@foamspoon It is audible in a quiet room/environment but not bothersome, however if you start doing anything somewhat intensive that is using cpu or gpu power it will start to get pretty loud. That being said, as long as I'm somewhere where there is a TV on in the background, or I have the sound on and using speakers or headphones/headset it is not bothersome however it might be for other people who are in the room and focused and immersed in the game like you are.
@MSGaldenzi If you are in the US go to the Microsoft store. I don't care if the closest one to you is 3 hours away, suck it up and go buy it there. 99 dollars for an extra year of warranty plus accidental coverage with a 99 deductible if something bad happens to it and it needs to be replaced. You cannot beat that. If this is not an option for you then I guess Amazon and Squaretrade may be your best bet but Razer does not seem to offer any additional warranty. You can order from Hidevolution but the prices are marked up, then I know nothing about their extended warranty and if you will deal with them or Razer but having to deal with Razer is a no no.
I have been following the posts usually checking it at the end of the day. Was following everything at first when I was worried there were issues but I'm really not overly concerned anymore and there's too much negativity there and too many opinions from people being posted influencing other things, who don't even own the machine. However I do read though all of the missed posts once a day incase I miss anything worth reading. CS:GO I posted a bit about earlier in this thread and on the Razer forums but it's been ignored because everyone seems to be concerned about BF1. Originally I was getting dips down to 150 and highest fps of maybe 225-250 on Dust 2 depending what was going on and I felt that was very low as my older Alienware does not dip below 250, maybe 200 on Nuke or other demanding maps.
After looking around it seems this is just how the 6700 runs CSGO and my 4700 is probably a better processor for that cpu dependent game. I play with everything turned to the lowest quality settings for the optimal gameplay experience and that also upset people in the threads because "
everyone else tests games at the highest settings so your fps doesn't mean anything at those settings", but I felt it did when a 3+ old machine was running the game better than this brand new laptop. I also had someone from this forum test the game on their MSI GS73VR and he was getting the same performance out of his laptop so I've just come to the conclusion that CS:GO/the source engine is just different than a lot of other games out there and is very CPU dependent and the 4700mq is able to boost higher on all cores (I believe?) and in turn effects that game more. I was really just concerned as if I ever hook up my 144hz monitor to it, I do not want it dropping in the 150 range or lower on other maps possibly. To be honest the times I have played it since my initial tests I don't even enable TS because I don't need that extra little bit of fps if it might help. Gameplay is smooth and I have no problems (however I feel like there is a difference between 100-150 or 250 fps in cs even on a 60hz monitor, maybe it's all a psychological thing but there is something about the game where the more fps you have the far smoother the game feels. All of my other games have been fine, temps have been fine, and CS runs okay and for the most part this is a portable laptop for me to have the option to play games when I am on the go so....at the end of the day if it won't run CS as well as my Alienware I'll suck it up and deal with it because it's more than playable, and this thing is far, far, far easier and lighter to carry around with me than my old AW.
For what it's worth though I was testing on Dust 2, lowest settings on everything except I had trilinear filtering instead of bi, Highest texture settings, and low or medium shadows and would run around on Dust 2 with bots getting about 200-225 in both spawns, then anywhere from 225 down to lows of 150 at some points depending where on the map I was and what was going on. Bots also hurt the fps I feel like, because when I played games online after that it felt like I wasn't getting quite as low of dips (and I don't mean "stuttering" dips like it sounds like you guys have in BF1, or had) but I keep forgetting to start a fraps benchmark for fps before I start a comp so I will have to do that next time.
Either way as I posted here and Insider forums I am more than happy with my computer and with TS and OC it only gets better so I really have no complaints. It's not like there wasn't info out there on the 6700hq before I bought the laptop so I should have looked into CS's performance more before committing to it but as I said I'm comparing a 3 year old 17 inch 10 pound laptop with a power brick half the weight of it, vs a 14 inch thinner than a dime ultrabook and getting comparable performance....
wtf is there to complain about I love it.
Also I find it
amusing how everyones focused on Firestrike (and granted some people are having issues in some games) but...my AW gets a score of 4-5k in Firestrike, vs a 9400-9800 of my Blade, yet CS:GO runs noticeable better on the "lower scoring worse AW" and some other games might run better or comparable but there's a lot a lot of games that the Blade would destroy the AW in. I just find it funny how benchmarks really do not translate over to the real world gaming scenarios, and how different every game can be in how it runs and what it utilizes and the overall performance compared to another.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
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