Bit the bullet, and ordered my laptop!!

[ShadowFold]

Thats gonna run crysis better than my desktop Gonna chug a hella lot of electricity tho lol

 

[Triprift]

Trip, you should change your system specs now because you no longer have "poor laptop cooling"!

What's the name of your laptop? I mean brand.

Check my system specs now

And my lappys HP good lappy only had to have screen replaced once in a year odd

 

[mullered07]

where in the hell is it, we want pics to drool over and benches

 

[Black Panther]

where in the hell is it

Wish I knew too...

At work I ended looking out of the window... I imagined every Lufthansa plane passing by was carrying it...

 

[Triprift]

Patience Panther it will arive this week and if it doesnt then ummmm maybe next week.

 

[Wile E]

Nice!

I was first going to see how my laptop performs temperature-wise.... If it gets too warm I was going to purchase a Zalman NC2000.

Trip, what temperatures do you get on your laptop? CPU & GPU?

I was looking around on notebookreview.com forums and with regard to the Sager 9262 which is my same model sold in USA, they quote idle temperatures for the Q9450 as....... wait for it....... 56-58 degrees centigrade! And under load there is no problem unless it gets higher than 90 degrees... They say it's normal for a laptop...

I mean if it's a desktop processor, isn't its thermal range maximum 61.4 degrees otherwise it would start throttling or shut down??

They say the Zalman NC2000 reduces temperatures by ~ 3 to 5 degrees.

No, the max on a 45nm Intel Quad is 95C. 56-58 Idle is no problem.

 

[Black Panther]

Recipient: shipment abroad
Status: consignment is in transport to the country as a target

 

[Triprift]

Alrighty thats more like it then so when ya rekon ull get it tomorrow Friday next week?

 

[Black Panther]

Alrighty thats more like it then so when ya rekon ull get it tomorrow Friday next week?

I back-tracked a bit this thread and found:

They're going to prepare the laptop. Next Monday I make the bank transfer which will take 2-3 days and they told me that as soon as they receive the payment they will ship which will take 3-5 days by DHL.

So I'm assuming that I'll be getting it around the 15th or 16th of July, give or take...

Now I made the payment on Tuesday 8th. It got through to the seller on Thursday 10th. He didn't ship Friday because he had a problem with the SLi cable (which I'm hoping he solved well!)... and he shipped Tuesday. If it takes 3-5 days to arrive as he told me, that means I'd be getting the notebook between Friday (today) if it takes 3 days, or next Monday if it takes 5 days, maybe Tuesday if the weekend causes delay.

So I know I'm being over-eager...

I have a friend on a local forum, he told me he had ordered an Alienware from Ireland. They took very long to ship, I don't remember if he said one month or two, but he received it by DHL the day after they shipped. So that kinda put my hopes up...

 

[Triprift]

Hmmm its in the lap of the lappy sending gods eh it will be worth the wait Panther just think of all the fun ull have when it finally arrives.

 

[Black Panther]

Yeah, finally I'll be able to game in late evening, and whenever I want during the weekends! As things are now, I am on my rig only between 2PM and 5PM approximately during weekdays, and in such short time I can't decide whether to game or browse the net (which I do intermittently at work).

What's getting on my nerves is the fact of not knowing where it is. It was shipped DHL Germany. The number is correct for Germany but not for the rest of the world (DHL global) including Malta. I called EMS Maltapost (the courier service of our post company) and they told me the number isn't of their company either.

Lol I'm better off killing some time playing Assassin's Creed...

 

[alexp999]

Yeah, finally I'll be able to game in late evening, and whenever I want during the weekends! As things are now, I am on my rig only between 2PM and 5PM approximately during weekdays, and in such short time I can't decide whether to game or browse the net (which I do intermittently at work).

What's getting on my nerves is the fact of not knowing where it is. It was shipped DHL Germany. The number is correct for Germany but not for the rest of the world (DHL global) including Malta. I called EMS Maltapost (the courier service of our post company) and they told me the number isn't of their company either.

Lol I'm better off killing some time playing Assassin's Creed...

I think most courier companiers are like this. When we were getting my dad's case from commodore, the tracking number only worked on DPD.ie (where the commodore factory is and shipped from) and when we had some stuff sent from their HQ in amsterdam it only worked on TNT.nl

Dont forget it could take 3-4 days, that was the estimate we were told for between european countries. Only reason ours took 2 days was because the UK is so close to ireland, lol.

Good things come to those who wait. my cousin had to wait months to get his custom built super-lappy.

 

[Black Panther]

In the meantime, I'm thinking about a list of "indispensible software" to install... while trying to avoid bloat-ware.

Here's my list. Any suggestions welcome. (OS will be Vista Home Premium x64 so they must be 64bit compatible)

- Avast Antivirus
- Spyware Doctor

(any better suggestions for the above two?)

- CPU-Z
- GPU-Z
- SIW
- 3DMark 06 (vantage... I think the last time I checked it wasn't free or I'm confusing it with something else?)
- SuperPi
- CoreTemp
- ATITool (mainly for GPU temperature monitoring)
- Piriform Defraggler

- Firefox
- Fraps

Am I missing out something, and where do you suggest I could improve?

 

[DaedalusHelios]

Eset Nod32 is known to have the smallest footprint.

 

[alexp999]

In the meantime, I'm thinking about a list of "indispensible software" to install... while trying to avoid bloat-ware.

Here's my list. Any suggestions welcome. (OS will be Vista Home Premium x64 so they must be 64bit compatible)

- Avast Antivirus
- Spyware Doctor

(any better suggestions for the above two?)

- CPU-Z
- GPU-Z
- SIW
- 3DMark 06 (vantage... I think the last time I checked it wasn't free or I'm confusing it with something else?)
- SuperPi
- CoreTemp
- ATITool (mainly for GPU temperature monitoring)
- Piriform Defraggler

- Firefox
- Fraps

Am I missing out something, and where do you suggest I could improve?

I use kaspersky internet security, you can get it dirt cheap. I gave up on free antivirus when I was able to pick up a 3 PC retail licence for KIS new on ebay for £14.

And yeah, vantage has only one free version, that lets you only run the software once. I don't think its too expensive, but it is the principle of the matter that I havent bought it (though I may give in when I get my 4870X2 )

EDIT: Kaspersky is more user friendly, NOD is more suited to businesses and enterprises.

<--- Oh and I got 1000 posts now

 

[Triprift]

Id second Kaspersky way better than Pc cillan and congrats on 1000 posts alexp999

Ya might want to have a proggy for recovering lost files i use recuva but there are plenty of other ones available.

 

[Wile E]

I use Kaspersky Internet Security as well.

And yeah, you have to pay for Vantage if you want to run it more than once. The basic version only costs like $7, iirc. It operates like the free version of 06 from what I understand. The advanced version is $20, and lets you run all the different tests, change settings, and lets you keep as many scores as you want on your ORB account. That's the one I bought.

 

[Black Panther]

I hope I receive the laptop today... and that it arrives during the time I'm actually here...

I've done a bit of research on DHL Germany.
As someone told me in another thread, apparently they're a subsidiary of Deutsche Post... so what gets shipped by DHL in Germany doesn't arrive by DHL in your country but will arrive by a courier of your local post company (in my case MaltaPost).

Apparently, the number gets changed then, probably MaltaPost (?) give it a different number. I had called them previously but they didn't want to give me any information. They just told me my 12 digit number was incorrect and that I needed a 9-digit number.

The seller said he shipped last Tuesday... it's already 6 days...

 

[Triprift]

When ya get it and set it up youre gonna have to take piccies and bechmark it too high heavan. I for one will be very interested too see what performance ya get from that beast. My guess is it will put many desktops on here to shame.

 

[Cybrnook2002]

I hope I receive the laptop today... and that it arrives during the time I'm actually here...

I've done a bit of research on DHL Germany.
As someone told me in another thread, apparently they're a subsidiary of Deutsche Post... so what gets shipped by DHL in Germany doesn't arrive by DHL in your country but will arrive by a courier of your local post company (in my case MaltaPost).

Apparently, the number gets changed then, probably MaltaPost (?) give it a different number. I had called them previously but they didn't want to give me any information. They just told me my 12 digit number was incorrect and that I needed a 9-digit number.

The seller said he shipped last Tuesday... it's already 6 days...

But you cant count the weekend as those are not "business days". So, technically its only been 4 days. Also, if on tues, he shipped after 12, then it got shipped the next day. So it sat at the post office that afternoon and was sent out the next day. So, technically it could have only been on the road 3 days so far. Im sure its coming. But, if I were you , I would try and get some more details about what was wrong with the SLI cable? (Sounds shady)

 

[Black Panther]

I would try and get some more details about what was wrong with the SLI cable? (Sounds shady)

Hmmm I assumed it wasn't on stock... I mean what can go wrong with an SLI cable?

Anyway, I'll be trying the laptop out and checking if all is ok when I get it. I mean emailing the seller won't help now since he shipped the laptop, and I haven't got it yet...

 

[Black Panther]

*** panics ***

I have been refreshing the german dhl page and right now I got this:

Addressee: Item destined for abroad
Status: Departure from inward Office of Exchange in the Country of Destination
Status from: 21.07.08 07:51
Process: Departure from inward Office of Exchange in the Country of Destination

Am I understanding it well... the country of destination isn't Germany... it's my country Malta isn't it?

So, at approximately 8:00AM this morning the laptop left... wait, left where, in my country?
That means it left someplace here , 4 hours ago... (you can travel from one end to the island to the other in half an hour here lol)

Edit:

However, if I use the german language and google translate it I get a different message

Recipient: shipment abroad
Status: the gateway program in the target country
Status: 21.07.08 07:51
Transactions: the gateway program in the target country

 

[mullered07]

looks like it has left a depot in your country to be delivered, could be today man they will probably have a van full of stuff so be patient lol

 

[Cybrnook2002]

*** panics ***

I have been refreshing the german dhl page and right now I got this:



Am I understanding it well... the country of destination isn't Germany... it's my country Malta isn't it?

So, at approximately 8:00AM this morning the laptop left... wait, left where, in my country?
That means it left someplace here , 4 hours ago... (you can travel from one end to the island to the other in half an hour here lol)

it has reached the hub in your country, and is now being sent to your local post office for delivery to your house. Which should take a day or two. Seems its traveling through customs. i think you should expect to see it maybe by the end of the week. International packages are NEVER done within 3-4 days. it takes longer. hence thats one of the downsides of ordering out of your country.

 

[Black Panther]

Hmmm, afaik there should be no customs in shipping from one EU country to the other?