SAGER NP9850/Climanche SLI

So I'm looking to buy a gaming laptop and I've been adviced to take a look at the SAGER NP9850. Since I'm living in Europe (Denmark) I'll prefer to order it from a company over here and I was recommended to take a look at the kobalt company - apperantly they call it Climanche SLI.

My question, since I'm a complete neanderthal when it comes to hardware, is which components should I upgrade?

I want it to be able to handle SC II, Diablo III and random FPS (think crysis). When I say handle I don't mean max settings, but I would prefer high settings graphic wise as aestethics does mean something.

Thank you in advance.

 

Get either P9700 or a Quad, 4gb ram and dual 280's

anything else is personal preference, ie: blue ray, size of hard drives etc

I have one from Kobalt and am well chuffed with it

 

hi trmun. you can find all the links to kobalt website and forum in my sig below.
ive got the nexus m86tu and it can play all those games fine so take pman's advice and go for the P9700 with twin 2gb graphics cards and you will wipe the flor with those games.

by the way its the comanchi sli

 

Thanks for your responses

One (hopefully) last question:

Is heating an issue at all?

 

as its an 18.4" i think the heat is dispursed very well but ill let the experts who own one confirm all the details.

pman

 

heating has never been an issue with mine

topping out low 70s under full load

no worries on mine

on idle upper 30's with 18-20 degrees ambient i guess

 

IMO - P9700 is best bet unless you can get a cheap QX9300 then go for that. 4 gig mem is all you will need, decent HDD or SSD depending, Blue Ray not necessary but nice.
Euro suppliers I’ll leave that to others that would know but heard nothing but great reviews about Kobalt.

As far as heat on this bad boy it's not an issue. The heat dissipates very well out the back. Fans are semi-quiet under normal working conditions (internet, apps, etc.). Gaming they go up a notch and are distinctive but not annoying. Full load they are annoying IMO but very rarely does that happen if ever, only in benchmarking or stress testing. Fans have two modes and do ramp up at various temp increases anyhow. I never change the fan mode. Using a cooler like a Cryo dropped temps under full load by about 5-10c, normal conditions it doesn't need a cooler.
LCD is a great display, love it. Chassis is a fingerprint magnet but use the towel that's provided to restore the gloss. Love the lights. Keyboard is nice touch, number pad is okay nothing special as for me it's crammed in which is odd especially with all the space on this thing. Some keys are laid out differently than normal so that’s some getting us to.
Temps (ambient 20-25c): CPU is mid-high 30's and GPU low 40's under normal load. Gaming depending on games (as haven't done much yet): CPU high 40's - low 50's, and GPU anywhere from 50's to high 60's. It can handle any game out there on high or max depending on the game.
Hope this helps.

 

The sager np9850 I like, i priced one the other day for 7k with all the goodies on it. Id go 80 gigbyte ssds in raid 0, with a 1tb or 500 gigabyte 3rd harddrive to ustalize the 3rd hard drive feature. With gaming raid ssd only makes sense now, especially with the type of chassis the 9850 comes in. You could also opt for a lower speced processor before going all the way and adding one later like an extream quad core, or like a t9700 due core witch is like 2.9 GHZ real fast, since gaming isnt utalizing all 4 cores right now anyway.

I always find in these types of posts that finding new features is fun even if when you buy your laptop your sole purpose is gaming. You might want to watch and find burning blue rays equally exciting, or find that your upgrade to a quad core was well met because you've started to use more programs at once...When ever Ibuy a system there usually is something I added that just made more sense to me after buying it for my main objective.

kagey if you dont mind me asking you have any pics of yours?

 

7k? Good lord that's expensive. Mine only ran me like 3k with my upgrades.

 

Thanks a lot for your advices - I really appreciate it!

Is it really worth it to go with a raid 0 - I mean, will it improve ingame performance or is it more a question of how fast it boots?

 

With an SSD not really.

 

Should be pics in the owners thread. Let me see if I can't link one of them:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5326265#post5326265
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5326483#post5326483