Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
I was about to buy a NP 8268 / P150sm-A from xotic, when I heard that Sager keyboards have ghosting problem, like all of them.
Is this still happening? I mean, It's almost hard to believe that a gaming notebook company would send their notebooks with a keyboard that can not recognize some set of keys pressed simultaneously. It's completely amateur, actually. I also heard people saying that when they play Bf4, they can't run and throw a nade at the same time, because the keyboard wouldn't recognize it (lol).
Also, what's your thoughts on the NP8268? Good cooling? Terrible fans? I wanna hear it from people that actually have a sager! There is a lot of speculation out there.
Thank's guys!
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Sure thing.
First with the keyboard, granted, it'd be nice if they fixed it, amazingly so if they achieved a perfect 1 to 1 like the old IBM keyboards of old. But while that is technically possible, it's not realistically feasible as that tends to ramp up the cost, fairly significantly, on the keyboard costs. Maybe if they gave an option that people could purchase as an add-on for better keyboards, it may work. Some people may be willing to spend that additional $200-500 a keyboard, I probably won't
The 880M runs a bit warm on demanding games, in a 28c ambient room, Borderland 2, ran about 91c on the GPU and 81c on the CPU with everything maxed, but this was also with 6 hours of playing the game. Still well within the tolerance and the ambient room temps were pretty warm.
In a normal room temp (22-23c) Borderland 2 doesn't get above 82c on the GPU and 77c on the CPU.
I also have a laptop cooler just because the extra cooling is always a nice peace of mind. With the addition of the cooler, the GPU never really gets much past 80c and the CPU tends to hover in the mid 70's when under load.
I'm sure running something insane like furmark will still hit the high 80's and low 90's for the GPU, because it's just what it does.
But for even demanding games, the temps are more than fine and I'm very happy with the system. The temperature of the top/bottom are also comfortable to touch even with it under load, so you don't have to worry about frying your groin.
As for fans, it's usually pretty quiet. For normal day to day use, the fans actually never even spin up, so it's absolutely quiet. It also tiers up on the fan so it's relatively quiet even when under load. I've only had it hit max fan once, and that's in the above 28c room and it only hit it for a moment until the GPU cooled down to the 80's again then it stepped back down.
The fan on max is noticeable, but I'd not compare it to a jet engine or anything annoyingly loud. I can still hear normal TV over the fans or play a game with moderate noise on the speakers and drown out the fans just fine.
The GPU I've not really seen throttle much if at all, but I've also not really looked at it in doing so.
I just got done playing Wasteland 2 (which for whatever reason tends to spike the GPU and CPU -- Though do note the game is still Beta and likely not optimized... at all...), and even with those, my CPU didn't get above 82c (broken down with the 4 cores as: 82c, 76c, 73c, 75c) and my GPU didn't get above 80c.
While idle, the CPU tends to hover between 38-45c (depending on what background tasks you have). The GPU with optimus isn't even used unless required, but I've seen 'lows' on the GPU measure in at 28-33c.
For loudness, for comparison. My old laptop was an Asus G51JX-X1, and that was noticeably louder with fan noise than the Sager I have currently is. -
Ghosting Keyboard?? / NP8268 thoughts (advices)
Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by matolati, Aug 2, 2014.
