Completely Stuck - Series 7 Gamer or Clevo or Alienware
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Pretty good deal there, for £122 less than the Samsung, went for the P170, i7 3610, GTX 680, have my own ram to fit as well as a 256 M4 and a 128 M4 mSATA.
Looking forward to mine turning up soon(tm).
Regards.
C.
Sweet, Personally I didnt like the P170's finish at all and I wanted the 95% matte screen, but it's hard to argue that the P170 doesn't make more sense.
Why are you running it with an msata though out of curiosity? It has 2 drive bays plus an optical if im not mistaken
Hmm... I haven't noticed a clevo P150 in the uk that I can select the Steelseries keyboard with. Also the ruggerised soft touch finish seems like a nice option. Was this laptop ordered from America?
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Aye l have opted for a 1TB 5400, so fitted the 256 M4 as OS/Programmes, 1TB as storage and the 128 M4 mSATA for games.
Regards.
C.
Hmm im not sure i'd go with that setup. If anything id run the os on the msata and leave the 256gb for games.
Yep it was ordered from the States. I did a comparison of 6 suppliers in an Excel sheet, 4 from US and 2 from UK and despite the UK ones having much more limited options, were on average $600 more expensive than the US counterparts.
I also went with a supplier who are renowned for their quality control and testing, which is what you want when you're getting a laptop shipped half way across the world.
They aren't Clevo/Sager re-sellers, they are actually system builders so all the putting together happens in their warehouse not Sager's. They do a 72-hour burn in test for the components. They run various benchmarking programs, Battlefield 3 and Crysis 2 for maximum stress test on the GPU.
They then note down the temperatues and FPS and if they feel it's too high, they re-seat the CPU/GPU, re-paste, or fix the heat sinks if the right contact is not being made.
At the end they provide you with a complete report for:
SSD Read/Write benches
CPU benches
GPU benches
Temps
Noise Level (if higher than 52 dB, they consider the fans to be defective and replace them until they get noise levels below 52 dB)
All ports checked for working status including correct throughput
Dead pixel checking
Professional monitor calibration
etc
Normally these guys are a bit more expensive than competitors because of the man hours needed for the extra care but they're doing a back-to-school special at the moment so they actually ended up being 5% cheaper than the cheapest re-seller out there.
They're also doing special touches for me, like installing my own windows key, partitioning my SSD into an OS & Games drive while providing me with 2 separate recovery disks. One disk that recovers the HDD as a single partition with an image recovery built onto the drive, another that recovers my system with its partitions in place so I can choose which one I prefer more after having used the partitioned drive for a while.
They also build their own Bios and drivers sets for the systems and I think might be only clevo shell builders that provide an unlocked bios (custom to them)
So all in all, I think I went with the right choice but we'll see when it gets here
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Yep it was ordered from the States. I did a comparison of 6 suppliers in an Excel sheet, 4 from US and 2 from UK and despite the UK ones having much more limited options, were on average $600 more expensive than the US counterparts.
I also went with a supplier who are renowned for their quality control and testing, which is what you want when you're getting a laptop shipped half way across the world.
They aren't Clevo/Sager re-sellers, they are actually system builders so all the putting together happens in their warehouse not Sager's. They do a 72-hour burn in test for the components. They run various benchmarking programs, Battlefield 3 and Crysis 2 for maximum stress test on the GPU.
They then note down the temperatues and FPS and if they feel it's too high, they re-seat the CPU/GPU, re-paste, or fix the heat sinks if the right contact is not being made.
At the end they provide you with a complete report for:
SSD Read/Write benches
CPU benches
GPU benches
Temps
Noise Level (if higher than 52 dB, they consider the fans to be defective and replace them until they get noise levels below 52 dB)
All ports checked for working status including correct throughput
Dead pixel checking
Professional monitor calibration
etc
Normally these guys are a bit more expensive than competitors because of the man hours needed for the extra care but they're doing a back-to-school special at the moment so they actually ended up being 5% cheaper than the cheapest re-seller out there.
They're also doing special touches for me, like installing my own windows key, partitioning my SSD into an OS & Games drive while providing me with 2 separate recovery disks. One disk that recovers the HDD as a single partition with an image recovery built onto the drive, another that recovers my system with its partitions in place so I can choose which one I prefer more after having used the partitioned drive for a while.
They also build their own Bios and drivers sets for the systems and I think might be only clevo shell builders that provide an unlocked bios (custom to them)
So all in all, I think I went with the right choice but we'll see when it gets here
How much you gonna have to pay for shipping and customs mate?
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Who is the supplier? Would be interested in checking them out.
With Shop & Ship I got quoted $70 however my bro lives in New York and he's coming over in 10 days so he's bringing it for me.
I'm not sure I'd be allowed to post the link/supplier name. I get a bit confused with the ocuk competitor rules thing. Are they classed as a competitor if they sell Clevo which ocuk doesnt?
Going to say, if youre getting it normally shipped over the customs would charge you through the roof for it!
Hope you have good fun with your new system!