STAINLESS again plz You've changed man.... Donating Members 8,142 Member For: 13y 8m 23d Gender: Male Location: 2 Fuchsia Court, Narre Warren. 3805 Posted 02/12/11 07:44 AM Share Posted 02/12/11 07:44 AM unfortunately I have to buy myself a laptop for work also. its just so hard to spend 2k+ on one when I can make a home pc twice as powerful for the same price.but it sucks dragging the pc out around town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRA1NR Pitlane Member Donating Members 2,886 Member For: 17y 4m 18d Gender: Male Location: Pakenham, Victoria Posted 02/12/11 07:48 AM Author Share Posted 02/12/11 07:48 AM Yeah fair enough, it suits my needs, it is paid off now anyway... Might get a G74... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PookeyMaster Donating Members 1,531 Member For: 13y 9m Gender: Male Location: Parramatta, NSW Posted 02/12/11 08:25 AM Share Posted 02/12/11 08:25 AM Lol, I've had the same thoughts except my laptop is supplied by work. That means it's a cheap, crap thing which makes me want to use my Desktop except I can't be bothered setting/packing it up all the time.Crap Stainless, you spend even more than I thought on your PC. What blocks and radiator are you using? I can see a logo on the Rad in one of your pics but I can't make it out...And, what do you recommend for a new mouse, I've decided I need one for Christmas My current one's 4 years old now and I've been looking at the Razer Mamba Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjc Donating Members 2,821 Member For: 21y 16d Gender: Male Location: Townsville Posted 02/12/11 09:54 AM Share Posted 02/12/11 09:54 AM (edited) Yeah fair enough, it suits my needs, it is paid off now anyway... Might get a G74...I have owned the G74S Laptop for about 6wks now. I haven't had much of a chance to play anything due to looking after my 15month old daughter but I have played WoW for a couple of hours. Every setting up to Ultra and full AA etc and it runs a smooth 60fps or more no probs unless in big cities but still no probs with tearing or glitching at all.I have also bought Serious Sam 3 BFE on the Steam server and with the settings run on autodetect they select CPU Speed- Medium, GPU Speed- Medium and GPU Memory- Ultra frames run anywhere from 90-60fps.I have tried it will the three settings o Ultra and only get 22fps but even though the game runs fine still it seems to tear anf movement is glitchy so actually looks worse as you would expect. This ame is a graphic hog so if anyone has a PC that cn run it withevery setting up full with 60+fps that would be cool to see!I have some screen shots of the options so will see if I can upload them...Forgot to mention that this laptop runs cool as a cucumber even under full load and that I paid $2047 for it from a JB HiFi. Edited 02/12/11 10:04 AM by bjc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRA1NR Pitlane Member Donating Members 2,886 Member For: 17y 4m 18d Gender: Male Location: Pakenham, Victoria Posted 02/12/11 10:11 AM Author Share Posted 02/12/11 10:11 AM nice mate! one of the benefits I have found is actually being able to use these laptops on your lap! Yes they can struggle when pushed but I find it a nice compromise. I tend to use mine more as a media centre than a full on gaming rig, and being able to chuck all of my media (with 2 ext. drives as well) in a back pack is great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirStrike Donating Members 387 Member For: 15y 9m 29d Gender: Male Posted 02/12/11 10:16 AM Share Posted 02/12/11 10:16 AM Lol, I've had the same thoughts except my laptop is supplied by work. That means it's a cheap, crap thing which makes me want to use my Desktop except I can't be bothered setting/packing it up all the time.Crap Stainless, you spend even more than I thought on your PC. What blocks and radiator are you using? I can see a logo on the Rad in one of your pics but I can't make it out...And, what do you recommend for a new mouse, I've decided I need one for Christmas My current one's 4 years old now and I've been looking at the Razer MambaI've got the mamba, works great at shooting you down pookey! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjc Donating Members 2,821 Member For: 21y 16d Gender: Male Location: Townsville Posted 02/12/11 10:48 AM Share Posted 02/12/11 10:48 AM nice mate! one of the benefits I have found is actually being able to use these laptops on your lap! Yes they can struggle when pushed but I find it a nice compromise. I tend to use mine more as a media centre than a full on gaming rig, and being able to chuck all of my media (with 2 ext. drives as well) in a back pack is great!Yeah with my 2 internal hdd's I copied World of Warcraft onto the secondary drive without the operating system (has 2 hdd's internally partinioned into 2 drives each) to see if it would run faster and im not sure but hyou would think so not having to go back andforth looking for other things on te OS drive! My end goal was to buy a SSD for the OS which is why I wanted the 2 internal hdd's but will wait until they become better again, plus I am happy with it anyway as it starts pretty quick compared to my 10yr old desktop PC, lol.Definately happy with this laptop non the less and the prices compared to even a few years ago are cheap as...Back on track to Skyrim anyways... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STAINLESS again plz You've changed man.... Donating Members 8,142 Member For: 13y 8m 23d Gender: Male Location: 2 Fuchsia Court, Narre Warren. 3805 Posted 02/12/11 11:42 AM Share Posted 02/12/11 11:42 AM (edited) For my cooling I run two loops.Loop 1; CPU - North BridgeThis kit: with this: waterblockLoop 2; 2x GTX580'sThis kit:2 of these: waterblocksjoined together with this:and two of these:Aheap of these: on the radiators14 of these:4ltrs of this:couple metres of this:and this:As for mouse I bought v9 of this: but hated its guts. Was mainly for the pinkie support.So instead I kept my logitech G5 and hot rodded it slightlyBack on track to Skyrim anyways...now this lol Edited 02/12/11 11:48 AM by STAINLESS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBXRT Banned 643 Member For: 13y 9m 28d Gender: Male Posted 03/12/11 02:08 AM Share Posted 03/12/11 02:08 AM (edited) Nice machines lads, I'm envious. Unfortunately I moved on from desktops (need the space) years ago and there I no going back! (I also use a projector for my games on PS3, love it)Not meaning to hijack thread, as it is (sort of) about Skyrim!I am buying myself three games for XMas now I have more "time" - recently single so need to still have something under the tree....ha ha.Ive only got older games, so im thinking;BF3SkyRimUncharted 3What do you guys reckon? Know gaming a personal thing but most people love the same "best" games like GrandTA, Metal Gear S etc (mates trying to get me to buy La Noire and Dark Souls instead, reckon they are better than all three above???) Edited 03/12/11 02:11 AM by CBXRT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossmang FREAKY Donating Members 12,408 Member For: 14y 8m 25d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 03/12/11 02:11 AM Share Posted 03/12/11 02:11 AM staino your crazyis that the place where you buy you pc sh*t from? whats the service/prices like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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