assalamualaikum and good day all. This here is my personal review for Clevo P670SG aka Illegear S7.

I bought it a week ago and only get to personal pick up at Illegear's office at Empire Damansara on the 31st Jan 2015
the first day that i went there, straight away fell in love with the unit. sleek brushed metal feel. damn nice one. decided for it because the differences in price between 15.6 and 17.3 is not much. it's better for me to go with 17.3. damn nice size also.

Here's the spec for my unit;

ILLEGEAR S7
Details :
Display: 17.3" Full HD Anti-glare Display featuring 72% NTSC Color Gamut (1920 x 1080)
Tune Your Screen: Professional Color Calibration, Guaranteed no dead or partially-lit pixels for first 180 days of purchasing.
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-4720HQ (6MB L3 Cache, 2.60GHz)
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M 4GB GDDR5 with Optimus (Maxwell)
Thermal Compound: IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU & GPU (RECOMMENDED)
RAM: 8GB DDR3L RAM 1600MHz - 1 X 8GB
Storage Drive RAID Options: Non-RAID
Primary Drive: 1TB Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drive
Secondary Drive: None
M.2 SSD RAID Options: Non-RAID
Primary M.2 Solid State Drive: None
Secondary M.2 Solid State Drive: None
Wireless Network Card: Killer™ Wireless-AC 1525 M.2 - WLAN & Bluetooth 4.1 Combo
Operating System: Windows 8.1 Professional
Warranty: ILLEGEAR 3 Year Carry-In Warranty
Accessories: ILLEGEAR Backpack & Velvet Sleeve
Custom Painting Services: None
Keyboard Backlight Color: Custom Keyboard Backlight Color
W.A.S.D. Backlight Color: Purple

initially, i wanted to get me a 256gb ssd as the primary os drive and the 1tb sshd as secondary drive. after few days, they told me that mu unit cannot stack both disk drive due to insufficient space as this clevo is a slim type. then i decided to get me 2 x 128gb m.2 ssd to configure raid-0. they told me that it was not compatible with OS installation. want to buy 2 x 256 m.2 ssd is too expensive la... i die wallet explode to bits.

After a deeper thought about it, i decided to get me a 256gb m.2 ssd instead however got no stock. such a waste actually if we buy 128 because 256 is much more cheaper. plus raid-0 will get you into trouble if one of them fails. it's not going to be like you'll be running whole lot of VM too right?

after the unboxing, i forgot that my unit here does not have optical drive. use the lanun windows dvd and use win to flash on my pendrive. installed the windows on my unit through usb drive. Drivers included in the CD provided are adequate.

items concern;
1. GTX980M included drivers give windows scores of 7.3. after being updated through nvidia's website, the score went down to 5.3. however real time test with cod modern warfare 3 with highest setting does not affected

2. keyboard backlight appears to be leaking. is this normal? refer to keyboard pictures attached. if it's normal, i'm cool with it. Somebody please advise on this

3. usb 3.0 drivers given when installed fails to start. after certain experiment with the settings in device manager and several drivers downloaded from the net, everything runs smooth.

4. fingerprint scanner fails to start when installed. solve the issue with the same way as the usb 3.0 issue, all become smooth.

my unit is running really cool. no warm or heat issues at all. load the unit with heavy multitasking opening tabs of browsers, several excel books, words, powerpoint, photoshop, games, playing blu ray video all at the same time, it didn't even reach 70 degrees and everything runs smoothly. these are not even on ssd. couldn't imagine more on what it could do with 512gb ssd.

onkyo speakers plus subwoofer is totally awesome. when i say it's awesome, it really does. no distortion at all even if it runs on maximum volume.

the standard LCD that came with the unit is so freaking awesome. wondering how 4k screen will look like on this if available

Did not have the chance to do benchmark test. will update later on. if you want me to test anything else, let me know.



Games Benchmark;

Settings Used
- All Full HD Resolution
- All Optimal Settings

Battlefield 4 - 100++ FPS
COD Advance Warfare - 100++FPS
DOTA 2 - 100++ FPS
NFS Hot Pursuit - 100++FPS
Crysis 3 - 100++FPS
COD Black Ops II - 100++FPS
Prototype II - 100++FPS
Darksiders II - 100++FPS
COD Ghosts - 100++FPS

Temperatures does not exceed 80 Degree Celsius during gaming in room condition without aircond.


OWNERS LIST;

adibyusoff
boku
WildChai

Drivers Link:
Intel VGA
Realtek Audio
Airplane Mode
Chipset
Card reader
Hotkey
Realtek Lan
Intel Management Engine
Synaptics Driver
Realtek WLAN & BT
Intel 7260 WLAN & BT
Atheros Killer 1525
Intel Rapid Storage
Intel Rapid Start
Fingerprint
Sound Blaster

Windows 8.1 Professional Original Key - Refer to this seller.
Very Cheap plus original some more. Terbaik la bro.
MYR 30.00 Only!!!! Found him at Lelong.
Nicholas Lai

update as of 1st June 2015;
the Illegear backpack has badly damaged. all i carry within the backpack are laptop, power brick, 3 pieces of external hdd, hdmi cable, hdmi to vga cable, some letters, phone charger, mouse, pendrive and other small things. i was surprised that it couldn't handle all the load given.

i've replaced it with Hyper Gear Dry Pac Pro Gold 30L. really feels nice but the price is walawei MYR350. but it's worth it. with the illegear backpack, it felt like i was carrying 30kg worth of load. with the hyper gear, it felt like i'm carrying just the laptop itself. totally worth the money. waterproof some more.

illegear should consider providing laptop owners with something premium such as the Hyper Gear Dry Pac Pro Gold 30L or something such as everki beacon since the laptop price is in the premium category.

This post has been edited by adibyusoff: Jun 1 2015, 10:36 AM

pictures of unit;

This post has been edited by adibyusoff: Feb 2 2015, 04:31 AM

unboxing package;






pictures of display;




This post has been edited by adibyusoff: Feb 5 2015, 02:15 AM

congratulations!

as for SSD, you can always upgrade it later, or buy your own and ask the folks to install, or install on your own (depending on the warranty terms) M2 drives are really expensive!

as for OS, I think you can get the standard price (Rm300?) or maybe cheaper if you're still a student (there are legitimate offers for students of any institutions)

and if windows is blurry, remember to adjust DPI settings in windows control panel! (microsoft's own fault)



add on:
colour profile, read the instructions properly. Else you'll find weird colours.

from time to time, head to Clevo website for updates (if you're using rarrr! version windows)

This post has been edited by hyperyouth_firepower: Feb 2 2015, 06:16 AM

Congratz!!!!
Damm, ILLEGEAR defintely improved a lot!
Kinda wish i jumped the bandwagon later, although i am very statisfied with mine, still alive after 2 yrs of heavy nonstop daily workstation loads. <(I wrecked my WD BLue drive LOLS TOO MUCH WRITE)

Thank you bro. huhuhuhu.

yesss. currently still doing some savings for that 1tb m.2 pcie ssd. wish me luck broooo. huhuhuh.

for os, student price really have meh? sad not a student anymore

the weird colour you said earlier do occur during few startups. gradually over times, the colour become okay till now.

will check clevo website for that. huhuhuhu

btw, i'd like to ask you about the keyboard backlight colour leaking out from individual keys. is that normal bro?

oo yeah brooo. our rigs aren't to be played around. damn expensive one that's why i have to eat maggie. huhuhuuh.

got any 512gb ssd to let go cheap cheap one kah bro??? hehehehehhehehehee

Depends on what you say is leaking. Mine comes preconfigured (from factory) so i'm not sure about yours as either its "changeable" or dead set to only one.

But if there are backlight colour leaking from individual keys, just see if you need it fixed. I haven't got any (or haven't noticed) yet, (touchwood) but of course probably worksmanship issues. Take a picture, and then everyone can see.



edit: Just saw the pictures you uploaded on the keyboard.

The "leak" isn't exactly a leak, so to speak. Even I can see "leak" on my keyboard if I position my viewing angle "properly". Its normal. Nothing to be worried about.

This post has been edited by hyperyouth_firepower: Feb 2 2015, 05:31 PM

according to your picture of keyboard light.. i think it i normal.. my z5 also comes like that..

But my Z5 packaging doesn't come as luxury as yours xD

And no exclusive illegear control panel..
anyway.. Gratz on your unit !!!

The light leak on side of the keyboard key actually make the keyboard look cooler.

If the light is only on the "character" is not cool.. You can't really "feel" the light

Haha yea.. But I tot all backlit keyboard is like that, having a light "leak" at the side of the keycap.. lol
no sure though..

alright bro. i'll just take it as a normal condition though if you say so. thank you bro. any chance for further improvement of my unit? hehehehe

sure normal eh bro? huhuhuhu. if eveybody also said normal then i'll just take it as a normal matter then.

ahahahahahaa. luxury you sure ahhh. huhuhuhuu. same thing only all illegear packaging comes as that. huhuhu.

thank you so much for replying all my questions so far bro. i appreciate that

cooler is it? hehehehe. i'm just worried that it might be a defect.

thank you bro

The hinge looks like a bit worry...

Anyway, a good purchase for GTX980M laptop.

Does your Clevo 670sg suffer from random cpu throttle while playing games ?

I get random cpu throttling when playing Watch Dog. My is from Aftershock

May I know what is your bios version ? Can check bios (press F2) while booting ?

Looks a bit worried right? when you use it in real time, it is rock solid. minimal movement even when you're shaking it hard.

good purchase right? hope that this will last me for years ahead

bios version is 1.03.05RNS1 AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INC.

i do get some stuttering after i updated my nvidia driver to the latest one. re roll the update using included drivers makes everything runs smooth

This post has been edited by adibyusoff: Feb 3 2015, 12:28 AM

At least Illegear provide upgrade service in future in case if you want to upgrade to xx80M

Luckily I dont play 1st person view games, so save a lot of money