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I chose the "Express International USPS" to Australia - it took 6 days. It says it takes 3-5 but everyone knows that you are lucky to get anything within 10 days, express or not. Definitely express seemed to speed it up.
It can get stuck at the airport in US depending on how many packages are going to Australia - once in Australia it was very fast to clear and i was in a remote location and it still came overnight.
So far its great, i made a video - will post that soon.
I think express definitely speeds things up. My keyboard took about 3 weeks to arrive, that was with USPS priority... USPS Express resulted in about a week as I mentioned earlier. I'm in a capital city too so it seems you've done well with 6 days!
Let us know how you're getting on with your new system and show us some benchmarks!
I didn't realise its a barebone of the GT-783, but since i have a 570m GPU i guess i see mine as a GT-780.
So far the benchmark was 3011 in 3d Mark 11 - which is higher than the small desktop i have which has a 2nd Gen Core i5 and a GTX550Ti GPU.
I want to figure out the command line to turn the "afterburner" overclocker too on and off with P1 touch key.
I addressed a few points in the video that people mentioned in various posts - simple things like the touchpad position and the screen-close sleep function. Just stuff that came to mind when i was first looking at it - even though they might be a non-issue for most people.
Hey guys! I am new to the forum and am looking to purchase the ms-16f2. I am torn between 2 setups. Either the i7-2670qm, 750gb 7200rpm 16mb cache hd,dvd burner drive(satndard), 8gb 1333mhx ram and gtx580m graphics card or the gtx570m. I currently own a big foot wirless n 1102 card and kingston hyperx 1600 so those will be going in the new one. I love to play my games in 1080p at high settings. I currently own the alieware m14x which will be sold in a few days because at 1080p resolution it does not hold up. My question is is the gtx580m really worth it? Can obtain good benchmark/ gaming graphics on the gtx570m? I am very limited on money and the gtx570m would work out perfect. However if the increase to the gtx580m is outstanding than thats the route I will have to take! I look forward to your guys feedback! Any info will be greatly appreciated!
It may actually cost less than that now for upgrading from the GTX 570M to the GTX 580M with the refresh on the horizon and depending on who you go through.
Yes, it is. If you have a router that supports 5Ghz 802.11n, and also supports 3 streams, then you will get 450Mbps connection to your router with an 1003 (with the 3 antenna mod). You get 150Mbps per stream/antenna. Also the latency is reduced dramatically, I can get pings to speedtest internet servers as low as 5ms (depending on my cable congestion at the time). The 1103 performs well in terms of bandwidth and latency. My speedtest results in my signature are done using an 1103.
WhatsThePoint has some even better ones!
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