hadouken25

Hey everyone - in my greatest attempt to make this short, I am looking to find out what my current laptop might be worth in the used market in an attempt to replace it I'm massively enjoying the "less is more" kick lately as I turned some good bartering into me having a nice budget built ITX desktop with a 2500k and a MAXWELL Nvidia GPU (Ti flavor) The Maxwell architecture has turned me into a believer, so naturally the Sager NP7338 / Clevo W230SS is making me salivate.. It's making the little boy inside of me cry that I don't have a credit card to toss the bill on RIGHT NOW. I've already determined that I'm not going to get full value of my NP9150 to purchase the NP7338 outright, but what is my NP9150 worth?! Matte Finish 15.6" 1920x1080 LCD Intel i7-3630QM Processor 16GB DDR3-1600MHz Dual-Channel RAM 750GB SATA 7200rpm Hard-Drive 240GB Crucial M500 mSATA SSD* I would prefer not to let this go, so I don't really want it included in any evaluations please. Or, do include but let me know what this would deduct by itself 4GB Clevo Nvidia GTX 680M Graphics Killer Wireless-N 1103 Wireless Blu-Ray reader / DVD burner combo drive Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium x64 The laptop is in 9/10 condition - no cosmetic issues notable to mention, laptop is in great working shape Thanks in advance! EDIT: Anybody who thinks I should just keep the P150EM, please do tell. I just know I am really interested in something new and I want some opinions. If I'm going to go out and sell this one I want to be sure I'm getting its' worth :-)

I'm coming back down with an addiction to computers. I thought I was so awesome coming up with (Man, I should draft up an enclosure for a PCIe 16x to 1x graphics card) and then I saw this article. #TheCreativity-NotMyOwn Favorited this article - I'm still contemplating trying an external GPU on one of the dozens of laptops with a good performing processor and the boring integrated graphics :-D

This, if you're going for the best performance. If the P170EM can handle the 8970M or 780M those should be candidates as well, not sure if anybody's got either one working on it though

Here's to a long first post! Tax time is coming soon, and I'm trying to fill in all that I'm going to do with my extra spending cash from tax return. I get quite a bit from them, on purpose, to give myself a "gift" at the end of the year. Anyway - 2012 tax return that I got around April of 2013 I went through XoticPC for the first time ever to order my first brand-new, full fledged gaming laptop. I ordered the Clevo P150EM\Sager NP9150 Special Edition with an Intel Core i7-3630QM, 16GB DDR3-1600, regular 750GB 7200RPM HDD, regular 15.6" 1080p display, and the 4GB Nvidia GTX 680M. First out with the obvious, I should have opted for an mSATA SSD boot drive and/or a solid state drive, I realize that. I had been using a 120GB OCZ Agility 3 SSD in my regular 2.5" slot primarily for practically the entire year of 2013, until I replaced it with the factory original 750GB HDD (I ran out of space). I plan on buying an mSATA cache, or OS drive - as well as a larger SSD to keep this laptop "fresh". Warranty is over in a few months, and I will be using 680M vBios mods on here so I can overclock 'er and see what it can do. Question lies with: In a $2750 budget, and wanting to try out a larger 17.3" Sager/Clevo notebook (I keep eyeballing the 9380 and 9380-S) and I keep on wanting to try out the 8970M by AMD/ATI, with a slightly upgraded i7 processor (i7-4800 vs the similar clocked i7-4700 in my NP9150SE). I keep reading about dreaded driver support with radeon graphics cards (I NEVER had a problem on my desktop 7850 2GB, are driver issues only on mobile AMD GPU's?) and even looking through benchmarks it looks like the 680M still outpaces the 8970m in most cases (Metro 2033 & Last Light)(Crysis 3)(Battlefield 4) or at least manages to get within 10% of it. With my budget I think I can comfortably find a Crossfire 8970M system, but with hearing how drivers already are with a single GPU, am I really going to find benefit running them in crossfire? Ugh... With how amazing my 680M has treated me I have no problem going with the latest & greatest 780M. But, if somebody is able to convince me that the 8970M will out do my 680M or at least be slightly more future proof, I'd love to hear what you have to say. Make no mistake, I might have a $2750 budget but the budget is there for a reason: I don't wish to exceed it. I primarily have interest in this 8970M because I kept up with Notebookcheck.Net reviews comparing the 2GB 7970M to the 4GB GTX 680M and with time and new drivers, the 7970M pretty much kept up with the 680M in gaming benchmarks. I was impressed, I could have saved $250 and got the 7970M!