Building a notebook

[NIKO]

ocz makes a laptop you can add shit too

[Akaru]

Done some research for a few hours, and this is what I came out with, and I'm actually kind of impressed.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856172010

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233087

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819111007

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226019

$1405.

 

Before you attack it, I'll explain the priorities behind it.

It most certainly is not a primary rig, my desktop is here for that. But what I want is something most notebooks similarly priced can't provide, which is above decent processing speeds, read speeds, and.... actually the hard drive. The SSD, puts this baby $300 higher than an equally sized HDD, and could drop this thing down to a VERY competitive price range, but the SSD is actually key here. It wipes the floor with HDDs in many ways, especially boot times, noise, and can open programs considerably faster. I couldn't find a laptop in the same price range with a sizeable SSD offered. The videocard is a mid-range type, its decent, can play COD4 pretty well, and is seemless in CSS, which is a real perk since that's my bread and butter. Also no other laptop in the price range with similar load outs utilizes DDR3 RAM, they usually go for the DDR2 800 instead, and it only reduces the budget by about $40-50.

 

So to be a bit objective:

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834117941

Is the biggest competitor I could find to rival it, slightly faster CPU, considerably faster GPU, 500GB HDD, and 6GB DDR2 RAM.

 

http://www.guru3d.com/article/corsair-p128-ssd-review/1

Review and performance comparisons on the SSD.

 

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-9600M-GT.9449.0.html

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Great site to compare mobile GPUs

 

 

 

fuckers said I couldn't do it.

 

No one said you can't do it.

 

But good luck finding a good heatsink to keep the heat off your extreme proessor.

[PotshotPolka]

No one said you can't do it.

 

But good luck finding a good heatsink to keep the heat off your extreme proessor.

 

Well what do you think the temperature would reach under load? 50-60C is hot but tolerable.

[Shadowex3]

Not on a laptop. In a PC that ~110 odd degrees has room to dissipate. In a laptop it's got fuck all going for it and there's usually a bungton of plastic pieces RIGHT THERE, let alone your precious tender flesh.

[PotshotPolka]

Not on a laptop. In a PC that ~110 odd degrees has room to dissipate. In a laptop it's got fuck all going for it and there's usually a bungton of plastic pieces RIGHT THERE, let alone your precious tender flesh.

 

Well look at the case itself. It's got 4 vents. My old laptop had a dual-core which was slightly slower but never overheated.

[Itch]

Didn't say you couldn't.. just said it's not worth it unless you are just doing it so that you can say you did or you are doing it for the experience and for knowledge sake. In which case why not?

[Daze]

One question: Are you doing this because you can't find a prebuilt one with the specs you want or for a hobby?

[PotshotPolka]

Didn't say you couldn't.. just said it's not worth it unless you are just doing it so that you can say you did or you are doing it for the experience and for knowledge sake. In which case why not?

 

But I did compare it to regular models. This thing is definitely cheaper than others if you leave out the SSD. So I don't see why everyone is being so skeptical.

 

One question: Are you doing this because you can't find a prebuilt one with the specs you want or for a hobby?

 

Both. The selling point here is the insanely fast boot speeds from the SSD, and a decent GPU for CSS or other apps. It's not a beast or underpowered, but its fast and gets any job done besides gaming.

[RedOctober]

So I don't see why everyone is being so skeptical.

 

...because even i know its going to be as hard as week old shit!

 

even for a semi-experienced desktop builder like yourself i can promise you its going to be frustrating. you will cry at some point

[PotshotPolka]

...because even i know its going to be as hard as week old shit!

 

even for a semi-experienced desktop builder like yourself i can promise you its going to be frustrating. you will cry at some point

 

Not really. All that I have to install is the SSD, CPU, and RAM. The OCZ kit has an instruction manual too.

 

It supposedly comes with Vista drivers only so I might need to look around if I want to go with 7 instead.