*NEW* 2015 Dell Inspiron 15 - 7559, i7 6700HQ/GTX960M owners thread

I managed to get myself one of these machines, will be coming in a couple of weeks, never been more excited...
Anyways, I read somewhere that there is a cap on the maximum SSD memory you can add to this laptop...is that true?
 
Not that I'm aware, and unless you're doing something out of the ordinary I wouldn't worry about it.

You can put 2 types of SSD's in it, a serial ATA M2 drive, and a normal 2.5" SSD, which would replace the standard type hard drive.
 
Copied a few games over rather than downloading again with steam and... this is extremely slow on Wifi (even sat near the router).

Tempted to go with new everything and get a good wifi upgrade into it. Not at home at the moment so can't check it, what's the best wifi card I can drop in this? I'll then get a router/AP to match.
 
Mercutio said:
Copied a few games over rather than downloading again with steam and... this is extremely slow on Wifi (even sat near the router).

Tempted to go with new everything and get a good wifi upgrade into it. Not at home at the moment so can't check it, what's the best wifi card I can drop in this? I'll then get a router/AP to match.
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I have an Intel 8260 in mine which gives 867mbps.
 
After blowing £1400 on a disappointing laptop in 2002 I swore I'd never spend much on a laptop ever again. But circumstances change and here I am contemplating one of these. The only thing holding me back is the keyboard... is is really as disappointing as it sounds?

I'm currently using a splendid but weedy second hand X220, with one of Lenovo's best keyboards ever. Although keyboard action for gaming isn't an issue, for everything else I do like a decent finger interface, and if I'm going to have this for a few years I'd be better off with something else... if I can find something which appeals like this does. Easier said than done!

I dunno. I've spent two years procrastinating about an upgrade for my 2500k, but now a desktop's no use to me I'm procrastinating about a laptop! I see a pattern developing here. :-)
 
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I have no complaints with the keyboard it's on par with anything else tbh.
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Thanks. Keyboards can be so subjective, but I think most people know a bad one when they finger it.

I just had one for £670 in my Outlet cart (there were briefly 5 there earlier) but realised at checkout they're not like Amazon or Ebay, who'll ship to wherever you want. Now I spend most of my time 200 miles away from my registered address life is annoyingly complicated!

Still, better than being taken for a ride by scammers, I suppose. :)
 
Aedus said:
Depends if it's in an alleyway or not.
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:) FWIW I just got back from my 'local' PCWorld and had good furtle with their selection. They didn't have much in the way of gaming-capable kit, but there wasn't a single keyboard among their whole range which I would have been happy to finger for long.

Ok, I know I've been spoiled by my X220, and the laptop world seems to love a slimline chicklet these day, but I'd happily pay extra for a satisfying keyboard rather than tolerate an average one.

Such is life though. It's all about compromise... and buying a laptop before the pound falls even further against new imports!
 
I have been playing with this beauty throughout the weekend and came across a very specific glitch. I know crysis is supposed to melt machines like a cheese in a microwave, however, at the start of the game it all seemed to be fine until my screen started pulsating, coming in and out of the game very 2 or 3 minutes. I got the game 2 or 3 years ago and I have resigned myself to not being able to play. But I would love to know if there is a real problem with my machine or there is something that can be done.

Also wanted to ask, if this machine is worth overclocking, I still need to get myself an SSD, still I do not understand how an SSD improves the performance of the laptop (a bit of a noobalert I know) but from all that I've read on this thread it seems it provides a massive boost in performance, on the other hand I do not know if overclocking is worth it...any thoughts?
 
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I have been playing with this beauty throughout the weekend and came across a very specific glitch. I know crysis is supposed to melt machines like a cheese in a microwave, however, at the start of the game it all seemed to be fine until my screen started pulsating, coming in and out of the game very 2 or 3 minutes. I got the game 2 or 3 years ago and I have resigned myself to not being able to play. But I would love to know if there is a real problem with my machine or there is something that can be done.

Also wanted to ask, if this machine is worth overclocking, I still need to get myself an SSD, still I do not understand how an SSD improves the performance of the laptop (a bit of a noobalert I know) but from all that I've read on this thread it seems it provides a massive boost in performance, on the other hand I do not know if overclocking is worth it...any thoughts?
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SSD basically cuts the time it takes to read/write the 100's of tiny files your computer has to interact with all the time. Rather than (a really rough before anyone has a pop, average of) 10ms (milliseconds) per operation on 20-70 read/writes on files needed to open (e.g) firefox it's 10μs (microseconds) per operation. Thus the whole queue of read/writes is done in about a 10th of the time. Numbers etc vary a lot but that's the basic idea.

It won't improve gaming performance (except map loading or if you are trying to use HUGE textures on a crappy, low-end card so the game has to keep loading more textures all the time) but quality of life usage improves quite a bit as everything seems to respond quicker (smaller time to do the read/write ops needed to do what your trying to do).

Shorter version: Mechanical drives are slow and mechanical, SSD's are memory chips so all forms of drive usage takes less time.
 
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Will ram improve the performance?
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Over the stock 8GB? Doubtful for most use cases. I use mine as a Hyper-V host on 10 Pro so most definitely yes, 16GB helps. Remember these use DDR3L RAM. Biggest upgrade you can give the 7559 is an M2 SATA SSD
 
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I just have this constant frustration that the machine is very good, but I have the feeling I am not optimising it properly. For example, heroes of the storm, played on high setting with stable ping and FPS, but on subsequent games, the fps have dropped dramatically, makingme drop the graphics to low and even then, it seems laggy on some points. I want to believe it must be something on my internet connection, but I cannot stop feeling that it is something I have set up wrong.
 
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