Is this a good investment

[Donald_11Bravo]

Is this a good investment
I am in college and like gaming but am new to laptop builds. I hope that this setup will last a few years. or am I wasting my money. any opinion will help.
Sager
NP8652-S Notebook
$2605
Components
- 15.6" 4K QFHD Sharp Display with Matte Finished Surface (3840x2160)
- Guaranteed no dead or partially-lit pixels for first 30 days of purchasing
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M GPU with 4GB GDDR5 Video Memory
- 4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-4720HQ Processor ( 6MB L3 Cache, 2.60GHz)
- IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU
- Windows® 10 Home 64-Bit Edition Preinstalled
- Windows® 10 64-Bit Edition USB Recovery Media [+$25.00]
- 32GB Kingston HyperX CL9 Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 4 X 8GB [+$180.00]
- 500GB Samsung 850 EVO M.2 SSD - as an OS Drive (Primary Drive C) [+$85.00]
- 500GB Samsung 850 EVO Series SATA3 Solid State Disk Drive [+$165.00]
- Killer™ Dual Band Wireless-AC 1525 M.2 AC Wireless LAN + Bluetooth Module [+$20.00]
- Smart Polymer Battery Pack (4 Cell, 60WH)
- Fingerprint Reader


Software & Services
- Microsoft Home & Student Office 2013 ( Includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. ) [+$145.00]

 

[Donald_11Bravo]

My budget is anything less than $2650

 

[Rogue Leader]

32 GB of ram is insane, half that to 16gb and you're still more than fine. Also why do you need 2 SSD's? I would drop 1 and make it a 1TB+ HDD. Both of those should save you at least $200.

 

[Donald_11Bravo]

Do I want the M.2 as an OS primary drive r should I not get it and shoot for the 1tb SSD hard drive by itself

 

[Rogue Leader]

Do I want the M.2 as an OS primary drive r should I not get it and shoot for the 1tb SSD hard drive by itself

Keep the M2 as your OS drive and replace the second SSD with a 1TB HDD. That should save you a lot and give you more space for stuff.

 

[Donald_11Bravo]

Thank you

 

[Donald_11Bravo]

Give me a few minutes I will copy and paste the new setup and price

 

[Donald_11Bravo]

Dropped me down to about $2500
is 512GB overkill as OS drive or would 256GB suffice
- 16GB Kingston HyperX CL9 Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 2 X 8GB
- 512GB Samsung SM951 M.2 PCIe SSD - as an OS Drive (Primary Drive C) [+$330.00]
-1TB 7200rpm SATA2 Hard Drive

 

[Rogue Leader]

Dropped me down to about $2500
is 512GB overkill as OS drive or would 256GB suffice
- 16GB Kingston HyperX CL9 Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 2 X 8GB
- 512GB Samsung SM951 M.2 PCIe SSD - as an OS Drive (Primary Drive C) [+$330.00]
-1TB 7200rpm SATA2 Hard Drive

256 is fine. I run a 128gb drive with no issues, Windows and Office are not that big.

 

[Donald_11Bravo]

Thank you again you have been a lot of help

 

[jaguarskx]

Beware that the laptop may not allow you to select the M.2 SSD as your boot drive.

If that is the case then you need to use a program like EasyBCD to do so. It is free for personal use. Just click the "See Plans" button.

http/neosmart.net/EasyBCD/

 

[Rogue Leader]

Beware that the laptop may not allow you to select the M.2 SSD as your boot drive.

If that is the case then you need to use a program like EasyBCD to do so. It is free for personal use. Just click the "See Plans" button.

http/neosmart.net/EasyBCD/

From Sager Website:

500GB Samsung 850 EVO M.2 SSD - as an OS Drive (Primary Drive C)

Its right in their configuration options.

http/www.sagernotebook.com/customize.php?productid=732

 

[jaguarskx]

Ahhh.. okay. They do it for you then.

 

[Donald_11Bravo]

Thanks for the heads up anyway Jaguarskx