Xmg p703

I've just ordered the p703

Display
1 x 17.3" (43.9cm) Full-HD 1920x1080 Matte €0.00
Graphics Card
1 x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4096MB GDDR5 €305.00
Processor
1 x Intel Core i7-4700MQ Quad Core - 2.40 - 3.40GHz 6MB 47W €0.00
Memory
1 x 8GB (2x4096) SO-DIMM DDR3 RAM 1600MHz Crucial €40.00
Hard Drive
1 x 750GB SATA-II 7200rpm Seagate Momentus 7200.5 (ST9750420AS) €19.00
Optical Drive
1 x DVD-RW €0.00
WIFI Card
1 x Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 (with Bluetooth) €14.00
Keyboard
1 x Backlit Keyboard ITALIAN €0.00
Warranty
1 x Standard Warranty : 24 Month Collect & Return (inc parts, labour, support, shipping) €0.00
Operating System
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64 Bit English €85.00
Office Software
1 x Microsoft Office 2010 60-day trial version (only when Windows 7 or 8 is ordered) €0.00
Power Cable
1 x EU Power Cable €0.00

total 1950,68

....I hope that it will arrive soon without any problems.... fingers crossed!

 

congrats xman.
the hardest part is the wait.

 

Nice rig! Are you going to upgrade to a SSD in the future?

 

I don't know
Honestly I'm not really interested in ssd, if I have to wait 10-15 seconds more with an hdd... well I can wait

I know, there are other advantages... but I think I can settle for a good hdd

 

thats almost like buying a porche and putting a mini engine in it
add a ssd at a later stage.
yes its all about speed and its not the be all and end all but a 10+ second boot up compared to a 30-40 second boot up will make a lot of noticeable difference.

 

More like skinny eco tires

 

The SSD will make the most difference in everyday usage than any other part of ur laptop.

Especially when it comes to multitasking (Photoshop + IE8 30 tabs + skype + Steam + Dreamweaver + Winamp + other background stuff).
With the SSD, the system responds magically. Not possible with any HDD.

 

get an ssd! its magic!

 

ok ok guys I will think about adding an ssd in the future

 

Chant repeatedly: "One of us!"

 

the laptop has arrived, but I'm having some problems...
well one problem in particular, my laptop suddenly shuts itself down, no warning, no sound, nothing

I searched for informations and I know that usually this happens for overheating but I don't believe that this is the problem, this afternoon I played for about 15 minutes with torchlight 2, I quit the game and after 30 secs bum, it shuts down... I was able to read the temperatures and they were fine, 44 for the cpu, hdd: 43, gpu: 65...

I believe that the "culprit" may be the motherboard or the battery, tomorrow I will try to remove the battery and use only the psu....
I have also defragmented the hdd, check it and 0 problems, I have done some scans for virus or malware, nothing at all
no issue detected from action center, and nothing also from ccleaner....

I'm not really too happy right now considering all the money that I spent.... if I can't fix it I will send it back for assistance next week, damn

 

oh no, sorry to hear that man.
if it only arrived today i would put that sort of shutdown to maybe something lose through courier transport.
contact their support tomorrow if your not happy about doing this but i would suggest to remove the base and check the ram sticks arent lose as well as the hard drive. actually check everything is not lose like heat pipes,fans etc. but as youve done a defrag i guess it was running for quite a while even though you wont have much on it yet.
as far as i know the burn in diagnostic test is done for 24 hours and will have left the factory in 100% fully working order.

as your using windows 8 im not sure what lse to suggest.
hope its something simple and you dont have to rma it back.

 

faulty disk would at least cause a bsod or error message of some kind.

sudden shutdown without any prior warning could be due to one of he following reasons:defective psu/battery, defective cpu, defective mobo or thermals.

u already ruled out thermals, so id go through with the idea to try and reseat the cpu and also see what happens when u run on a/c or battery only. hope its smth simple like that!

cheers

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first of all thanks for the replies

this morning I try to run it without battery, I used the windows memory diagnostic tool to test the mem, no problem...
then I played for 10 minutes, I wait another 10 mins after I quit the game and it didn't shuts down
tonight I will try again to run it without battery for at least 1 hour....
If the problem it's ONLY the battery well.... I will not be too happy but at least I can use it with the psu, not a big issue....

btw the laptop has arrived Tuesday but I've been busy trying to make it work...
maybe it's a stupid idea but... here in Italy we had some really really hot days and high moisture, today it's a little bit better, could that be the reason??
I always check the cpu/gpu temperatures since the laptop has arrived and they were always fine... but maybe something happened to the battery in those days??

 

When your system shuts down does your battery read 0%?

 

no... tonight I used it for more than 1 hour and no shutdown (again without battery)

 

no shutdown since I removed the battery (last friday), but I will wait at least a couple of weeks before saying "ok, problem solved"

I got a decent score with firestrike (no oc) : 4825..... so I think that my 780m is fine
I also did a lot of benchmarks with sisoftware sandra, everything seems ok

this morning I play a little with skyrim at ultra, fps was varying from more than 60 to 30, do you think that this is caused by the (non mature) driver ??

gpu temp was between 75-70

 

Yes, it seems the 780m is being under utilised because of the lack of driver support at the minute. Myself and others are having similar issues.
Just have to wait for the drivers.

 

cmon nvidia, give us some decent drivers!!

 

it's time for an update.... it's been more than 2 weeks since I removed the battery and guess what? no more shutdowns

I have to say that apart the problem with the battery the laptop is working really good, nothing to complain
the 780m is awesome (my last pc had a really really reaaaally weak graphic card...) but needs better drivers, it will take some time for that....

I have one question for the cpu temp, after more or less 30 min of playing guild wars 2 I had 64° to 67° (room temp is 26-27), are these temps fine?

 

those temperatures are totally fine. when they get closer to 90c is the time to ask the above question.
cleaning vents and fans out with compressed air every 3-4 months will help keep them down.

so did you contact their support and theve replaced the battery for you.

 

It depends on the game but those temps are just fine. My 4800 hits max while playing games 82 and my gtx 780m 78 degrees. I have a w703 not the same case

 

So long as the CPU is not having to throttle those are normal yes.

 

I have a really strange question for you guys...
I just started playing tomb raider 2013 (nice game and really good graphics), sometimes I had the feelings of some stuttering when lara walks, I check the fps with msi afterburner and the fps was always between 58 - 60 (I play with vsync and triple buffering, ultra settings).... so no slowdowns, I don't know it's a little bit strange

 

what sort of temperatures are you getting?
also have you got anti alaising on or off. been a long time since ive played it but im sure i read aa can make a difference.

 

It could be rapidky flipping between 30 and 60. Try turning off vsync to test.

 

turning vsync off solved the issue with tomb raider, I think that this game is not well optimized for nvidia cards also...

but now I'm having another strange thing, when I run gpuz it shows the "computing cuda" disabled, everything else is normal.... what the... ????

 

Do you intend to use cuda compute?

 

wait, so computing cuda is not related to video games?
what is really strange is that few days ago it shows the "computing cuda" enabled.... maybe is just a bug of gpuz

 

It could well be, but cuda compute is used for engineering and CAD tasks and some group processing projects along with a couple of video transcoding programs.