Recent content by jbgarcia

If good cooling is important to you, I would suggest you take a look at Sager over either brand. and on XoticPC. Sager is known for excellent cooling, and XoticPC is known for being helpful towards customers. If you still want one of the two brands you mentioned, then I would go MSI, and...

Like ffg7 said, USB 3.0 ports work with earlier standards such as 2.0. There must be something wrong with your drive. Or maybe you need to download specific drivers from the manufacturer's website to get it to work?

My current setup: Sennheiser HD 598 -> FiiO E07K USB DAC/Amp -> Laptop My new laptop's default setup: Sennheiser HD 598 -> Laptop analog headphone jack -> ESS SABRE Hi-Fi DAC -> Realtek High Definition Audio sound (I think, I don't know if it's bypassed and I don't know how to check) I have...

If that's all that's provided in the spec list then why are you buying it? There is no way to tell what graphics solution, only educated guessing. By the way, the CPU on your laptop came out in 2011 and was likely used until mid to late 2012, so there is no way that laptop is from 2014. If it's...

By the way, I should mention that your processor can only do 3.4 GHz on 1 core. When it uses all 4 cores it drops down to 3.1 GHz, hence the "lag" (it's not really lag). It really doesn't make much difference for gaming, the GPU really does.

There's nothing wrong with your processor. The 6700HQ is the second-best laptop processor in the world. Only the 6820HK beats it by a tiny margin (it can be overclocked but that's not recommended for long-term gaming). Your RAM amount is excellent (as long as it's at least DDR3 1600 MHz - DDR4...

When your computer is restarting try to press F5 a few times to see if it boots into Safe Mode with Networking. This will let you log in to Windows in a limited state, from which you may be able to find out what went wrong. If F5 fails try F4.

I should mention that I also selected this build to last me about 4 years. I plan on skipping the next GPU generation and upgrading midway through the second or until the third rolls out (Nvidia GPU main series are generally 18 months apart, not including Ti refreshes).

That is the exact model I ordered a few days ago, identical down to every last component (I also did quite a bit of research, plus I have some experience with gaming laptops). I purchased it directly from Xotic PC; you'll save about $190 if you do so, but you'll have to wait much longer because...