Just bought a Sager NP9262 had a question?

Hi all

This is my first post on here as well. I've been trolling around here for about six months now so I know some of you guys from other trends on here.

Anyway to the point. I just got me a new 9262 From torquepc (which I'm pissed because I could of got it cheaper and with a 2.0m camera over at exotic.)with a lot of the good features. 1900x1200 lcd, 8800gtx sli, Tv turner with the remote, 4gb of ram, I got one 80gb and a crap e6750 cpu for a couple reasons.

First I was going to buy three 500gb hard drives when they become available later this month and second because I already have a QX6700 cpu I had planned on swapping into the laptop upon receipt.

My question is can you put in a QX9650 in the notebook? it seems like you can use 1333mhz dual cores so why not a 1333mhz quad? Also is there a way to replace the fans in the laptop? does anybody no there size. I was looking on newegg and found some performance fans for a couple dollars seems like a simple upgrade to me...

Any thoughts?

 

First of all, I don't have an NP9262. That said, the processor that you have is Q6700, not QX6700. If you do wikipedia, you'll see that QX6700 has TDP of 130W, while the Q6700 has a TDP of 95W. I think somebody posted here before that the TDP of your Sager is 105W (which is still the highest for notebooks).

So, that should answer your question, because the QX9650 has a TDP of 130W too. In other words, no, you won't be able to.

Of course assuming that you do actually have Q6700, not QX6700. What I'm saying is maybe if tourqepc managed to squeezed one in...

 

For the time being, the only quad-cores that are officially supported for the system are:
- Q6600 (G0 stepping) 2.40GHz - TDP 95w
- Q6700 (G0 stepping) 2.66GHz - TDP 95w

All other quad-cores are not fully supported... especially the Penryn's... for now.

 

Yeah I have a QX6700 the first quad extreme. I thought that the Q6700 was pretty much a QX6700 the only difference being the QX6700 was unlocked. I think I'll try to see if I can get it to work anyway. I'll report back here with my findings and let you guys know.

 

Also on clevo site it states that it can use a QX6800 EE so why wouldn't it be able to use a QX6700?

 

My bad I read it wrong its a X6800 which is a dual core not a QX6800 sorry.

 

It will work... but the issue is the power consumption.

Clevo has already said that a first-gen quad-core (135w TDP) works but will cause issues.. and maybe damage if you use it for long-term use.

The D900C is only safe with the G0-stepping quad-cores.

 

Ok one more question what is the normal overclocking limit of the motherboard used in the 9262. Say I used a q6600 what do people normally get up to before heat and power becomes a problem?

Also I was thinking about a q9550 which has a tdp of 95w below the stated limit of 105w. its rated at 2.83ghz and has a 12m cache oppose to the 8m of the q6600.

Any thoughts

 

I do not think that anyone was able to overclock it

 

I think Justin mentioned in XoticPC forum that the CPU does not overclock in the laptop, whether that means the BIOS won't support it, or Clevo/Sager disabled the feature, I don't know.

 

the BIOS of this notebook (as well as 99% of other notebooks) does not have the option to overclock.

Only recent that a few notebooks (such as the Clevo M570RU-U... aka. Sager 5793) got the BIOS option to overclock.

 

Yes and no.

Some european sellers are offering the laptop with the 45 nm proc. Also microexpress offers some 45 nm proc ( http://microexpress.net/prodcustom.asp?linenumber=167) . Apparently there is no gain from the extreme edition because the multiplier is locked. There was a thread about overclocking some 1-2 weeks ago.

Do not try to put a 45nm proc in the laptop without a proper BIOS update they have different voltages and you can burn the proc!

 

PCMW also offers them....

 

What would be concidered a proper bios update? Going to a site and downloading the updated one? If so what site would I go to clevo's, sager's?

 

That's the problem, no one has a proper BIOS, not Sager, not Clevo. As far as I know...

 

oh I see. So in a nutshell dont use the 45nm proc dont try the 130w procs and have a nice day.

 

No, that's not entirely true. I advise people to wait a bit until Clevo releases a definitive BIOS to fix these problems, which shouldn't be so far on.
In my mind I don't see a problem with people buying this combination, as I don't think there will be any physical damage. You can always buy the notebook and install the BIOS later.
But just to be sure you don't mess something up you should always wait an official word on the matter. I have the faith that someone from a Sager reseller will come and say that it's safe to buy this combo without the risk of damaging the laptop. It would ease the purchase process for a lot of European buyers (since every European reseller is offering them).