Just took the plunge =D

Mobile Chassis: MYTHLOGIC Nyx 1712 Chassis (Clevo P170EM) with backlit keyboard
Mobile Display: 17.3" Full HD (1920x1080) Glossy 90% NTSC Color Gamut LED Backlit LCD
Dead Pixel Guarantee: MYTH Pixel Perfect Guarantee
Monitor Calibration: Free MYTH Professional Monitor Color Calibration
CPU: Intel Core i7-3820QM 2.7GHz, 8M L3 Cache, 22nm, DDR3-1600MHz, Quad-Core Mobile Processor
Thermal Compound: Free IC Diamond Thermal Compound
System Memory: 8GB (2 x 4GB) , PC3-14900, 1866MHz SODIMM (Kingston HyperX)
Video Adapter: Intel HD3000/HD4000 Graphics AND AMD 7970M 2048MB GDDR5 DX11 Video Card ETA May
Optical: Notebook Black 6X BD-R/8X DVD+R Blu-Ray Combo Drive
Hard Drive: 500GB 7200 16MB Cache SATA Notebook Hard Drive
Network Card: Onboard Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem
Wireless Card: Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 3*3 802.11 a/g/n 450MB Total Bandwidth
Bluetooth: Integrated Bluetooth 4.0 Only With Intel 2230/6235 Wireless
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional
Anti-Virus Software: Microsoft Security Essentials
MYTHLOGIC Assurance: MYTH Lifetime Assurance with Lifetime Labor + 2 Years Parts Warranty, 2 Yrs 2-Way Shipping Cont US
Phoenix Upgrade Plan: Lifetime Phoenix Upgrade Plan

Total $2726.97

My first laptop in 3 years =). Had to buy a new one since my Gateway P-7811FX can no longer play any games; the gpu rapidly overheats with almost any GPU intensive game. I already have an SSD which I plan to put in once I receive the laptop. I contemplated waiting for the GTX 680m but decided not to since I don't know when it will be released. What do you guys think?

 

Congrats your specs look good.

 

Beautiful! There is only one thing to hope for right now - hoping for your FPS results in various games!

 

Notebook for OC?

 

I may do that if I have time =D. Probably will include D3 since everyone keeps mentioning how they are buying a new laptop just for that lol.

don't plan on OCing anytime soon

 

It's gonna be legen - wait for it, I hope you're not lactose intolerant - dary!

 

Congrats! I'm sure your new machine will serve you very well!

 

Looks good to me. How much research did you do for this? Most people don't get the 3820QM as the performance difference over the 3720QM isn't very great. If this were my config I would bump down to a 3720QM and buy a 256GB SSD instaid (the crucial M4 is ~$200 and going down on newegg), seeing as you have an empty HDD bay. Also, the performance boost from 1600MHz RAM to 1866MHz is negligible (~3%), save the money from that and beef up something else (maybe get 16GB@1600MHz). Also, I hope you read Mythlogic's phoenix upgrade plan as it's the primary reason to buy from them and can completely solve your 680m woes.

 

I wanted the 3820QM due to the extra 2MB cache and since this is something I've been saving up for long time I decided to go all out. Although you're right that its probably right and and for most people it wouldn't be worth the money. I already have a Kingston HyperX ssd which I will put in when I get the laptop. Memory wise I didn't really look up so not sure what to do about that yet. I guess its not too late to do more research.

 

specs are fine but $2700 seems a bit too much!!!!

 

It's not too far off. Myth usually comes with a bit of a premium.. Xotic comes in at $2582 (non cash discount price), and thats with 1600Mhz ram as they don't offer 1866Mhz.

Going to be an awesome machine OP! congrats!! Did they give you an ETA yet?

 

No set ETA, they said expect to wait 2 weeks after the release of the 7970m due to the pre-order line. So going by the May 11th date, sometime near the end of May? The price I have is after taxes and shipping, also the higher memory cost almost $98 extra, not sure if its worth it now actually =/.

 

your old PC would probably still be able to run D3 smoothly at medium setting if only you could clean the inside so the GPU don't get overheated everytime.
i mentioned this in other thread that it seems ridiculous to buy a super computer especially the ones that look like yours soon to be, just as a sole purpose of playing D3, at least try with other power hungry games like BF3, FF14 maybe if you're into RPG, too bad it was crap tho, but i heard its getting better.

 

oh btw you don't really need BD-rom, i bought a laptop with a BD-burner 2 years ago, and it haven't played a single BD let alone burn one. and now it already stopped working when i tried to burn a song CD.
the thing is i haven't seen a PC game in BD so far and if i wanna watch BD movies i have a 55" LED with either a BD player or a PS3.
and since optical drives get damaged for not being used from my experience, i think you're going to pay extra for a dust collector.

 

Yed, the BD-Rom Burner is useless. Who would wanna burn expensive BDR's, when we got Flash cards with 16gb and more..?

Better get BD-Rom Reader only.

 

i learn it the hard way lol. still BD-rom is also useless imo. this guy is buying the computer to game not to watch movies, and how many PC games you see nowadays thats in BD format? i personally haven't seen one.
even if you're a movie freak who insist only to watch stuffs that's been written in BD format exclusively, you wouldn't watch it in a 17" LCD (if you're a true movie geek that is).

 

I think if notebook not for OC better to get 3720 cpu and 1600Mhz memory. No diffenent, you can see this only in synthetical tests. But in prices different is great. I recommend get SSD for OS and important programms instead cpu and memory

 

That's one mean price congratulations

 

BD burners are actually nice if you need to back up alot of large files. Prices for 25GB discs are now under a buck each.
Depending on what you do i'd say keep it. I often go on photo shoots and can come back with 15-25GB of pics (Camera RAW) and you always want to back them up somewhere else besides a one hard drive.

 

Yes, but how long does it take to backup 15-25GB? 30 minutes? Not exactly portable in that sense.

 

Agree I have a bunch of files that are over a 2GB in size and the Blu-Ray burner comes in handy now that prices for the media seem to be dropping.

 

Yes 25GB take about 10-15 minutes to burn. I'll do this all day if it means saving unreplaceable files

But I do agree they're not for everyone.