Final check before I order my Optimus 17 please

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loverdose

Bronze Level Poster
Seems like this is the best bang for my buck I could find :)

Chassis & Display
Optimus II: 17.3" Glossy Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-2670QM (2.20GHz) 6MB

Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 4GB)

Graphics Card
nVIDIA® GeForce® GT 555M - 2GB DDR3 Video RAM - DirectX® 11

3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)



Memory - Hard Disk
120GB KINGSTON HYPERX SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)
or
500GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD5000BPKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
The SSD seems to add £100 to the configuration price.


Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
or
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (+£9)


What do you guys think about the HDD/SDD upgrade and the thermal paste?
Is there anything obvious I've missed out?

Many thanks.
 
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AshleyUK

Bronze Level Poster
loverdose said:
Seems like this is the best bang for my buck I could find :)

Chassis & Display
Optimus II: 17.3" Glossy Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-2670QM (2.20GHz) 6MB

Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 4GB)

Graphics Card
nVIDIA® GeForce® GT 555M - 2GB DDR3 Video RAM - DirectX® 11

3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)



Memory - Hard Disk
120GB KINGSTON HYPERX SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)
or
500GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD5000BPKT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
The SSD seems to add £100 to the configuration price.


Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
or
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (+£9)


What do you guys think about the HDD/SDD upgrade and the thermal paste?
Is there anything obvious I've missed out?

Many thanks.
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Defintly go for the Arctic Thermal Paste, its worth every single penny of the £9, and I would go with the 500GB Scropio as SSD would be overkill with the above spec.
 
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loverdose

Bronze Level Poster
Thanks for the feedback. I ordered yesterday to get in with the christmas delivery window. But I went with the arctic paste and the SSD. Now I'm worried though, why would you have picked the hdd?
 
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AshleyUK

Bronze Level Poster
Nothing wrong with the fact you picked the SSD, if you had the budget thats fine just means you will have one quick loading and snappy laptop when programs and e.t.c load
 
dangro474

dangro474

Bright Spark
SSD vs Platter depends on your use of the system.

I would have picked a platter drive as i personally see absolutely no necessity for SSD's for a regular end user. They do not improve application performance and the improvement in boot / load times is a matter of seconds. The price per gigabyte is rediculous, resulting in low overall storage space plus the necessity of an external storage drive for most, and simply not worth the money if you are working on a tight budget.

However if waiting 20 seconds for a system to boot over 8 gives you a nervous twitch, or money is no object, then by all means go for an SSD :p
 
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Music Guy123

Music Guy123

Prolific Poster
Yeah, it is true, I own a corsair force GT and they truely are amazing until you see your statement! I was wondering, is it possible that pcs could stock other SSDs, maybe 60 or 90GB SATA 3 ones for boot drives. Something like my corsair, you can get the for £100. I realise that pcs tried ocz and can understand why they dropped them. I would recommend trying corsair or other retailers, if you could source it, maybe mushkin?
 
tom_gr7

tom_gr7

Life Serving
I ahbve 60gb vertex II, my first died randomly last month. Was fine one day then a couple of fays later wouldn't boot properly. Ofcourse PCS replaced it for me, got the last one they had :)
 
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AndyL

Well-known member
tom_gr7 said:
I ahbve 60gb vertex II, my first died randomly last month. Was fine one day then a couple of fays later wouldn't boot properly. Ofcourse PCS replaced it for me, got the last one they had :)
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Unfortunately OCZ SSD's are really unrelaible, their forums have been constantly filled with user complaints for years now. (I also own a Vertex SSD - Im now on my 2nd replacement SSD).

I would say that SSD's are the last thing that I would upgrade in a system, but one of the nicest upgrades to have.
 
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