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**OcUK WILL NOW BUILD A GAMING LAPTOP (HD 7970M) TO YOUR SPECIFICATION: LAPTOP CONFIGURATOR!!**
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Gibbo is a very busy man, maybe call the shop or send him a trust message if the info you need is so important that it will affect your purchase
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I've quickly read the above and to be honest it doesn't fill me with a great deal of confidence that AMD will sort the problem anytime soon.
It's worthwhile reading the comments from existing 7970M users at the end of the report - a definite lukewarm reaction from the community!
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Thanks Gibbos mum.
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They are all TN panels, made by Samsung, more designed toward gaming but pretty much all laptops use TN screens, apart from Apple.
Done!
15.6" 7970M also on the website now.
More to follow, this is new for us so its taking a lot of my time to buy these things let alone set them up and get the forecasting right. We are however getting there, we just never predicted to sell so many in the first few days.
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Can you put a second HD in the P150 without removing the optical?
Killer wit right there
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15.6" 7970M also on the website now.
More to follow, this is new for us so its taking a lot of my time to buy these things let alone set them up and get the forecasting right. We are however getting there, we just never predicted to sell so many in the first few days.
Well if you want to know what's hot then your very own laptops area is the place to go
However Gibbo, AGAIN M4 MSATA DRIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Esecially for the 15" machines, means you can go SSD + HDD + optical still without hugely gimping the SSD (the slot is SATA2, but its more the small file size speed that really matters).
I've been saying this since april
I posted a chart top of the second page listing exactly what ports each notebook comes with.
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15.6" 7970M also on the website now.
More to follow, this is new for us so its taking a lot of my time to buy these things let alone set them up and get the forecasting right. We are however getting there, we just never predicted to sell so many in the first few days.
Also really on the whole not expecting this? There are a tiny number of clevo suppliers and quite frankly high performance machines in the UK, none with the clout of OCUK (or customer trust).
The problem has been your MSI machines are priced astronomically high (just compare a fully kitted 680M 170EM to the GT70), so that went out the window, with the more budget friendly clevos I am not suprised they are selling.
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Im with meaker on this one your Samsung lappys were the only real alternative to the Msi range for a long time and they were and still are ridiculously overpriced for the old gen gpus they contain. If Ocuk can start making a 15.6 inch budget gaming lappy priced £500-£700 with a reasonably GPU with at least 1gb VRAM you won't keep them in stock theyl fly out
Also gibbo itd be helpful if you could offer more drive options, especially a 1TB 7200rpm HDD and more ssd options
Also gibbo itd be helpful if you could offer more drive options, especially a 1TB 7200rpm HDD and more ssd options
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Just my 2 cents/pence as I've been looking at buying a laptop for ages...
If you are buying a laptop right now disregard 7970m as you will have driver problems and some games will suffer severely.
Go for the 680m as it will work straight out of the box with no issues.
If you are buying in a month or two, have a look around the NBR forums beforehand as I believe AMD are testing a new driver for release very soon so it may well be fixed in a month (1 year after problems were first reported). If that does happen, the 7970m has almost equal performance to the 680m. The difference being the 7970m runs slightly hotter and it is a fair bit cheaper.
The i7 3610 processor is good enough for gaming, it's up to you whether you want more power/overclocking potential for futre proofing.
Drive's/memory are cheap and easy enough for you to upgrade yourself.
If you are buying a laptop right now disregard 7970m as you will have driver problems and some games will suffer severely.
Go for the 680m as it will work straight out of the box with no issues.
If you are buying in a month or two, have a look around the NBR forums beforehand as I believe AMD are testing a new driver for release very soon so it may well be fixed in a month (1 year after problems were first reported). If that does happen, the 7970m has almost equal performance to the 680m. The difference being the 7970m runs slightly hotter and it is a fair bit cheaper.
The i7 3610 processor is good enough for gaming, it's up to you whether you want more power/overclocking potential for futre proofing.
Drive's/memory are cheap and easy enough for you to upgrade yourself.
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17" version with a 670 would be super please
Standard height 1tb 7200rpm drives dont exist yet, wd black 750gb is the fastest writing nb drive atm.
But reasonable ssds would be good, crucial m4, samsung and intel should be options.
Good stuff with the 680m Gibbo.
I enquired with one of your Clevo competitors if they would stock a new chassis and they do now. It's still a Clevo one but it allows SLI/Crossfire graphics cards.
Does OcUK have any plans to provide this new build on the near future?
I enquired with one of your Clevo competitors if they would stock a new chassis and they do now. It's still a Clevo one but it allows SLI/Crossfire graphics cards.
Does OcUK have any plans to provide this new build on the near future?
Get some with quad core processors (ideally the 3610M) and 650M and 660M GPU options and you'll sell them. So long as you price them at like, £750 and £850 respectively.
Gaming laptops are actually fairly popular. What your site lacks at the moment is a proper 'budget' alternative. So put them on for starters and see how they sell, and ask people if they'd be interested in even 640M's and such.
Gaming laptops are actually fairly popular. What your site lacks at the moment is a proper 'budget' alternative. So put them on for starters and see how they sell, and ask people if they'd be interested in even 640M's and such.
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Probably get a ban for this but why is the i7 with the GTX680M £350 more expensive than exactly the same spec from a competitor (with a better warranty btw)?
Going to buy one of these at the end of the month...bit of a no brainer for me as to where to go.
Going to buy one of these at the end of the month...bit of a no brainer for me as to where to go.
I'm using the drivers that came on the Clevo disk for the 7970m. After some testing in BF3 and GW2, I can confirm that it is flawless. Running the "Best Looks" option on GW2 and it's runs smooth at 60FPS constantly. BF3 takes the ultra preset like a champ as well.
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I noticed the same thing, ran through the spec about 5 times to make sure in case I messed it up!
Good stuff! Some people don't have problems although I do remember reading that the problem is that your FPS should be over 60FPS but the card limits it.
I think the way to tell is to change the settings to a medium quality picture and check GPU usage.
You'll be at 99% usage when at ultre/high.
It drops to 60% usage when on medium and drops the FPS as your card isn't being utilised enough.
But like I say, just what I read from the notebookreview forums from A LOT of people. If you're happy and it works, don't worry.