Hey Guys, I'm a new member to the forums here and hope you guys can answer a few of my questions...
Im in the market for a new gaming laptop and have spent a couple days doin research now. I've looked at voodoo, alienware, hypersonic, velocity and ofcourse sager. Pricing out all the competitors i eliminated voodoo and alienware cause of the high price, the velocity for its agp4x motherboard and GPU.
When i priced out the hypersonic i ended up with 3356.00 and the sager at 2905.00 and im pretty sure that was with nearly identical configs.
The only difference that i could see was the different motherboard and better sound card/speakers. Would the cost of the motherborad make that much of a difference?????
Otherwise the stats on both systems were 3.2ghz/800FSB HT----1024 400ddr ram---60gb 7200rpm HD (although the hypersonic one said it was ultra ata 8mb cache while the sager did not specify what kind it was)----windows XP pro----2x dvd burner.
Can anyone explain the price difference, give their experiences with either or both???
Another question what are the advantages of having 2 identical drives in either raid configuration... is it worth having 2 hardrives in terms of money vs safety and performance.
two more questions.....
1)how do hell do you guys overclock the gpu's and
if you order a sager do you get some kind of software that lets you tweak it a bit or is that somewhere in the GPU options???? 2) I noticed 1 distinct advantage to the alienware comps.....you can remove and upgrade the graphics card very easily according to the promo...... Is the process even possible with a sager or hypersonic and if it is, how difficult is it to upgrade the graphics card????
I appreciate any input on this matter and look forward to hearing some responses!!!! I plan on buying something in the near future( 1 week) after some more research and shopping around.
Thanks again!!!!
GREG
Im in the market for a new gaming laptop and have spent a couple days doin research now. I've looked at voodoo, alienware, hypersonic, velocity and ofcourse sager. Pricing out all the competitors i eliminated voodoo and alienware cause of the high price, the velocity for its agp4x motherboard and GPU.
When i priced out the hypersonic i ended up with 3356.00 and the sager at 2905.00 and im pretty sure that was with nearly identical configs.
The only difference that i could see was the different motherboard and better sound card/speakers. Would the cost of the motherborad make that much of a difference?????
Otherwise the stats on both systems were 3.2ghz/800FSB HT----1024 400ddr ram---60gb 7200rpm HD (although the hypersonic one said it was ultra ata 8mb cache while the sager did not specify what kind it was)----windows XP pro----2x dvd burner.
Can anyone explain the price difference, give their experiences with either or both???
Another question what are the advantages of having 2 identical drives in either raid configuration... is it worth having 2 hardrives in terms of money vs safety and performance.
two more questions.....
1)how do hell do you guys overclock the gpu's andif you order a sager do you get some kind of software that lets you tweak it a bit or is that somewhere in the GPU options???? 2) I noticed 1 distinct advantage to the alienware comps.....you can remove and upgrade the graphics card very easily according to the promo...... Is the process even possible with a sager or hypersonic and if it is, how difficult is it to upgrade the graphics card????
I appreciate any input on this matter and look forward to hearing some responses!!!! I plan on buying something in the near future( 1 week) after some more research and shopping around.
Thanks again!!!!
GREG
