I am planning to buy a second hand SAMSUNG : NP550P5C-S02IN is it worth

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I am planning to buy a second hand SAMSUNG : NP550P5C-S02IN is it worth with 4 Months warranty left please guide , i am going it to buy for around 30K . i have heard a lot of good reviews about the laptop but since i cant pay that much amount for the brand new lapy i am going for a second hand with four months of warranty and the warranty will expire in August . so please tell is it worth spending the amount around 30K to buy this or not please reply asap ........
the configuration will be for the i7 - 3610QM model
 
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only one review till now can i expect more from here , anyhow the guy has increased the price to about 5K more , so what shall i do
 
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pratyush997 said:
If you are getting it for gaming, You gonna have really bad time
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Please tell the reason for this feedback as wherever i had read reviews about this lap everyone is telling that the product is good for gaming too though i am not gonna use it for that hard core gaming , i just need to run some heavy softwares like matlab and labview etc. with some high quality movies
 
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For 35K is still decent IMO - given that everything is working fine as it were and not defective. if you're looking for a second hand laptop, you've got a decent deal there I'd say.

beastboy said:
Please tell the reason for this feedback as wherever i had read reviews about this lap everyone is telling that the product is good for gaming too though i am not gonna use it for that hard core gaming , i just need to run some heavy softwares like matlab and labview etc. with some high quality movies
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It should handle moderate gaming just fine and obviously all of those softwares.
 
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n3rd said:
For 35K is still decent IMO - given that everything is working fine as it were and not defective. if you're looking for a second hand laptop, you've got a decent deal there I'd say.



It should handle moderate gaming just fine and obviously all of those softwares.
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i have heard that the GT650 is on par with the AMD7730 that is coming with the DELL Inspirton 15R SE , and many times on different forums that it is much better compared to it , then will GT650 handle moderate gaming only or heavy duty games also ,compared to AMD7730
 
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beastboy said:
i have heard that the GT650 is on par with the AMD7730 that is coming with the DELL Inspirton 15R SE , and many times on different forums that it is much better compared to it , then will GT650 handle moderate gaming only or heavy duty games also ,compared to AMD7730
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Will some experts give their valuable opinions on this purchase........, i am eagerly waiting for some suggestions that will really help me out and solve all my queries and questions.
 
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beastboy said:
Please tell the reason for this feedback as wherever i had read reviews about this lap everyone is telling that the product is good for gaming too though i am not gonna use it for that hard core gaming , i just need to run some heavy softwares like matlab and labview etc. with some high quality movies
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I own S02 and nothing heats up more than this beast. Even idle temps goes to ~60C
 
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pratyush997 said:
I own S02 and nothing heats up more than this beast. Even idle temps goes to ~60C
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but i have read reviews on other sites also and they are telling that , there is no such heating problem with this , so what you suggest should i go ahead with this or not.
 
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S02IN still heats up a lot but no throttling issues now(after BIOS update)

For 35k, its still a good laptop. I'll suggest buying a cooling pad. Consider Cooler Master Notepal U stand Mini.

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i have heard that the GT650 is on par with the AMD7730 that is coming with the DELL Inspirton 15R SE , and many times on different forums that it is much better compared to it , then will GT650 handle moderate gaming only or heavy duty games also ,compared to AMD7730
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GT650M is better than 7730M.
7730M ~ GT640M
7770M ~ GT650M
 
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anupam_pb said:
S02IN still heats up a lot but no throttling issues now(after BIOS update)

For 35k, its still a good laptop. I'll suggest buying a cooling pad. Consider Cooler Master Notepal U stand Mini.

GT650M is better than 7730M.
7730M ~ GT640M
7770M ~ GT650M
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Where and how i can get the BIOS Updated for this ,
i have read certain reviews about the graphics card you have mentioned ,
Mobile Graphics Cards - Benchmark List - NotebookCheck.net Tech

According to them GT 650 Falls in High End GPU Range while 7770 still falls in the Mid Range GPU , and is better even then AMD 8770 , 8730 too , i have selected the models and at the end of the page restricted the comparisons to those models only .

And can you please tell what could be the reason for its heating up , is it because it is clocked at a higher frequency compared to 3612QM and 3632QM or something else ,

When these heating issues comes up during heavy gamePlay only or during normal Lappy operation , if i am going to use simulation softwares like Matlab and Labview.

anupam_pb said:
S02IN still heats up a lot but no throttling issues now(after BIOS update)

For 35k, its still a good laptop. I'll suggest buying a cooling pad. Consider Cooler Master Notepal U stand Mini.

GT650M is better than 7730M.
7730M ~ GT640M
7770M ~ GT650M
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And for how much you have brought you Lenovo and from where........can you please tell.
 
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beastboy said:
Where and how i can get the BIOS Updated for this ,
i have read certain reviews about the graphics card you have mentioned ,
Mobile Graphics Cards - Benchmark List - NotebookCheck.net Tech

According to them GT 650 Falls in High End GPU Range while 7770 still falls in the Mid Range GPU , and is better even then AMD 8770 , 8730 too , i have selected the models and at the end of the page restricted the comparisons to those models only .

And can you please tell what could be the reason for its heating up , is it because it is clocked at a higher frequency compared to 3612QM and 3632QM or something else ,

When these heating issues comes up during heavy gamePlay only or during normal Lappy operation , if i am going to use simulation softwares like Matlab and Labview.



And for how much you have brought you Lenovo and from where........can you please tell.
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I bought my laptop for 64.5k in Jan end from Flipkart.

Reason was Samsung bad software optimisation as they corrected it with BIOS update(Google it on "How To do it").
3612QM & 3632QM have lower TDP than 3610M & 3630M......so lower heat n power consumption.
Normal user mostly use most performance from their laptop while gaming, so they faced it while gaming. It will happen when there is 80%+ load on both CPU n GPU (mostly GPU)
 
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pratyush997 said:
You folks got no idea how badly this **** lappy throttles. I own it and have seen many guyz suffering.
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Bro you have i5 or i7 , in most cases i have seen throttling issues coming up in the S02IN Lappy with i5 processors , and in your lappy does this throttling issues comes up while gaming in battery mode or during normal use also.

And is cooler master X-lite will be sufficient enough to keep the heating at a bay , i am not actually into hardcore gaming so please suggest as per that requirement .

anupam_pb said:
I bought my laptop for 64.5k in Jan end from Flipkart.

Reason was Samsung bad software optimisation as they corrected it with BIOS update(Google it on "How To do it").
3612QM & 3632QM have lower TDP than 3610M & 3630M......so lower heat n power consumption.
Normal user mostly use most performance from their laptop while gaming, so they faced it while gaming. It will happen when there is 80%+ load on both CPU n GPU (mostly GPU)
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Is the Higher TDP for 3610QM is because of the fact that it is clocked at a higher frequency compared to 3612 and 3632QM
 
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beastboy said:
Bro you have i5 or i7 , in most cases i have seen throttling issues coming up in the S02IN Lappy with i5 processors , and in your lappy does this throttling issues comes up while gaming in battery mode or during normal use also.
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lol wut?
S02 with i5 ? ROCL
 
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beastboy said:
I am planning to buy a second hand SAMSUNG : NP550P5C-S02IN is it worth with 4 Months warranty left please guide , i am going it to buy for around 30K . i have heard a lot of good reviews about the laptop but since i cant pay that much amount for the brand new lapy i am going for a second hand with four months of warranty and the warranty will expire in August . so please tell is it worth spending the amount around 30K to buy this or not please reply asap ........
the configuration will be for the i7 - 3610QM model
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you should be cautious because if the guy is selling a 58k laptop for 30k, you know something is wrong. first consider this fact. the laptop itself is excellent. what you can do is buy the laptop and extend teh warranty, after testing it is in working condition first of course.

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Bro you have i5 or i7 , in most cases i have seen throttling issues coming up in the S02IN Lappy with i5 processors , and in your lappy does this throttling issues comes up while gaming in battery mode or during normal use also.

And is cooler master X-lite will be sufficient enough to keep the heating at a bay , i am not actually into hardcore gaming so please suggest as per that requirement .



Is the Higher TDP for 3610QM is because of the fact that it is clocked at a higher frequency compared to 3612 and 3632QM
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clocks are almost the same but clock is not a definitive measure. i remember back in the good ole days we had 4ghz core 2 quads which are nowhere near current processors. point being higher tdp is because of increased performance. and higher tdp means more heat and more cooling required. so the processor is more powerful however games dont require that much cpu as gpu. not to mention low end laptops have a unified heatsink so if the processor heats up more the graphics card heats up more and hence throttling is more likely to happen.

the s02in ships with i7 not i5. the cooling effect of the cooling pad is variable. sometimes it may only decrease temps by 4-5 C hence it is hard to answer this question. you will be best off playing in a cool room such as in an air conditioned environment or in winter lol.
 
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