Somone wants to give me an R3 for...

...my Slim Xbox 360 250GB + 35 games.

I should jump on this right?

 

Let me specify..

Intel® Core™ i7 2617M 1.5GHz(2.6GHz w/Turbo Boost, 4MB Cache)
Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit
8GB Dual Channel DDR3
NVIDIA® GeForce® GT540M graphics with 2.0GB Video Memory

 

Ummm... there's no catch is there? Because you couldn't get a much better deal than that. That poor soul probably has no idea how good a trade that is for you.

I say take it and run!

 

well... erm... if you are really bored to death and no longer play those games, then yea... take it and run as fast as you can

* doing raw math - xbox=300$ + games=35*40$ average=1400$, total 1700$, erm not a really good deal but will i ever play those games again? but then I could also sell my R1*


note: those prices are made up, no idea if they're actually what you payed for

 

well if hes selling the xbox he doesnt need the games anymore

 

the deal is xbox+35 games trade for R3. no sale involved

if he's selling only the games plus the R1, then he can keep the xbox, get the R3 and a couple of newer games for xbox

 

Just because you have no xbox, doesn't mean the games are now worth nothing. Their value is the same, with or without the xbox.

 

Majority of the 360 games are ~2 years old. I also rarely buy games new, mostly used off Amazon or from local buyers. I have 3 games purchased in the last year. Black ops, Reach, and new Vegas... Otherwise current Market value for the rest of the games is less than $10.

I don't ever play the xbox anymore, so I thought it was an amazing was to get an upgrade for my R1.

I will be keeping the R1. My wife is going to use it and we are going to sell her HP netbook.

 

Take it, just be sure to thoroughly check that the R3 is basically new, reformat it and everything

 

definitely good deal. but as the guy above said, make sure everything is in order with the laptop.

 

Yea, he is coming over later and I will make sure it is in working condition.

One question I did have, can I use my Windows 7 64-bit installation disk from my R1 to reinstall Windows on my R3? He said he does not have the restore disk.

 

The Respawn partition may still be there, check for that.

 

Ok cool.

What noticible differences should I note between the R1 and the R3?

 

2nd Gen i7 instead of C2D
1333MHz RAM instead of 800MHz
540M instead of 335M

Those are the main differences AFAIK.

 

I should have been more specific, my fault.

With regards to use, what differences should I expect. I know my R1 does not have Optimus, so that will be different. I know my BIOS is much different, so I will tinker around in the one when i get it. But any big "do's" and "do not's" specific to a R3 spec?

I have never had an Sandy Bridge CPU (desktop or Laptop) so I am not familiar with OCing the CPU or their BIOS.

I have never dealt with Optimus. Should I expect to run into any issues with drivers? Can I install the new 285.62 BF3 drivers without issue?

Those are the two differences I expect

 

erm... i dont think you can OC the sandy bridge cpus - but at stock clocks R3 performs better than oc-ed R1's
regarding the nvidia driver instalation, i just installed it ontop of the older one although i did check the "clean install" checkbox.

 

Ok, I guess I misspoke, how do you enable the Turbo Boost? Is it like enabling the OC in the BIOS of the R1?

 

It's on by default.
The cpu OC by itself depending on load/temps.
My i5-2537m for example has a base clock of 1.4GHz, with one core loaded it goes up to 2.3GHz and with 2 cores to 2GHz... all by itself

 

Ahh... thanks