how much total? this is awesome you should post more about the temp when full load, noise and how does the keyboard feel

AUD1595 or less then 5kRM I bought. The spec is in my lowyat's signature.

Keyboard
Never really use island-style keyboard, so no comparison was made. It does feels like using mechanical keyboard, feels slight back force after pressing. Feels definitely better then mushroom-cap keyboard (old tradition)

Fans noise
No significant noise for me(I dont know your definition of noise). But when playing games, can hear fans spinning noise significantly generated from right hand side. But it can easily cover up when I shoot some1 in COD:MW3.

Temperature
GPU hit 85 celcius when playing 45mins of Crysis 2 in Extreme Settings (forgot to print screen evident)



GPU hit 54 celcius after 1 hour of carpet booming in COD:MW3 in Ultra Settings



But it did a very good job in heat dissipation. It drop back from High Temp to 40+c RAPIDLY right after I shut down the program.

This post has been edited by skeith: Jun 11 2012, 10:06 PM

My Sager laptop NP8170 (the predecessor of NP9170) is now more than 1 year old. Received it on 27 April 2011.

Apparently after a year of using it. Both the fans and air vents for the GPU and CPU are clogged with dust.
On idle mode
CPU: 50+ degree celcius
GPU: 55 to 65 degree celcius.
I didn't notice it until I played a guild wars 2 with both CPU and GPU reach more than 90 degree celcius, close to 100 degree celcius.
Guild Wars 2 with maxed graphics
CPU: 90+ degree celcius, close to 100
GPU: 90+ degree celcius, close to 100



I opened up the backcover of my laptop with no trouble. Clean the heatsink which were clogged with dust and also the fans for both CPU and GPU. Re-applied thermal paste and now it is back to normal.
On idle mode
CPU: 40 to 50 degree celcius
GPU: 55 to 65 degree celcius.

Guild Wars 2 with maxed graphics
CPU: 70 to 75 degree celcius
GPU: 80 to 89 degree celcius, maxed 89


The above temperature readings are based on non-air con room temperature.
Again, thumbs up to Sager/Clevo for the easiness to clean the dust and reapply thermal paste on your own without going through the trouble to disassemble the whole thing.

This post has been edited by jimmykvt: Jun 12 2012, 06:45 AM

80-85'c in heavy games (crysis, BF3) is quite normal. I play BF3 in GTX460M, reaching constant 81'C in non-aircond room
It will drop to 44-46'C in idle (without games running)
If you want to hear the exact fan noise, press Fn + 1. It'll turn your laptop fan to full blast.

is it just me or the display color look a bit washed out?

anyway, your laptop is just beside the sink?

gtx670m is using older technology so i guess the temp is quite normal?

Which means, 85 celcius means nothing for my CPU then. Pretty good!

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Added on June 12, 2012, 9:09 amAbout that... Fn + 1 for fan booster is now a history. But inactivate the mouse pad instead

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Added on June 12, 2012, 9:13 amCamera Fault!!!

Good question, but you are not the only one asking me that. I'm staying in college, room is small and my working table is attached to the water sink. I been staying here for 4 years long and no accident appeared. So I guess, not a big deal for me then. Plus, it is easy for me to grab a drink too! (Australian tab water is sweet, trust me )

GTX 670M is Fermi, same as GTX 460. So I guess, its alright.

This post has been edited by skeith: Jun 12 2012, 09:13 AM

i see. first time i see such room in australia lol..

still don't know when my laptop will be ready and my SSD stuck with UPS with no updates since last saturday.grrr

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Added on June 12, 2012, 11:52 amalso, is there any performance ram for laptop?
worth to get it?

This post has been edited by hihihehe: Jun 12 2012, 11:52 AM

Its a college, only students, academic stuff and researcher stay in college.

I'm looking for mSATA SSD, I called to LBO, n they told me it is situated near to the CPU fan and quite easy to install. Therefore, I no need to sacrifice my DVD ROM!

Performance RAM? Wont make much different if u already got 1600MHz i guess? noob me giving noob comment

better stick with SSD rather than take performance RAM.
take note that the only component that bottleneck the computer is standard HDD.

U put 32GB Performance ram but still use standard HDD, it won't improve much.

You can check the mSATA in xoticpc NP9150 video, starting from 30:52.

OH! MY CURIOSITY WAS RIGHT!

Thanks for showing me such awesome video

I am so much attracted to this NP9150. The backlit keyboard allows me to work in the night with all the lights off. The three USB 3.0 ports (including the one combo with E-SATA) are good enough because the other USB 2.0 port is just for the use of mouse, so no biggy.

The Ivy Bridge (3rd gen i7 processor) and ATI RADEON 7970M are big plus.
Other than that, actually, the optical drive is kinda useless considered how often we use it, replacing it with a 2nd HDD or SSD would be good.
Anyway, the external thin optical drive is only USD 19. The only time we would use a DVD drive is to install windows and drivers or other software. Maybe everything can be done using an external hard drive too.

Agree. No one actually need that much of RAM, unless you are doing something related to super high def picture/video editing or conversion. Or super multitasking (probably play music + FHD video + 100 more tabs in google chrome/firefox + play super exhaustive games at the same time.)

But SSD can really speed up your gaming loading time, windows on and off time, website caching, files transfer and etc(End of Thinking Capacity). Good stuff.

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Added on June 12, 2012, 5:32 pmI would LOVE to take that too! But from NP9130 to NP9150 needs about 150AUD extra with the exact same specs (i7 +670M) and + another 200AUD for the 675M GPU =/

Furthermore, the default screen in NP9150 is just a normal one and NP9130 offer me a 95% gamut glossy screen upgrade without further charge.

This post has been edited by skeith: Jun 12 2012, 05:32 PM

i already have SSD so that means performance ram doesnt make any difference in real life right?

Only increase a bit, but it's slightly noticeable or you can't even notice it at all.

fair enough. the retailer just received 7970m stock and building it. unfortunately cant make it by this week :/

U bought it from SAGER?

I just received a call from LogicalBlueOne (LBO, my reseller)

He told me the mechanics just finished running all the test, everything working fine except the RAM. They changes whole new set of RAM modules for me and will send back to me by tomorrow. Will probably get back my laptop by this friday

Hey hihihehe i was just wondering are you currently in Malaysia or Australia? because I notice you're buying the clevo p150em from an Australian Reseller. My guess is you're currently in Australia?

hihihehe buy from Logical Blue One Australia, and I believe he lives in AUS too.

@skeith - there's a reason why I didn't bought HDD and RAM directly from the seller. One of the reason; faulty RAM module which I have to send back to the seller for replacement. So, I bought those 2 hardwares at local shop and if got problem, can claim warranty quickly

i bought it from the same reseller(LBO) as i currently in melbourne.

they provide best service to me and price match with other store(Affordable Laptop). too bad i only go for 1 year warranty as my stay in australia is uncertainty :/

as above,im working in australia and the price from resellers are reasonable compare to US.