Ordered!

is it only available for i7 4xxx? i cannot find the option under xtu for my 3940xm

 

Yeah core voltage stuff is only available for Haswell chips in XTU, because of the integrated on-die VRM.

 

so sad as i dont need to do extreme oc but i just want it runs cooler at stock 3.7g

 

Undervolted then. And repaste.

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I think you might still be able to undervolt an Ivy Bridge with Throttlestop, check out The Throttlestop Guide for details.

 

That is awesome news. It is hard to get a good answer as people perceive things differently. I for one notice every little sound that seems to come about, so a loud laptop , or at least one that revs up and down or was always on would likley drive me nuts eventually.

 

I now have the anxiety bug!! ordered and now waiting, don't want to wait, but have to wait!

 

Yeah the waiting phase sucks the most. Just make sure you don't get cold feet at the last second and decide to pull the plug on the entire thing.

 

Lucky for me i have no choice, i have already sold my desktop and right now what was my former office is a gutted room with concrete and wood everywhere!

So now i need the laptop come the next 2 weeks

 

Good luck. From my last contact with Xotic, it seems mine won't arrive at my place till May 7-8, just short of a month after I placed my order. I wasn't informed of any specific delays in the components I ordered. I really hope the time is going towards excellent QA and my order isn't just sitting in some back order queue.

 

My NP8298 just entered stage 2!
Any idea how long it will take to ship from this point?

 

Usually under a week now so I'd say by Friday at the latest.

 

New to the forums. Hopefully adding to this thread is not considered a hijack.

Just ordered my first Sager - NP8278-S via LPC-Digital.

 

Welcome to the forums and congrats on your order! Let us know what you think once you get it.

 

After 3 weeks of waiting, the 8268-S I ordered from GenTech has shipped! It's going to get here with 2 days to spare before I leave the university... and it has one of the last 95% gamut screens that were available!

 

My order just went into Phase 2. Excited I may have my new laptop by the end of next week!

 

My 8298 is coming on monday, too bad it had to ship all the way from cali

 

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Bought this WA50SJQ last week and finally got to sit down with it the other day.

It didn't come with Windows, so I installed it myself. But for some reason the GTX 850M wasn't initializing in Device Manager (Code 43) so I brought it in to a repair center. Turnabout was 1 hour, and now everything works perfectly.

Laptop is fairly light for a 15.6" yet it's a powerhouse. The GTX 850M really is a miracle. I used to have a 750M, and this Maxwell chip somehow manages to get 80% more performance than its predecessor! In addition, I ordered a Samsung 840 120GB mSATA drive and can't wait to install it.

The LG IPS panel seems to have good colour reproduction. Viewing angles are awesome.

Keyboard is pretty good, and the touchpad is miles better than the one that came with my Acer V7-482PG. I just wish this came with backlighting.

Only thing bad about the notebook is that the build quality seems a little lower than I expected. I believe almost everything is plastic. But I guess for the price I paid (roughly $1000) then it's totally worth it. Also, the fans seem to only have three options.. passive, normal, and airplane, so it does get a little noisy. However, I don't hear anything ATM as I'm typing this.

 

any more updates/reviews on the 8298?

 

Have you seen my video review? If so I can always review or go over specific things and make another video. If not here it is

 

No I hadn't, thanks for the review

 

No problem! Im thinking about doing a month in review but I have to say nothing has changed save for the issues jabe long been fixed.

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Can you do a short video showing the laptop with back panels off?

 

Definitely! Ill fire up the cell phone camera.

 

Thanks! let me know when uploaded

 

I got my Sager NP8298 on monday and it's fantastic.

The design looks great, the pictures online really don't do it justice. The matte finish is classy and the ugly trackpad light can be turned off, and is pretty much invisible when unlit.
Also regarding the fan noise that people keep complaining about, I have no idea what they're talking about. It's extremely quiet even under heavy loads, much quieter than my hp dv7.

The keyboard is excellent, one of the best I've used on a laptop. The trackpad is just okay, but can be made pretty good if you tweak the settings in the built in software.
I haven't had a chance to test out the 870m too extensively yet but it's maxed out anything I've thrown at it so far.

 

Awesome to hear!.

I also hear you with the sound 'noise' that people keep complaining about. Like myself, my wife, Thanatos, and others have shown, the noise from the fans are negligible at best.

I honestly don't understand the official reviews that various companies give showing how the Clevo's are noisy and uncomfortably noisy when under load because of the fans, and in the same comment say the Asus, Alienware, Lenovo, (insert major distributor here) is soooo much quieter.

I'd like to know if the fan noise is tested at the same distance from the laptops, under the same loads, under the same conditions, running the laptops for the same amount of time, and having had the OS booted and idle for the same amount of time.

With how divergent I find the official reviews to my very real world testing, my wife's very real world testing, Thanatos' very real world testing, and your own very real world testing, I have to come to some unfavorable conclusions.

1. The clevos they review are lemons and run like jet engines.
2. The clevos that all 4 of us have are exceptions to every other one out there and run amazingly quiet.
3. Their ears are amazingly sensitive to noise levels that the normal person apparently is not, and the clevo fans have some high pitch whine that we can't pick up.
4. Their reviews are bias to the big corporations, likely from kickbacks or under the table payments.

I really pray it's not #4, but unfortunately I've seen this happen more times than not. And as Sager/Clevo is interested by word of mouth, and Alienware/Dell, Asus, HP, Toshiba, etc pay insane money in advertising, I'll let other people draw their own conclusions.

 

Did you ever get around to making the video? If so let me know please

 

Notebookcheck definitely has some bias against Clevos from the reviews I've read.

 

Ordered my Sager NP8278-S from xoticpc on Thursday.

just got base as it has packaged the upgrades i would have put on the base 8278. all i added was windows 8, i have win 7 but with the msata SSD for operating system and me being a novice i figured id pay the 80 bucks to have them install OS and set it up right.

i would have liked to use a large ssd as primary drive but i was at top of budget already will worry about this down the road. i will be looking for advice on simple installs in the future since i know nothing about pretty much anything.

I am coming from 5 good years on an old sager np8662. it served me very well but the graphics card is finally at its end but until recently i could play any game well enough, mostly gw2/skyrim/ and civ5 is what i played. it went kaput just after i bought borderlands 2 a few months back so i will finally get to play that hey its new to me^^

i looked around and around for another brand just for a change but in the end, bang for buck i couldn't justify anything over this particular 17" laptop im sure ill be pleased..unless i get the wrong computer mailed to me
i go to work/in front of customers a lot so picked the 8278 over the 'gamier' looking 8298 and some other brands that had a bit too much bling for when i use it at work.

anyway hopefully it won't take too long and it shows up in tip top shape

 

Yeah sorry been busy as heck. I have the video encoded and just need to upload it.

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No problem, thanks in advance.

 

Wow the past 2 weeks have been crazy! but here it is late as heck so Im sorry for that.



Link to my review thread

 

Thanks!

 

Yeah sorry for the delay, I literally filmed it after seeing your request and just didnt have the time to upload and edit it.

 

No problem, don't worry about it

 

My 8258-S is ready to ship according to Reflexnotebook.

 

Awesome.

Welcome to the family.

When you get it, let people know what you think about the cooling as well as the fan noise.

Myself, Thanatos, and others have shown that the noise is negligible even under load, and while hitting the max-fan button does rev it up, at least I have never heard it hit that even under heavy running games.

The most I've hit so far is playing Witcher 2 in uber mode. Not ultra. Uber mode.

So will be curious on your input

 

No problem. Will do and compare with my old AW M15x.

 

Great!

I know it's much quieter than my previous Asus G51JX-X1.

 

Yeah I cannot stress how good this cooling system is as well as the fan noise. Color me IMPRESSED!

 

double post please delete

 

Awesome, thanks for the video! Did you happen to mention where the NIC card is? I ordered my 8298 around the same time, but neglected to get the dual band card, just ordered it today and I'm interested in where it is located. In past laptops, the NIC and BT have been behind one of the back panels, but I didn't notice it in your video (although watching in a tiny window at work). Thanks!

 

It's under the keyboard with the other two ram slots

 

Great, thanks!

 

I'd recommend the 7260 ac btw

 

I second this. I get great signal strength with mine.

 

Thirded. With the 17.x drivers, it's absolutely rock solid.

 

I can't seem to get mine to work with the 17.x drivers. It disconnects for me every time after I sleep. Reverted to 16.0.0 a while ago.

 

What version of windows?

Windows 8.1 has a flaky network wake system for some types of cards.

For that you basically leave the network always on and disable sleeping on the NIC.