Help with options ?

Hi,

I'm considering buying a M17X and the below options take me to the
top of my budget, my question is would you change any of this ?
I'm on the bottom processor spec, how much of a difference
will this make ? - thats the one that worries me most in my
potential purchase.

Thanks
Mark.

PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q9000 (2.00GHz,1066MHz FSB,6MB L2 Cache)
GRAPHICS CARD SLI™ Dual 1GB GDDR3 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M
MEMORY 4096MB 1333MHz Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM [2x2048]
HARD DRIVE 640GB (7200 RPM) Free Fall Sensor Raid 0 "Stripe" Dual HDD - (2x320GB)

 

The processor depends on what games you play. You might have games that require more than 2.0GHz of processor speed, and don't support a quad core, in which case you'd do better with a higher clocked dual core. However those games are few and far between and a 2.0GHz processor is fast enough for most games.

Unless you've got a lot of media and the such you probably don't need 640GB. I only use half of my laptop's 320GB of space-and even that is with quite a few movies-but I don't have tons of games.

 

Q9000 should be fine with 95% of the games. The only "problem" you will have is with games that dont support a Quad and that will probably cost you like 5~ fps which is not a big deal.

 

Thanks for the help guys, appreciated,

I don't have a ton of media on my laptop as I have a desktop solution for that, so I may drop the drive spec, although rfactor (which I love to play)
does take up quite a lot of space.

Thanks again
Mark.

 

You can always add another one in the near future