yes 90c!!been told that it's normal for BF3. alienware m17 able to go up to 85c

my room temperature is around 10c? thanks to super duper cold winter here lol
no blocking or whatsoever but i placed the laptop on cooling pad

i think most likely will be driver issue because i install latest beta driver on top of stock driver(the FPS and temp not stable even though they works fine)

i asked t he reseller to test the GPU as well and i will try diablo 3(AUD$63 is cheap right?) once i get back the laptop.

ya man.i might reformat the whole OS and install back the stock driver.

my stock driver perform low in benchmark and get higher temp compare to the others but it works fine in games. anyway,i don't play benchmark

COTD is popular in trolling mate. you won't get anything form there

ehh, i just noticed that there are 2 "\" keys on the keyboard. no idea why

im pretty sure im not wrong. go have a look at my pictures in 1st post and you can see \ key beside space bar and above enter

i thought i post the issue in this thread but actually it was in sager thread

anyway, i sent it to warranty from last week due to display issue and at the same time change the keyboard as the numpad 1 not register when i press it lightly.

you can see the faults below:


it appears after 1 week of usage and reseller told me the issue could be during the transit time(which i highly doubt it) because that black spot position is around numpad 1 position there. they already replaced the screen and keyboard and sent it back to me earlier today so i should receive it on wednesday.

not to say that i am superstitious but i don't have much luck with gadgets this year especially from online store :/

before i sent it to warranty, the machine works beautiful but i need some time to get used to FHD resolution. watching youtube with FHD resolution is just awesome(SNSD )

stock display drivers from clevo is fine and no BSOD but because of 'hand itchy',i tried out latest leaked beta(install on top of stock driver) and the fps in game seems to be dropped/not accurate(but there is no glitching/lag in game when it showing 20fps). i removed AMD driver and i got BSOD once it successfully removed but i able to install back the leaked driver still the fps doesn't looks accurate(compare to stock driver)
i maybe will try the latest official beta driver from AMD once i received the laptop. also,diablo 3 is lying on my desk now

lastly, AMD really need to release driver that mainly focus at 7970m with Enduro! or even better if they can allow us to disable iGPU and use only dGPU.

that's what i highly doubt it so i hope there is no issue again at least for next few years

i asked them to test again and check the GPU temp too. they just replace the screen and keyboard anyway so this can be done in half day.just the shipping take longer time

i will skip the movie that i watched in cinema before.maybe american pie reunion?

i havent ask them yet but i believe it's mroe to driver fault. stock driver is fine and many people in notebookreview forum said the same issue as well.



This post has been edited by hihihehe: Jul 5 2012, 08:07 AM

laptop is back and i updated the driver to latest official amd beta driver. no issue/bsod but barely notice any difference.

average fps for bf3(everything maxed) is around 50fps and temp 73c(better than previous leaked driver)

2 hours session with diablo 3 and fps is around 90 but temp is 87c. that temp higher than bf3

anyway, now i only realised that the keyboard looks cheap. the key looks uneven and i don't really like it. i hope they can improve it and better if they have aftermarket keyboard for sager lol

yes.in single player only.

now just playing diablo 3. and the temp is higher than bf3