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    building a 8170-s1

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by ficke11, Apr 12, 2011.

  1. ficke11

    ficke11 Notebook Enthusiast

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    im building a 8170-s1
    the custom one from powernotebooks is ....
    i7 2630
    geforce gtx 470
    two 500GB SATA II 3GB/s 7,200 RPM Hard Drive - Seagate XT NCQ Hybrid w/4GB SSD
    6x Blu-Ray Reader/8x Super Multi Combo Drive
    Built-in Bigfoot Networks Killer™ Wireless-N 1102 - Ultimate Gaming Cardwith

    these specs my total is $1949

    my total cannot go over 2000 after shipping and tax so im not sure if i should drop one or maybe get cheaper hard drives and get a better graphics card or what, im planning on running wow sc2 crysis pretty much any game and diablo3 at ultra settings, i plan on having hours and hours of music and movies stored need some opinions and thanks if i get yours
     
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    ficke11 Notebook Enthusiast

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    ok yea if i go with two 500GB SATA II 3GB/s 7,200RPM Hard Drive (16MB Cache Buffer) i can get the AMD Radeon HD 6970M 256bit w/2GB GDDR5 but is it worth it over the nVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M 192bit w/1.5GB GDDR5
     
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    Yes. The 6970M is much much better than the 470M.

    Mr. Mysterious
     
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  4. J.P.@XoticPC

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    Yep, have to agree. Benchmarking shows that the 6970M is much better than the 470M.
     
    J.P.@XoticPC, Apr 12, 2011
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