First laptop, NP5793

My very first laptop, and my very first post on these boards.

(blob of text below can be skipped, being my introduction to these boards)

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To be honest I like desktops a lot better, but due to work requiring me to travel a lot to places with NOTHING WHAT SO EVER to do on my time off I have ordered (still in the mail) a NP5793 laptop for gaming and movies.

It's a shame I shall have to let my custom built baby/desktop collect dust with a good year or two before major upgrades are needed (socket 939 mobo, stupid me), but I just can't bring it with me and it doesn't have a happy future.

So as of two days ago I have embarked down the road of gaming laptops for a long time to come. I had bought a xbox 360 with hopes of using it for portable gaming and movies but it is still too big and heavy to ship ~4000km/2486miles every few months, not to mention the total of 9 good games I could find leading me to believe the zero punctuation guy was right when he said PC gamers thought of themselves as the master race and the console gamers being dirty peasants.

I bought the NP5793 solely based on the lurking of these boards for the past 2 months. The Gateway P-Series FX was my first choice but I can not find it anywhere in Canada (gateway doesn't sell directly to Canada and the retail stores that carry gateway don't have the model I want). So I went a step up in quality with 2 in price. I would have gotten a fully loaded NP9262 but it was a little too big and the risk of something that expensive getting lost/damaged/stolen was too great (the NP5793 is pushing it).

I will probably be on these boards a lot in the future as this is new ground for me.

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So what I have coming is the Sager NP5793 from XoticPC.com, shipped to Canada. It has no other purpose but to keep me sane, which makes it a over grown gameboy.

8800m GTX
17" WUXGA "Glare Type" 1920x1200
T9300 @ 2.5GHz w/6MB L2 On-die cache - 800MHz FSB
200GB HD @ 7200 RPM
4GB of RAM
XP Pro (sale on ram + I can't stand vista atm)

No blue ray or upgraded soundcard.

What I dislike most is the one HD, I would have liked to have separate OS's on two HD's.

I will order in a ZM-NC1000 notebook cooler if I can get away with it rather then get the larger NC2000 due to limited space when traveling.

And so ends my introduction and form lurking.

 

Welcome to posting on this forum.
I hope to join you soon as an owner of a clevo as I'm placing my order now.
I am kind of curious as to when did you make the purchase since if it was after the second, you should be getting a 5796 instead. Either way, it seems like your over grown, on steroids, gameboy is going to be a treat.
Another thing is that is your XP the x64 version? As it seems that there are no drivers for it, and 32 bit doesn't support all 4 gigs. I'm currently running xp x64 on my custom built baby/desktop too, and I've just gotten used to it so I dont' want to switch to vista or back to 32 bit.

 

Well, I know nothing of receiving the 5796 instead of the 5793, though I did order on the 7th. I hope no issues will crop up with this model if I receive it such as the loud fans on the early 5793.

I believe the version of XP I'm getting is 32 bit as it doesn't say otherwise. I know it will not make use of the full 4 gigs of RAM but the 2 extra where freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee E. I may also make the switch to 64 bit Vista down the road.

 

You are gonna receive 5796 I believe.

 

desktops will be dinosaurs soon!

 

Any particular reason for the 200GB 7200rpm when the 320GB 5400rpm gives the same access speeds for less power consumption and more capaciy? Also you could partition a 320GB and still leave sensible space for each OS

 

There was this benchmark in the hardware forum for the HDDs, and there was about a 20 point diff between those two... but I'm hoping you guys are right as I'm getting the 320gb.

 

Your 5796 will hang over the edges of a Zalman 1000. The 2000 is a much better fit!

 

Don't waste your money, you don't need a notebook cooler.

 

I'll stick with the 7200 RPM HD just for the fact I do not with to fool around with changing the order (I have to plan a day to go into town to do any banking). I also plan on getting a soild state HD and a external HD for storage down the road.

I'll also still get the zalman cooler (yea, the nc1000 is too small) because the heat created from pushing the laptop to its limits for a few hours can't be good.

Thanks for the info though.

 

I actually played Crysis at max settings for hours at time without a cooler and without max fan speed. The temps were not bad. I did prop the back of the notebook up an inch, though.

Still, the Zalmon wouldn't hurt! I have one too now, if just for fun - and 5C lower temps.

 

I've had my NP5793 for about 3 months now.... just recently bought a Zalman NC2000 cooler as well, does the job even if it is a couple of degrees, works well as a stand also. Good choice on the laptop!