List Price: $1,899.00
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This laptop is on sale at new egg for 1700 right now (ends today). I spent forever trying to build the right laptop and came to the conclusion I needed an i7 and either a radeon 8970m or a 780m. While I plan on adding an ssd and throwing in 2 sticks of 8g ram down the road, (and possibly windows 8) for 1700 i was extremely happy I found the laptop. Only other option I came up with was building an explorer x6-9600 or the ibuypower equivalent (which is all preference). I'll update when i receive the laptop.
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I start only with what I know so far (received 08/21/2013):Delivery and Packaging: Excellent, it came packaged in four boxes, with tChree of them having padding. Pretty amazing job by Amazon and CyberpowerPC
Upgrading: Good, upgraded by adding an SSD. Doing this was a bit tricky because the back panel is plastic, and snaps into place. So you have to be gentle and firm at the same time to remove it. The upside is once you are in you get two drive bays. I did get a BSOD a couple of times, but I believe that was more of a drive issue that an issue with this laptop. I also plan on upgrading the RAM when I find a good deal. I'll update this when that occurs.
Overall Performance: Just good, with the components installed. This thing has a huge bottleneck when booting up with that 5400rpm boot hard drive. Adding the SSD the boot up goes from close to minute, to about 20 seconds. So just plan on upgrading this, and this thing is blazing fast. However, without the upgrade you really aren't getting the performance you paid for. If you need more storage at least go with a 7200rpm HD.
Gaming Performance: Excellent, here is where you get a great value from this notebook. You get the most powerful single video card on the market. It blows my desktop with a 560Ti out of the water. Now realize with the bleeding edge you might run into a few issues. For example I couldn't get the latest drivers to install. However, this isn't a reflection on this notebook. It is just part of the deal with a high end video card. Just pop in Skyrim, and realize any issues are totally worth it.
Build Quality: Seems good so far, but time will tell (and I will update accordingly).
Support: Good, the disks packed included a disk with drivers and a Windows 7 disk. This is more than you get from most companies at this point. The driver disk came in handy when installing a fresh install of Win 7 on the SSD. The nice thing is this computer DOES NOT come bloated with crapware. Hopefully support won't be necessary, but if so I'll update this.
Update-09/2013-Got the Beta driver, version 326.80 installed without any issues. Also I'm blown away even more than I was day one by this things performance. Borderlands 2 really shines with some of its physx effects.
Best Deals for CyberpowerPC FANGBOOK EVO HFX7-300 17.3-Inch Laptop
The CyberpowerPC FANGBOOK EVO HFX7-300 looks like a great deal...at first. Next-gen Intel Haswell quad-core mobile processor gets the job done, next-gen high end mobile NVidia graphics card is the most powerful single card you can buy in a laptop right now and can pretty much play any game with most eye candy maxed @ 1920 x 1080 resolution, 8GB of 1600Mhz DDR3 what is more than enough to handle most work loads, great matte finish 17-.3 inch LED screen, etc, etc. So, what's not to like. Well, for starters and ultimately the "killer" of this great deal is the cooling solution. THe HFX7-300 utilizes a SINGLE fan to cool both the GPU and CPU. As a result, both the GPU and CPU throttle down in clock speeds in order to maintain the proper thermal thresholds they were designed to operate. The end result is a laptop that will have longevity issues, perform much less than expected, and will need to be used in an environment with an ambient temperature that is below 80F. THe CPU and GPU will most likely fail over time from continuous exposure to unusually high temperatures.Bottom line DO NOT BUY THIS LAPTOP!! Yes, you might save a few hundred dollars, but that will ultimately be your undoing. This laptop will cause you nothing but heartache with customer support or with having to return it thinking it's defective. But, it's NOT defective. It's part of the way it was designed, which is to say that was done very poorly.
Don't believe me? Read this review on a similar MSI GT70 laptop that has the exact same cooling solution as the HFX7-300 Thanks to Doctor Dave for both links!
http://www.amazon.com/review/R2ZG948Q8RZEPV/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R2ZG948Q8RZEPV
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7076/msi-gt70-dragon-edition-notebook-review-haswell-and-the-gtx-780m/4
If MSI and CyberpowerPC would have just taken a bit more time to employ a better cooling solution similar to the Asus G750 and Alienware M17X and M18X laptops, they would have had a serious contender on their hands. Instead, they were more worried about profit instead of quality of product. NO WAY AM I GOING TO BUY FROM A COMPANY LIKE THAT!! Maybe next year MSI and CyberpowerPC will get their respective quality control and product engineering teams back on track...maybe...
Honest reviews on CyberpowerPC FANGBOOK EVO HFX7-300 17.3-Inch Laptop
This is a machine for gamer but you can not play the hardest games in this machine, with this price, you can choose a stronger machine. For example ASUS G750JX-DB71, which is cheaper and stronger. You can play every games and run every design application or 3D processFANGBOOK EVO HFX7-300 : $1,900.02
2.4 GHz Intel Core i7-4770
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