Tom's Hardware Review #6: AVADirect's Clevo X7200: The GTX 485 Mobile Giant

This is our sixth review with Tom's Hardware, and it definitely became heated (no pun intended to graphics card temperature). They put our Clevo X7200 to the test with our competitors offering the same notebook under a different name, and graphics card selections. The result: painful to our competitors to say the very least. After our Clevo X7200 with mobile GTX 485's in SLI was put to the test with multiple games the results were in and averaged. We claimed the crown for the most performance packed in desktop replacement for an unbeatable price. When spectators thought the title could be shifted well after the results were released, we threw a quick jab at the article by releasing our ATI 6970M Crossfire configuration pricing to the public at several hundred dollars less than our competition. We eat, live, breath, and sleep the hardware we offer and will be done until the dust it settled and we are the crowned victors...wait, we already are! We always enjoy a thorough review, and Tom's Hardware literally does just that. Thank you for everyone at Tom's Hardware for providing the facts; we'll see you guys soon with our next weapon of choice.

"Using the same X7200 notebook and non-graphics hardware, AVADirect's GTX 485M SLI machine provides around 6% better average gaming performance at around 10% lower cost than its competitor's 6970M CrossFire solution. That sounds like improved value to us. Yet that value is vulnerable, attacked with a simple price cut on high-margin parts. Once this review was written and posted, AVADirect updated its pricing, listing its own Radeon HD 6970M CrossFire configuration for several hundred dollars less than the tested GeForce GTX 485M. Adding a reduced-cost 6970M option to its configuration sheets allows AVADirect to retain its price leadership, while potentially handing the graphics value crown back to AMD" - Thomas Soderstrom

	AVADirect Clevo X7200 Core i7 Gaming Notebook
Notebook Barebone	Clevo X7200
CPU	Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition Six-Core 3.33-3.60 GHz, 6.4 GT/s QPI, 12 MB L3 Cache, 32 nm, 130 W
Memory	Crucial 12 GB (3 x 4 GB) DDR3-1333 SO-DIMM, CL9, 1.5 V, Non-ECC
Graphics	Dual Nvidia GeFore GTX 485M, 2 GB GDDR5, SLI
Hard drives	Seagate Momentus XT ST95005620AS Hybrid, 500 GB + 4 GB Flash
Optical drive	H-L Data CT21N 6x Blu-ray Reader / 8x DVD Writer Combo Drive
Operating system	Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Edition, OEM

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