Auburncoast's Sager NP5796 Review

love the pics, though the christmas globe was kind of strange. Is that mouse the first gen g5?

 

thats the point. someone earlier said to be creative, surprise us! so... i guess i did lol. yes its first gen g5. I like it. got it for cheap too.

 

That’s why you post your own pictures, now I know exactly what to expect Thursday when I snatch mine from my uncle as soon as he walks off the plane. Those pictures show that the orange trim does not have that glow look to it, like it does when looking at that notebook on some sites (like the picture at the beginning of your review). That really looks sharp, and you’re one lucky fellow! Thanks for posting those pictures! Are those aluminum vents on the side of the notebook detachable? I’m thinking of taking mine off and painting them high gloss black.

EDIT: Grills/Sides

 

those are actually the speakers and they look pretty set in place. although it would look pretty sweet painted black.

 

You might want to lean the laptop down a little bit off the cooler so the fans and vents match.

 

Hey auburncoast, PM Chaz so that you`ll get the special reviewer color tag

 

I did eleron but somehow it blocked me from doing anything like posting and pming and stuff. i'll ask again. some glitch

minkang i usually have it lower. was just trying a few different positions to see the effects. thanks though.

 

Great review but... I have one question for you. You said you'd be going to college with this notebook, do think think it's too bulky/heavy or irritating to carry around or is it pretty manageable? I'm thinking about getting a 17" over 15.4" when I get mine because I like the bigger screen size/number pad/cooling mostly, but I want to figure out if a 17" is worth carrying around a college.

 

wowow good and nice to read ur reviews , only thing i don't like about the NP5796s' design. The speaker on both side doesn't look right to me XD.. if not that i am sure will make a order now

 

Want my m860tu even more now!!! As i'm getting the same specs as this computer and thats got some gd benchmarks

Nice review btw

 

is it me,or 9800gt looks weaker then 8800gtx?

 

it probably will be a bit annoying to carry but I have to deal with it. I wanted 17 and wouldn't settle for 15. I guess we'll see when the time comes. I could do some practice laps with it just to see. I still don't have a backpack for it yet. just the bag it came with. which looks okay but not a lot of support.

 

Thanks for the "au natural" pics. Brisk tea, love it!

 

IF your going for a high end gaming 15" laptop then size and weight wont be to different. The Alienware and 8660 are about 1" shorter in length and .8" shorter in depth and 1lb less.

 

Well with a big enough backpack (Swiss gear do nice backpacks for notebooks and fit with 17'' screens) it's gonna be not that big of a deal to carry around. Put 8lbs of books in a backpack... you'll see

 

thanks for the pictures

 

Okay sorry to bring this up from the grave but just wanted everyone to know that I added a 3DMARK vantage benchmark using the PhysX driver installed. Performance was much better where PhysX mattered and it boosted the score enormously. Obviously only UT3 would show this in game but I don't have that game so sorry no benchmark there.

 

Did it help your 3dmark06 score at all?

 

i noticed only a small change in 3DMark 06 but I think that is due to the fact that I switched drivers as well. went to 177.83 instead of 177.41 or something like that. It was a tiny amount like 50points or something. Vantage definitely used PhysX to its full potential which makes me agree that the score is now biased. But if PhysX does add this kind of performance in real world situations then its up to ATI to step it up and bring something better. which apparently in the desktop world they now have.

 

Nice job Auburn, I am currently awaiting delivery on my NP5796 and am interested to see the benchmark differences. I went with a slightly different configuration, I'll post a full review after I take delivery which should be at the end of this month- enjoy the new rig-

Sager NP5796
Chassis: Black/Orange Trim (a black chassis w/ silver trim would be a nice feature)
Display: 17” WUXGA 1920x1200
Processor: 45nm Intel Core 2 Extreme X9100 / 6mb L2 Cache, 3.06Ghz, 1066Mhz FSB
Graphics: NVidea GeForce 9800M GTX 1Gb DDR3
OS: Vista Business 64/bit
Memory: 4 GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM @ 1066mhz – 2x 2048MB
HD: 320GB 7200RM 16MB cache 7200.3 SATA II
2 gb turbo memory module
No dead pixel policy
3 year warranty

 

thanks for putting the pics up... it really stands out with the orange trim. i love the huge pics with amazing resolution, you can really see all the little details

 

any trouble with the keyboard? typing ok?

 

no trouble whatsoever from the keyboard. just a little bit of flex eminatiting from the L key.

 

thats good to know, how about the fan noise? there seems to be alot of complaints about the loud fans...

 

Fan noise isnt bad at all. If you go into a library you would be fine with silent mode.

 

Only 5.0 for memory in Vista Experience Index?
Other laptops with DDR3 get 5.8-5.9

 

VEI benchmarks are bull.

 

Nice review Auburncoast! I finally decided to get this over the M860TU and I have one question because I ordered from Xoticpc also: do you mean you received your laptop 2 days after they informed you it was in phase 2? That's wicked fast if I'm understanding you right.
Thanks again for the great review, it helped with my decision .

 

Your shipping would be mainly based on your proximity from sager which is in the city of industrial in CA to you house and which shipping you choose. The only thing that should be a major player in your decision is how fast it goes from phase 1 to 2.

 

i live in canada. so it was very fast actually. went into phase two after receiving money and shipped same day.