P670HSG... Anyone have any info?

Considering buying this laptop, but I can't find even one review. Does anyone have any info? Examples of things that would be helpful for me to know:

Screen: Refresh rate, overclockability, adobe/standard RGB
Battery life
Fan Noise
Keyboard travel/Quality
Temps

Out of the 10 laptops I'm considering this is the only dark horse because it's a complete unknown.

 

Too recent of a release for there to be much on it. For now, you can refer to the RS-G reviews; that will be the closest thing to this model (almost identical).

I haven't had much exposure to one just yet, but from what I've seen in our assembly/production line, fan noise and the keyboard is comparable to the RS.

 

Battery life is most likely around 2.5ish hours with a 1080p display. It's a 75Hz IPS GSync display that can overclock higher (usually to around 100Hz). I think the panel is 72% NTSC.

Temps are hard to tell as it's new. Refer to the P670RS owners lounge perhaps.

Keyboard is the same as the P650RS and P670RS which I own and think is one of the better gaming laptop keyboards out there.

Quality you can look for the P6XX series in my build quality guide in my signature. It's quite good generally.

I own the Clevo P650RS for context and have used the P670RS before.

 

The P670HS is essentially identical to the P670RS except for the CPU (Kaby Lake vs Skylake).

Screen: 1080p IPS, 75 Hz (I've successfully overclocked mine to 90), and G-Sync compatible with the BIOS set to discrete (aka running on the NVIDIA GPU all the time versus the Intel/NVIDIA Optimus hybrid). Can't speak to aRGB/sRGB coverage. It's probably fine for quick and dirty work on the road, but any serious content creation will need an external monitor.

Battery life: This system is more geared toward performance than portability. In discrete mode, don't count on more than about 2 hours of light use, maybe an extra 60-90 minutes in hybrid mode if using the integrated GPU exclusively.

Fan noise: This thing is pretty quiet at idle, but Sager/Clevo systems tend to have wonky fan curves that can cause them to spin up for no apparent reason. BIOS and EC firmware updates have helped, but it's far from perfect. To me at least, it's an acceptable tradeoff given the performance per dollar. Under load, it's not annoyingly loud. It's actually quieter than the larger P775DM3 I had prior to the P670 and an order of magnitude better than the MacBook Pro I was using for the four years previous to obtaining the Clevo.

Keyboard: It's quite good on this model. The keys are well spaced and feel good to type on. It's comparable to the Steelseries keyboards on MSI gaming laptops and a design I wish Clevo would incorporate on its flagship desktop replacement machines.

Temperatures: My system idles in the mid-upper 30s and gets into the 70s when gaming. Only time it cracks 80 is when doing a synthetic stress test that maxes out the CPU, GPU, and RAM simultaneously, which is not what I would call a real-world scenario.

 

Thank you all, This is really helpful! Color accuracy aside, how does the screen look? Are the colors vibrant if inaccurate (high/low saturation?)

 

I think it looks fine out of the box. I rarely use the internal screen, though. The NVIDIA control panel, if running in discrete mode, has a wide range of color settings if you want to fine tune, so you'll be able to find something to your taste.

 

You can set the screen to 60hz in Hybrid mode (which it will remember) and that will help keep the draw low.