Since Sony exited the market in 2014, you probably had one of the last Vaio laptops ever made. I bet CEX sold it to a collector for multiple times what that 500 quid voucher was actually worth (rough guess, about 200quid in real money). I see people asking $300+ for Vaio E series laptops in the US. I have a 17" 3rd gen E series with a HD 7650M that I bought new in late 2013. It now runs Windows 7 and serves as a Windows 9X/XP retro gaming machine as well as an optical media player (incl. BluRay). The display still looks good by 2024 standards. I don't have a backup GPU anymore. Even a 1080Ti is still worth a chunk of change. What I do have are multiple hacked consoles and older PCs. If my GPU takes a dump, I could keep myself occupied for an entire year while I save up money for a new GPU. And I wouldn't be missing much. As a lifelong gamer in their 40s, I'd say new release video games have never been less valuable or desirable to play than at this present moment. I had to see a therapist after playing Starfield for 150 hours. It can only be played 'for a long time' if you don't care about your sanity. I played the original Fallout at launch. Bethesda did a good job with FO3 (I am playing it rn) and an OK job with FO4 (just finished playing it) but after that, they kinda lost the plot. I live in fear of how the FO4 next gen update will destroy one of my favorite games. Todd Howard has literally lost his mind at this point. Don't ever forget that 2023 was the year Motorfest launched, lol. It is like someone decided to take FH5 (already not a great game) and copy it, poorly. Online races were somehow even more of a crapshow than the legendarily compromised by hackers FH5 online racing. Mixing bikes and cars sounds good - until you poorly execute the concept and all anyone has to do to put you completely out of the race as a rider, is to just not brake on the first corner, slam into you at 120mph, and send you flying halfway across the map so you instantly get an 'out of bounds' penalty. Racing is no fun when you have to drive/ride like everyone is out to get you, because they are. Even in a car, you had to take some interesting lines to keep deliberate high speed ramming from punting you off the track. You basically had to assume they were going to hit you and position yourself accordingly. An interesting exercise in Newtonian mechanics if you are a nerd like me but annoying as hell if you just want to play a game and have fun. Crapfest was the worst game I've played in 30 years and even less realistic than FH5 due to some bizarre choices in game mechanics. The boat racing part of it was just a total abortion. The flying was only marginally better than the nonsense in BF1 and flying a plane was more fun in Whorezone 1.0 or pretty much any Far Cry game. The bikes were actually the highlight of the game - until you ended up in a race against cars. Even the AI was out to get you. Like, 10 times as much as in Forza. It was so bad, I have to complain about it here because there aren't any new Motorfest vids to comment on.

@@Lurch-Botomg… thanks for the lord of the rings response chief. Jeesu

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So, did the police take your phone back as evidence?

How do you find out if a phone is stolen?

​​@@ashenwattegederasearch the IMEI number online. There's websites for IMEI lookup. Search for them. I've only used them once 9 years ago so I forgot the actual site. There's probably many different sites now.

That was because the employee was stupid enough to buy the phone from a customer and not lookup the IMEI first, and they didn't want their boss to find out they bought illegal merch. If they gave you the refund, then it is a paperwork trail of stupidity.

Yeah, child me had no money and low expectations too.

I can't relate. Younger me was gaming at 60fps on a 486 in 1995. It was a DX2-100, courtesy of a FSB and multiplier overclock and outperformed either the AMD or intel DX4-100. If they can call a DX3 a DX4 then I can call a DX2.5 a DX2, lol. And that was just the budget build I was allowed to call my own. The 'family' PC was even more powerful.

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He should use the i7 4910MQ, its reasonably priced and clocks up to 3.9ghz and has the full 8MB of l3 cache.

Only if Alienware made it swappable. It would help in light video editing (1080p resolution) and some games, but the older GPU with only 2GB of VRAM would still hold it back a lot. But yeah, an i7 with 4C/8T would make it usable at least. I’ve swapped my i3 4130t to an i7 4790t and the difference was huge.

​​​@@dimitriasimov2140A lot of these old Alienware are very upgradable. It might be possible to upgrade the GPU to a 960m. Theoretically, even to a chinese 1060/2060/3060 mobile in that old mobile format. The problem is, it would be very costly and very janky

@@dimitriasimov2140 alienware isnt really the one that decides. If the chip is made as PGA by intel, then it will always be socketed. And according to intel 4210M was only made as FCPGA, so no soldered down variant, that was probably reserved for u and y cpus. Dell could still restrict it in the bios, but when the swap works on their business class laptops form the time, i doubt they would dedicate time to disable it here.

Runs at 80C+ with the 2c/4t chip... An i7 would melt through the case 😅

Awesome I’ll have a look!

You too!

@@RandomGaminginHD I sort of did, it's Monday for me now haha

ive made a rx 5700xt build for £290 excluding the case so ur very right

Nice :)

😁☕I have a cup of Tea with RGinHD too

AM3 unite!!! I had an ancient FM2 system I upgraded, eventually jumping up to AM3+ with an FX8350 and GTX970. Not an awful combo, but blown out of the water by the little Ryzen 3 1200 and 1070Ti which I replaced them with!

Hey, that's my graphics card! I scored mine on Facebook Marketplace for $120, been using it for over 6 months now, and it's been an amazing upgrade from my gtx 1660 6gb.

That's a damn nice card. For how much if you don't mind me asking?

That would be awesome 😁

normally any laptops are not susceptible to CPU/GPU upgrades, unless you're into high risk-low reward things and also into microsoldering. It's nearly impossible to consistently solder those chips, so the only recourse is motherboard swap. Normally, that is also not an option on older hardware, as the motherboards are custom for almost any laptop model, so you're limited by the shape of the chassis. Hope this puts some light on this idea

@@jamesdong8179 yes I am aware of that, but that laptop is the last one where intel used pga sockets for they CPUs and on the GPU side there were MXM format graphics cards that allowed u to swap if needed

@@mateodupetit4842it’s a BGA gpu, only the 17 and the 18 got the MXM cards

@@jamesdong8179 it would he great if you knew what the OP was talking about before egotistically typing out a novel

Yeah that’s probably the earliest I would go for a machine that’s still capable for sure

@@RandomGaminginHD nah the 780M ones are good too but consume much more power

I had to google frog ramp, I never knew those even existed til now 😂

Don't think mobile CPUs were 4 core (with the exception of high performance options, such as MQ models or HQ models) util Gen 8...

​@@TheSpotify95quand core 8 tread mobile CPUs exists since the first Intel core generation

and a actual SSD

​@@TheSpotify95my aunt still uses a crappy HP with a quad core Q 720, made in 2009...

Yeah the warranty definitely seals the deal

I mean you would've got an extra year warranty if you bought new for that £35 plus it being new, AMD will give you a new CPU if your failed, CeX warranty isn't as good as AMDs

Dell's high-end laptops from the time put their GPUs on removable daughterboards that retained the same form factor across multiple generations, so it wouldn't surprise me to learn that their Alienware division did the same thing.

Haha yeah that would be cool

Thanks for sticking around!

Oh for sure. Check my business email in the about section. I’ve tested a 3070m so a 3060m would be cool :)

Looks like no- but the Clevo from that era, the P157SM-1 has both a 4th gen upgradable CPU socket and an MXM slot so can take up to a 1060.

Got the same in my Asus laptop. Cpus plenty fast but man that ddr3 version of the 950m is checking out. Would of held up better with the 960m or gddr5 version of the 50

Thing was garbage when it released 😂

@@youtubeaccount7544 eh! Honestly played some games back in the day. Old need for speeds and fortnite, little golf it and csgo. Legit can't really do any of that anymore but CPU was fast enough to carry at the time. Got a 3080ti in my desktop and that's definitely good enough still for now.

Ah that’s awesome I’ll look out for a cheap CPU!

Is the 980m not socketable?

Don't buy Lenovo, is Chinese cheap crap

Intel had 2 core i7s for a while, I think that's even more misleading.

Haha yeah this is a sturdy beast indeed

Yeah not sure it would help. Think we’re definitely just hardware limited