Gaming Laptop

[Ozymandiaz]

Thanks.


Seems the G73SW is a decent bet tho. Just so happens that my normal supplier went out of stock for G73SW last week and have no intention to bring em back :/. Guess I have to look at other stores

This is because of a delay on the sandy-bridge chipsets I bet. Either wait a month or two... Or go for the G73JW based on the older version of the cpu/chipset.

Intels fault. One bad transistor.

Interesting, that might explain it. Will wait a little bit I guess

[RogueThunder]

Hah. Yeah. Nothing like one bad transistor causing failure of all but 2 of the SATA ports in a chip-set in a substantial number of chip-sets... (They claimed 5%. Their immediate response says to me it would likely be more...)
Better yet when it was a transistor that was a legacy leftover and could have simply been left out. Oh yes. And the flaw? It's only in the B2 stepping that was the final release of the chips. It did not exist in the test-stepping of the chip-set. Yes. That's right. The PREVIEW chips, didn't have the issue.

THAT said. The Sandy Bridge Core i5/i7m's are INCREDIBLE. So. XD

[Ozymandiaz]

I heard some rumors about hardware layer DRM in them? Was that just hog wash?

[Nalgas]

Hah. Yeah. Nothing like one bad transistor causing failure of all but 2 of the SATA ports in a chip-set in a substantial number of chip-sets... (They claimed 5%. Their immediate response says to me it would likely be more...)

Maybe if they didn't push out an entirely new socket and chipset every 20 minutes they'd be able to avoid problems like that more easily.  It almost makes me want to go buy something from AMD just to spite them.

[Echo35]

Hah. Yeah. Nothing like one bad transistor causing failure of all but 2 of the SATA ports in a chip-set in a substantial number of chip-sets... (They claimed 5%. Their immediate response says to me it would likely be more...)

Maybe if they didn't push out an entirely new socket and chipset every 20 minutes they'd be able to avoid problems like that more easily.  It almost makes me want to go buy something from AMD just to spite them.

At least Intel keeps the same socket type when they push something out every 20 minutes

[Ozymandiaz]

Seems teh GS73SW will return to the stores tomorrow avtually.

With this chip:

Intel Core i7 2630QM / 2 GHz


To me 2 GHz seems low, despite being quad core. Any of you got any experience with such chips? I intend to run games on this computer a lot, perferably at as high settings as I can

[Echo35]

Seems teh GS73SW will return to the stores tomorrow avtually.

With this chip:

Intel Core i7 2630QM / 2 GHz


To me 2 GHz seems low, despite being quad core. Any of you got any experience with such chips? I intend to run games on this computer a lot, perferably at as high settings as I can

2GHZ is not low, especially on a Quad. My desktop quad is barely above 2 on stock clocks (And it's fairly old at this point, q6600) and it kicks butt and takes names.

[Ozymandiaz]

Seems teh GS73SW will return to the stores tomorrow avtually.

With this chip:

Intel Core i7 2630QM / 2 GHz


To me 2 GHz seems low, despite being quad core. Any of you got any experience with such chips? I intend to run games on this computer a lot, perferably at as high settings as I can

2GHZ is not low, especially on a Quad. My desktop quad is barely above 2 on stock clocks (And it's fairly old at this point, q6600) and it kicks butt and takes names.

Hehe, good to hear.

I guess its just my experience with single cores that tells me its "low"

But then its a new computer for me, yay!

[Echo35]

But then its a new computer for me, yay!

How is it working out for you? Ironically enough, not long after this thread my HP Pavilion killed itself (Literally, I was playing League of legends and it just shut itself off, never to power on again) so I was in the market for a new laptop myself. Picked up a System 76 Serval Professional a few weeks ago, and needless to say, it's amazing and I am in love with it. Definitely the best price of any laptop I've seen with this kind of hardware in it. And of course I play games like AI War and Minecraft on an 8 core processor, but hey

[Coleman2]

I'm on my second Dell laptop and love it. I owned one in college and now have one for work. They do tend to overheat more often, but you can definitely take care of that. I'm not sure what kind I would suggest for a gaming laptop, however. I have a laptop for regular use and on the go, as well as a desktop computer that I use purely for gaming. It works out pretty well! If you do get a laptop, make sure you get one with good speakers unless you mind using headphones. Sound makes a world of difference on gaming! I also definitely suggest getting a separate monitor for it. I have one placed in my tv cabinets and can hook it up anytime to watch videos or just for regular use.