A checklist of things to test when you just get your laptopfor the first time.

reserved myself a super cheap 4700mq and gtx 780m laptop for only 1200 brand new(was 600 off). Came from a well known store here in austria (saturn-merkmarkt) but the brand is kind of unknown(proworx) so I want to see if theres any fatal problems with it, superficial issues like crappy case, noise or bad keyboard ill tolerate for the super cheap price.

What programs do I benchmark to see if everything is working properly, aside from temperatures what should I watch out for?

How do I know if the PSU is 180w or 220w? I wont overclock so it probably wont matter but eh.

 

The cooling system is typically the main thing that will fail if the manufacturer cut corners. The best way to test that is run Prime 95 stress test and Furmark at the same time for between 15 minutes to an hour. Have Hardware Info (HWiNFO) running through the test.

Here's what to look for:
1.) maximum CPU and graphics temperatures
2.) throttling (CPU and/or graphics clock speed reducing due to heat under load)

If you've got a bad system, it can shut down during this process or throttle to base frequency (800 Mhz for the CPU).

To test your storage, run HD Tune's disk health check, which will examine your storage for bad sectors.

To test your keyboard, open up your favorite word processor and type several repetitions of "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs."

To check your monitor, you can use one of several dead/bright spot detectors that will turn the whole screen a solid bright color so you can see if anything is off.

To check your sound, crank up the volume and see how loud it gets and how much audio gets distorted.

And to check your ports and connections, plug things into them. USB drives, external hard drives, external mice and monitors, etc.

The power supply brick should say on it numbers for either wattage, volts and amps, or all three. Watts = volts x amps, so you can figure the wattage for yourself if it's not stated directly.

 

Here's our guide to unboxing and inspecting a new notebook; worth a read.
How To Unbox and Quality Check a New Laptop

 

all the benchmark and monitoring programs can found in my signature below.

 

As stated, benchmarks are important to record a baseline of what your machine was new. Small changes in let's say 3DMark can likely be attributed to drivers, etc. But a massive performance drop can signify a bigger problem, which is why a baseline when new is important. Also make sure obviously your machine doesn't BSOD. I'd run Memtest86 overnight and see if any errors come up. If it comes with recovery media or you have to make it, I would do that.

 

Good article. Aside from that though, I would also run a handful of GPU benchmarks, and stress the system to the fullest.

 

Yup I suggest you run 3D Mark 11 and if you want to be extreme, run furmark ... also run a few CPU benchmarks like Wprime...

 

yeah everythings perfect now, best purchase ever.

 

Congrats ... Great deal! When I got my new Sager the instructions said to fully charge the battery. Next fully discharge it and the set all windows power settings having to do with battery to 0% except critical battery level to 1% and action to shutdown. I also check all ports and comb through event viewer for errors.
Rhetorical question Does anyone running windows have zero errors in administrative events???