Vortex IV LE for business

[buneacalin]

Chassis & Display
Vortex Series: 15.6" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-4810MQ (2.80GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM)
32GB KINGSTON SODIMM DDR3 1600MHz (4 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 860M - 4.0GB DDR5, 1152 CUDA Cores - DirectX® 11
Memory - Hard Disk
1TB WD SCORPIO BLUE WD10JPVX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 8MB CACHE (5400 rpm)
2nd Hard Disk
500GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
mSATA SSD Drive
120GB Kingston SSDNow mS200 mSATA (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
2nd/3rd HDD HARD DRIVE OPTICAL BAY CADDY
Memory Card Reader
Internal 9 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/SD: Mini, XC & HC/MS: Pro & Duo)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (12 €)
Sound Card
Intel 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack
Bluetooth & Wireless
GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® AC-7260 (867Mbps, 802.11AC) + BLUETOOTH
USB Options
3 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT AS STANDARD
Firewire
1 X 1394a FIREWIRE PORT
Battery
Vortex Series 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (5,200 mAh/76.96WH)
Power Lead & Adaptor
1 x European Power Lead & 120W AC Adaptor
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Keyboard Language
INTEGRATED USA KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD
Notebook Mouse
INTEGRATED 2 BUTTON TOUCHPAD MOUSE
Webcam
INTEGRATED 2.0 MEGAPIXEL WEBCAM
Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
4 - 6 DAY DELIVERY TO ROMANIA (58 €)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 7 to 9 working days
Quantity
1

Price: 1 756,00 € including VAT and delivery.

Hi guys,
I'm an IT programmer and I need a laptop for business trips. It has to be very powerful that's why I had choose the above configuration. My main concern is the RAM memory. Should I go for Kingston HyperX or can I stay with "normal" Kingston? I think the differences are in CL first one having 1600 Mhz with CL 11 and HyperX has 1600 Mhz with CL 9?
Does it count a lot the CL for SQL server and other applications (except gaming)?

Also what do you think about Seagate Hybrid HDD (with 8 GB SSD caching) VS Normal 1 TB 5400 RPM HDD + mSATA 120 GB SSD using Intel smart storage?
Thanks!

 

[mantadog]

Do you need that much RAM? 32GB is a huge amount. As far as timings go, don't worry about them just go for whatever is cheaper as you will never be able to tell. (even when benchmarking)

As far as the hybrid drives goes, I would advise against it. The SSD is too small to be meaningful. if you don't need to cram both into 1 drive bay then the mSATA + (preferable) 750GB scorpio black would be my advice. Any HDD will do though but the scorpio is idea.

 

[buneacalin]

Do you need that much RAM? 32GB is a huge amount. As far as timings go, don't worry about them just go for whatever is cheaper as you will never be able to tell. (even when benchmarking)

As far as the hybrid drives goes, I would advise against it. The SSD is too small to be meaningful. if you don't need to cram both into 1 drive bay then the mSATA + (preferable) 750GB scorpio black would be my advice. Any HDD will do though but the scorpio is idea.

Well unfortunately I need that huge amount of RAM . I develop applications in SharePoint 2013 and without at least 16 GB of RAM your environment will work crappy... The problem is that SharePoint 2013 works on server based operating systems but then there is a problem with drivers for all computers which are not based on server CPU (Intel Xeon and/or AMD Opteron). There are no laptops on the market with "server" CPU's and because the hardware manufacture companies don't even want to support server based drivers, though it wouldn't be hard because Win 7 drivers should work easily on Win 2008 R2 and Win 8 drivers should work on Win 2012 server, the only option left for me is visualization. I think is simply a strategy from companies to make us buy different hardware for different purpose even if for instance an i7 4470k outperforms many Xeon CPU, not to mention the price. And once you buy server CPU (which is more expensive than "desktop" CPU), you have to buy server motherboard (again more expensive), then you need server memory with ECC (again more expensive) and so on.
In reality I'm buying a "gaming" computer so I can use it as a "server". I will install Win 8.1 with Hyper-V to host Windows 2008 R2 / 2012 server OS... I will give my VM ~16-24 GB of RAM and leave the other RAM for main Win 8.1 OS. Is a bit frustrating but this is life .

As for the mSATA with 5400 RPM HDD (slow HDD) I thought it should be fine because SSD would act as a "buffer" and when the HDD is not busy the data will get transferred to it... This would probably work very nice for writing, as for reading I might have some performance issues indeed because some data will come from the HDD directly . Probably I will take your advice and I will give up 250 GB storage for the Scorpio black 7200 RPM... From price perspective they are the same .

I'm still thinking whether I should go for 17" notebook on which I would have mSATA+2 HDD (my SSD and storage drive)+DVD RW or "sacrifice" the DVDRW (buy an external one) for a smaller and more portable 15" notebook...
Anyway thanks a lot for advice .