Guru Rain i7
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The system is astonishing. I bought it as a high-end desktop replacement and it blows my desktop machine out of the water. I don\'t have the SLI set-up but with a single NVIDIA GeForce GTX470M and the i7 960 this laptop is the most powerful computer I have owned to date.
The fan speeds are louder than a normal laptop but I have not found them to be too distracting. Under normal workloads the fan noise is acceptable.As a routine I use a cheap (and quiet) USB fan cooler on any laptop anyway and subjectively, that has reduced the laptop fan noise significantly.
The HDD Sentinel reported temps sit around 35-45 degrees C. Without a cooler and with extreme disk activity (e.g. a surface scan) the temps can get quite high (65-68 degrees) but only in the double drive bay. This is unusually high disk activity though.
Under normal conditions, without a cooler, the temps sit between 40 and 50 in the double drive bay and less for the single drive located under the battery.
Overall , most impressed and pleased with my purchase.
Notebook Guru
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The system assembly and delivery was fast. They are more than fair with their after-sales support although responses to emails could have been a bit more reliable (in my opinion). However, I can\'t rule out spam filters on the mail servers being the culprit there so don\'t judge that too harshly.
Overall, they have been really good to me and I would do business with them again.
Summary
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I\'m pleased with the laptop and with Notebook Guru: 9/10
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The system is astonishing. I bought it as a high-end desktop replacement and it blows my desktop machine out of the water. I don\'t have the SLI set-up but with a single NVIDIA GeForce GTX470M and the i7 960 this laptop is the most powerful computer I have owned to date.
The fan speeds are louder than a normal laptop but I have not found them to be too distracting. Under normal workloads the fan noise is acceptable.As a routine I use a cheap (and quiet) USB fan cooler on any laptop anyway and subjectively, that has reduced the laptop fan noise significantly.
The HDD Sentinel reported temps sit around 35-45 degrees C. Without a cooler and with extreme disk activity (e.g. a surface scan) the temps can get quite high (65-68 degrees) but only in the double drive bay. This is unusually high disk activity though.
Under normal conditions, without a cooler, the temps sit between 40 and 50 in the double drive bay and less for the single drive located under the battery.
Overall , most impressed and pleased with my purchase.
Notebook Guru
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The system assembly and delivery was fast. They are more than fair with their after-sales support although responses to emails could have been a bit more reliable (in my opinion). However, I can\'t rule out spam filters on the mail servers being the culprit there so don\'t judge that too harshly.
Overall, they have been really good to me and I would do business with them again.
Summary
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I\'m pleased with the laptop and with Notebook Guru: 9/10
