reader
Internal 7 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/MS/MS Pro/MS DUO/SD/Mini-SD)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N CARD (AS STANDARD)
USB Options
4 x USB 2.0 PORTS AS STANDARD
Bluetooth & Infrared Options
Integrated V2.0 Bluetooth Adapter + EDR Capability
Battery
Vortex Series 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (3,800 mAh)
Power Lead & Adaptor
1 x UK Power Lead & 120W AC Adaptor
Firewire & Video Editing
1 X 1394a FIREWIRE PORT
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
FREE Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Limited functionality Word & Excel)
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Notebook Mouse
INTEGRATED 2 BUTTON TOUCHPAD MOUSE
Webcam
INTEGRATED 2.0 MEGAPIXEL WEBCAM
Insurance
1 Month Free Laptop Insurance inc. Accidental Damage & Theft
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 4 to 6 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,291.00 including VAT and delivery.

With this, you get a GeForce 260M GPU, 4GB of RAm, and still an i7. Also upgraded the HDD from an 8mb cached drive to a 16mb WD Scorpio :)

Now, you can ALSO, downgrade to an i5 540 CPU and upgrade RAM to 8GB for £1300 if you wanted, but, that imo would only really be useful if you spent the little bit more on the GeForce 285M GPU instead. :)
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thanks so much for that :) ill consider it, however i would prefer a 17" screen if possible, and i dont mind about the graphics, i just want to be able to run with alot of memory being used and a good processor ;o so ram and cpu would be more essesntial for me

thank you again
 
Sleinous

Sleinous

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Why do you want all the RAM to be used? :p Thats not usually a great thing, and, only a very small selection of games use over 2-3GB of system RAM as most of the game is stored in the video RAM as it is being rendered. So, the better gpu you have the less system RAM will be used :p

What do you intend to use this computer for btw? If no gaming, then, yes, I can probably bring the cost right down and give you a widescreen, but, that will mean, NO gaming :p
 
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oh, so the better graphics i have the less ram gets used? :eek: :s

Well, The reason why most the ram will be used is because i'll be leaving Game clients on, im aiming for 15-20 clients of a game all running at the same time, They dot take much space each but im guessing theyre total will be around 6 or 7 gb ram usage.. not sure if i explained it correctly - basically i'm going to be running games, more than 1 client at a time. :)

laptop would be used for mainly everything tbh, but mostly for gaming/leaving games on
 
Sleinous

Sleinous

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Now I know what youre intended usage is (we went on teamviewer) :p

Something like this, if you can stretch the budget by the extra £43, would be a little beast.

Chassis & Display
Vortex i7: 17.3" Full HD LED Backlit Widescreen (1920x1080) Super Clear Glossy
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5 Mobile Processor i5-520M (2.40GHz) 3MB Cache (Special Offer)
Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 4GB)
Graphics Card
1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX260M PCI Express
Memory - Hard Disk
500GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD5000BEKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)
Memory Card Reader
Internal 7 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/MS/MS Pro/MS DUO/SD/Mini-SD)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N CARD (AS STANDARD)
USB Options
4 x USB 2.0 PORTS AS STANDARD
Bluetooth & Infrared Options
Integrated V2.0 Bluetooth Adapter + EDR Capability
Battery
Vortex Series 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (3,800 mAh)
Power Lead & Adaptor
1 x UK Power Lead & 120W AC Adaptor
Firewire & Video Editing
1 X 1394a FIREWIRE PORT
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
FREE Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Limited functionality Word & Excel)
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Notebook Mouse
INTEGRATED 2 BUTTON TOUCHPAD MOUSE
Webcam
INTEGRATED 2.0 MEGAPIXEL WEBCAM
Insurance
1 Month Free Laptop Insurance inc. Accidental Damage & Theft
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 4 to 6 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,343.00 including VAT and delivery.

yes, especially for your game clients, getting a GPU like this 260M would help enormously as the system memory can ALL be put towards running the actual clients, and the GPU can concentrate on rendering the graphics on each client (the video RAM will be used for this as opposed to biting into system RAM).
 
Sleinous

Sleinous

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Pity you cant have a desktop all to yourself :p With £1300 I could spec a 24GB RAM monster for your games lol :p
 
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