Vortex III Elite.

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Gazzafaegreenock

Bronze Level Poster
I ordered this on monday but just thought I would post up the spec and see if anyone can see anything I've missed, money was pretty tight at £1500 so I don't think I've done to bad.

Few things, first I've not specced a second hard drive as it would have pushed it way over, second I've amended the order to include the silver warranty.

So here it is.



Chassis & Display Vortex Series: 17.3" Glossy Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3610QM (2.30GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM) 8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (2 x 4GB)
Graphics Card 2 x AMD® Radeon® HD 7970M - 2GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
2nd Graphics Card NONE
Memory - 1st Hard Disk 120GB INTEL® 520 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk NONE
RAID NONE
SSD CACHE DRIVE NONE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)
Memory Card Reader Internal 9 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/SD: Mini, XC & HC/MS: Pro & Duo)
Thermal Paste ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
Sound Card Intel 5.1 Channel High Definition Audio + SPDIF/MIC/Headphone Jack
Network Facilities GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® ADVANCED-N 6235 (300Mbps) + BLUETOOTH
USB Options 4 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT AS STANDARD
Battery Vortex Extreme 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (5,800 mAh/89.21WH)
Power Lead & Adaptor 1 x UK Power Lead & 300W AC Adaptor
Operating System NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Office Software NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Laptop Cooling Stands NONE
Carry Case NONE
Monitor NONE
Keyboard & Mouse INTEGRATED BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD
Mouse INTEGRATED 2 BUTTON TOUCHPAD MOUSE
Speakers NONE
Webcam INTEGRATED 2.0 MEGAPIXEL WEBCAM
Headsets (VOIP) NONE
Surge Protection NONE
Printer NONE
External Hard Drive NONE
Warranty 3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Change to: 3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Home Installation NONE
Dead Pixel Guarantee NONE
Insurance NONE
Data Recovery NONE
Delivery STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time Standard Build - Approximately 8 to 10 working days
Pricing Information
Price (excluding VAT) £1,240.00
Price £1,488.00
Order Quantity 1
 
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vanthus

vanthus

Member Resting in Peace
Nice build,If a second hard drive is going to push you over budget I would forget about the SSD and get something like the 750GB scorpio black as 120GB isn't going to allow for installing much at all,unless you intend adding a second hard drive later.
 
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Gazzafaegreenock

Bronze Level Poster
vanthus said:
Nice build,If a second hard drive is going to push you over budget I would forget about the SSD and get something like the 750GB scorpio black as 120GB isn't going to allow for installing much at all,unless you intend adding a second hard drive later.
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Yes, second drive will be installed in 4weeks. And I'm hoping to try the 30days windows trial, so that buys me a bit more time till payday comes round again.
 
vanthus

vanthus

Member Resting in Peace
Gazzafaegreenock said:
Yes, second drive will be installed in 4weeks. And I'm hoping to try the 30days windows trial, so that buys me a bit more time till payday comes round again.
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Cool,:)
But be aware buying a retail version of windows will be more expensive.
 
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Gazzafaegreenock

Bronze Level Poster
Yeah I know, but what can I do. I had the money to order now, so my thinking was. Order now, use the 30 day trail and I can be playing on the laptop in 2weeks instead of 6 weeks.
 
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Gazzafaegreenock

Bronze Level Poster
I should also add, if I bought another 8gb of ram in a months time say, does anyone actually think I would notice any performance increase? Bearing in mind this is a gaming pc.
 
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Vortex777

Active member
Are there problems with the AMD® Radeon graphics card on the elite or is it more or less just as good and reliable as the GTX680?
 
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Krayzi3Bon3

Active member
just ordered the elite yesterday. As I read on this forum and from other places on the Internet, a crossfire configuration won't have any of the old 7970m problems because those were related to Enduro and Enduro is not possible in a Crossfire configuration so we should be ok. Anyway, that's what I understood. Correct me if I'm wrong.
 
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Gazzafaegreenock

Bronze Level Poster
Krayzi3Bon3 said:
just ordered the elite yesterday. As I read on this forum and from other places on the Internet, a crossfire configuration won't have any of the old 7970m problems because those were related to Enduro and Enduro is not possible in a Crossfire configuration so we should be ok. Anyway, that's what I understood. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Sounds promising. There's a few videos on you tube of people with alienware m18's with Xfire 7970 playing BF3, and I must say, it does look bloody FANTASIC.
 
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Krayzi3Bon3

Active member
Yes. Unlike the single 7970m which plays BF3 bloody horrible from what I've read because Enduro kicks in at some points and ruins the party by creating massive fluctuations in terms of FPS. But as Enduro (or Nvidia's Optimus for that matter) are not possible in a Crossfire/Sli configuration then this problem should not exist anymore.
 
vanthus

vanthus

Member Resting in Peace
Yamikotai said:
Well by default you have 30 days to activate Windows, giving you 30 days legal use of it without activating. However you can legally extend this trial time with a simple command. It's explained here
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Erm,not sure that is legal.
 
Yamikotai

Yamikotai

Expert
It's a command built in, by Microsoft, that any user can access. I mean, if it allowed you to extend it indefinitely then I imagine it would be against their EULA, but you can only run the command three times before it stops working. It's obviously intentional.
 
steaky360

steaky360

Moderator
Moderator
I suspect it contravene's Microsoft's terms and conditions at the very least unfortunately (even if it turns out to be 'not illegal') :p

EDIT: Actually after doing a little reading (last few mins lol) I'm not so sure, from what I've read its there so sys admins can reset/restore activation periods for new pc's. Certainly appears not to be illegal though.
 
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