Samsung NP550P5C-S02IN ... should i buy it or not??

TheSloth

TheSloth

The Slowest One
Well really nice if throttling isnt there. And try the games in which samsung owners faced throttling.
How much your laptop cost?
 
coderunknown

coderunknown

Retired Forum Mod
Swapnil26sps said:
@Sam: thank you for reply. One thing really disappoint me that samsung did not used proper components to deliver a really good product, just to cut the price down(according to anandtech). And as you said, GDDR5 need more voltage than GDDR3, but even in that 7 series,that is a gaming series, they used a 90W adapter. What is samsung trying to do here? The price is really good but the truth is bitter behind this low cost.
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how many of us thoroughly check a laptop before getting one? think about the rest of the Indians. Of all the users that will go for this laptop most are gamers and they know just one thing: i5/i7 + Nvidia GT650/660 is a really highend config. Most simply don't know or care about the things that we may check like battery provided, max temperature or strange heating, display viewing angles or quality, is the power brick sufficient, quality of hard drive, and now throttling.

Samsung had to cut corners in this laptop else total price will shoot past 65k. Better display, SSD (or just a caching SSD), GDDR5 memory, dual fans (one for GPU, one for proccy), better quality power brick, better ventilation, etc all this will drive total cost really high. Display is fine but do keep checking for updated bios. Once it is fixed, i think 550p will be back on track. Or maybe some of the users that are facing throttling can try reduce processor voltage and test again.
 
coderunknown

coderunknown

Retired Forum Mod
i can't say the problem is with the adapter or the extra heat. so best will be to run games both in battery mode and on AC and check for sudden drop in framerates or sluggishness. This will answer your query.
 
TheSloth

TheSloth

The Slowest One
@Sam: really thank you for reply. I don't know that voltage tweaking, i'll ask to other owners. And if samsung didnt release a decent BIOS update then we customers will get cheated by them. And now i think i am among those indians, i had no idea about adapter and throttling issue. Should have waited for a reliable review. And dell is leading again i guess,with gt650 + i5.

Ok...i'll game with and without AC.
 
TheSloth

TheSloth

The Slowest One
@Sam: hahahahaha. :rofl: Sorry for being confusing. I too meant AC mains.
@50103: how would i know bro? You say any issue you faced till now? You DDR5 and everything is fine then i think 90w is enough. I don't know. Ok try games in which samsung owners faced throttling then say.
 
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SlayerAndy

Broken In
I will also suggest the 17R. May it be i5. But it has arguably the best ASS, nice looks, backlit, GDDR5 GT650M which doesn't throttle, and reliability. I really recommend you not take 550.
 
U

Utopian Meego

Right off the assembly line
I have samsung NP550 P5C S02 AE
core i7 3610QM - Nvidia GT650M
Manufactured on MAY 2012

I've never experienced any throttling !
I set any game to the MAX setting without any problems
..i even played Assassins Creed Brotherhood for a Whole 9 Hours Continuously ! (i wanted to finish it xD)

i heard about the throttling in some forums but i noticed they are all have the core i5 processor as a common match
..if this is the case so maybe for the i7 models they supplied a better cooling system for the whole lap

on some forums i found that they experience throttling on AC mode while no problems exists in battery mode ..but i have to mention again that my core i7 version don't experience this at all (for sure the battery won't last for 9 Hours of Assassins Creed as i mentioned above :D )

by the way i play nfsHP @ max settings using the intel HD 4000 (kind of saving battery when i am not near an AC plug) and it goes quite fine for long hours

I got this lap particularly for graphics works (3D max - Cinema 4D - Poser - eon VUE - Photoshop - After Effects )
 
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