February 28, 2011
Dustin Sklavos
AVADirect's Clevo P170HM with GeForce GTX 485M: High-End You've Been Waiting For
Outside of the hugely expensive GPU upgrade, all of the prices at AVADirect are very competitive with what you'd pay on Newegg.com, so we can't fault them here. Whether it's NVIDIA raking in the bucks on the 485M, or vendors taking a nice cut—or very likely some of each!—the fact is that you're getting a very capable gaming notebook.
CONFIGURATION
See what components went into this custom computer build:
Clevo Notebook Graphics Modules
ATI
Radeon™ HD 6990 2GB GDDR5 Mobile Graphics Card for P170HM
DDR3-1333 SODIMM Memory
CORSAIR
8GB Kit (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1333MHz, PC3-10600, CL9 (9-9-9-24) 1.5V, Non-ECC, SO-DIMM Memory
SATA Notebook Hard Drives
WESTERN DIGITAL
1TB Blue WD10JPVX, 5400 RPM, SATA 6Gb/s, 8MB cache, 2.5-Inch HDD