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I think your system isnt bad at all.

For storage remember you could always use an external if you arent worried about performance for the non-gaming tasks.
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I have the bigfoot wireless card, and I don't think that it is all that much of an improvement. As to the hard drive, I have no doubt that you could use a 240GB SSD instead of the 480GB SSD and still fit all of your important games with room to spare.

Also, the 7970M and the 680M give you almost the exact same performance, so you could save about $300 by going with the 7970M.
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There's another topic in these forums about Nvidia vs. AMD support for Photoshop: http://www.digitalstormonline.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=18119#203363

If there isn't much of a gaming performance difference between the 680 and the 7970 and Adobe support for AMD is better, save yourself the $300. And I don't think you will see much of a difference between the 3720QM and the 3820QM.

Chassis Model: Digital Storm x17 Laptop (Model: 9170)
Display: 17.3 Inch (16:9) (Resolution: 1920 x 1080) (Glossy Surface) LED-Backlit Display
Processor: Intel Core i7 3720QM (2.6 GHz Turbo Mode to 3.6Ghz) (Quad Core) (6MB Cache)
Thermal Compound: Premium IC Diamond CPU and GPU Thermal Compound (Reduces Thermal & Laptop Noise)
Memory: 16GB DDR3 1600MHz
Primary Hard Drive: Intel 240GB SSD (520 Series) (SATA 6Gb/s)
Secondary Hard Drive: 750GB 7200RPM (SATA 3Gb/s)
Optical Drive: DVD/CD 8x Multi-Drive (Writes and Reads DVDs, CDs)
Wireless Card: Intel Ultimate-N 6300 Wireless LAN Module
Video Card(s): AMD Radeon HD 7970M 2GB
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-Bit Edition)
Warranty Plan: Life-time Expert Customer Care with 3 Year Limited Warranty

Price: $2353.00

http://www.digitalstormonline.com/gaminglaptoploadx17.asp?id=709929
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The 3820 does have an extra 2MB of L3 cache. From what I know of Intel mobile processors, the 3820 should be about 10% faster than the 3720.
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