i am in real dilemma to go for sony or dell for laptops!!! both hv great options and since i hv a low budget of around $600,so which brand i shud prefer,sony e-series or dell inspiron!!!! i need a laptop with good graphics,lesser heating problem and of all it should require least maintenance...please help asap!!!
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/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215187
Get yourself matching 2x 4GB 1333MHz SODIMM RAM and replace the 1x 4GB 1066 MHz RAM that come with it.
/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215187Get yourself matching 2x 4GB 1333MHz SODIMM RAM and replace the 1x 4GB 1066 MHz RAM that come with it.
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http/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246328
Eat anything you have listed on this thread alive for breakfast in terms of gaming and cheaper by $100.
/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246328Eat anything you have listed on this thread alive for breakfast in terms of gaming and cheaper by $100.
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^^ The OP seems really stuck on brand and doesn't really understand performance issues at all.
I agree, that lenovo would kick butt, however this guy obviously doesn't really need a good machine at all. Best let him buy his sony.
His priority is that it is branded and "works". God only knows why he is on this forum.
P.S. Both the Ebay sellers I listed have huge good feedback and offer warranty on the goods which are new "open box" machines. I wouldn't suggest something I wouldn't go for myself.
I bought an inspiron 15R n5110 (the one with the gt 525m) proof: see my feedback
http/feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=americanbrian2&ftab=AllFeedback
The gt 525m is exactly the same GPU as the gt 550m with a lower clock (see notebookcheck) I overclock mine, but even on stock it pillages games.
Anyone else reading this thread looking for a great value gaming notebook need not look further than this.
I agree, that lenovo would kick butt, however this guy obviously doesn't really need a good machine at all. Best let him buy his sony.
His priority is that it is branded and "works". God only knows why he is on this forum.
P.S. Both the Ebay sellers I listed have huge good feedback and offer warranty on the goods which are new "open box" machines. I wouldn't suggest something I wouldn't go for myself.
I bought an inspiron 15R n5110 (the one with the gt 525m) proof: see my feedback
http
/feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=americanbrian2&ftab=AllFeedbackThe gt 525m is exactly the same GPU as the gt 550m with a lower clock (see notebookcheck) I overclock mine, but even on stock it pillages games.
Anyone else reading this thread looking for a great value gaming notebook need not look further than this.
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americanbrian :
^^ The OP seems really stuck on brand and doesn't really understand performance issues at all.
I agree, that lenovo would kick butt, however this guy obviously doesn't really need a good machine at all. Best let him buy his sony.
His priority is that it is branded and "works". God only knows why he is on this forum.
P.S. Both the Ebay sellers I listed have huge good feedback and offer warranty on the goods which are new "open box" machines. I wouldn't suggest something I wouldn't go for myself.
I bought an inspiron 15R n5110 (the one with the gt 525m) proof: see my feedback
http/feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=americanbrian2&ftab=AllFeedback
The gt 525m is exactly the same GPU as the gt 550m with a lower clock (see notebookcheck) I overclock mine, but even on stock it pillages games.
Anyone else reading this thread looking for a great value gaming notebook need not look further than this.
I agree, that lenovo would kick butt, however this guy obviously doesn't really need a good machine at all. Best let him buy his sony.
His priority is that it is branded and "works". God only knows why he is on this forum.
P.S. Both the Ebay sellers I listed have huge good feedback and offer warranty on the goods which are new "open box" machines. I wouldn't suggest something I wouldn't go for myself.
I bought an inspiron 15R n5110 (the one with the gt 525m) proof: see my feedback
http
/feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=americanbrian2&ftab=AllFeedbackThe gt 525m is exactly the same GPU as the gt 550m with a lower clock (see notebookcheck) I overclock mine, but even on stock it pillages games.
Anyone else reading this thread looking for a great value gaming notebook need not look further than this.
exactly, ive been reading this thread and just shaking my head about how stuck on SONY and DELL the OP is...
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At the moment I stick to only OC'ing the core/shader to match the 550m which is 740Mhz core/ 1480Mhz shader... I don't bother with OC'ing the memory as from what I have heard it doesn't yield nearly as much improvement and I have had issues with overheating GDDR on a few cards before.
I basically just match the 550m exactly and have no stability or heat issues. I am happy with that. I have seen people voltage mod it alongside dropping the CPU voltage too in order to crank the GPU core up over 800 (820 is highest I have heard of)... A bit too suicidal for me given that I could only just convince my wife to let me spend money on the laptop in the first place.
I plan to upgrade the CPU (to an i7 2720qm) and grab an SSD (256GB OCZ agility 3, I know i need to firmware update to avoid cold boot issues, but the price is amazing right now) for future to keep it usable for a long time.
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The first one I listed was a dell with a 1 year dell warranty and it comes in under your budget. AND it would just gobble up both your suggestions in every way. MORE RAM, LARGER HARD DRIVE, FASTER CPU, BETTER GRAPHICS.
Basically just a far superior machine, boxed in brand new condition refurbed BY THE MANUFACTURER...i.e. DELL.
You come across as someone who comes on here, asking for advice who gets lots of really good suggestions and then completely ignores them.
I am not trying to be mean, just a little confused why you bother...
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That was so ancient (DVX000). The DV6 and DV7 are doing fine. BTW, at $600, the laptop are all plastic/partial plastic with smallish cooling regardless of the brand. Also, a lot of the time, the overheating problem is a non issue. It is only raised by the user but does not affect the hardware performance. This happens when users who only use desktop and know about normal desktop temperature, got a laptop and all of a sudden see 55 degree Celsius idle and 85 degree Celsius on full load and screaming their head off.
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actually DELL is the one with the heating problem when it comes to gaming, a lot of their laptops crash when they game and the only way people have been able to fix it is by extremely underclocking the cpu down to like 60% performance (this is on the inspiron models) but the xps models ($1000) do just fine
I have an hp dv6 that i bought 3 weeks ago and it stays very cool when i game, i bought it for $600 and it can play most games on high settings and some on medium
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