Vortex 6

[Rayz0]

Hi all

Thinking of purchasing the Vortex 6 to the below spec. Just wondering what people's thoughts are on the laptop as there doesn't seem to be many reviews on it.

Chassis & Display
Vortex Series: 17.3" Matte 4K IPS LED Widescreen (3840x2160)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-7700k (4.2GHz) 8MB Cache
Memory (RAM)
64GB HyperX IMPACT 2400MHz SODIMM DDR4 (4 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
2 x NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080 - 8.0GB GDDR5 Video RAM - DX 12.1, G-SYNC
FREE FOR HONOR or GHOST RECON: WILDLANDS with select GTX 10 Series GPUs!
Memory - Hard Disk
500GB Samsung 850 EVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
1TB SERIAL ATA II 2.5" HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (5,400rpm)
M.2 SSD Drive
256GB SAMSUNG SM961 M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3100MB/R, 1400MB/W)

Your reviews would be much appreciated.

Cheers

 

[Oussebon]

Probably because not many can afford it and many people who can would go for a desktop anyway or a weaker laptop, since it's not very portable.

Dimensions (W x D x H)	428mm x 308mm x 45mm
Weight	4.8kg

If it's for gaming, you don't actually need more than 16gb RAM. Even 16gb is more than is necessary.

You might as well get a 1tb M.2 SSD and be done with it. I'd also get a 1TB WD Black HDD in the 1st HDD drive bay.

It's a shame that the 4k panel isn't a gsync screen and/or high refresh rate but at least the GPUs should have little trouble powering most games at 60fps cap on the screen.

 

[Tony1044]

Probably because not many can afford it and many people who can would go for a desktop anyway or a weaker laptop, since it's not very portable.

Dimensions (W x D x H)	428mm x 308mm x 45mm
Weight	4.8kg

That is way too heavy for laptop!

 

[Rayz0]

Thanks for the replys

I would normally have a desktop and spec so it lasts me a number of years but I have a daughter now so find having time to sit up stairs on a computer limited. Was thinking I could play most games downstairs and hook it up to a screen when I do get time for your fps style games.

I don't really require to take it any where but down stairs tbh

Will change the memory I thought I had reduced it.

Cheers

 

[Oussebon]

Have you considered in-home streaming via steam? You can also stream non-steam games using steam. For that budget you could get a powerful gaming PC and a laptop you could game on downstairs. Since the host PC is doing the actual work for running the game, even a fairly weak laptop with a 4k screen should be able to handle it.

It wouldn't work out a great deal more expensive either, while being a better spec that could also be upgradable and would be easier to fix in the event of hardware failure / less vulnerable to glasses of water etc.

Vortex Spec ~£3660
OCed PC, 7700k OCed plus GTX 1080 SLI - £2920

I've found in-home streaming via steam to be absoluetely fine, though that was at 1080p ultra (Witcher 3, no visible loss of fidelity even in the blacks).
This seems like a reasonably informed discussion of 4k in-home streaming: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream/discussions/0/385429254942357060/

I present it as an option anyway.

 

[Rayz0]

Have you considered in-home streaming via steam? You can also stream non-steam games using steam. For that budget you could get a powerful gaming PC and a laptop you could game on downstairs. Since the host PC is doing the actual work for running the game, even a fairly weak laptop with a 4k screen should be able to handle it.

It wouldn't work out a great deal more expensive either, while being a better spec that could also be upgradable and would be easier to fix in the event of hardware failure / less vulnerable to glasses of water etc.

Vortex Spec ~£3660
OCed PC, 7700k OCed plus GTX 1080 SLI - £2920

I've found in-home streaming via steam to be absoluetely fine, though that was at 1080p ultra (Witcher 3, no visible loss of fidelity even in the blacks).
This seems like a reasonably informed discussion of 4k in-home streaming: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream/discussions/0/385429254942357060/

I present it as an option anyway.

Thank you for the info , will defo look in to this , would prefer a desktop and always wanted to build my own water cooled system. Paint the case etc

Do you think £1000 on the laptop and £3000 on the desktop ?

Cheers

 

[Oussebon]

That sounds like the right kind of ballpark, though possibly somewhat more for the desktop if you're going for a liquid cooled one.