EUROCOM Scorpius Ultra High Performance Notebook Review

Eurocom intros powerhouse Scorpius laptop with 8 GB Of video memory with dual NVIDIA geforce GTX 680M And Intel Core I7 – 3920XM, 4 storage drives and 32 GB DDR3-1600 RAM to be the greatest notebook of all time. The latest Scorpius laptop looks all set to faithfully maintain Eurocom's high-end heritage with support for both CrossireX and SLI configurations to go with its 17.3-inch display, a tock-configured Scorpius costs $1,793, but that can easily skyrocket when you starting amping up on the visuals, for starters and a pair of 4GB GeForce GTX 680M graphics cards or dual 2GB Radeon HD 7970Ms will comfortably fit in to the Scorpius' spacious (albeit bland-looking) chassis, along with some huge storage space equal to three SSDs or hard drives plus an optional mSATA SSD. Splurging on a Core i7-3920XM processor nets you a 2.9GHz chip (up to 3.8GHz) with the option to go all out on the RAM at 32GB.

Eurocom Corporation is now launching the EUROCOM Scorpius Ultra High Performance Notebook with support for dual graphics technology from NVIDIA GeForce, Quadro and AMD Radeon, powerful Intel Core i7-3920XM Processor Extreme Edition, up to 32 GB of DDR3 1600 memory and three storage drives plus one mSATA drive. "The EUROCOM Scorpius is an out of this world High Performance Notebook Computer. Like the mythical creature that stung and killed Orion, the EUROCOM Scorpius will take down any competition standing in its way, while allowing gamers to do the same!" exclaims Mark Bialic, Eurocom President. "We have been getting out of this world benchmark results with the EUROCOM Scorpius. Simply put, this is the most powerful system of its kind on the planet." Featuring dual graphics technology including dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M GPUs featuring 1688 CUDA cores, 8 GB of DDR5 video memory, with the graphics clock running at 720MHz, as well as dual AMD Radeon HD 7970M featuring 1560 Stream Processors, 4GB GDDR5 video memory, with an 850 MHz engine clock allowing gamers to play the most demanding games on maximum settings. On the professional graphics front, the EUROCOM Scorpius supports the newest NVIDIA Quadro K5000M, K4000M and K3000M graphics for the ultimate in portable power, based on the 28nm Kepler architecture, the Quadro K5000M GPU packs 1344 CUDA cores and 4GB GDDR5 graphics memory. With no Optimus support the EUROCOM Scorpius is all about extreme graphics performance with no compromise! Driving the system is an optional Intel Core i7-3920XM Processor Extreme Edition running at up to 3.8 GHz with 8MB of L3 cache, which delivers exceptional high-definition multimedia, multi-tasking and multi-threaded performance. These high-performance 3rd Generation Intel Core i7 Processors allow users to simultaneously run multiple applications at the same time -- all with increased performance. The EUROCOM Scorpius supports Intel's Extreme tuning Utility to allow users to tweak the performance of their system to whatever they choose. Up to 32GB of superfast DDR3 1600 SODIMM memory is also supported via four sockets. With such massive amounts of RAM available, the Scorpius becomes a great tool for virtualization and high performance computing.

In the EUROCOM Scorpius, up to 3 storage drives (SSD, HDD, Hybrid HDD) are offered plus an mSATA drive. With these storage configurations, Intel Smart Response Technology is supported, it is designed to give users enhanced system performance and responsiveness. Smart Response Technology is an intelligent caching setup that monitors data reads and writes to your storage drive and caches the most used or frequently accessed data. The Scorpius supports RAID 0/1/5/10 for increased storage performance or redundancy. The EUROCOM Scorpius is the ultimate in Multimedia Entertainment system with support for Sound Blaster X-Fi MB2, subwoofer, 2 watt speakers and external 7.1CH audio output support. Sound Blaster X-Fi MB2 software suite is a powerful audio platform equipped with state of the art audio technology and THX TruStudio Pro along with a host of other software to enhance the audio of games, movies and music. The Scorpius has many connectivity options to allow users to connect the system to external displays for gaming for video streaming including: HDMI 1.4a, S/PDIF, Display Port 1.2. The EUROCOM Scorpius comes with an illuminate backlit full size keyboard with numeric keypad. The backlit keyboard helps to increase usability in dim lighting conditions, to ensure operators can see the keyboard in nearly any environment.

EUROCOM Scorpius Specs:

• Display: 17.3-inch FHD 1920-by-1080 pixels; Matte or Glossy Surface;
• Processor: up to Intel Mobile i7 Core 3920XM Extreme; Intel HM77 Chipset

Graphics Technology:

• Two MXM 3.0b slots; single and dual-VGA operation
• CrossfireX and SLI support
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M (4GB DDR5); 675M
• NVIDIA Quadro K3000M; K4000M, K5000M
• AMD Radeon HD 7970M
• Memory: up to 32GB of DDR3-1333/1600/1866; 4 RAM sockets

Storage: 

• 4 storage device support; 2 HDD (SATA3) + Optical Drive + mSATA drive; RAID 0/1/5/10 support; built-in 9-in-1 Card Reader

• Sound System: Sound Blaster X-Fi MB2; 2x 2W ONKYO speakers + Subwoofer; External 7.1CH; S/PDIF output; built-in Mic
• Keyboard: Backlit keyboard; W/A/S/D Gaming keys

Ports:

• 1x USB 2.0
• 4x USB 3.0 (1x powered)
• 1x eSATA (USB 2.0 combo)
• 1x S/PDIF out
• 1x Line-in
• 1x Headphone
• 1x RJ45/LAN
• 1x DisplayPort 1.2
• 1x HDMI 1.4a out

Battery and Power: 

• 300W AC Adapter 100-250V auto switching; 600W option (2x 300W) available for maximum O/C and XTU performance; 8-cells high capacity battery (89.21WH)
• • Weight & Dimensions: 3.5kg; 419x286x24-49.7mm
• • Keyboard: Full size backlit with separate numeric keypad