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Good Monday, hope you all had a good weekend. I did and enjoyed the weather. Whilst enjoying the weather, I had my trusty i5 doing some drive cloning work for a customer. I came inside to check on it and noticed the PC was off, and I smelled that dreaded popcorn/ammonia smell.
After looking over the whole machine, and testing with known good spares, the casualties are terrible. PSU must've went belly up and took the relatively new Z77 Extreme and the i5-2400 Sandy. My PSU was about three years old, an OCZ 700w watt.
Needless to say, after this happening, I've been looking at machines such as the Lenovo Y50. It would be nice to have something that I can take around. It would also be nice to have something pre-built where I can install my software and go. Yes I do enjoy building PCs, but lately, after working on computers all day at work, I just want to be able to come home and use a good machine... not have to troubleshoot or setup something.
The Y50 looks like a solid performer. i7-4710HQ, 4GB GTX 860M, 8GB RAM, 1TB 5400 with 8GB SSD Cache, and an external Blue-Ray/DVD Burner. No SSD, but for around $1150, the package looks good.
Any recommendations on gaming laptops? Maybe someone on here has a Y50?
Thanks.
After looking over the whole machine, and testing with known good spares, the casualties are terrible. PSU must've went belly up and took the relatively new Z77 Extreme and the i5-2400 Sandy. My PSU was about three years old, an OCZ 700w watt.
Needless to say, after this happening, I've been looking at machines such as the Lenovo Y50. It would be nice to have something that I can take around. It would also be nice to have something pre-built where I can install my software and go. Yes I do enjoy building PCs, but lately, after working on computers all day at work, I just want to be able to come home and use a good machine... not have to troubleshoot or setup something.
The Y50 looks like a solid performer. i7-4710HQ, 4GB GTX 860M, 8GB RAM, 1TB 5400 with 8GB SSD Cache, and an external Blue-Ray/DVD Burner. No SSD, but for around $1150, the package looks good.
Any recommendations on gaming laptops? Maybe someone on here has a Y50?
Thanks.
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