Samsung 7 Intel i7 3615QM Nvidia 650M 17" Laptop SSD & Memory Install by Paul Nelson
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- Quick video on how to install a SSD & Memory into the New Samsung Series 7 Ivy Bridge i7 3615QM Best Buy Laptop! Samsung NP700Z7C-S01US 17,3"
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My sound breaks up about 3/4 of the way through the video but comes back in quickly. I hope this helps for the folks that want to upgrade their HDD and Memory. Please feel free to ask any questions. I'm a bit stuffed up from allergies so bear with me!
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Samsung Laptop Best Buy NP700Z7C-S01US Samsung - 17.3" Series 7 Laptop - 8GB Memory - 1TB Hard Drive - Silver 3nd Gen Intel® Core™ i7-3615QM processor Nvidia 650m Optimus Kepler Asus G75 Asus G75VW Nvidia 670 675 1080p MXI Xocai paulmnelson
I haven't owned this system for a long time! Glad that it is still up and running for you guys
Paul Nelson please dont delete this, i'm doing this next week and i'd be doomed without it!
Lol no problem
I used this to finally replace my hard drive with an SSD. Its still useful 8 years later
@@wsteeven which SSD did you buy? I’m doing the same soon
I have bought this great Computer a week ago.
If you are on a non-dark environment then every time you wish the keyboard backlight ON, you will receive a warning telling you that you can just turn in ON only in dark environment.
(In the other hand I tried to disable Light sensor from control Panel >Sensor but it didn’t works. So the solution I have found for this issue was covering the sensor with a coin or piece of tape. Really amazing!)
I just want to Thank You for the video on your Samsung, I have the Samsung 16.5 700Z5B SO1 and it is a work horse. I do notice some heat if the laptop is on something soft. I am glad you took your Samsung apart so I will not make a mistake with mine, I bought mine in May of 2012. So changing out the HD will be much easier on me now. Thank You, Ed
Great video and posts on NBR Paul. Appreciate you taking time out of your day to do them. Really, really close to pulling the trigger!
Thanks for this video, I opened my chronos up and Paul's advice about prying it gently with nails was so right, I thought I was gonna break it but it was fine. I'm not a tech head so I ordered the crucial 512gb SSD M4 & used their clone kit it took 3hrs to clone but it as blazing fast when I swapped out the old 5400rpm drive. Thanks again Paul
Excellent video, Paul. Thanks for making it. I followed it exactly and was able to upgrade my laptop without any issues. Wouldn't have been possible without this video. Thanks again.
Thanks for the video. I just finished installing an SSD into my Series 7. A little nerve wracking since I felt I was gonna snap the thing in two when I first started. Working great now!
I am not a gamer or even a big computer user at home, so I can stretch a laptop for years. I've had this one in harsh environments all over the world, banged around in backpacks and luggage, and it's still going strong hardware wise. Performance wise, it's getting way too slow though. Startup is brutal and loading is lagging horribly. Hopefully a SSD is the solution. Thinkning about upgrading RAM, but 8GB seems like enough.Thanks for the video.
great video to do so.
I have question about upgrading the RAM, what's the max ?
Also is there particular SSD for upgrading ?
Thanks
Hey, I just got this laptop and installed an SSD in it because the laptop came with a SAMSUNG RECOVERY MEDIA disc. I thought it would have all the preinstalled goodies on that disc, but I was wrong. When you get your laptop, use the Samsung Recovery Solution software from your start menu to create a recovery disc. Then you will be able to do a clean install without any problems!
Yea, I actually figured this out eventually. It's just the price of the Y580 is so good that I assumed the catch was the 1366x768 display, so I didn't bother to look for other versions. I have a 1080p version on the way and am gonna add a 256GB msata crucuial m4 ssd to the 750gb hdd. I really like how much easier this is to do on the Y580.
Yes The 7970M is going to be nice, I to want start seeing laptops with it inside.
Great Tutorial, thanks! I was really disappointed in the performance of the stock laptop. Installing a Samsung 840 Series SSD really solved all hickups and endless loading times.
I used a soft-plastic, sharp-edged tool to gently remove the housing but still some marks are visible from where the aluminum meets the plastic on the top-front side of the laptop.
Anyawy, The only problem left is the poor partnership of the Intel and Radeon cards, hope they solve that soon!
Sound breaks up about 14 minutes in and clears up at 16:42 but the basics is there and should get you started so you can upgrade this badboy.
I spent almost a day cleaning it in order to get the machine working without all these pre-installed software. Because in this process, sometimes uninstall some vital soft, and as
Re-installing doesn’t works properly, the only solution is perform a complete recovery then start again with the task.
Um, I'm using one with a 1920x1080 screen. The $850 one is 1366x768 but the $900+ is Full HD, just got mine four days ago and I am loving it. My rMBP is gathering dust right now, and I don't regret it.
Thanks! I figured the plastic piece came apart, but I didn't want to break it...
Hi, I've had the Samsung np700g7c-s02uk for the past few years but even with 16gb it's still not fast enough for some games. If I want to increase memory does it still have to be done in pairs or could I replace one of the sticks with 16gb?
Hi Alexander, i'm running with the "normal" 840 Series here.
The Pro series have a higher writing speed (450MB/s v/s 330MB/s) but the reading speeds are the same. (540MB/Sec).
Also, the Pro series features MLC memory chips where the normal 840 Series uses TLC memory.
Both will work fine in your laptop. If there is a big price difference I would choose the normal 840 series as the reading speeds are the most important in regards to loading times in Windows and games.
Good luck!
What a great vid with step by step!!! Keep up the Great Work!!
Can you do a tutorial on how to turn into a demon 2/3 of the way into a tutorial vid?
That was really good man, I have just upgraded my Chronos 7 with a Samsung 840 pro SSD :D
those numbers are true, i used speedfan to measure the temps after hardcore gaming and the old i5-480 core in my old laptop was supposed to last up to 100 degrees celcius till it started degrading so that laptop is still fast after 2 years of use (gave it to my brother). the highest my new chronos 7 has EVER reached was 47 with crysis 2 on ultra high settings. normally it plays other games like just cause 2/black ops on the highest detail possible reaching 43 degrees tops-47 degrees is not hot
man thank you so much i upgraded to 840 evo 250 gb by your video, mine is chronos 7 15.6 inch, it works :D
i think is one of the more ancent intel core i7 that still good
I agree..I read that the 7970m is on-par with a desktop version of gtx 580..so a gtx 680 should be around the same
Hey man, enjoyed your instructional video. I'm in the air right now about getting this with the SSD upgrade or a new retina Macbook pro. Could you post a video of a review with maybe some benchmarks? I'm thinking 3DMark11 or maybe a windows experience rating. I would appreciate it because none of the usual computer review sites seem to want to review this.
Which SSD did you install? I've got this same exact laptop. I love it, but it's not as fast as I was hoping. Thinking about putting in an SSD. Any specific brand recommendations? This is a great video and helped me out a lot! Thanks a bunch!
it's recommended. cloning an HDD to an SSD has always been somewhat problematic. just re-install windows, and then copy your files over via an external casing
Hi, great video, I was just wondering if you also encountered issues when trying to configure the switchable graphics? I have the same laptop and I only recently noticed that my nvidia graphics card is not being used at all and all my attempts to switch to the nvidia card have failed. Maybe you encountered similar issues and know of a fix?
A lot of Samsung proprietary software must be loaded to get this machine full working,
Several features are software dependent, like for example, keyboard backlight, controlled by Fn + F9 F10, so u have to wait till complete windows + driver properly loaded, to have this feature available.
I wouldn't recommend cloning the drive. As Paul said in this video, he's always had troubles cloning drives. He said that he likes to run a clean install of Windows. You can download legal, fresh copies of Windows and then install them that way. Then just use the product key number on the bottom of your laptop to activate it.
I have that laptop and i love it!! Cant wait to put a SSD in it!
FYI, while most of the hardware in this old laptop is accessible and easy enough to replace if you know what you're doing, the keyboard is not. I repeat, the keyboard cannot be replaced. It's held in place by dozens of little plastic pop rivet type things. They're not reusable.
1) You require a lot of RAM if you use VM's on a daily basis... Sometimes I have 3 VM's running at the same time, and the RAM starts to run short...
2) 900x1600 is not Full HD. Full HD is 1920x1080 (1080p)
no, it only has one RAM slot. the other stick is soldered to the board. I have upgraded mine to 12, I had an extra stick that I had to sell
The new Samsung 840 EVO seems to be the best deal right now.
This is the Best Buy model with the 650M The Gamer one has the 675M which is a reworked 580. I really want a laptop with the AMD HD 7970 M :)
The screen on this one is perfect no issues. My Sandy Bridge one had the screen issues which Samsung fixed.
Great vid thanks, the audio issue kept it interesting lol.
Great video Paul ! this video helped me upgrade my ssd and wifi card, but tbh this laptop has the worst track pad ever I had the 15.6" version.
The laptop does get very warm when gaming. I recommend you use a good cooler that blows up and set it on a desk vs your lap if you want to have more kids...
Great review Paul. I am wondering how loud does the fan go up to when you game with it?
you can only change it for exactly same one and that is if it is not soldered onto the motherboard.
on my alienware m14x r2 it is so easy to get to my memory to upgrade it, also Samsung does look good for gaming rig laptop
it wont say. Any manufacturers even apple allows swapping of HDD and RAM. you just need to put the original one back if you need to do an RMA or let them repair.
Great Video! Exactly what I needed to see :) Did you use the Samsung Recovery tool to export an image of the pre-installed OEM Windows 8 over to your USB stick? There was no Windows 8 product key or recovery disks in my packaging and I don't want to repurchase Windows. Samsung support said the OEM product key is stamped on the chipset and that they "think" I can use Samsung Recovery to do a fresh install. They also said this upgrade would void my warranty. Any insight would be appreciated :)
That was awesome man, super helpful!!!
This video is great for opening up the case but unfortunately there is misleading information about ram. It has only one slot regardless of flipoing the motherboard. The other 4gb ram is embedd on to the motherboard so the maximum capacity that you can upgrade is 12 gigabytes...
3 questions: 1. Is this a matte screen or glossy? 2. Does the Nvidia control panel allow you to adjust the "video" settings such as color and Edge Enhancement? 3. In the BIOS, die sit give the option for dedicated only, or just switchable?...thanks.
Bought it in 2013 and just recently im having power issues (battery not being recognized by motherboad) in 2021. Now im looking to fix it and upgrade the graphics and memory
Yooo I have the same problem- what I recommend is that go to the taskbar and into search, and go to device manager. Go to the “batteries’ tab and you will see two devices there. Right click on both and click “uninstall”. After you uninstall them, click on “action” and click on scan for hardware changes. This will bring those devices back into device manager and your laptop should start charging. Let me know if it helped
sorry, my bad
i think he said it in this review (not sure because i watched a bit of it a long time ago), anyway the max it can be upgraded to is 12GB (you can upgrade one slot to 8GB giving 12GB), but the other slot is under the keyboard side, which is impossible to get to unless you're ready to open up the entire laptop, in which case you can get 16GB. ANyway 8GB is more than enough ram to run 99% of applications...
... you might have suggested he set the focus to manual, the only video issue I saw - was the focus changing when he moved his hands when too far from the current focus point (and the camera refocused)
- we could all do better ....... be nice
Please my hdd connector is damaged. I've tried booting os from caddy in the dvd rom area. I've also tried booting from external hdd with usb 3.0. But none seem to work for me. I've tried these techniques with a toshiba and hp laptops but can't figure out why samsung laptop doesn't detect os on both a caddy and external drive (installed as bootable usb). Do you have any idea how i can make this work?
Hi. Great video. It seems easy enough. I need space on my computer for the work I do so I was going to put in a probably a 750gb or 1tb 7200 hd. My question is, is it worth buying a hybrid drive and is there any special set up with hybrid drives? I've never owned one before. Thanks.
Me too. I'm very interested with this question about memory!
You can touch the parts and they wont break. Many "computer-pros" build pcs without it. No big deal.
i got a very similar laptop cheap too on the best offer :D
same intel chip and everything else but nvidia 640m and mine is 15.6"
its so good :)
hey nice vid! Do u think u could do a benchmark on the laptop and kind of show us the difference between this (17 inch) and the 15.6 inch chronos? thanks.
Great Video, do you know if there is a second memory module underneath the motherboard or it's soldered to it?
Had anyone really installed (and made it work) more than 8GB? Samsung support is usually just reading what is already written on their website - which is useless...
Great video Paul. Do you know if it's possible to switch the DVD drive for a blu ray drive?
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! It help me a lot! :-)
It is 900 though, weather its Interlaced or Progressive is another story. The HDMI out allows for full HD.
It does however, desperately need a SSD. It appears fairly slow when booting.
yeah you turn it on, in the game settings
1. What is the program you referred to at the end where you can run from the NVIDIA card ,only and all the time, anytime the laptop is plugged in?
2. I heard that pairing a 4 gb RAM (built in) and the 8Gb stick doesn't really make it faster because of the non dual memory sync. Your thoughts?
Thanks for the vid!!
True, it's definately pricey and i guess "best" is subjective based on your needs. I work at an advertising agency and we use OCZ SSD Drives for all of our machines that render huge PS and 3d visual effect files. So it works for us.... Anywhoo for laptops it might a different ball game. Did you ever upgrade? I just ordered it and thinking about doing the same...
I had to replace the HD in this laptop with a Western Digital one 500gb. and I keep getting " All boot options are tried. Press key to recover with factory image using Recovery or any other keys for next boot loop iteration. I've already installed Windows 7 64bit on the HD using a USB boot key. How do I get passed this ? Thx
Thanks for this great video!
How do I remove the battery??
I found the two screws, but how am I supposed to detach the cable and pry the battery out without damaging anything?
Please someone help.
I have the Gigabyte U2442V Gaming Ultra-book and it's must an easier notebook to have easy access to the hardware. just like this one you un-screw from the back, but it doesn't have the problems that this Samsung notebook as when trying to take of the back(bottom). But anyways, I've always change the thermal grease for better performance. But I've always clone my hard-drives to an SSD without any issues.
I've heard good things about OCZ. I think that 'best' one is very opinionated. OCZ is also more expensive. The 512GB OCZ that I look at had almost a 100MB slower read time than the Crucial M4 512GB. I'm not sure. I've heard good things about OCZ and Crucial. Thanks for the reply, though!
But the Windows itself isn't installed on the SSD I believe...
It would be really great to have an SSD as a main drive because it helps making programs load faster and overall performance much better and another HDD for storage!
I'm not gonna buy one now anyways they might add this in 2013's laptops...
hey i have a samsung i3 np300. can i change the graphic card and upgrade it !?? please let me know.. thanks
No.
If i have mechanical problems with my touchpad on the Chronos, is it necessary to replace the whole mainboard? I ask, because the local service did that.
Samsung's website states clearly that you will not void the warranty if you change the hard drive :)
Hi I hope to get this when it's released in the uk, will it invalidate my warranty if I open up the notebook to change hard drive. Ive never attempted to do anything like this you make it seem easy Paul
Just want to say, thanks. I'm buying this laptop tomorrow and the only thing I wanted to mod was to replace the HardDrive with a SSD. My question is can a SSD be ADDED instead of replaced? What's your advice?
I'm curious if it's an actual hardware limitation or a BIOS limitation. Because I know you can get an unlocked BIOS for almost any laptop in existence which could really help show this laptops potential.
Is it possible to install a second hardrive after removing the DVD writer? Does the SATA cable from the DVD fit? How can I attach the HDD inside the casing?
do you have to take the harddrive out first to take out the battery or can it come out hardrive in tact?
What mottaf said, I would love if you could upgrade the drive to a blu ray
in asus you can and alienware you can, i think samsung series 7 gaming laptop should be able to be uped to 16gb ram at maximum at least
I'm gonna open mine for the first time. The HDD is starting to crap up. is it a 2.5 HDD? i have NEVER done anything like this before so i have to ask noob questions :P great vid btw
Napalmburns This is the harddrive in the computer: www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152291
hey i have a disc stuck in mine???? how do i take it out help me out plz
Great vid. Regarding the ram, since one is soldered on and is 1333mhz, isit impossible to put a 1800mhz stick in? Also can the sandy cpu be replaced with an equivalent ivy bridge. Many other sandy laptops have been upgraded to ivys
is samsung selling the battery as an spare part??
is relly that easy to replace it??
when you have the computer pluged in, the battery isnt getting discharged right??
Hey Paul, I followed your video/tutorial and I got to install a new SSD in my samsung. The difference is huuuuuuuge...now I am thinking in upgrade the RAM soon, is it possible? Even the specs saying that the max is 8GB? Thanks again
nice video and nice sunnto how is the battery life now
I can't believe people still have this laptop
Still my daily, bone stock since new, except for W10. It needs a new breath of life badly and I'm seriously considering this SSD upgrade. Think it's worth it or should I look to replace? Thanks for this video BTW.
I've been shopping around to replace mine... Except that the processor on this scores more than twice as high as a 6th generation i5 which costs more than what I paid for this one.
Say what you will, but this laptop is FASTER than many of the newer ones.
I still have it. I replaced the hdd for ssd back then with this video and my wireless card for an ac card
Hello,
Where is the BIOS battery? My battery died and every time I open my laptop the date settings are gone.
Hey quick question, so If i take the main hdd out to put an sdd in, there is only room for the one drive, not both?
I haven't had any issue with this one. My 15" Sandy Bridge version had those issues.
Hi. I have NP700Z5A-S04TR. I could not be sure that if I need 9.5mm or 12.7mm caddy to replace HHD to optic drive?
I have a feeling my kids put 2 disc's in my disc drive. Any thoughts how I can get them out?
Hi what upgrades can i perform on this laptop? i have had mine for 2 year now. Also i have never cleaned the cpu fans
no, it is not even 900p on a 17 inch screen... plus the brightness and the colors could be much better.
@fuser1984 I mainly do music production and I have about 50GBs of VSTs and samples that I use. I haven't yet upgraded because I have some unanswered questions. How would I install Windows once the SSD is installed? How do I install all of the drivers and how would I move all of my software over? Redownload it? I don't want to clone the drive because Paul said in this video that he always has problems with that. If you could answer those questions, that'd be great. Thanks!
Great video! I just ordered this laptop from best buy but it has a Geforce 630M video card :/
Is it simple to swap out the video card or not? Thanks
Thank you so much!