Ready to buy?!?!?

[drillerman46]

Ready to buy!?!?!!?



Hello everyone,
The wife said YES and I am just about ready to buy. However, before I do I'd like to post the specs of the notebook I will probably get. I am primarily a gamer but unfortunately cannot afford one of the Vortex machines. I also must have a notebook as I have nowhere to put a desk and desktop machine. Children are taking up all the room!!!

Chassis & Display

Optimus II: 17.3" Full HD LED Backlit Widescreen (1920x1080) Super Clear Glossy
Processor (CPU)

Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-2630QM (2.00GHz) 6MB Cache
Memory (RAM)

8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (2 x 4GB)
Graphics Card

nVIDIA® GeForce® GT 540M - 1GB DDR3 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Memory - Hard Disk

250GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD2500BEKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive

8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)
Memory Card Reader

Internal 9 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/SD: Mini, XC & HC/MS: Pro & Duo)
Network Facilities

GIGABIT LAN & KILLER™ 1102 WIRELESS 802.11N - IDEAL FOR ONLINE GAMING


I assume the above machine will play the latest games on med/high detail ok?
Without spending anymore money(I am actually over budget now) is there any switch I could make to the above spec to make it faster etc.
Any advice would be most welcome.

My current machine is an ACER Aspire core 2 duo T5250 4gig ram geforce9500m GS 512 GFX card running WinVista. It's still pretty good but just starting to show its age. It's still in Fab condition and looks as good as the day I bought it.

Anyway, thanks in advance.
drillerman46

 

[Gorman]

The spec looks good to me, it will certainly put the Acer to shame.

Laptops are always won over by desktops for gaming but this setup will be able to hold its own against modern titles for a while yet.

 

[drillerman46]

Thx for the quick reply!
Another question, will the killer wireless card make that much of a difference to a "normal" one. I like playing MMO. Would I notice a difference or is it really down to the connection?

 

[Gorman]

Its one of those things, its down to personal experience i guess. heres a snip of a review of similar cards:

Without a doubt the Killer NIC is one of the most technologically advanced network cards I'll ever lay my hands on. Bigfoot Networks have clearly put a lot of time and research into the Killer NIC and have gone to extraordinary lengths to bypass the bottlenecks found in the Windows networking stack. In addition to this, the FNA architecture allows developers to make use of the Killer NIC's platform - undoubtedly increasing the cards appeal as new and innovative applications are released in the future.

However, the results from our tests proved to be less than compelling and I can honestly say that if I'd purchased this card with a view to improving my FPS and ping, I'd be disappointed. It is quite possible that our test machine and server set-up left little room for any achievable improvement by the card, but it is my opinion that the user group with the largest interest in the Killer NIC is going to be people that are already running top-spec systems. For anyone running a lower spec'd PC, the results will most likely be much more noticable, but at ~$180 for the baseline Killer K1 card, surely wouldn't these people be better investing in an extra 1gb ram or a new graphics card?

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/...networks_killer_nic_killer_k1_network_cards/6