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Title: Lend me your computer hardware knowledge
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 04, 2016, 04:01:29 am

This laptop is on sale near me for £500 secondhand.

M17x R4 alienware.

Now bearing in mind it looks to be a four year old model, would you say this is good deal?





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Title: Re: Lend me your computer hardware knowledge
Post by: The E on July 04, 2016, 04:33:45 am

Assuming this has the same specs as I've found on the internets for it (Core i7-3720QM, GeForce GT680M, 8GB of RAM), it seems like a pretty decent gaming machine. It's certainly going to be better for gaming than a new machine for the same price.

Title: Re: Lend me your computer hardware knowledge
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 04, 2016, 04:37:34 am

The windows signage said it's an i7-36gbm whatever that means.

But it's reassuring to hear positive feedback.

The most modern games going on it are home world 2 remastered and kerbs space program probably.

There will be much photo editing in light room and some after effects too.

Title: Re: Lend me your computer hardware knowledge
Post by: The E on July 04, 2016, 04:38:57 am

Should be more than beefy enough then.

Title: Re: Lend me your computer hardware knowledge
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 04, 2016, 04:42:09 am

I will begin convincing the wife to let me spend my own money then.

I might even be able to play BP act three at this rate.

Title: Re: Lend me your computer hardware knowledge
Post by: AdmiralRalwood on July 04, 2016, 07:01:17 am

That does indeed sound like a pretty good deal at that price; let us know how it works out.

Title: Re: Lend me your computer hardware knowledge
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 04, 2016, 07:45:54 am

Well it's now in my bag. Weighs nine pounds and the charger is 2 pounds all in all 11 pounds. Still, If I take random incoming small arms fire then I can take shelter behind it.

7 day grace period of full refund so I intend to "run it into the ground" in five. If it survives I shall keep it.:nod:

Title: Re: Lend me your computer hardware knowledge
Post by: karajorma on July 04, 2016, 08:04:15 am

Quote from: Colonol Dekker on July 04, 2016, 04:01:29 am

This laptop is on sale near me for £500 secondhand.

M17x R4 alienware.

Now bearing in mind it looks to be a four year old model, would you say this is good deal?

Funnily enough that's almost exactly the same machine I have now. I can run Witcher 3 quite easily on medium settings and could probably run it higher with some tweaks, so it should be capable of running anything you planned to throw at it.

Title: Re: Lend me your computer hardware knowledge
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 04, 2016, 08:34:59 am

Thank you kindly for all the insight.

I'll post some proper specs later tonight.

edit-

Hopefully it'll prove to be slightly upgradeable in the future.

Title: Re: Lend me your computer hardware knowledge
Post by: karajorma on July 04, 2016, 10:03:18 am

It should be very upgradeable. You have a second 2'5 inch hard drive bay, an mSATA port and if you have 8GB of RAM you most likely have two memory slots still unused.

Title: Re: Lend me your computer hardware knowledge
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 06, 2016, 01:19:25 am

Forged alliance. Runs no issues.
Homeworld remastered. Runs flawlessly.
Fallout 3. Absolutely splendid.
will try X 3 tonight too.

only been benchmarking at this time but so far it's a definite keeper.

and so pretty in black and red. The wife would like the lights turned pink......