Recent content by Fawkon

Got back an RMA'd laptop today, one of the graphics cards was not working. Got it back with a replacement (£400 worth) everything seemed to be fine ran some benchmaks etc all good. Decide I'm going to reinstall windows and drivers etc. just to get a fresh start. Re install everything, go into...

Some of you may have read my post about my 10 month old Vortex 3 Battery dying on me. Well now I wake up today and try to use my laptop only to hear a weird beeping sound. I log on and find my second hard drive isn't recognised in my computer or the bios. From what I'm reading online this = dead...

I bought a laptop from PCSpecialist last November. My computer is now telling me that my laptop battery needs to be replaced. I am not really happy with this occurring so soon after a purchase, of course I realise that batteries degrade over time but one year in my opinion is far too soon for...

Here's the deal. Bought a Vortex III Elite with crossfired 7970m's last month. Issues so far - Bigfoot killer Lan card does not work correctly. Internet connection drops out every few minutes for no discernible reason. This is now a well documented issue on their forum which they do not appear...

Vortex 3. Dual 7970m's. Paid for Thermal compound. Using zalmtec cooler. Ran Furmark Benchmark About 20% into said Benchmrk GPU1: Max Degrees 77oC GPU2: Max Degrees: 96oC I shut it off as 96 was a bit worrying to me. Question: Is it normal for the temperature to get that high and is it...

Got my laptop yesterday. Everything is perfect bar the fact that the wireless constantly drops. It will work fine for 20 minutes or so and then it will just have "limited access" and I am forced to disable/enable the card before it goes back to working. Tried re-installing drivers, tried...

Processed Date: 08-11-2012 Build Date: 09-11-2012 Test Date: 09-11-2012 Awaiting Dispatch Date: 09-11-2012 Although I did pay for 5 day dispatch I am very impressed lads. As long as everything is in order when the laptop arrives I will stay very impressed. Good job. I should include this was...

Chassis & Display Vortex Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080) Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3740QM (2.70GHz) 6MB Memory (RAM) 8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (2 x 4GB) Graphics Card 2 x AMD® Radeon® HD 7970M - 2GB DDR5 Video RAM -...

Right here is my spec that I am planning to purchase: Chassis & Display: Vortex Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080) Processor (CPU): Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3740QM (2.70GHz) 6MB Memory (RAM): 16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (2 x 8GB)...

Firstly I'm very new to Laptop/PC gaming. I have used computers to play games when I was a kid such as X-Com (Old skool version), Fallout 1/2 etc. meaning not very demanding. I usually game on an the X-Box but have recently moved house and would like to switch to using my laptop for some...

Chassis & Display Vortex Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080) Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3630QM (2.40GHz) 6MB Memory (RAM) 16GB SAMSUNG 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 8GB) Graphics Card 2 x NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680M - 4.0GB DDR5 Video...