Clevo P775TM1-G inquiry

Hello everyone

I have tried to upgrade from my 3.5 year old Clevo (P17SM-A) to a 4K panel and GTX 1080 and so I bought a Dell Alienware 17 R5 with i9-8950HK and GTX 1080 and 4K panel the AUO B173ZAN01.0. Unfortunately it was getting too hot and too loud and I gave it back. Luckily you can do that with Dell.

Looking for alternatives in the UK, I am looking at the Clevo P775TM1-G . I would also be looking at the Clevo PA71ES-G but it does not come with GTX 1080, and the Clevo P870TM1-G comes with 2 x GTX 1080, which is an overkill for me. That leaves me with only one alternative, the P775TM1-G.

Of the two/three main Clevo suppliers in the UK, PCSpecialist builds the P775TM1-G as "Octane V" but with the AUO B173ZAN01.1 panel and not with the 1.0 version, which according to panel look is better at 400nits vs 300 nits for the 1.1 version (and the 1.1 does not have G-sync it seems). The next major UK supplier is scan, who call it "3XS LG17 Carbon Extreme G-Sync" and it has G-Sync and it may be the 1.0 AUO panel (have left an inquiry with them).

Has anyone got the P775TM1-G with the 4K panel and GTX 1080? What are your impressions?

Many thanks

 

I have a P775TM1-G (Sager NP9175), but the screen is 1920x1080 w/ G-Sync. GTX 1080, i7 8700, 32GB RAM.
I've had it for about 5 months now. What I can tell you is that it's a great system to have, I've had no hiccups with it. I do have 2 gripes with it though. (1) the GTX 1080 can get quite hot (and therefore, loud). Fan noise drives me nuts! I ended up getting a notebook cooler for it just to keep temps low enough that the fans wouldn't get too crazy. With that being said, the system was not at risk of overheating to begin with, I just hate loud fans. (2) Driver support is a bit of a pain. Sager has not released any driver updates since the system was first launched in late November of 2017. I would highly recommend using OBSIDIAN's Driver Tools utility to keep your system up-to-date.

 

I just received mine yesterday (P775TM1-G with the 8700K, 4K panel and GTX 1080), bought it from Obsidian-PC. I installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on it (so no gaming). So far the screen looks gorgeous, I would say on par with MacBook Pro's retina display, except it's 17 inches. Haven't gotten the chance to run any benchmarks yet, but CPU temps are fine (delidded + liquid metal repaste), even when maxed out on 4.3ghz turbo, 80 degrees Celsius. Two minor points of annoyance so far are: (1) fans turn on and are a bit loud even when watching Youtube videos; (2) videos stutter very slightly on the 4k screen, and I haven't figured out why (maybe a driver issue).

Edit: I have solved my noise and screen stutter problem, it was a driver issue and I solved it by reinstalling the nvidia driver. My P775TM1-G now runs the Unigine Heaven benchmark at just slightly lower framerate than my desktop with a GTX 1080. However it runs at 90C compared to 70C on the desktop.

 

Thanks guys for the positive feedback.

Could you also check to see what panel model/type you have?

 

As far as I know, it should be: AUO B173ZAN01.1 Matte 4K IPS (Non G-SYNC)

But I am not 100% certain.

 

You can run a single 1080 in the P870TM/NP9877, the extra heatsink size lets it run cooler.

 

Yeah, in my experience there are hardly ANY 4k laptop screens that have gsync.

 

There are three AUO B173ZAN01.x panels, the B173ZAN01.0, the B173ZAN01.1 and the B173ZAN01.2. The B173ZAN01.0 is 400 nits and is G-Sync (from what I see as it's been used) and the 1.1 / 1.2 is only 300 nits and non G-Sync. As far as I can tell the 1.0 is the better panel (brighter and G-Sync approved/enabled/whatever). Many Clevo retailers ship with the 1.0 version (the good one) and G-sync, and some ship with the 1.1 version and no G-Sync.

 

It looks like clevo-systems offers the 4k display with G-Sync (although I'm not sure the panel ID), but seems like they don't have GTX 1080 with it.

 

Is this laptop/motherboard better / newer than the P775TM1-G ?

 

It's the same generation just heavier duty. More cooling, more storage potential.

 

I have noticed that only one supplier allows you to order just a single GPU with the P870TM1 (mysn.de) trying to find somewhere cheaper...

 

.. And the reason is it is much more expensive than the P775 even with only one GTX 1080, about £200-£300 more

 

That extra build material and on some the vapor chamber cooler.

 

The GTX 1080 in my P775 really heats up (90C) when benchmarking, I don't know what kind of undervolting you would be able to do in Windows, but if the P870 can get lower temperatures with a single GTX 1080 then the extra £200-£300 might be worth it. I think there's a second CPU heatsink in that version too so the CPU will run a bit cooler as well.

 

There is a bigger CPU heatsink and a small one for the VRM too.