Posts by jrbroad77

Quote:Originally Posted by th3illusiveman A first world country has a hurricane and they get Tons of support from it's big government, loads of media attention, millions in celebrity and corporation donations plus the help and...

Quote:Originally Posted by JamesonNorth I don't like the APUs...my brother has a Gateway that runs an APU and it's pretty weak. Also there are weird things with the sound card. Not sure if that's just his or all of them. Stick...

What brand/model SSD? You can also run SSDLife to do some quick SSD diagnostics. Some SSDs are not quite reliable to say the least (see: Vertex 3 reviews on newegg as one example.). For more SSD diagnostics and such head over to either...

Good luck with that. All the mobile Core i (except the -XM's) are hardware locked, no way to overclock them. At best you're looking at BLCK overclocking which sounds absurdly sketch for a laptop.

Quote:Originally Posted by yakub0 I've got an opportunity to purchase an HP dv6-6b21he notebook from someone I know. All the specs are here Link It's basically new and has been very lightly used. I'm just wondering what you folks...

15.6" is ~1" "longer", but a little smaller on the width (smallest dimension of footprint). The 6165 is also ~.2" thicker. Still I would, it's just an insane increase in screen area and resolution. 900p isn't bad, but 1080p on a 15" is...

I should clarify I'm not super picky. I'm not talking 1080p ultra 60 FPS average. More like 1080p high 50+ FPS average. I mean basically if I can get a solid 50% gain over a 5770 I'm set, and my numbers come nowhere near 80 FPS on high,...

Could I scrape by with 1GB at 1080p for Skyrim etc? Currently have a 5770 HAWK (paid $160 for it new a couple years back.)..this would be a decent upgrade.

I'd go with Sager NP6165 or the new Sager w/ 660M (NP6365 or something) over the M14x - it weighs less by .5 pounds. Also, its not fair to compare the R1 to the R2 - even if everything else is the same, the 3610QM is a 22nm quad-core,...

You said it yourself, you want higher resolution. Between the 2 it's an easy choice, and if it must be a new current-gen Thinkpad, they don't get much cheaper in Europe.