hahha..i suspect my ssd lar...but now its fine already

You seem to have a lot of problems with the temperature, I thought you had lower down your GPU voltage or something and now CPU?

Just a reference to my NP8170-S1, I just started Dragon Age: Origins, GPU temp close to 70. If I play long enough, the most it reaches 80 something like what you saw in the max GPU temp.
CPU temp..., not very high too. I'm not in air-con room and not using cooling pad, just put something below the butt of my laptop and tilt it a bit higher to make room for air to go in from bottom.

Oh about the bag, thinking of getting a backpack too. At the moment, only CaseLogic, Targus and Dicota I have in mind :\

But, priority would be getting a keyboard skin. Not easy to find a chiclet keyboard skin, especially for Sager :[



This post has been edited by jimmykvt: May 17 2011, 10:29 AM

oh ya, talking bout backpack, i got this brand in mind "OGIO" especially on this model. Ogio Metroid STYLE 711109 Black.

Refer the thread below.
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/205226

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Added on May 17, 2011, 10:44 amwoot guys, receive news on the new screen for NP8170-s1.

refer here.
http://www.sagernotebook.com/index.php?pag..._name=NP8170-S1

This post has been edited by rickysim84: May 17 2011, 10:44 AM

Where is the best place to get laptop backpack in SG?
And also do they have better deals during PC show? PC show next month :]

sure have. there will be alots of backpack selling during PC show, btw, i stay at sinkapor too. lol

Yea, noticed it earlier on too, so you are going to ship your laptop to Malaysia eh? Even if you buy from Mucro/Sgcubehub and have them deliver to your doorstep in SG, there will still be GST 7%.
It's a lot for GST 7% lol

lol, my parents coming soon, when they go back, i can ask them to claim back the 7% gst xD

get mine yesterday nite!!!! overall very happy with this laptop!!! touchpad is ok for me... since i wont use it always also... keyboard in this laptop is such a joy to type after u get used to its layout!!!

Haha, the only problem might be home, end, page up and page down keys
Anyway, have fun with your beastie and feel its power
Don't forget to download a temperature monitoring tool as well

news for me and you !
according to LPC digital post at the notebookreview foum :
What we know at this point is this is a NEW D04 version of the motherboard, the one before is the D03. Where the dummy slot port for the HDMI IN was there is now a Express card 34 slot.

Also the bottom and the top case are also different due to the locations of the port changed on the new D04 motherboard. That's all I have at this point.
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they started to ship with the new revised mobo - but we have to wait still Sager is on backorder
btw , i used core i7 970, i tot it would be better for me becuz its 32nm and also it has 6 core so it might increase my workmanship for converting and rendering programs instead of only using gmes. with 12gb ram the s1 model seems better - but i have choose 6970m Crossfire, yeah i wanted to choose gtx485m sli, but its not very good performance in heavy games, 6970m cross seems better, plus its still too expensive for only increase 7% of performance overall over 6970m cross, i think in this way i would purchase a 120 ss(currently 80) and a 990x instead of having 485m sli

hehe, ya, thanks thanks... Just tried COD: Black Ops on it..definitely happy with its performance!!

ya, i was thinking of changing my model to s1 since i going to get 485gtx sli. And the reason why i choose nvidia is that it have less incompatibility issue with games, also i heard that it is highly overclock-able.

But too bad le, the update only include express card 34 slot and not the 54 one D:

I waited for soo long, they should consider upgrade it to at least sata 3, or quad ram, or matte screen, or erm, a HDMI port? lol

I dun think Black Ops need this kind of beast to perform well.

You should try all the other games on DX11.

hehe will go buy Crysis 2 later.. now doing housework

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Added on May 17, 2011, 11:20 pmHi guys, just realize something.. my Window 7 seems like "thought" this NP8130 got 2 ROM drive.. one is DVD RW Drive D:, but then it got another BD-ROM Drive... but I didn't get Blueray Drive when I doing the customization also.. I only choosed the normal DVDRW super multi drive..

My pc also using Win7 but it wont got such thing... is that any of you guys also having this same weird situation like me??

This post has been edited by alucard31: May 17 2011, 11:20 PM

got any sager laptop has nvidia optimus technology ma??

Those Sager with GT540M/GT555M ?

@kailoonthedog: Sager NP5165/NP5175. The rest have Optimus but need to tweak driver to enable it

Hmm ... latest status ... pretty fast I would say ... now I guess they should be fixing my customize screen ....

XoticPC Order Status
03-05-2011 : Order Made
03-05-2011 : Phase 1 - Order Confirmation
04-05-2011 : Phase 1 - Order Pending Payment
06-05-2011 : Payment to Maybank
10-05-2011 : Maybank made wire transfer
11-05-2011 : Phase 1 - Payment received with balance due USD21
12-05-2011 : Paid USD21 via credit card
13-05-2011 : Phase 2 - Sent for Custom Building / Testing / Burn In & Final QA
17-05-2011 : Phase 3 - Sent for Additional Customization / Custom Painting / Skinning Department

This post has been edited by sweeann: May 18 2011, 12:10 AM

The interior design of the laptop is very important because that also determines whether you are comfortable while using it. My old Dell Inspiron 1420 has a defective GPU which heats up my laptop real fast and the palm rest is often very hot until my left hand sweats most of the time during gaming.

Oh, just in case if anyone wants to have a look at the interior of Sager NP5165, you can check it out in Sager NP5160 as NP5165 is the successor of NP5160. Below is a video from youtube, you can take a look at the interior starting at 3:33.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eyHkqyK1Y0

To be honest, I personally prefer NP8130 over NP5165 since you guys said that the optimus technology can be enabled by tweaking the settings. I prefer the interior design of NP8130 which comes with 2 fans rather than 1 fan in NP5165.

I believe thicker laptop is better than thinner one as running graphically intensive programs might heat up the GPU faster, you don't want your hands to feel the heat at the palm rest or the keyboard

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Added on May 18, 2011, 11:17 amOh yea, for those new comers who are interested in Sager comparing to Dell XPS and other laptop brands. Sager's laptop parts are easily accessible and even the fan too, so you have no problem cleaning up the fan in it after using for some time, sure there will be dust covering the fan. The video above is a good example of it.

This post has been edited by jimmykvt: May 18 2011, 11:17 AM

yes s1 is better becuz it has promotion as well, hmmm about the less incompatibility im not very agree with you, as i worked with 2 card before in SLI and CrossFire- well i can say both of these cardsa has their own issues, TWO GPU in a laptop basically brings a lots of issue !!! overheating, more sound and so on... but till now i can say both of these cards are scaleing in CrossFire and SLI pretty good and better than other cards but what i saw according to my own benchmakrs, however not at all the games and benchmarks ... Crossfire 6970m was perferming slightly better (in demanding games such as crysis ) more stable framerate was there, or however in other games like Mafia 2 which is known for performing good on Nvidia cards , it had more frames but in oppostie as well, starcraft gave me slightly 20 frame more than gtx485m sli in very high mode as well as Metro 2033 which i can say very straight 6970m was quiet more stable than gtx 485m sli .... well somehow gtx 485m sli has it own properties like Cuda and 3d (which is however not supported at np7280 at all so its useless to mention) but the better drivers, but i can say ati has very great drivers nowadays.
But its not that both of these cards have more issues or less than each other, what i can say based on my own view is that both of these cards have a lot of issues ! GTX485m sli normally brick to power (if u dun have second adapter ) but 6970m cross less - in full mode of corz - gtx485m sli slightly have more temperature compare to 6970m crss but its not very noticeable, BOTH suffers much from incompatibility in games ! For a clear example If you install crysis 2 , you would c no increase performance with gtx485m sli and it will cuase you a lot strutter (becuz its under 30 frame sometimes even) so it force you to turne of one of you GPU to avoid this issue, in opposite 6970m cross performs well with 50 to 60 frame rate but now own then there is chance of crashing game becuz is stopping drivers ! WELL THE TRUTH IS THIS ISSUES will solve by the time pass
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yes the update was exactly express card only ! - but i guess np7280 has HDMI port right? it been shipped with HDMI in before !
haha...yeah could be but actually smt like quad ram is useless ! still its upgradeable to matt screen from other resellers but matte screen is out of stock normally --sata 3 would be the best or at least supporting Sandy Bridge ! we can go on np7280 with a 2600k cpu !