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New laptop ordered...good deal?

I pulled the trigger on a HP dv7t laptop. Here is what I got on it...
17" screen
Intel Core I7-2720qm processor
8 gig ddr3 ram
750 gig hard drive
ATI Radeon 6570 graphics card
Bluetooth
BLU-RAY write/read
DL-DVD write/read
I and getting this to mostly hook up to a 50" plasma and have discrete 7.1 surround sound through a fairly hi-end home theater. Ill also be converting avi videos to dvd and bluray format so I can burn dvd and bluray......home videos of course used a online coupon and got it for 1163 tax and shipping included.

you did get an excellent deal on an hp!!!
750gb????? 2tb hdd is only £60 about $100
nice system though
hope you enjoy it!!

I allready have a 2tb nas drive for the house so I'm not so concerned about hd space. Thanks though!

stangdriverdoug said:
I pulled the trigger on a HP dv7t laptop. Here is what I got on it...
17" screen
Intel Core I7-2720qm processor
8 gig ddr3 ram
750 gig hard drive
ATI Radeon 6570 graphics card
Bluetooth
BLU-RAY write/read
DL-DVD write/read
I and getting this to mostly hook up to a 50" plasma and have discrete 7.1 surround sound through a fairly hi-end home theater. Ill also be converting avi videos to dvd and bluray format so I can burn dvd and bluray......home videos of course used a online coupon and got it for 1163 tax and shipping included.
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Yea that was a great deal
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Wait... I'd find it hard to find a PC with an i7 for $1200 Let alone a 17" laptop.
Man.. Thats amazing specs... Better than my pc's And for only $1200 which is like how many £
Now you got me lookin

I have been keeping my eye on the prices for a while and it was too low to resist. I just hope the processor is powerful enough for video encoding.

sweet indeed , how much was the coup worth ?

souljaboy said:
sweet indeed , how much was the coup worth ?
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$500 there is only a limited amount.

Pretty nice little laptop. What does the HT speed run at on that i7?

vbetts said:
Pretty nice little laptop. What does the HT speed run at on that i7?
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What do you mean by ht speed?

stangdriverdoug said:
What do you mean by ht speed?
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Turbo Boost. i7 architecture run at 2 stock speeds, one for power saving, and one for high performance. This also goes along the performance of the HT capabilities inside the chip.

Oh ok.....normal speed is 2.2 and turbo boost is 3.3

Seriously you got a nice processor there How much it cost you ?

Your Pc Spects

My PC
mobo:UD3R s1366
cpu:i7 930 oc to 4.00 ghz(Prolimatech Megahalems Rev.2 CPU Cooler)
gf card: 2x hd 5770 vapor-x Crossfire
ram:Corsair Dominator 8GB DDR3
hd:1.5tb+ssd OCZ Vertex 2 Series 120GB
psu:CoolerMaster Silent Pro Gold 800W
case:Xigmatek MidGuard Midi Tower Black

antonymilo said:
My PC
mobo:UD3R s1366
cpu:i7 930 oc to 4.00 ghz(Prolimatech Megahalems Rev.2 CPU Cooler)
gf card: 2x hd 5770 vapor-x Crossfire
ram:Corsair Dominator 8GB DDR3
hd:1.5tb+ssd OCZ Vertex 2 Series 120GB
psu:CoolerMaster Silent Pro Gold 800W
case:Xigmatek MidGuard Midi Tower Black
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Are you overcompensating for something with that extremely overpowered computer :O...
Jk... how much did it cost you to build that and more importantly, what 3d mark (06) score does it get...

In greece (the prices when i bought them piece to piece)
mobo 220 e
cpu 270 e
cooler 55 e
gf 180+180 e
ram 155 e
hd 80+200 e
psu 175 e
case 70e
dvd r 25 e
win 7 125e
1735 e but i bought the it 1535 e.......

antonymilo said:
In greece (the prices when i bought them piece to piece)
mobo 220 e
cpu 270 e
cooler 55 e
gf 180+180 e
ram 155 e
hd 80+200 e
psu 175 e
case 70e
dvd r 25 e
win 7 125e
1735 e but i bought the it 1535 e.......
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redundant , and useless thread

souljaboy said:
redundant , and useless thread
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Sir if you are gonna say something negative.. please dont post anymore

Right now my primary is a HP Netbook
160GB Hdd
Intel Atom 450N
1 GB DDR2 Ram
10.1"
The only thing special about my desktop media PC is I have 6TB of HDD space, and it's full, otherwise it's old and crappy.

My notebook.
ACER Aspire
Intel core 2 duo P8600 2.4GHz 3MB L2 Cache
Geforce 9600M GS turbocache.
4GB DDR2
16" + subwoofer

AMD K6-2 @166Mhz
128mb sdram
seagate 4gb hdd
ATI 3D Rage 4mb
52x cd rom
200w psu
windows 98

flyboyovyick said:
AMD K6-2 @166Mhz
128mb sdram
seagate 4gb hdd
ATI 3D Rage 4mb
52x cd rom
200w psu
windows 98
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Haha No offence... That's not your real set up is it

Dell Laptop
Old
Dirty
Dusty
Working

MacBook pro 13" mid 2010
2.66ghz and 320gb hd
Oh wait it's not a PC its a Mac hahaha
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AMD Athlon II X3 435 @ 3.55 ghz (Dynatron Genuis G90 120mm Arctic silver 5)
DFI Lanparty DK 790GX MRS5( Not the greatest)
2048 ddr2 800 Corsair Extreme(2 gb kit died, so only 2 gb left...=[ )
Geforce 9800 GTX+ (OC needs a better fan, stock one for what I'm doing isn't good enough.)
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
Soon it's going to be this.
Phenom 965(hoping 4ghz out of it) Would go 6 core but my mobo doesn't support it
4gb ddr2 800
2x Radeon HD 6850

Just bought a new laptop:
Dell XPS (laugh all you want, I get corporate discounts! )
Core [email protected] 2.66Ghz
6Gb [email protected] 1666 mhz
500Gb 7200rpm HD
GT420M
64bit Windows 7 Ultimate
and my favorite... backlit keyboard and 9 cell battery!
My oldest rig is also a dell...
Lattitude LM
pentium MMX @133mhz,
640kb ram
3gb HD
6x cd-rom
Windows 95.
Still runs!

Dell makes some nice laptops. I've got a Vostro 1500 that's held up through hell and back, got snow Leopard running on it now and it runs great.

Amd Phenom x4 Black Edition
4 GB Kingston DDR 1666 MHz
Samsung HD103SJ 1 TB
Gigabyte Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 Super OC [email protected] MHz GPU
Mobo Gigabye M68M-S2P

antonymilo said:
My PC
mobo:UD3R s1366
cpu:i7 930 oc to 4.00 ghz(Prolimatech Megahalems Rev.2 CPU Cooler)
gf card: 2x hd 5770 vapor-x Crossfire
ram:Corsair Dominator 8GB DDR3
hd:1.5tb+ssd OCZ Vertex 2 Series 120GB
psu:CoolerMaster Silent Pro Gold 800W
case:Xigmatek MidGuard Midi Tower Black
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I hope you can get 3d pron with that setup...
And to think, I just rebuilt my desktop for 300.00....
amd quad core from 2009 (955 maybe???)
4gb of RAM (8xx speed)
some motherboard off of newegg that had plenty of sata and ide connections and built in graphics (don't really play any hard core games on my computer)
couple of dvd burners/drives
case and powersupply on sale at newegg (alienware copycat)
lots of fans
Really, this desktop is the workhorse for burning disks and keeping my movie collection.
Just added a 1tb hard drive (on top of the 160gb I had left over).

T.C.P said:
Sir if you are gonna say something negative.. please dont post anymore
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Post your comp specs!

flyboyovyick said:
windows 98
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MacaronyMax said:
Haha No offence... That's not your real set up is it
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yep!
it now has a Trident 3D Image 9750 4mb gfx card!

Is this a reasonable price?

Hey guys, I have a friend that's trying to sell his desktop to me.
His desktop is a Pentium 4, 512mb DDR2 ram, 250Gb Hard Drive. His price is 120$ which I think is too high for a Pentium 4 system. BTW there is no screen.
And I already have a custom built PC (Build by myself); Core I7 860, 6Gb DDR3 Ram, 1.5 Tb + 250 Gb, eVGA GTX 570 HD 2.5 Gb, eVGA GTS 250 1 Gb (For Physx).
I just want to have another system laying around as a home server PC. As I only use my current one for gaming and video editing etc....
What's the reasonable price that you guys would pay for a Pentium 4 system without a screen?
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For that? $50. Max.

Yeah. That's what I was thinking when he told me that.
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Any other suggestions?
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eh 90$ would be my abs limit

id go no more than 75
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I paid $70 for a 23" screen, and a tower from which I took out 2XGeforce 8600GTi, modular power supply which I still need to fix, and 4gb DDR2 ram, and the ram I sold for $40. The PC is fine for a server, but not for that price.

Alright thank you all for your response! I'll tell him that the price is too high and I'll take it for 60$.
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Computer Hardware

So most of here are geeks in the good scene of the word. We all have our mobile devices that we love and hack and tweak and mod. 98% of the time, to do what we need to do to our mobile devices, we rely on our PC. I'd be willing to bet that allot of you also have a strong attachment to your PC hardware as much as your mobile. Weather its for development, gaming, testing, surfing, working, pr0n? Use this thread to post specs and/or pics and show off all the hardware that sits between you and your modded mobile device.
Main PC (no image cause my desk is a wreak) but enjoy my desktop =]
AMD Athlon II X4 620 Propus 2.6GHz CPU
GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P AM3 Mobo
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333
eVGA Nvidia GTX 260 896MB
3x 250GB SATA 3.0
1x 1TB SATA 3.0
LG DVD +/-RW DL
Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit
40" 1080P (1920x1080) HDTV (use for tv and as display)
I use this for everything. Dev, Gaming, School, Work. You'll find visual studio and Borland Delphi 7 along with the likes of MW3 and BF3. I also burn many a DVD and do most of my phone tasks here.
Mobile PCs
See attachment
Top Left, Clockwise -=> Dell Precision M6300, Dell Precision M90, Toshiba A215, HP TouchPad, Acer 5670
All configured similarly, less the Touchpad. Minor variance in CPU from 1.86GHz Core Duo to 2.4GHz C2D. All 4GB DDR2, All Win7 Ultimate (M6300 64Bit). I actually use the Acer the most as its Power/Weight ratio is awesome. It will do post modern 3d gaming with its 256MB Ati x1600 dedicated GPU. But I mostly work in Visual Studio on this. It is nice to be able to take a break and pwn some no0bs in the face and have great framerates . I love my Toshiba as a communications laptop. Its integrated web cam is top notch. And my Dell Precision's, well they are just 17" powerhouses. Mostly used for Mobile Gaming or movie viewing on their awesome large 17 inch displays (1440x900 native).
I did a search and didn't find any like posts. If I just missed it, feel free to merge this with it. If not, I look forward to see what everyone else uses when their not on their phone!

I got an Asus K53SV-SX838V notebook which has some nice specifications. In fact I use my notebook more then my phone.
I do use my notebook for playing COD MW3 and movies and tv series and sometime I like to try other operating systems like Linux, but will do that most time in vmware or live usb.
It's specifications are:
CPU: Intel Core I7 - 2679QM, 2.2Ghz with turbo boost till 3.1Ghz
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GT 540 + Intel HD 3000
RAM: 8GB
SSD: 128GB Crucial M4
Further it has an 1366x768 resolution and its 15.6 inch. Also it has one USB 3.0 port and an multitouch touchpad and HDMI and a VGA port and an standard webcam.
I'm very happy with it and it was an good deal, I bought it for € 587 excluding the SSD ofcourse at end of january , it came with an 640GB harddrive which is now my external harddrive.

I have a stock Toshiba Satellite for a laptop but my gaming rig is as follows
AMD Phenom II 1090T 6 Core
16GB Corsair Dominator GT
Crossfired 6970's
1.5 TB SATA HDD
128 GB Crucial M4 SSD
7.1 Audio
Nothing real special but it works for me.

Asus P5K Premium Black Pearl Edition
8GB ram
few terabytes of hardrives
2X 8600 GTi in SLi
C2D 2.6 (I think)
Some dust in the case
On a 23" Acer
Runs Skyrim without the slightest lag on all highest settings
Also MAcbook for everyday work, also connected to the 23" and it's closed all the time with an external KB and mouse. lol.

got556 said:
I have a stock Toshiba Satellite for a laptop but my gaming rig is as follows
AMD Phenom II 1090T 6 Core
16GB Corsair Dominator GT
Crossfired 6970's
1.5 TB SATA HDD
128 GB Crucial M4 SSD
7.1 Audio
Nothing real special but it works for me.
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How is the buldozer? not just for gaming but other any other cpu intensive work? Im looking at getting the AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition Deneb 3.7GHz on newegg right now for 149.99 (it really is in my shopping cart lol), I'll hold off a few though as ive never actually been able to chat at someone who owns one. This quad i think is at an awesome price/performance ratio though.

My big main PC is the first one that I put together myself:
Intel i5-2500k (stock)
16GB G.Skill DDR3
2 overclocked XFX AMD 6970s
125GB Corsair SSD boot drive
1TB Samsung data/application drive
3.1 Sony soundbar home theater system
47" LG LCD TV.
I've still got my HP school laptop as a backup, but I haven't touched it in a looong time.

My computer sucks :-/ here I go:
AMD Sempron 140 @ 3.65GHz
AMD ECS 890GXM-A 1.0
SuperTalent 2GB (1 x 1 GB) DDR3 1600MHz
ATI Radeon HD 4850 1GB GDDR3
1x 300GB SATA
Windows 8

My PC is getting kinda dated but still does everything I need so no point fully upgrading yet
Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe Mobo
AMD X2 6000+
4 x 2GB OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400
EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti FPB 1GB GDDR5
around 9TB of HDD space 1.5 installed rest hot swapped
22" Samsung 2253BW and 23" Acer X233H

I gave up on desktop, I replaced it with a Lenovo Y470p laptop. Its the first laptop I've purchased even though I built plenty of desktop in past. Never wanted get a one until they are small enough with a decent gpu and price.
This one isn't high end either, but with the AMD HD7690 which is 10% slower than a desktop HD5750/6750, its good enough to handle Skyrim in high settings. And since I only play mostly HalfLife2 mods, that's good enough for me. The laptop screen is abysmal, but I wasn't going to shell out an extra $500 to get an HP Envy 15 with the same hardware spec and any screen larger than 14".
Although I'm using it stationary as a desktop replacement connected to my 32" LCD. The main problem I'm having in term of gaming is the HDMI output signal lags by 30-40ms compared to the main screen. Add that to the 80ms in game lag (due to crappy ATT DSL) and the input lag of LCD itself, and the result is getting owned by wallhackers.
I will never get used to the keyboard and touchpad on the laptop so I'm still using my Logitech G5. I'm down on my last G5 since the other one goes choppy, I think I need to stock up more from ebay, I can't get used to any of Logitech new mice since they seem lower quality. I certainly won't be using any wireless mice or ones with glowing LED lights.
The only mod I did is to turn off the turbo boost for the Core i7 so the temperature doesn't shoot up to 90*C.

(Q) GPU WAR!!!

I am going to build a computer but its going to take some time, I was wondrring what I should use I was looking at MSI GTX 660 Twin Frozr III 2GB(Non Ti), or Gigabyte Radeon HD 7870.
This is my current setup; HP 6214y:
AMD Athlon II x4 620 @ 2.6GHz
8GB DDR2
Radeon HD 6770 @ 900/1300
Antec Earthwatts 650w PSU
My New Build:
NZXT Phantom 410
Gigabyte 990FXA
Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1600MHz
AMD FX 6300/8320?
GPU?
Same PSU or Bigger?
2TB HDD WD Green
Asus 21.5" 1080p LED
My plan is to be able to upgrade in the future as well as, to game, daily tasks, etc...
Should I hold out till next year for the newer card series(Gtx 700 vs Radeon HD 8000)?

Mmm, you'll find your answer HERE!. Read it real carefully.

I had already posted it there to the reason I started this 1 is because possibly more people look at it and basically just make it a gpu thread verses a whole computer questions related to thread.
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As posted above there's already a thread for PC related questions.