Build Your Own Gaming Notebook

y now, Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs need no introduction. Since their debut late last year, the procs have been on the hot list of every red-blooded power user. But getting at them hasn’t been easy. Particularly the mobile parts, which hadn’t even hit the market in new notebooks before the now-infamous SATA 3Gb/s port issue brought product flow to a grinding halt.

Thanks to AVADirect, however, our days of waiting and wanting are over. The company’s 15-inch Clevo P150HM features a shiny new 2.2GHz Core i7-2720QM. It’s not the fastest proc in the SB mobile lineup, but you’re still looking at four cores, eight threads, and a maximum Turbo frequency of 3.3GHz. If that sounds promising, peep the benchmarks.