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    PCSPECIALIST upgrading CPU on an Ultranote II

    Its a W550SU1 This is a picture of the SPU socket it looks like it can be changed to a different CPU
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    PCSPECIALIST upgrading CPU on an Ultranote II

    I bought the Ultranote ii about 5 years ago for the wife and it's getting a little outdated now with an i3 4000m. I don't want to upgrade it till next year sometime so was looking to maybe better the CPU to an i5 it looks like the CPU can be swapped out but I can't find much info on the laptop...
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    PCSPECIALIST Selling a laptop

    Just wondered what others might think price wise? I have an optimus V series laptop that I bought in 2014 17.3" screen 1080p i7 4710QM 2.5 ghz (turbo 3.5ghz) 8 gig of ram Killer wifi card 860m GFX card 2x 256gb SSD cards Paid around £800 for it what do you think I should price it at when...
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    PCSPECIALIST optimus series laptop

    Well I did a full norton scan and this was the CPU temp and mobo temp. Going to do some gaming tomorrow for a few hours and see if the thermal paste I applied is holding ok Test was from Norton doing a full scan. hopefully gaming will hold out ok. The 2nd HD could do with holes in the...
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    PCSPECIALIST optimus series laptop

    Specs are from the 2014 version of the laptop and bought it in June 2014 Chassis & Display Optimus Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080) Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-4710MQ (2.50GHz) 6MB Memory (RAM) 8GB KINGSTON SODIMM DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)...
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    PCSPECIALIST Intel i7 980 3.33ghz cpu temp 85c+

    Could do with some advice... My brother bought a pc from these guys back in 2011. The pc won't boot to desktop it just shuts down and I have been able to get it running into bios for a little while before it shuts down. It is recording the CPU temp in bios at 85c (i'm sure it might even be...
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    PCSPECIALIST killer wireless-AC 1535?

    I'm just wondering if this will work with my motherboard Notebook W35xSS_370SS (SOCKET 0) I'm just wondering if this one Killer AC 1535 M.2 Notebook Wireless Card with Bluetooth 4.1 would with this my motherboard as some report that your board needs to take a M2 card I currently have the...
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    PCSPECIALIST Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence?

    Just been looking in the box that the ultranote ii came in after buying it in August as only briefly looked when first unpacked and noticed the windows 10 disc so left it in there and just checked the box tonight. I noticed the windows 10 disc was a "recovery" disc not the original disc as...
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    PCSPECIALIST CPU Overheating on Brand New Laptop

    These are the temps when gaming with world of tanks...played 2 games total time 20 mins running time. 75c seems to be the max it runs at now when gaming
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    PCSPECIALIST CPU Overheating on Brand New Laptop

    I've just took it apart and took the cpu cover off. very thin layer of past on. so wiped it off and stuck on some Antec formula 5 silver paste on both the CPU and graphics card, that is my idle temp now not sure if it's made a difference. I'll post another one in a bit when gaming. either that I...
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    PCSPECIALIST Laptop fans

    I have the optimus iv 2014 model 17.3" As you can see from the screen shots when idle the fan is pretty quiet sometimes I cant hear it at all and in the other screen shot when gaming for example world of tanks, world of warships and GTA V the fan is running at 100% speed and is pretty loud a...
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    PCSPECIALIST Laptop fans

    Is it possible to get a better internal laptop fan than the one supplied by PCS. Mine sounds louder than the TV when gaming
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    PCSPECIALIST RMA returns in person

    Has anyone ever had difficulty in returning an rma themselves. Thought it would have been straight forward. I emailed them asking how i return myself as couldn't get passed the return charge. They emailed me back 48hrs later telling me to email the problem and they would then generate an rma for...
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    PCSPECIALIST optimus 17.3" with 860m GFX laptop pop noise then shut down

    Wondering if someone could help with a laptop problem. This started yesterday. I booted up the laptop and noticed it shut down. figured it must have done an update and not noticed so I booted it up again and it was ok. I then shut it down and returned a while later to start it up and noticed...
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    PCSPECIALIST laptop CPU cooler

    Just wondering if it were possible to get a more quiet CPU cooler for laptops. I have the optimus 17.3" laptop and the fan spins up so loud when playing games?
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    PCSPECIALIST Optimus 17.3" GTX 860m

    I'm just wondering, I have the Optimus 17.3" with the 860m I'm happy with the laptop so far it's just over a year old now and have been playing GTA V on it while I can't run the settings at max I can run it at about mid/high so doing ok. I was wondering has anyone ever tried an external...
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    PCSPECIALIST windows 8 boot problem

    Just looking for some help... Built a laptop from PS in May last year... it holds 2 HD's so installed my Agility 3 SSD as main drive. I have my own windows 8 op so installed it and so far everything has been running spot on until today. I was running the laptop for 30mins walked away and came...
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    PCSPECIALIST Optimus V 17.3" 2nd hd?

    I picked up my new laptop today from PCS they are local to me I was wondering about the 2nd HD that this laptop can have without losing the cd drive I asked the live chat person if PCS could swap my HD I ordered to the 2nd HD slot as I wanted to put in my own SSD in the main drive bay. I was...
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    PCSPECIALIST 17.3" Optimus V

    I was thinking of ordering the above laptop...it says in the picture of it that it will hold a 2nd HD without having to get a caddy and lose the cd writer...not that I mind I have an external one if I need to install the likes of windows etc as wont be buying with an operating system if this is...
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