** LATE BUT IN FASHION: SAMSUNG G700 GAMING LAPTOP ARRIVING TOMORROW! **

I should be getting my replacement laptop by friday, hopefully with a working battery this time!

anyway I wanted to know has anyone used the amd overdrive feature on the laptop which overclocks the GPU?

Does it make a difference in graphics performance? is it safe to do?

thanks
 
How much are we talking for an additional power supply for this laptop? Googling the psu model number is not throwing up any finds, but an idea of how much one would cost would tell me if it was worth continuing to look for one. Would be handy to have two in the house so I can just move the laptop rather than the whole shebang, and not run on battery.
 
Anyone else have two spare RAM slots? When I installed my SSD I noticed this, can this support 24GB of DDR3 ram (3x8GB)? Or is one of these slots for something else? Anyone recommend me a good ram to install in this laptop?
 
gtfcniles said:
Anyone else have two spare RAM slots? When I installed my SSD I noticed this, can this support 24GB of DDR3 ram (3x8GB)? Or is one of these slots for something else? Anyone recommend me a good ram to install in this laptop?
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Yup we all have 2 free Ram slots, the 2 free ones can only take 2 x 4GB ram sticks. To make a grand total of 16GB with the 8GB already in the system. You can't add more than 16GB to this laptop it is a chipset and CPU limitation.

This is the Ram this laptop takes

Samsung ram memory 8GB kit, (2 x 4GB), DDR3 PC3 10600, 1333Mhz, 204 PIN, SODIMM for laptops (p.n. M471B5273DH0-CH9 x 2)

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I have also raised a request to OCUK if they can stock this memory for us so we can purchase from them.
 
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Mine arrived a couple of days back now and I'm mighly impressed with it apart from one annoyance. The blu-ray/dvd optical drive is damn so slow. I've tried burning dvd5 sized data discs with various burning apps and they've all taken roughly 30mins to burn and verify which is a silly amount of time (on my Vista and XP desktops this only takes me 10mins approx). I've also tried ripping a couple of my dvd's to the laptop's harddrive with Anydvd and these have taken 30 mins too.
Taken a look at the drive in device manager and it doesn't seem to have any DMA options available (which IMGburn tells me too when I tred to reset these using the app). No other drivers/firmware for the drive seem to be available so I'm stumped.
Anyone else have similar issues with this laptop's optical drive? Any ideas/info would be so appreciated.
 
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famitsu1 said:
Mine arrived a couple of days back now and I'm mighly impressed with it apart from one annoyance. The blu-ray/dvd optical drive is damn so slow. I've tried burning dvd5 sized data discs with various burning apps and they've all taken roughly 30mins to burn and verify which is a silly amount of time (on my Vista and XP desktops this only takes me 10mins approx). I've also tried ripping a couple of my dvd's to the laptop's harddrive with Anydvd and these have taken 30 mins too.
Taken a look at the drive in device manager and it doesn't seem to have any DMA options available (which IMGburn tells me too when I tred to reset these using the app). No other drivers/firmware for the drive seem to be available so I'm stumped.
Anyone else have similar issues with this laptop's optical drive? Any ideas/info would be so appreciated.
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Install the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology drivers


http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Det...duct=Intel®+Rapid+Storage+Technology&lang=eng
 
Huge thanks for the response Purgatory. Just installed RST and it as had no affect at all on my optical drive's slow speeds, they're exactly the same (just took 30 mins to pull 4Gb's of info from a dvdr onto the laptop's harddrive). RST reports that my system is functioning normally and that my internal ATAPI device (my optical drive) is connected at a transfer rate of 1.5 Gb/s which I'm guessing is correct.
Any other ideas? How is your blu-ray drive functioning?
 
Purgatory said:
Yup we all have 2 free Ram slots, the 2 free ones can only take 2 x 4GB ram sticks. To make a grand total of 16GB with the 8GB already in the system. You can't add more than 16GB to this laptop it is a chipset and CPU limitation.

This is the Ram this laptop takes

Samsung ram memory 8GB kit, (2 x 4GB), DDR3 PC3 10600, 1333Mhz, 204 PIN, SODIMM for laptops (p.n. M471B5273DH0-CH9 x 2)

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I have also raised a request to OCUK if they can stock this memory for us so we can purchase from them.
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Thanks for your reply, is this the only ram we can put in? Is it possible to remove the two on the mobo and put in faster ram (4 sticks of 4gb)?
 
Meaker said:
I would be very surprised if it can't accept 32GB, the MSI models certainly can.
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The Samsung has this CPU:- Which can take upto 16GB RAM


Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM Processor
(6M Cache, up to 3.10 GHz)

http://ark.intel.com/products/53469


Memory Specifications For Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.10 GHz)

Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type) 16 GB
Memory Types DDR3-1066/1333
# of Memory Channels 2
Max Memory Bandwidth 21.3 GB/s
ECC Memory Supported No



The MSI has this CPU:- Which can take upto 32GB RAM even the ES Version with the 8M Cache

Intel® Core™ i7-2720QM Processor
(6M Cache, up to 3.30 GHz)

http://ark.intel.com/products/50067/Intel-Core-i7-2720QM-Processor-(6M-Cache-2_20-GHz)

Memory Specifications For Intel® Core™ i7-2720QM Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.30 GHz)

Memory Specifications

Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type) 32 GB
Memory Types DDR3-1066/1333/1600
# of Memory Channels 2
Max Memory Bandwidth 25.6 GB/s
ECC Memory Supported No





gtfcniles said:
Thanks for your reply, is this the only ram we can put in? Is it possible to remove the two on the mobo and put in faster ram (4 sticks of 4gb)?
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You can't put faster memory in than the ones already in it they are DDR3 PC3 10600, 1333Mhz memory the fastest that CPU can handle. I wouldn't like to stick faster ram in only to find it defaults to 1333Mhz anyway or will cause the machine to be unstable.
 
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Meaker said:
Intel's memory specs are not correct, this has been shown to be the case. The i7 will work with up to 1866mhz memory.
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I think Intel know the specs of their own CPUs :rolleyes:. Also the memory is overclocked then if it is 1866mhz and depends if the laptop allows memory overclocking, some don't and i'm not even sure the Samsung allows memory overclocking and can't remember seeing such a setting in the BIOS but will recheck tomorrow. The CPU RAM limit is final though 16GB is the Max for the Samsung laptop because the CPU can only access 16GB.
 
Why the hell would you want 32 gig of ram in a laptop in the first place? I can barely see the need for 16 gigs let alone 32.
 
Purgatory said:
I think Intel know the specs of their own CPUs :rolleyes:. Also the memory is overclocked then if it is 1866mhz and depends if the laptop allows memory overclocking, some don't and i'm not even sure the Samsung allows memory overclocking and can't remember seeing such a setting in the BIOS but will recheck tomorrow. The CPU RAM limit is final though 16GB is the Max for the Samsung laptop because the CPU can only access 16GB.
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They know what they are, but they chose to post incorrect information, feel free to go over to notebookreview.com and ask there and they will confirm what I am telling you because they are running it.

1866mhz ram is supported automatically, no access to bios controls is needed.
 
somewhatdamaged said:
Does anyone know what hard drives are in these laptops?
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You mean speed/Size or "name of"?. My Samsung NP700G7A-S01-UK, has TWO 750GIG hard drives, both of which have a spin speed of 7200 RPM. However, the ones ive seen lately (including ocuk one) have 2 Terabytes, but only 5200 Spin. I prefer the 2 fast ones i have for sake of a bit more space.


Tony
 
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