The Nitro's are maxwell. I was very sure to make sure of that before i ordered it.
The easy way to tell is the kepler's were 4gb parts and maxwell's are 2gb parts.
If you give me a moment, ill set up my laptop and do a GPUZ screenshot and upload it.
Edit 2: Looks like you can get the same laptop with a 960m and its about $100 more. The 960m maxwell is about 8% faster than the 860m maxwell as far as base clock speeds, in real gaming situations, that may not amount to a huge difference, but it future proofs it more.
Being as how they're reimbursing you up to $1500, i'd say go for it, if they're paying for it i mean.
Edit 3: The 15" version is a single fan cooling solution, and the 17" has a dual fan cooling solution. Not sure how much the portability loss means to you but if its not huge i would go for the 17". Thats the one i have and i can confirm ive had no throttling issues. I cant make any guarantees on the 15" one.
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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
Since you're not paying for it up to $1500 anyway, I don't see any reason to prefer an older GTX 860M model over a newer GTX 960M model.
I'd like to point out again that on your budget, you could get a GTX 965M rather than a GTX 960M and have an extra 38% GPU performance. Even so, the GTX 960M is still a capable card, and if you decide that you'd rather have something lighter (the 15" Acer that Hrimnir linked is only 5.29 pounds) at the cost of that extra GPU performance, that's perfectly legitimate. It might mean that you sometimes have to turn down a couple of graphical settings that you'd rather have higher, but if a GTX 960M can't run a game at decent settings, that game is going to have an awfully small market.
If you decide that the Acer is what you want, I'd say, go ahead and get it. There's nothing obviously stupid in the specs (which is actually pretty rare as prebuilt laptops go), and it offers an SSD and an IPS monitor, among other important things.
Those are some crazy thin laptops for the hardware that they are housing, though heat dissipation alone would make me fear those purchases. Despite not being as well versed as most of the gentleman here in laptops, I would simply like to add I loved ACER RoG laptops. I've tried several different brands of gaming laptops with my GF over the years and I really feel that ACER hits home. As many have mentioned all laptops more or less use the same components nowadays so things like weight/thickness and battery are some of the few aesthetics you look for now. For this reason alone is why I loved ACER so much and the G75 VW was a damn impressive laptop. What I loved so much about the RoG series was from the cases sleek curvature, to the massive heat dissipation vents on the back of the unit. I've always preferred ATI cards mostly due to heat + laptops = sad face but since the model I received was a gift it was stuck with a Nvidia GTX 670M 3G card. I must say I have never seen a laptop run so damn cool on the bottom of it, let alone with a high end Nvidia card at the time.
The laptop shredded every game I threw at it and stayed cool while giving me a nice crisp 17.3 inch monitor with a beautiful 1080P color pallet (It wasn't a matte finish it was glosss). The one drawback that I will say it had was the thickness paired with the 17.3 size made it tough to find a carrying case for, but this wasn't a drawback to me. I have made many flights over the years visiting family in AZ from Seattle,WA. I flew in mostly mid class cramped airplanes and due to the carry on policy the laptop fit just fine in the overhead or under my seat by simply angling the case no matter how narrow the underseat storage was.
Those are some crazy thin laptops for the hardware that they are housing, though heat dissipation alone would make me fear those purchases. Despite not being as well versed as most of the gentleman here in laptops, I would simply like to add I loved ACER RoG laptops. I've tried several different brands of gaming laptops with my GF over the years and I really feel that ACER hits home. As many have mentioned all laptops more or less use the same components nowadays so things like weight/thickness and battery are some of the few aesthetics you look for now. For this reason alone is why I loved ACER so much and the G75 VW was a damn impressive laptop. What I loved so much about the RoG series was from the cases sleek curvature, to the massive heat dissipation vents on the back of the unit. I've always preferred ATI cards mostly due to heat + laptops = sad face but since the model I received was a gift it was stuck with a Nvidia GTX 670M 3G card. I must say I have never seen a laptop run so damn cool on the bottom of it, let alone with a high end Nvidia card at the time.
The laptop shredded every game I threw at it and stayed cool while giving me a nice crisp 17.3 inch monitor with a beautiful 1080P color pallet (It wasn't a matte finish it was glosss). The one drawback that I will say it had was the thickness paired with the 17.3 size made it tough to find a carrying case for, but this wasn't a drawback to me. I have made many flights over the years visiting family in AZ from Seattle,WA. I flew in mostly mid class cramped airplanes and due to the carry on policy the laptop fit just fine in the overhead or under my seat by simply angling the case no matter how narrow the underseat storage was.
I have owned the 17" version of that laptop for several months now and have beat this thing into ground and never had it get uncomfortably hot or do any kind of throttling.
If it had a 870m or 970m+ you would be correct. But the maxwell chips are very power efficient and dont produce nearly as much heat as you'd expect.
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
Those are some crazy thin laptops for the hardware that they are housing, though heat dissipation alone would make me fear those purchases. Despite not being as well versed as most of the gentleman here in laptops, I would simply like to add I loved ACER RoG laptops. I've tried several different brands of gaming laptops with my GF over the years and I really feel that ACER hits home. As many have mentioned all laptops more or less use the same components nowadays so things like weight/thickness and battery are some of the few aesthetics you look for now. For this reason alone is why I loved ACER so much and the G75 VW was a damn impressive laptop. What I loved so much about the RoG series was from the cases sleek curvature, to the massive heat dissipation vents on the back of the unit. I've always preferred ATI cards mostly due to heat + laptops = sad face but since the model I received was a gift it was stuck with a Nvidia GTX 670M 3G card. I must say I have never seen a laptop run so damn cool on the bottom of it, let alone with a high end Nvidia card at the time.
The laptop shredded every game I threw at it and stayed cool while giving me a nice crisp 17.3 inch monitor with a beautiful 1080P color pallet (It wasn't a matte finish it was glosss). The one drawback that I will say it had was the thickness paired with the 17.3 size made it tough to find a carrying case for, but this wasn't a drawback to me. I have made many flights over the years visiting family in AZ from Seattle,WA. I flew in mostly mid class cramped airplanes and due to the carry on policy the laptop fit just fine in the overhead or under my seat by simply angling the case no matter how narrow the underseat storage was.
I have owned the 17" version of that laptop for several months now and have beat this thing into ground and never had it get uncomfortably hot or do any kind of throttling.
If it had a 870m or 970m+ you would be correct. But the maxwell chips are very power efficient and dont produce nearly as much heat as you'd expect.
Nice! Yeah one thing I didn't like about my laptop is it didn't have the right chip type for using the nvidia shield because ACER rushed the particular model before the full Laptop GPU actually released..... If laptop manufacturers still do that crap I'd look out for that too.
I do like the look and the components of the 17.3 ACER. it looks like a great laptop. I actually have it in my cart at newegg.
You mentioned the Sager laptop Quiz and I went on that website, but if it wasn't you suggesting it I would have thought for sure it was a bad website. In addition to this there are a lot of choices that I just don't have the computer background in answering. I can build computers, actually anyone can if you read about it, but I don't have the best expertise when it comes to all of the various specs that the Sager website was offering.
I am going to wait another day or two and then I will make my choice and purchase.
I got it in a few days ago. It is outstanding. Pretty much what I was looking for.
Here a few questions:
1. Any recommendations on what I should delete from the computer? Bloatware, etc...
2. How good will it be to play Witcher 3?
3. More of a loaded question ---
The specs on the laptop is the 256 SSD (1TB HDD also), 960m, I7 4720 @2.6, and 16gb ram
My home computer has 8gb Corsair RAM, 750 HDD, I52500K (I used the AISUITE and did an automatic boost to fast --- still new at this), and a 980GTX. I know my graphics card is excellent, but my other components might not be the greatest.
Can both computers play Witcher 3? Which one do you think will play it on higher settings?
I got it in a few days ago. It is outstanding. Pretty much what I was looking for.
Here a few questions:
1. Any recommendations on what I should delete from the computer? Bloatware, etc...
2. How good will it be to play Witcher 3?
3. More of a loaded question ---
The specs on the laptop is the 256 SSD (1TB HDD also), 960m, I7 4720 @2.6, and 16gb ram
My home computer has 8gb Corsair RAM, 750 HDD, I52500K (I used the AISUITE and did an automatic boost to fast --- still new at this), and a 980GTX. I know my graphics card is excellent, but my other components might not be the greatest.
Can both computers play Witcher 3? Which one do you think will play it on higher settings?
Both will be able to play The witcher 3. Your desktop with the 980 will play it best. Your laptop will be able to play it well just not at max settings, more of a med / high settings.
As far as what to remove from the laptop, only you can answer that. Just unistall the programs you for sure wont be using. If nothing else if you dont know what something is / does then google it and see if it is useful.
Your desktop gfx card is far better than the laptop. I would play tw3 on your desktop if it were me. This laptop isn't something that's gonna play a brand new game like that on high settings at any reasonable frame rate. That game brings my SLI 760s to their knees in max settings. Even a $3k gaming laptop with a 980m would have trouble with TW3 at high/ultra.
I'm glad your happy with it. As far as bloatware just go into uninstall and look through the list of programs and uninstall anything you don't think you will need. I don't remember there being a whole lot, maybe half a dozen I had to uninstall.
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
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The Nitro's are maxwell. I was very sure to make sure of that before i ordered it.
The easy way to tell is the kepler's were 4gb parts and maxwell's are 2gb parts.
If you give me a moment, ill set up my laptop and do a GPUZ screenshot and upload it.
Edit 2: Looks like you can get the same laptop with a 960m and its about $100 more. The 960m maxwell is about 8% faster than the 860m maxwell as far as base clock speeds, in real gaming situations, that may not amount to a huge difference, but it future proofs it more.
Being as how they're reimbursing you up to $1500, i'd say go for it, if they're paying for it i mean.
Edit 3: The 15" version is a single fan cooling solution, and the 17" has a dual fan cooling solution. Not sure how much the portability loss means to you but if its not huge i would go for the 17". Thats the one i have and i can confirm ive had no throttling issues. I cant make any guarantees on the 15" one.
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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
17"
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834314853&cm_re=acer_v_nitro-_-34-314-853-_-Product
15"
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834314850&cm_re=acer_v_nitro-_-34-314-850-_-Product
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Since you're not paying for it up to $1500 anyway, I don't see any reason to prefer an older GTX 860M model over a newer GTX 960M model.
I'd like to point out again that on your budget, you could get a GTX 965M rather than a GTX 960M and have an extra 38% GPU performance. Even so, the GTX 960M is still a capable card, and if you decide that you'd rather have something lighter (the 15" Acer that Hrimnir linked is only 5.29 pounds) at the cost of that extra GPU performance, that's perfectly legitimate. It might mean that you sometimes have to turn down a couple of graphical settings that you'd rather have higher, but if a GTX 960M can't run a game at decent settings, that game is going to have an awfully small market.
If you decide that the Acer is what you want, I'd say, go ahead and get it. There's nothing obviously stupid in the specs (which is actually pretty rare as prebuilt laptops go), and it offers an SSD and an IPS monitor, among other important things.
Those are some crazy thin laptops for the hardware that they are housing, though heat dissipation alone would make me fear those purchases. Despite not being as well versed as most of the gentleman here in laptops, I would simply like to add I loved ACER RoG laptops. I've tried several different brands of gaming laptops with my GF over the years and I really feel that ACER hits home. As many have mentioned all laptops more or less use the same components nowadays so things like weight/thickness and battery are some of the few aesthetics you look for now. For this reason alone is why I loved ACER so much and the G75 VW was a damn impressive laptop. What I loved so much about the RoG series was from the cases sleek curvature, to the massive heat dissipation vents on the back of the unit. I've always preferred ATI cards mostly due to heat + laptops = sad face but since the model I received was a gift it was stuck with a Nvidia GTX 670M 3G card. I must say I have never seen a laptop run so damn cool on the bottom of it, let alone with a high end Nvidia card at the time.
The laptop shredded every game I threw at it and stayed cool while giving me a nice crisp 17.3 inch monitor with a beautiful 1080P color pallet (It wasn't a matte finish it was glosss). The one drawback that I will say it had was the thickness paired with the 17.3 size made it tough to find a carrying case for, but this wasn't a drawback to me. I have made many flights over the years visiting family in AZ from Seattle,WA. I flew in mostly mid class cramped airplanes and due to the carry on policy the laptop fit just fine in the overhead or under my seat by simply angling the case no matter how narrow the underseat storage was.
RoG is Asus. Acer is fairly new to building gaming laptops.
I have owned the 17" version of that laptop for several months now and have beat this thing into ground and never had it get uncomfortably hot or do any kind of throttling.
If it had a 870m or 970m+ you would be correct. But the maxwell chips are very power efficient and dont produce nearly as much heat as you'd expect.
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Nice! Yeah one thing I didn't like about my laptop is it didn't have the right chip type for using the nvidia shield because ACER rushed the particular model before the full Laptop GPU actually released..... If laptop manufacturers still do that crap I'd look out for that too.
I do like the look and the components of the 17.3 ACER. it looks like a great laptop. I actually have it in my cart at newegg.
You mentioned the Sager laptop Quiz and I went on that website, but if it wasn't you suggesting it I would have thought for sure it was a bad website. In addition to this there are a lot of choices that I just don't have the computer background in answering. I can build computers, actually anyone can if you read about it, but I don't have the best expertise when it comes to all of the various specs that the Sager website was offering.
I am going to wait another day or two and then I will make my choice and purchase.
I found your problem there.
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I got it in a few days ago. It is outstanding. Pretty much what I was looking for.
Here a few questions:
1. Any recommendations on what I should delete from the computer? Bloatware, etc...
2. How good will it be to play Witcher 3?
3. More of a loaded question ---
The specs on the laptop is the 256 SSD (1TB HDD also), 960m, I7 4720 @2.6, and 16gb ram
My home computer has 8gb Corsair RAM, 750 HDD, I52500K (I used the AISUITE and did an automatic boost to fast --- still new at this), and a 980GTX. I know my graphics card is excellent, but my other components might not be the greatest.
Can both computers play Witcher 3? Which one do you think will play it on higher settings?
Both will be able to play The witcher 3. Your desktop with the 980 will play it best. Your laptop will be able to play it well just not at max settings, more of a med / high settings.
As far as what to remove from the laptop, only you can answer that. Just unistall the programs you for sure wont be using. If nothing else if you dont know what something is / does then google it and see if it is useful.
I'm glad your happy with it. As far as bloatware just go into uninstall and look through the list of programs and uninstall anything you don't think you will need. I don't remember there being a whole lot, maybe half a dozen I had to uninstall.
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
- Friedrich Nietzsche