I have been drooling over this for a while but finally decided to bite the proverbial bullet and go for it!
Vortex Series:17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080) (£79) - Is this definitely the AU Optronics B173HW01 V.5 ?
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3820QM (2.70GHz) 8MB
16GB SAMSUNG 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 8GB) - I plan on running test VMs (but mostly its braggin rights:shifty
, but slightly concerned I cannot find the BIOS update that turns on virtualisation
edit: 32GB will have to wait for now to make room in my budget for the 680M
AMD® Radeon® HD 7970M - 2GB DDR5 Video RAM - DX 11 (ETA 18th JULY), HOWEVER:
Change to: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680M - 4.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
240GB INTEL® 520 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
750GB SEAGATE MOMENTUS XT HYBRID, SATA 6 Gb/s, 32MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW) - I wish there was an option to rerplace for an HD caddy, hopefully I should be able to do it myself if at all possible
edit: WISH GRANTED! PCS have kindly added an optical bay HD caddy!!!
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
Intel 5.1 Channel High Definition Audio + SPDIF/MIC/Headphone Jack - heard speakers weren't great, I have been looking around for a clip-on sound bar or some sort of portable speaker/s, but found mostly mixed reviews at best - any suggestions?
GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® ULTIMATE-N 6300 (450Mbps)
INTEGRATED BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD - some people posted about keyboard issues and someone mentioned that there might be an alternative ?
3 Year Gold Warranty (2 Year Collect & Return, 2 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£69)
1 Year Dead Pixel Guarantee Inc. Labour & Carriage Costs (£19)
1 Month Free Laptop Insurance inc. Accidental Damage & Theft
SATURDAY DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (BEFORE 12 NOON) (£19)
Standard Build - Approximately 6 to 8 working days
PC Specialist naked Charity Calendar in aid of ForgetMeNotChild.co.uk (£4)
Any comments/suggestions most welcome!
Vortex Series:17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080) (£79) - Is this definitely the AU Optronics B173HW01 V.5 ?
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3820QM (2.70GHz) 8MB
16GB SAMSUNG 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 8GB) - I plan on running test VMs (but mostly its braggin rights:shifty
, but slightly concerned I cannot find the BIOS update that turns on virtualisationedit: 32GB will have to wait for now to make room in my budget for the 680M
AMD® Radeon® HD 7970M - 2GB DDR5 Video RAM - DX 11 (ETA 18th JULY)
, HOWEVER:Change to: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680M - 4.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
240GB INTEL® 520 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
750GB SEAGATE MOMENTUS XT HYBRID, SATA 6 Gb/s, 32MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW) - I wish there was an option to rerplace for an HD caddy, hopefully I should be able to do it myself if at all possible
edit: WISH GRANTED! PCS have kindly added an optical bay HD caddy!!!
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
Intel 5.1 Channel High Definition Audio + SPDIF/MIC/Headphone Jack - heard speakers weren't great, I have been looking around for a clip-on sound bar or some sort of portable speaker/s, but found mostly mixed reviews at best - any suggestions?
GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® ULTIMATE-N 6300 (450Mbps)
INTEGRATED BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD - some people posted about keyboard issues and someone mentioned that there might be an alternative ?
3 Year Gold Warranty (2 Year Collect & Return, 2 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£69)
1 Year Dead Pixel Guarantee Inc. Labour & Carriage Costs (£19)
1 Month Free Laptop Insurance inc. Accidental Damage & Theft
SATURDAY DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (BEFORE 12 NOON) (£19)
Standard Build - Approximately 6 to 8 working days
PC Specialist naked Charity Calendar in aid of ForgetMeNotChild.co.uk (£4)
Any comments/suggestions most welcome!
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