Notebook Recommendation for DiY Vidock

i was very intrigue by concept of adding a desktop graphics card to a laptop

what is the best laptop candidates under $700 to do a DiY Vidock mod

and what i mean best are as follows

-ability to use the laptop screen for DiY Vidock(external screen is a NO)

-screen quality(prefer non-glossy MUCH BETTER)

-temperature/heat output(the feel of the laptop "warm, burning, etc")

-build quality(flex)

-keyboard

-non fingerprint body, smudges(palmrest area)

-noise



my current idea is a Dell Studio 1558 + GTX 460 1GB



also im not very knowledgable about DiY Vidock

some questions that i want to know are

-Limitation(software/hardware)

-Reliability(BSOD, driver crash)

-Software Support

-expected performance(out of 100% performance of the card, how much performance penalty will be get by using a desktop graphics card on a laptop on a DiY Vidock mod)

-Issues(bandwidth, latency, monitor sycn, refresh rate)

-possibility of overclocking, downclocking

 

Refer to http://forum.notebookreview.com/gaming-software-graphics-cards/418851-diy-vidock-experiences.html for many benchmarks and user experiences.

Recommendatios: any notebook that can do the NVidia Optimus. Ie: must have 4500MHD or Intel HD graphics and you'd be running a NVidia GTX4xx desktop video card. The Optimus-enhancements will activate providing accelerated performance and transparent usage of the internal LCD to display images rendered on the accelerated GPU. NOTE: NVidia are reminding users via a watermark it's not a certified setup. There's also performance loss using the internal LCD compared to attaching one to the GTX4xx externally.

A Dell Studio 1558 would be a good choice as long as you can get it with Intel HD graphics. The Studio 1558 and E6410 can even do a x2 link by combining 2xmPCIe slots which are p1+2 to get more performance. Probably the E4310 can do x2 as well.

NBR is scheduled to do a proper review of a T410s + GTX460@x1 DIY ViDock review. Worth seeing their benchmark results and comments.

 

There are two threads where you could ask these questions:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/gam...7667-lets-figure-out-how-make-diy-vidock.html
or
http://forum.notebookreview.com/gaming-software-graphics-cards/418851-diy-vidock-experiences.html

Please post in the appropriate one, thanks.