Posts by motok

The difference is little, not worth the upgrade price going from sli 280m's to crossfire 4870's

A 4870 is more powerful than a gtx 280m but not by too much plus nvidia has way better drivers especially tweaked onces. A good driver backing up the 280ms will outperform the 4870s for sure. I'm stuck myself between an m15x and an m17x...

no no never! I have some left over pressed wood and plexiglass so when I do decide to dip in for an m15x, I can cut the new platform out to meet the fans of the laptop.

I know the specs lol. The bump up from a 720 to an 820 is a whopping $350 through dell on the m15x O_O. I think when buying with sager on the np8690 it is a $200 difference. The only thing I am concerned about is if the corei7 720 will...

Yea but cooling this laptop is too much work, thinking about switching to an m15x

The fan underneath the CPU/gpu cooling fan is powered by a USB so it runs on low, basically just there to provide fresh air to the systems fan. The other 2 rush air straight up to the gpu heatsiink and the chipset heatsink. I blow it...

Hey I', looking to get one also. Anyone know what the performance increase from the corei7 720qm- corei7 820qm would be? I'm stuck deciding between the two cpus.

The fans, when on high, can literally push more air then my ceiling fan.

I made my own kickass cooler and applied arctic mc-3 compound.

85-95C is considered normal for the G51s and G71s.