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    Replacing my old KN Executioner (m570u)

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by MightyAA, Oct 4, 2011.

  1. MightyAA

    MightyAA Notebook Guru

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    Decided to take the plunge and replace my current notebook. I’m currently running a Killernotebooks Executioner. (Clevo m570u).
    Bought it back in 2006... OC’d my T7400 ES cpu from 2.16 to 2.6. Been running a 7950GTX also overclocked and custom cooled (upgraded from the 7900GTX it shipped with). Still runs like a champ even after years of overclocking. Yet, over time it’s age has finally caught up to it. Battery long since died. CMOS battery died during the summer. Gonna miss it and KN...

    In with the new... ordered from Malibal this:

    PRODUCT Satori P170HM
    Display: 17.3" 1920 x 1080 FHD LED AUO B173HW01 V.4 90% NTSC Glossy Display
    Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-2860QM, 8MB L3 Cache, 2.5-3.6GHz
    Memory: (16GB) 16384MB, PC3-12800/1600MHz DDR3 4 SO-DIMM
    Graphics Card: AMD® Radeon HD 6990M 2GB GDDR5
    Hard Drive: 500GB 7200rpm 2.5" SATA 300 Hybrid w/ 4GB NAND Flash
    Hard Drive 2: 500GB 7200rpm 2.5" SATA 300 Hybrid w/ 4GB NAND Flash
    RAID: 0 High Performance (Two Hard Drive Configuration)
    Optical Drive Bay: 6X Blu-ray Burner 8X DVD+/-R DL Super-Multi Drive
    Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® 7 Professional; 64-bit
    Wireless: Intel® 6300 Ultimate-N 802.11A/B/G/N LAN Card
    Cooling: IC Diamond 7 Thermal Compound, CPU & GPU
     
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  2. Anthony@MALIBAL

    Anthony@MALIBAL Company Representative

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    Looks like a great configuration, pretty much maxed out at that :D

    I'm not sure how well the hybrid drive will perform in RAID. It's a terrible choice as a secondary storage drive, but excellent as a primary. Post back your results if you run HDTune/HDTach and come up with speed tests. It will be interesting to see if/how the flash differs.
     
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    MightyAA Notebook Guru

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    Yes, I'll be curious as well about the hybrid. From what I've read on the drives, it sort of 'learns' commonly accessed areas and preloads into the ram part. It gets quicker after it's figured you out. So, my thinking is if it has twice as much space, it will use it... If not, no biggy. Not much cost in there, and I'm in a server environment for storage at work and at home I have external redundant storage.

    Put it this way, my current rig has a 100GB 7200rpm drive in there... 51 GB is available. I just did it hoping boot and load times will increase without spending a ton on SSD drives.
     
    MightyAA, Oct 5, 2011
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    Hybrid as secondary is completely worthless.
     
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    Yup.... Got notified this morning they can't set it up in RAID. So, it will most likely get stripped out and installed into one of my other notebooks.
     
    MightyAA, Oct 6, 2011
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