Hahaha, nice. lets see if your lappy gonna cry or come out happy
I checked out the pics. Thank god the vents are on side. If they were on bottom then it would have been unbearable on a lap cuz of temps.
Nothing is gonna happen for heavens sake. Stop scaring people.
The frst post of the following thread will answer everyones question:
NVIDIA GT 650M Benchmarks - Page 5
Good drivers now available for it.
I've pasted the discussion for everyone's benefit. Does that violate forum rules ?
"Originally Posted by Miloy04
Hey Cakefish, thanks for all the good work on the benchmarks that you've done. I'm on the verge of buying the samsung laptop that you've used for these benchmarks and I have a few questions about the gt 650m and i5 3210m:
1. is there any CPU bottlenecking at 1366x768 or lower resolutions that you can detect?
2. does the i5 3210 balance well with the gt 650m? (related to the first question really).
3. How hot does the gt 650m/i5 3210m get during average gaming sessions (of 1-3 hours) ?
4. what is the build quality of the laptop like?"
1) Nope, I haven't. In games, performance always improves when I overclock the GPU, hence the i5-3210M is definitely not bottlenecking the 650M
2) I think so, an i7 for this GPU doesn't make sense unless you need the extra speed for other tasks besides gaming. Only a tiny minority of PC games are CPU dependant. This CPU is definitely powerful enough not to bottleneck the 650M.
3) Absolute max I have recorded is 78 degrees while testing Furmark which is the most intensive application you're gonna find. In actual games it hovers in the high 60's, occasionally hitting 70. The laptop chasis itself stays cool however, during gaming sessions (see below).
4) I'm content with the build quality. I've come from a Sony VAIO E series and I can safely say that this has comparable quality. The fan however, is much quieter and the laptop's keyboard/palmrest stays surprisingly cool during heavy loads. It looks attractive in my opinion (I have the silver one) and has really fantastic speaker system for a laptop with the integrated subwoofer. The keyboard and trackpad are perfect, can't complain about any aspect on this regard, they are responsive, smooth and comfortable to use. Battery life is also far, far superior to my old VAIO, due to more efficient Ivy Bridge/Kepler parts and Optimus.
