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    PCSPECIALIST Vortex III 17.3" Matte Display for photo editing AUO or ChiMei

    Vortex III 17.3" Matte Display for photo editing. How can I ensure that I GET a AUO B173HW01 v.5 display and NOT a ChiMei N173HGE screen? Can it be specified somehow at the time of ordering? Some posters have stated that they get the grainy inferior ChiMei display when they were assured they...
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    PCSPECIALIST Bluetooth Compatibility

    Bluetooth Compatibility Vortex III Chassis The detailed specification states the chassis has Bluetooth v3.0 module support. HOWEVER.... The WiFi card I have chosen (see below) from the drop-down list, has a Wi-Fi Module with V4 Bluetooth. Does this mean the Bluetooth section won't work? I...
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    PCSPECIALIST Vortex III RAM slots

    Vortex III RAM slots I see I can have one 8 GB RAM module fitted. Is there any upside to fitting them in pairs, would this increase performance, would the memory be interleaved so something fancy like that? Do they need to be matched accurately? I remember in days of old they had to be...
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    PCSPECIALIST vortex III longevity

    Does anyone know when the Vortex III was introduced? How far off is a Vortex IV or successor? What are the possibilities that the Vortex IV will have a 95% Gamut Screen? Thanks
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    PCSPECIALIST Processor Power

    Processor Power Ignoring all the stuff about the accuracy of benchmarks, I only give them as an indication. Would I notice any significant difference between the following processors (not changing anything elses in the system) when using Photoshop Elements or my RAW (Nikon NX photo editing)...
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    PCSPECIALIST RAM Memory Question

    Memory Question Vortex III with Win 7 Professional When windows runs out of RAM it pages to the disc for vitual RAM Bearing in mind I will have an SSD drive as my C: drive and a Hybrid Drive as my D: drive and it is best to minimise writes to an SSD should I increase the main RAM to 32 GB (4x...
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    PCSPECIALIST OS Installation

    OS Installation I will purchase Win 7 Professional with my Vortex III Will PCS install all the drives, touchpad, built in camera, WiFi, bluetooth etc. or will they do a barebones install and leave me to do driver install. I ‘believe’ drives have to be installed in a certain order, so If I...
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    PCSPECIALIST user manuals

    are user manuals for the votex availible for download? this would answer most of my little questions. Thanks
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    PCSPECIALIST vortex III display connections on rear of unit?

    what can you connect to the Display port on the rear of the vortex it has 1 x DVI-I OUT Port which i understand, i have a monitor with dvi input and a hdmi out which i also understand but what is 1 x Display Port from the photo it looks almost usb ish!!! it does not look like a 15 pin...
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    PCSPECIALIST Vortex III WiDi Intel® Centrino® Ultimate-N 6300 will WiDi Work on this system?

    The pcs email support have been very helpful and I am now almost ready to place my order. Could anyone here tell me if they have ever got WiDi to work on a Vortex III system. The pcs staff have informed me that the following Wi-Fi card does indeed have Wi-Di which is great but reading up about...
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    PCSPECIALIST Vortex III partion size question

    I am about to order a Vortex III with two drives fitted. 1st Hard Disk 120GB INTEL® 520 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW) 2nd Hard Disk 750GB SEAGATE MOMENTUS XT HYBRID, SATA 6 Gb/s, 32MB CACHE (7200 rpm) I plan to leave the SSD as the full 120 GB containing the OS and...
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    PCSPECIALIST Votex III pre-sales questions

    I am looking to buy a vortex III 17.3 " the spec is below - any comments would be gratefully appreciated but I have a few questions. main uses are; photo editing using Photoshop Elements and Nikon NX raw editing program. very little video editing program writing in C watching...
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