Sandy Bridge

What's the best laptop I can get for under $3,000? What I'm looking for most is high GPU performance and portability. I'd much rather have ivy bridge over sandy bridge. The best I've seen so far is a Eurocom Racer 2.0 (or Panther 2.0), but it's rather large and clunky and I'm nervous about...

Hi, I have a i7-2670QM ASUS laptop, x53e, the machine gives me decent performance for everything I do except for gaming plus it's kind of bulky. So I was wondering if I get a sandy bridge i3 laptop with Nvidia GT540m, would I be able to switch the cpu of the too machine and still have two...

So last year was great for system building. Sandy bridge was a success and the 6000 series of ATI rocked as well (unlock into 6970). It was a value year, where with $1000 you could get $2000 perfomance compared to the year before. My laptop is already 4 years old and I think it is time for a...

I really want to upgrade my laptop now but It's hard to justify with Ivy bridge launching next month. However I know that it won't hit volume production until June. Does that mean that there will be plenty of reasonably priced laptop available by then like there are now for sandy bridge? Or will...

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Hi. My name is Andrei, and i would like to buy a laptop. My budged is 450 POUNDS In my new laptop I look for this this things: 1)sandy bridge procesor 2)good screen ( 13, 14 or 15 inch, even if i would prefer a 14 or 13 inch) 3)good keyboard 4)to be a bit portable ( not so heavy or "chunkey")...

i was wondering if you can upgrade an intel hd graphics(sandy bridge) to a intel hd 2000/3000

i'm planning fr dell xps- 15" max. resolutn. 1366*768 I3 2330m (sandy bridge) nvidia 525m 1GB 4Gb ddr3 will i b able to play battlefield 3 with medium details.

Hello, I am a student at a university for computer science and informatics, and I was hoping some of you forum folks can give me a straight forward answer to my new configuration: 1. A 15,6 inch Acer notebook with an Intel Pentium (Sandy Bridge) B950 2.1 GHz with 2MB L3 cache processor, 4...

I am going to be upgrading my computer, now that Bulldozer has been unveiled, and after doing lots of research on the matter, I'm still stuck as to whether I should get a Bulldozer or Sandy Bridge processor. I will be doing some gaming, but my main use is with HD video rendering. Benchmarks...

Hey guys, Basically I have a Dell Vostro 3550 (i5 2410M, 8GB DDR3 RAM, SATA3, USB3, HD6630M and 128GB Crucial M4 SSD) but I realised although it's a 15" laptop it's not actually as portable as I thought and due to my poor results in first year uni, I've decided to quit gaming altogether so I...

Acer Aspire 4750 CPU Intel® Core™ i5-2410M Memory 2GB DDR3 Memory Storage 640GB 5400RPM SATA Graphics Nvidia GeForce GT 540M 2GB DDR3 VRAM Or MSI FX420 (Sandy Bridge) CPU Intel® Core™ i5-2410M Chipset Intel® HM55 Memory 8GB DDR3 Graphics ATI Radeon HD6470 1GB DDR3 VRAM Storage 500GB...

Hey guys. I'm looking for a Sandy Bridge i5 14ish inch laptop with backlit keyboard and a matt screen and a good battery life. Order of importance: 1 Sandy Bridge i5 2 Backlit keys 3 Good battery 4 Matt screen 5 14 inch screen Any laptops I should check out? Ideally would like optical drive...

Should I buy an i3 2310m sandy bridge with hd 3000, or an i5 460m with an nvidia 310m? With a quick google I find that they should be similar performance.

Hi, For some reason my laptop model isn't on PB's website. (or acers) It's a EasyNote NS44 i-3 2310m How can I tell if my laptop is effected by the sandy bridge 6-series sata bug? I do have the 6-series chipset but am not sure if it is the new fixed version? It looks like I am using the...

Hi. I recently bought my Acer 5750g with i3-2310m sandy bridge, 3 gigs ddr3 and 540m 1 gb. Same day i also bought The Witcher 2, because im an patriot and besides that - that game rocks. My problem is, that the game doesnt want to run. It lags as hell. I've seen ppl playing it with i3-330m and...

Hello, I want to buy a new laptop, but i'm stuck between HP sandy bridge and new macbooks by Apple. I do everything with my computer, including gaming/web browsing/... so I need a laptop that's good for everything. I see that most HP sandy bridge new laptops and new macbooks have almost the...

does anyone know of a vendor other than alienware (dell) that offers a sandy bridge platform with SLI ? tried eurocom, exotic, sager malibal ect Looking for 2820qm or 2920xm 2 x 580 gtxm's 250 gb ssd in raid alienware offer similar but price for 2920 and ssd puts build over 7k in australia

Hey everyone, I have been doing research into getting a laptop with a midrange discrete graphics card (nVidia GT540M) packed into a small form factor (13 - 14"). Acer, MSI, Asus, and several other manufacturers have laptops that meet this specification, but I have seen a lot of discussions...

Does the Toshiba laptop A660-BTNx use the sandy bridge?