Samsung Series 7 Gamer NP700G7C with AMD Radeon HD 7970M/Geforce GTX 675M

That should work but one can't be 100% sure until someone tries it out. I would note, however, that you should keep your Samsung supplied CPU and RAM in case you need to call on the warranty, which is for what Samsung sold you. (Manufacturers can be a little difficult in providing warranty service even if the problem is completely unrelated to whatever has been changed).

Can you take out the HDD, put into a USB enclosure, plug into another computer and scan / fix there. Note that if the trojan has infected an essential file then you need to be able to copy over a good copy of that file onto your HDD after the bad copy has been deleted. You may need to turn off system restore before doing all this - Windows has been known to replace a clean file with an infected one.

John

 

I don't have another computer...I have no choice but to do a system restore.

 

You're going to have to reinstall your apps. Read the manual for the gamer 7 everything you need is there.

 

does anyone know for certain whether the cpu for the np700g7c-s01 is upgradable jyst want to be 109% sure before i spend £200 for a new one

One more thing my ssd is arriving monday, I want to do a clean install but want it exacly as it was when i first turned it on does the recovery disk do this or do i need to do something else??

 

Clone it, that's what I did, worked great.

 

My turbo light never changes or flashes red is that normal?

 

Doesnt cloning effect SSD performance compared to fresh install?

 

As long as cloning software does proper alignment you're good to go

The general advice to not clone HDD to SSD is because SSD align partitions differently. However, newer programs like Paragon Migrate and others are aware of SSD and will adjust properly. This advice is left over from the early days of SSD.

Also, misaligned SSD generally doesn't affect the SSD performance that much. 4-10% difference in most benchmarks. Now, for the enthusiast this isn't acceptable. We like to get as much juice out of hardware, whether or not real life performance is actually emproved. For the average user, and the majority, this difference is practically null. That said, just read about your clone software and ensure it does do proper alignment. Else, just install fresh to avoid any kind of issues.

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Was wondering if anyone has tried playing gta 4 on this laptop and how will it ran, from what i've read gta 4 requires far more power than even the system requirements say. What about Crysis and Crysis 2Thanks in advance for

 

cool cheers i will give paragon a look. Can anyone tell me what yhis bloody turbo light is supposed to do since ive had it its just been blue and has done nothing????

 

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Exactly, it's just there to tell you that your in gaming mode. That is all. Nothing more. Someone on here modded theirs so it wouldn't lightup anymore. But most of us just live with it. I personally like it, as it gives me an at a glance if I left my laptop in gaming mode, (which is a battery hog)

 

Samstung got me again. I tried a bios update and same thing happened as last time. Once the laptop starts it shows windows starting screen the crashes with the blink of the blue screen. Windows repair doesn't work so basically have to reinstall windows. Thanks Samsung you suck!

 

Why would that be? No.

 

Are you sure your unit is not defective? Somewhat odd that no one else is having these issues.

 

Check whether Windows boots properly in IDE mode.

 

ok got my new ram installed and it runs at 1866mhz with speedy 9 9 9 timings just ran 3dmark 11 and got a score of p4377 with an overclock of 810 core and 1990 memory.

Has anyone else had issues with the gtx675m throttling as mine seems to throttle at 90 degrees

 

Hey Everybody,

Well UPS delivered late on Friday and we missed signing for it. Hopefully it makes it here today. But here's a question - I remember seeing somewhere in this thread a topic about mouse drivers & gamer mode. I use different mice depending on where I'm using the laptop (home, office, hotel). My main mice are:

MSFT travel mouse
MSFT wireless mouse/kb
Logitech gaming mouse (old, cable)

Any issues with installing the specific drivers (standard intellipoint/type and/or logitech)? Or do y'all just use generic drivers?

Thanks,

Can't wait to boot it up.

PS - also deciding on a game. Any feedback on Arkham Asylum or Arkham City? Never played either and they appeal to me.

 

Can't tell you about your mice, but the batman series rocks. I bought both for $24.99 during the steam summer sale.

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can someone tell me what idle and load temps you get on your gtx675m systems i seen to be idling at 38 and hitting 88 load and if i overclock it starts throttling at 90

 

Those seem to be reasonable temps to me.

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My wife just called. It has arrived! Too bad I'm stuck on a concall for another 1/2 hour at least. Of course tonight will be creating restore disks, installing A/V, updating W7, installing VMworkstation, etc, etc...

How ridiculous is it that the first thing I want to do is switch the dial to gamer mode.

 

does anyone else have a throttling problem at 90 degrees??

 

Couple questions if don't mind as about to pull the trigger on this from Amazon or the G75 with the matte screen with the 670m but 256gb ssd included.

Leaning towards this one just wondered if

1.Can you turn off those damn audio lights in gamer mode ? There's no way I want to play games with those things flashing. And if so is it all or nothing ? As in have to turn keyboard lights off also to be able to turn off just the audio lights? (really want to leave all the lights on other than the flashing audio lights)

2.How's everyone's keyboard holding up ? Newegg and other reviews have multiple folks remarking about a key falling off - I'm not picky about keyboard type , just don't want a shoddy , some keys are loose others not , etc keyboard.

3.Saw the post earlier about list of order of drivers to reinstall on a clean OS wipe , was curious does the laptop then know on it's own how to use the caching memory included with this one as long as you install the caching/chipset driver(s).

Thanks in advance , really been scouring this forum to pick between this and the similar g75.

 

I have tried to read everyone's post here and it was a lot to get through! I have a few questions (I am an owner of the NP700G7C-S01US model of this machine).

My questions are as follows:

1) Does anyone else get extremely hot beneath the WASD keys and if so, what have you done to remedy this?
2) What successful overclocking has been done to the GPU and how is the heat after?
3) Are there any DIY modifications that anyone has done successfully?

And to comment to someone who asked above, my f7 key was off randomly one day (But I do have a kid and stranger things have happened). I ordered a replacement keyboard off of EBay for 25 bucks. Took like a month to get here -- but I figured that left me with a lot of replacement keyboard parts.

I appreciate any help or answers you can give!

 

For starters, Asus Gaming laptops are far inferior to this one. I have owned all from dual core to the G53SW and found them to be worse than the Samsung, you get a good quality laptop with this one. Sound, screen, everything is awesome and that's coming from what used to be an Asus fanboy so to speak. Yes I still have one Asus one, it's my backup and extra one for if I have guests and they wish to play a pc game with me. I choose that one over the G53SW since I've had far more problems with the later model over the older model. Seems the newer they are, the worse they have been for me. On to answer the questions:

Answers:
1. You can not turn the audio lights off, it's all or nothing. But personally they aren't that big of a deal. I have been diagnosed with ADD and aren't distracted by the lights, I've seen brighter lights than these. Though it's personal more than anything. I thought they might be a distraction and was wrong. (You could mod it to disable the lights, but I'd wait until the warranty is up before doing so.)

2. I have owned my laptop for about 2 months now and the keyboard has been holding up great. It's been a great keyboard and nothing out of the ordinary on it. (Asus laptops tends to suffer from a keyboard lag when typing real quick. Every model I had did this. The samsung one doesn't have a lag.)

3.Yes, the Cache is automatic once you install the proper drivers and such it runs on it's own. It learns so to speak what you use the most it will in a sense pre-load it. It is faster than a standard HDD, but don't expect SSD performance. I've owned SSD's before and it's not that fast, but it is faster than a standard HDD.

Notes: I've owned this laptop for 2 months and had no issues to gripe about so to speak. Unlike my Asus ones where I've always had something, keyboard lag, wireless issues and such.

I also want to state, that gaming mode is pretty much a shortcut to a windows profile that puts everything to performance mode. If you don't want the flashing lights and such, you could always just stay in normal mode on the knob, but go into the power profile and modify the settings for performance, and leave the other settings alone.

Hope this helps and hope you decide on the Samsung one over the Asus, I was on the fence about it myself, but I've had 1 too many Asus laptops go south on me and didn't want to risk it any more.

 

Much appreciated on the replies , I really want to go this one , the only thing the Asus has for same price is an included 256GB SSD but slightly slower video card (670).

My concern over the keyboard was just noticed an alarming number of people say out of the box they had a missing key or one fell off shortly after etc , and I'm very careful with my stuff so I wont be hard on it at all , but definitely didnt want flakely keys off the bat.

The other concern I've seen I'm wondering about is the PC Mag and PC Laptop reviews loved the laptop other than pummeled on it's heat reaching what they called scorching temps above the video card. I don't expect it to be "cool" after gaming for a couple hours by any means , but I have to admit my Asus G73 never got scorching hot. Was just wondering if you/anyone else could report on is that exaggeration of the heat or does it really get 120+ on the speaker/upper keyboard portion of the laptop that they said theres does.

The audio quirks of the G75 and screams about the quality of the screen really have me preferring this one (only other one atm in the running is saw am MSI one that was about 500 more but came with 680m and 2 128gb ssds in raid 0 etc but really prefer the price point of this one. And have heard repeatedly the screen on this is great. )

Appreciate remarks about the quality of the Samsung too - thanks.

And I might be able to get used to the flashing red lights , just not my thing , but are you sayign the knob is literally just a way to tell the windows power settings to go to full performance ? If theres a software way to leave it in normal lighting mode but turn up the video card and processor I'd be all for that.

 

I managed to loose my Samsung and replaced it with the Asus G75. So far the only part I miss is the Samsung Keyboard.

 

Scorching Hot? I played crysis on high, Just Cause 2 on like Ultra (I think JC 2 pushes the gpu more in my opnion.) Both games at 1080 and have yet to hit above 90C after a few hours of play.

As for the knob, yes, you can keep it in the "Balanced" setting and just change the windows power settings to performance type settings. I did this myself as sometimes I forget to change the knob myself so it's more of a personal reason or paranoia that I keep my gaming performance up. So yes, pretty much there is a software way to leave it in normal lighting mode. I've found the screen to be better than the Asus screens by far. Samsung makes monitors and tvs and I think they make great screens. So they used their own in house screen technology. The only issue and this is more personal is I have to clean the screen alot. I have a issue that when I get excited from gaming I tend to scream and yell. (according to my girlfriend and her family) lol. When that happens I tend to spray a little on my screen. (Nothing disgusting like globs) but it's enough to cause it to stand out with white backgrounds. Issue there? Me, lol. It'll happen to ANY screen. So I don't count that against Samsung or Asus for that matters.
Oh yeah, and I think I saw that MSI Model, it's not a bad model at all. But I prefered the capacity over the SSD's 256GB total will be used up really fast when installing games. Plus if one SSD fails, there goes your computer. SSD's are great, but the average consumer SSD isn't ready for RAID, I wouldn't trust RAID 0 on SSD's right now. The capacity and possible failure rate is not as great. HDD's have been around for a very long time. So yeah. That's something to keep in mind. The 680M is a much better gpu then the 675M in the Samsung. But is it worth the cost? Taking out the SSD's and replace with HDD's will cut the cost down some. If that can be done, MSI is good too. Though Watch out! MSI likes to use the NVIDIA optimus. I have had nothing but bad luck with that. The integrated gpu kicks in when it should be the dedicated gpu. It's a gaming pc for pete's sake! If you could link that msi your looking at (as I can't remember where I saw it). I wouldn't mind seeing it again. The biggest thing is, is it worth the extra cost? I think the Samsung is a very powerful laptop and have yet to have any issues with it on my gaming needs. I've also used it for photoshop, music creation, audio editing and converting and some lite video editing and converting so far. Has yet to let me down.

If you need anymore help just let me or anyone else know on here.

 

Again appreciate it , would have replied earlier just was teaching last night (am IT engineer during day and teach Cisco/MS/A+ stuff couple nights a week) and happened to see your info last night and replied right quick to it.

This forum is one of my fav's over the years due to folks having what I call "real" results and opinions , and I'm experienced in brands , issues etc over the years but definitely value the opinions of real owners here. It's one of the few forums that isn't all negative and people actually remark on their positive experiences.

I'm just agonizing more than usual over this laptop purchase as I've got toddler and baby now and I can't recycle every 6 months like I used to So something that will last me year or two and still be very fast etc without lots of quality issues is my main thing. I want to be able to fire up Guild Wars 2 here and there is the reason going gaming side , but still run some VM's for work too. Weight is zero issue for me as I can carry heavy ones around fine in good laptop bag fine and am always plugged in - I've got couple old crappy Dell's I use for switch/phone closet work sort of stuff so that's not a concern.

So yeah , I get that reviews on newegg and other sites are often heavily slanted into only folks with problems so I try and take that into account , its good to hear some others here like the keyboard (that was one of the things on the MSI with the built in steel series that was a plus along with the 680, but again we're talking about a cost difference of close to 600 dollars ).

Reason I'm leaning towards going through Amazon only is I'm longtime prime member , spend tons there , and they've always let me return anything including laptops with zero questions asked , so I know I can order any of these and if there's anything quirky I don't like about it send it back and they even refund the shipping back I have to pay ahead of time for high priced returns that have to be insured.

Personal tastes I'm a screen brightness I have to admit , so I have heard this screen is what I want - so it's in the lead , likely will pull the trigger on it today/tomorrow and put the difference between it and MSI to something else.

Just on a note I almost pulled the trigger on the Asus G75 VW (1900 dollar model with 16gb ram and 256ssd + 750 and 670m etc) but the audio issues really irked me. As in I'm an engineer , I wipe my machines and custom config etc (technet license so tons of OS keys anyway ) , and don't mind tweaking etc , but knowing I was going to have to go through all kinds of hoops to get the subwoofer volume working correctly and it's an issue Asus knows about for months now really ticks me off. If you read the ROG forums the asus reps there acknowledge it , and members have found workarounds to "sort of" get it working but I'm now up for paying close to 2k for a machine that has known issues out of the box.I'm not anti Asus by any means , loved my G73 but bit irritated over current G75 issues.

The performance knob on this Samsung I was concerned about wondering if it was gimicky and caused issues but you've helped alleviated concerns on that.

Again ,really appreciate the info , and sorry for being long winded , just enjoy discussing the IT stuff anyway and also good to get opinions from real life owners who know what they are talking about.

So I've got the G75 with known audio issues , the Samsung that I guess heat is my one worry if keyboards ok , and the MSI stacked with power but pricier and not sure of MSI quality. But these three laptops let folks know the area I'm looking into spec-power wise.

Anyway thanks anyone who has suggestions , real life experiences , and understands decision trying to research etc.

 

I still would like answers to some of these questions, but I also wanted to add that I installed my replacement keyboard yesterday. It was really easy. There is one screw on the bottom on the machine that is labeled "KB". Other than that, a pry tool is necessary to snap out the keyboard. Then there are 2 ribbon cables.

The new keyboard feels like better quality than the original. It is the same part number and everything as the original but the keys feel more solid and less "flaky". So this leads me to believe (since I was an early adopter) that some of the earlier ones may have had a keyboard issue and that would match up to the early complaints on retail sites of people complaining about keys falling off and recent buyers being left clueless.

Now back to my questions: My main concern is overclocking the GPU and also what remedies you guys have found for the heat unerneath the WASD area of the keyboard. The only game I currently play is Guild Wars 2. It gets pretty hot to the touch -- maybe I have girly hands but yea. Tech Crunch and a few other reviews mentioned that heat. I would like to know what others have done to remedy this. I did get a CoolerMaster Notepal X2 and that alleviated the issue. I just hate having to use something like that and would like a more permanent solution if someone has found one.

Thanks!

 

Mine stays rather cool at that area. It seems there are some inconsistent reports of heat there. Some have it, some don't. One theory I have is there is most likely internal ducting to push air out the rear after pulling it in through the bottom vents. Possibly some units have inadequate seal and the hot air is leaking out to escape through the keyboard?

Also, I noticed that my GPU temp was much better during load if I lifted the back of it slightly. Makes a little sense as there would be less restriction of the airflow being pulled in the bottom intake vent. Try that? Just to note I haven't bothered to do this myself on a constant basis as the gpu is still within limits while gaming, I only did it once during a kombustor run and I went from 86 to somewhere in 70's.

 

Honestly seeing what you looking at the Samsung is probably your best bet, a nice bright screen. Compared to my old G73 it's like a headlight. lol. The keyboard lights up brighter. I've gotten so used to it that when I use the G73's on occasion I try to turn it's keyboard backlight up higher realizing it is as bright as it'll go. Ugh. If you've played with the G73 (Radeon HD 5870 i7-720/740QM) your know that it can get somewhat hot. I have not had any issues with the samsung getting too hot. Ambient Temps range from 60-100F (15.5-38C) Sometimes I'd sit outside and thats where the 100F comes from. I've gamed in that temperature and don't think the gpu went beyond 90C. Heck I don't think it ever hit 90C (And that's in 38C/100F ambient temps.) This is also while running a secondary 1080 22" display to see any guides or such. So that might help with some of your concerns. Though I suggest get a cooling pad. (Of course I always suggest that with a gaming laptop or any laptop really.) Using the cooling pad the temps drop about 3-10C Not a huge amount sometimes but every degree counts right?
The cooling pad I got was: Amazon.com: Cooler Master NotePal U3 Laptop Cooling Pad with Three Configurable 80mm Fans (R9-NBC-8PCK-GP): Electronics

It's really nice as it has 3 fans your can relocate to where you want. And to tell you how good that cooling pad is here is a brief story:

My friend has an old dell laptop. A inspiron 1501 I believe. Anyhow the cpu fan in it died. The cpu was an AMD Athlon x2 2.0GHZ, and had 2GB Ram and a 500GB 7200RPM drive. I let him borrow the cooling pad to see if it would allow some basic use of his laptop until he could get a new fan or buy a new laptop. After he placed the cooling pad fans to blow into the cpu's vent intake and the ram and hard drive vents he proceeded to use the laptop. At first he took it easy but then decided to risk it and push the cpu and such to the max (he bought a new laptop and this allowed him to test the old one on the cooler) He used Coretemp which I use now as well and his cpu under load hit 70C with ONLY the cooling pad keeping things cool. No cpu fan. That's not bad huh? He about crapped his pants when we saw that and I probably wouldn't have believed him if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. That tells you a little about this cooling pad. Now he wants to buy one for his new laptop to help keep it cool.


I actually ordered my Samsung from Amazon since I'm a prime member as well. I paid a little extra for next day shipping as I couldn't wait. lol. I put up a review on amazon, just look for one by dragonwolf.

Also if your looking for a good bag I can suggest the: Amazon.com: Everki Beacon Laptop Backpack with Gaming Console Sleeve, Fits up to 18-Inch (EKP117NBKCT): Electronics

It's a little pricey at $99 but it is a wonderful bag. As a college student always on the go to school, my parents house and girlfriend's parents house. I can fit a lot into this bag. My Logitech G35 Gaming headset, the powerbrick, an xbox 360 controller, a standard headset, extension cord, travel surge protector, pocket full of about 15-20 assorted flash drives, ethernet cords, 3 external portable hard drives (toshiba 500GB, Seagate 1TB and a WD 2TB all usb 3.0), mousepad, my wireless logitech g700 gaming mouse and charge cord (I love the programmable sensitivity) laptop lock, uh, think that sums it up for now. Well of course the laptop too. lol

Um anything else and just ask. I think I've covered everything. And it's cool I know everyone can be busy. I'm the same way I can get busy, though sometimes I manage to keep a tab open for here.

 

Sorry it took so long, but here is my experiences:

1. My WASD keys get a little warm doing gaming sessions, but not to the point where I stop playing due to heat. I use a notepal u3 to help cool my laptop (I've always used cooling pads regardless if I felt I needed one or not.

Link to cooling pad: Amazon.com: Cooler Master NotePal U3 Laptop Cooling Pad with Three Configurable 80mm Fans (R9-NBC-8PCK-GP): Electronics

2. The most I overclocked was 750MHZ Core, and 1700MHZ Memory.
Difference was about 5-8C hotter. (No cooling pad) Though I started getting some tearing in furmark (I don't know how well it would have worked in games since furmark fully loads the gpu 100% of the time and most games won't do a full load 100% of the time) but I backed it down to a relatively lower oc of 650/1600 with no noticeable differences in temperature. That also allowed for a difference of a few fps ups allowing me to up the detail and such even higher (though I was happy with the "High" detail settings on games that I could only play on Low-Medium before).

3. I personally have done no mods and probably won't reasons: 1. I don't wish to void my warranty, 2. Knowing my luck I'll bust something. The only things I feel safe doing is changing the ram, hard drives and cleaning it out with a blast of canned air. 3. I'm happy with my laptop as is. Why possibly ruin something if I'm happy with it. Others may have different opinions but me? I'm happy with it.

Hope this helps a little bit.

 

Can we overclock the CPU?

 

the 3d model of np700g7c is with 7870m and it is %20 worser than 675m. It makes me so sad why dont they just release it with 7970m? whatever i will buy 675m version of this soon. did anyone try to oc the gpu? how is temps after oc'ing?

 

Hey Dragon , I wanted to let you know many thanks for your time and info , and would have felt rude just dropping this thread and not responding , I ended up going with the MSI with the 680 - definitely more money just am planning on keeping this thing a while so figured the decent bump the 680m gives plus the RAID ssd was worth it for me

If hadn't gone that way was definitely going with the Samsung over the G75 - and again thanks much for your info - btw I ordered the Enreki Beacon today from Amazon on your suggestion as it looks like a great laptop bag for 99 that should do the trick perfectly so much appreciated on that

 

It's all good. Glad I could help. That's what PC stand for personal computer, so it's a personal opinion. I didn't have the extra cash otherwise I may have gone the same route you did and probably waited a little longer. But I didn't have the extra cash or the time. (My G53SW was crapping out on me more and more. And the G73 was on lone, so something had to be done. Yes I trusted one of my friends well enough to loan my laptop to him. He didn't really want to see it go, but didn't really need it anymore.) Anyhow, yeah, I hope you enjoy the MSI. You can send me a private message on how will it is and everything if you so choose to. Glad you went with the bag. I really don't think your regret it. It can fit a boatload of stuff. I've been happy with it ever since. And it seems to be holding up better than any of my other bags ever did (they usually start giving out about now.) This one has no signs of stopping and even seems to be begging for more punishment. (Though between you and me, I'm not going to punish it anymore than I need to. lol) Enjoy your new laptop I'm sure your be very happy with it. The 680M is a beast of a card. I will admit that. But honestly that's the only thing I probably would have gone for. Would rather have an SSD and HDD or 2 HDD's but that's MY personal computer. lol. Enjoy and good luck!

 

I do not believe you can. It is not in the Bios, and I've seen no others try it, not to mention the cpu really doesn't need to be overclocked. It will overclock itself to 3.1 GHZ on all 4 cores when it needs to, 3.2GHZ on 2 cores and 3.3GHZ on 1 core. That's pretty good. Not to mention a laptop cpu and gpu really shouldn't be overclocked due to the limited cooling. Even tho we all do it. (Me included) I usually will do a quick overclock of the gpu to see what it's capable of, then bring it back to stock clocks due to heat and such. Heat is an electronics worst enemy, the more heat the faster it wears out. Now that doesn't mean that it'll wear out in 2 months if you manage a full over-clock. It'll just wear out sooner. If you plan on spending $2500+ again in the next year or 2 then by all means, but I'm keeping my clocks all stock to prolong the use. I don't have $2500+ to throw away every year. Especially when it's because I overheated my gpu or cpu from not using stock clocks. Overclocking is more for desktops where you can usually always add more fans or use liquid cooling.

 

Read further up this page and the last page. That should answer your question.

 

I am really interested in this question of the display. I have an old Alienware M17xr2 with the 1900x1200 RGB display. That's the best I've ever seen. But some of you are saying the Sammy is the best you have ever seen. I totally realise this is subjective, but is there a difference in quality, or in kind? What I love about the Alienware is the warmth and depth of colour. It's so rich. But what people seem to be saying is that the Sammy is *bright*. So are the colours richer, or sharper, or both?

 

Hey I just thought I'd say, it's a little off topic, so please private message me if you wish to comment, but since a few users have asked me about my music creations that I mentioned earlier (when I was listing everything I use this laptop for) I decided I would at least link the page for everyone to check out. Please private message me if you have comments or questions about that to prevent the forum from getting sidetracked.

link: Dragonwolf

This way I don't have to send the same private message out to multiple people. If it gets to be too much on private messaging on here I may just have to find an alternative. I just figured I'd nip something in the bud before others private messaged me and I got slammed or worse, straight up posted in the forum. Which could potentially throw everything out of whack.

 

I never saw the screen on your laptop, but I have a 1900x1200 24" dell display and the sammy is nicer than that. (The dell is a high end display with multiple inputs from VGA to DVI, component and composite inputs as well as picture in picture. So it's no wal-mart or bestbuy purchase) The sammy for sure blows away my Asus G73 (which is fine and when I had it the G53SW. The screen is a very nice screen and I have been really pleased with it. It's bright, colorful and sharp. (Though these are all as you said subjective to personal opinion, but when comparing it to my other laptops and monitors it's the nicest.)

 

Anyone notice the chipset drivers on Samsungs Website are Windows 32bit? Where is the 64bit ones?

 

Since I had a 64GB SSD sitting around I thought i'd try it out. See the speed differences and such. Anyone figure out a use for the express cache? Oh yeah, I left my factory 750GB alone, that way the recovery partition and everything was still intact.

 

The x64 drivers are in the zip as well.

I left it disabled, not large enough to be useful.

 

Hey, thanks for that. You've given me probably all I'm going to get without holding the thing! But I've no option for that, and of course youtube videos and the like don't help, really. So - thanks for answering. You certainly are saying that it's a great display. I had the Asus G73 as well - now my son has it, and looking at him game it certainly is a decent screen. So if this a lot better...

But I do have a follow-up question: if it's bright and sharp, is it hard on the eyes? I'm an on-screen text editor, but not a touch-typist (I know). This means I'll be staring at the screen a lot in black and white. Is eye-strain a problem for anybody, outside of gaming?

 

Your right about comparisons, lol. Won't know until you have it.
Personally no issues for me. I sit at it at full brightness for hours all day. And partially into the night. (Probably 8-12 hours, longest stretch was about 16 hours and never had issues. I spend equal time read articles online. Forums and such. And equal time playing games. (Longest spent on reading or doing what your wanting to do was about 7 hours solid) Though it's all personal. Some people can and some can't stand it. But my personal experience was and has been that it's not too bright.

 

I have just bought samsung np700g7c!! it is amazing did all the updates only nvidia left. then games!

 

Again, that's great, thank you. Currently I have the Alienware for gaming and a little low-spec lappy for work. I am starting to think that a) the Alienware is just starting to fall behind and b) the display on the work one is too small. So, thinking to replace both with the Samsung. From what you say, it seems to be good for both things - work and games. In fact, it seems like a really good, all-round computer. Would you agree?

Also, it's nice to get shiny new toys

 

Yes I would agree it is a good all around computer. Strong on everything you do and yet, I would label as overly bulky. One of my complaints on the older G73 was the huge left and right sides of the keyboard where Asus could have made the kayboard a little larger. Samsung did a good job on this one with evening things out everywhere. Not to mention, if you ever need to get into the bottom to upgrade the ram or hard drives, one screw and slide the bottom off ( the bottom has like latches on it kind of like a battery cover. The hard drives are an easy replace. I wish all laptops where this easy. Only issue is you need to remove the keyboard for the other 2 sticks of ram, but I think someone did that and said it was super easy. So all around from performance to being able to get into it, and price let not forget about price, this laptop is a dang good one.

If you got more money to burn, there are better one's out there thats for sure. Someone mentioned an MSI one with SSD's in RAID 0 and a 680M. But it was like $500-$600 more. Not quite in the same price category. Nothing against MSI and I'll admit if I had the money to burn I might have bought it. But right now I don't, and not many do have the money. (Also SSD's while wicked fast, I wouldn't trust an SSD exclusively with holding my data. Let alone 2 in RAID 0. Give me an SSD and an HDD.)

For the money, the Samsung is a good one all around. I also paid more on mine, it seems the prices are dropping. Of course it's also been 2 months, what did I expect. But still. I don't know how long Samsung will have this model before phasing it out for another model. I read somewhere they released a 3D model but it uses the ATI 7870M which isn't as good as the 675M. And I think costs as much if not maybe a little more. I'd rather have performance over 3D any day. Someone says I can play 3D on mine at 45FPS 720p and Medium details." Me: "Yeah? I can play non 3D at 120FPS, 1080 and at Ultra details. I really don't care." lol. 3D is a gimmick in my books. (I've tried it, and while it's cool. I just can't see me using it to game all day.) I'm waiting for something like X-men's Danger Room, or Star Trek's HoloDeck, or like something that is almost practically real. Then it'll knock my socks off. That's my opinion though. lol

Also I agree, it is nice getting shiny new toys! Regardless of what it is, but is even better when it's an awesome gaming laptop!