the new metallic casing looks wicked

*looking at previous model in front*

*butt hurting experience intensifies*

 

Vram doesnt give you gain .. The 6gb n 8gb variant of 970m n 980m doesnt make sense as ure still limited by gpu grunt power.

970m oced=770>960
980m oced<970=780ti
980m needs a 30-40% oc to be close to a stock 980.
The prob with 980m .. You can game ultra setting on 1080p but it just cant do very high settings@1440p.

This is based as a former titan black sli & 780ti sli user..

But ...Then again this was a first time i ever bought a gaming laptop. I was literally shocked how far mobile gpus has come. I dont trust reviewers in general but pascal mobile gpus will be atleast 20-30% improvement on this.

990m>980m sli >980.. Bless the dude who gets this gpu. i am guessing this will be the first pascal gpu.
BlizzardCraft
My setup a bit pricey but advise ya just get a asus ac 5ghz router.
So far on unifi routers i find them the best. For wifi aps.. apple airport extreme/express.
But end of the day ure gonna have ping issues with streamyx.. So theres just so much you can expect.

Vram doesnt give you gain .. The 6gb n 8gb variant of 970m n 980m doesnt make sense as ure still limited by gpu grunt power.

970m oced=770>960
980m oced<970=780ti
980m needs a 30-40% oc to be close to a stock 980.
The prob with 980m .. You can game ultra setting on 1080p but it just cant do very high settings@1440p.

This is based as a former titan black sli & 780ti sli user..

But ...Then again this was a first time i ever bought a gaming laptop. I was literally shocked how far mobile gpus has come. I dont trust reviewers in general but pascal mobile gpus will be atleast 20-30% improvement on this.

990m>980m sli >980.. Bless the dude who gets this gpu. i am guessing this will be the first pascal gpu.
BlizzardCraft
My setup a bit pricey but advise ya just get a asus ac 5ghz router.
So far on unifi routers i find them the best. For wifi aps.. apple airport extreme/express.
But end of the day ure gonna have ping issues with streamyx.. So theres just so much you can expect.

how about TPLink routers? 5ghz means dual band right?

8mbps should be okay right the speed? just need a modem good enough to support 5 laptops, don't want people browsing facebook photo also causing ping spikes. 

Sure, the VRAM isn't a performance "increaser", but the increase in VRAM allows you to bypass certain limitations, like how much you can stuff in SYRIM games (the mods, essentially, which makes a huge difference). In the case of say, MXM based GPUs where 970M is 6GB VRAM and 980M is 8GBVRAM (not sure about the upcoming 990M, AFAIK it won't be cheap, and I doubt it'll be below 6GB VRAM for the MXM ones)

PM PrinceJ and your problem can be solve     

Had them before. They are too finicky. Asus ones are better.
Its a redundant amount of vram for a gpu thats not powerful enough to game at 1440p at max.
Passable at 1080p but not maxed out. It needs atleast 100% more grunt to the likes of 980ti overclock etc.
Windows 10 n dx12 gonna make that even more pointless.
Actually i think mxm vram versions were meant for single compute etc ...definately no use for gaming at such low resolution at 1080p.

Still very much situational, perchance.
4k screens aren't exactly mainstream, and i'm talking about pure solid 60Hz / 120Hz ones on laptop devices. I don't see how today's current laptop GPUs (sans the 990M, since at this point its not yet mass produced yet) can even achieve a stable 60fps on all-out-ultra settings (like GTA 5) on 1440p, let alone 1080p (there are some really monster benchmarks using Clevo 980M sli systems on a desktop processor, but then again its not based on latest hardware revisions, and IIRC they're all based on 17" screens).

But back to the topic, 970M > 960M in the sense that the price you pay for the upgrade is worth the leap in the performance.

how about 980m > 970m? worth the leap? iinw its about rm1.2k extra?

I think if i am not mistaken since illegear is custom
PrinceJ has done upgrades for soldered gpu. My guess limitation mobo bios etc to support that gpu.
Guessing here on the later part.. since unlocked gpu bioses are different for each notebooks eventhough there are the same gpu.

970m is a true desktop grade gpu. Equivalent to a gtx770 . Faster that a stock desktop 960.

how about TPLink routers? 5ghz means dual band right?

8mbps should be okay right the speed? just need a modem good enough to support 5 laptops, don't want people browsing facebook photo also causing ping spikes. 

Still very much situational, perchance.
4k screens aren't exactly mainstream, and i'm talking about pure solid 60Hz / 120Hz ones on laptop devices. I don't see how today's current laptop GPUs (sans the 990M, since at this point its not yet mass produced yet) can even achieve a stable 60fps on all-out-ultra settings (like GTA 5) on 1440p, let alone 1080p (there are some really monster benchmarks using Clevo 980M sli systems on a desktop processor, but then again its not based on latest hardware revisions, and IIRC they're all based on 17" screens).

But back to the topic, 970M > 960M in the sense that the price you pay for the upgrade is worth the leap in the performance.

if you really need it. When I bought my laptop from Illegear 980M's difference to 970M was I think slightly cheaper, around RM1000 and slightly below.

If you ask me, might as well wait for the 990M to come out first before deciding whether to go between 970M or 980M, because a single 990M > 980MSLI... roughly nearing to Titan X kind of performance. When that comes out the 980M and 970M will drop. Even then 980M running at full power, you get some hiccups.

I just made my order for a Z5 yesterday. =3=
Oh well, uploading a filled-up credit card authorization form is rather unusual as far as the payment procedures go.

I just made my order for a Z5 yesterday. =3=
Oh well, uploading a filled-up credit card authorization form is rather unusual as far as the payment procedures go.

Hello.. may I ask to any Z5 users about the hinges of the laptop? Is it ok as in not easy to break or something when opening and closing it?

Planning to buy it but when I read the Z5 review and the part about the hinges makes me worried. Because I had a bad experience with a laptop with bad hinges not so long ago which kinda ruined the laptop screen. When sent for repair, the cost are high due to its aluminum cover included.. more than RM1k.. it kinda traumatized me.. 😵

Pls be kind to me as in this is my first time askin.. Noob in Tech stuff.. 😟

I just asked the same question in V1 of this thread, and my current laptop also hinge issue lol.
It should be fine, i just ordered one. The review u read with questionable hinge quality, is probably the oldest version of the Z5 i believe, where some parts are plastic. By now the 3rd generation it's already fully aluminium build.