Deviltech Hellmachine vel Clevo P370EM - my first SLI computer:D

Hi all,


Recently I bought a replacement for my faulty Acer Aspire 7552G. After few weeks of searching, reading and brain overheating I chose to buy laptop based on Clevo.
As P370xx is nice upgrade ready machine this was the preferable model. And after some online research I have found this powerful monster (yeah I know there is plenty of newer models with more power but they are also much more expensive):
Deviltech Hellmachine / Clevo 370EM - short spec:
LCD: FHD Chi Mei 173HGE
CPU: i7-3630QM
RAM: 32GB Kingston PC3 12800
GPU: 2xGTX670MX 2x3GB in SLI
WLAN: Bigfoot Killer Wireless-N 1202
SSD: 250GB Samsung 840
HDD: Samsung Momentus 750GB
DVD RW: present
Windows 8.1 OEM


I paid for it 800€ on ebay, in my opinion this is a nice deal - what's the community opinion?
Those are few picteres before I cleaned and repasted this little toy ;D :






















What do You think about my "new" laptop?

Best regards,
Patryk

PS. Later I will post some more information together with benchmarks and some charts.

 

With the Prema system bios you can go 980M in the future if you want more performance too

Nice system with lots of modding potential

Big upgrade from your current setup too.

 

Gtx 980m is too expensive right now, maybe I will buy used one some day For now I'm looking forward to change CPU because mine i7-3630qm can't be overclocked

@Prema bios flashed - thank you man for your great work!
@svl7 vbios flashed - also big thanks for your time spent on this!

CPU temps in Prime95 1st Torture Test (approximately 1 minute, FN+9), comparison chart before and after:
Just Core #1 (hottest one)



Monster Hunter Online Benchmark after flashing vbios from @svl7 and both GPU overclocked (Core+400 Memory+600 voltage+50mV - these are not final clocks just set in hurry):


Chart with temperatures while this benchmark was running


3dmark11 graphics score 11935 :
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/9786954

And temperature chart


As you all see there was a problem with slave GPU, I had to change the way I put thermal compound on the chip. After repasting once again with more of the MX-2 paste temps of the slave GPU gone down 10 Celsius degree. I am lazy and I will not put another charts, just imagine that this higher line is 10 units lower
There was no hardware mods used yet so I can go lower for sure. To be honest this clevo cooling should be better. Don't take me wrong I still love this toy

Best regards,
Patryk

 

Quite a nice improvement your your Acer 7552G, congrats!

 

Thanks! Yes it is a huge upgrade for me and I am almost happy that one of the chips on my Acer 7552G motherboard died

 

MX-2 is terrible for these machines. I suggest IC Diamond or Gelid GC Extreme for your cards.

 

How things can work out sometimes

 

Hm.... If you say so I will have to change this thermal compound faster - I have Gelid GC Extreme in the drawer Do you recommend polish of the heatsink surface that have contact with the paste? Hm... I think I will do some pictures with the questions in the near future.

 

Heatsink lapping is always good, I think. Make sure your GC Extreme did not expire. It *DOES* have a shelf life.

 

I'm quite sure that even with it being expired, it will do better then MX-2... This is how bad MX-2 is lol..

 

Oh I was just talking in the future when you do want more out of it