Best place to buy parts? and a story.

Alright lads and ladies,

I've procrastinated for months about upgrading my M15X/building a desktop.

Now, the delima I have is money.
My priority at the moment is to save and move house closer to uni, I just finished my course two weeks ago (Advanced Diploma of Animation) and will be doing a year-long Diploma of Illustration... Anyway, I use my laptop for a lot of 3D modelling, 2D/3D animation and After Effects work.

I want a desktop, but am wanting to utilise the money for moving.

Everyone here has stated that the 920XM QS is the best bang-for-buck; so that's what I'll get.

I want to know where the community gets their parts from, I see the 920XM QS on eBay for ~$400 from upgrade/laptop monkey.
Are there any better places to buy parts from?

Priorities for a computer are CPU performance for 3D, Cuda enabled GPU for After Effects rendering (5850m doesn't have it, but I can try and live for 6 months) and plenty of RAM (already maxxed out on M15x).

So, just to make this post make some sense; where's the best place online to purchase a 920XM QS?
Here's some on eBay, including the 940XM QS:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/INTEL-i7-920XM-3-2GHz-quad-QS-mobile-CPU-processor-for-55-chipset-laptop-monkey-/130682045632?pt=CPUs&hash=item1e6d41c4c0
http://www.ebay.com/itm/INTEL-i7-940XM-3-33GHz-quad-QS-mobile-CPU-processor-for-55-chipset-Mobile-8MB-/251180133789?pt=UK_Computing_Laptops_EH&hash=item3a7b80ad9d
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Intel-Quad-Core-i7-940XM-Mobile-3-33Ghz-8MB-CPU-processor-QS-Q4AP-/320924196795?pt=CPUs&hash=item4ab8929fbb

Cheers.

 

If you're looking for the QS version of 920XM, you may want to consider this seller from aliexpress:

Wholesale and retail LAPTOP CPU PROCESSOR Genuine Intel i7 920XM 2.0GHz 8MB L3 QS Q3B8 Turbo 3.2GHz-in Processors from Computer & Networking on Aliexpress.com

I bought from this guy very recently, and I think I saw my short review of his services there, heh. The thing came well protected and the CPU is working great in my m15x now.

I'm in no way related to the guy of course

 

Yes, I saw your review. The price ks quite nice.
No issues to date?

What does everyone think of aliexpress? I've never dealt with them before.

 

Its working great. I didn't benchmark it as my main purpose was for gaming, but after OC-ing it to almost 3GHz I was able to play Guild Wars 2 at almost max settings more smoothly as compared to playing with the same settings with a 740qm (both with 6990m). Roughly I think I got about 15-25fps increase using fraps in gameplay.

As for aliexpess, IMO its just another ebay but less known so I would ask to exercise caution and always try to go for people with as much reputation points as possible. I took a small gamble with that guy as his was the cheapest I saw.. thankfully it did work out great.

 

I think ebay gets pretty good deals. But that one seems awesome!