Sager/Malibal P170EM noise/heat emission question

Can anyone give me a link or tell me if these systems run noticeably hot/noisy under a (gaming) load? (with IC Diamond compound on the cpu and gpu)

 

What temperature are you getting and what game do you have? If it not a DX 11 game it should run under 90 degree, and some DX11 when Ultra might run past 90 degree but it also depend on how hot your GPU run.

Hope that help.

 

I do not have a malibal machine, I was just wondering because I was going to put one together at the end of the summer (with a 7970 in it). Is there some kind of review of a recent build that I can look over? Like from notebookcheck or something

 

Any laptop you get with that much processing power is going to be hot and relatively loud under load. Its the price you pay for power.

 

this covers just about everything
Review Clevo P170EM Notebook - Notebookcheck.net Reviews

 

Ok but what is 3D mode? Like actual 3D or just 3 dimensional gaming? Because I have no use for 3D at all and that review said that's where all the noise and heat comes from.

 

certain cards let you play games in 3d. its optional

 

For 3D you need a 3 D screen also. You get heat and therefore fan noise under load. 3D is irrelevant.

 

Might be two different questions here.
3d gaming requires a 120 hertz panel and either glasses or some other trick to provide the 3d look. That requires more horse power as the gpu has to render 2 frames instead of one to provide the 3d effect.

 

The GPU can be maxed without 3D, so it makes no difference. It uses its processing power to provide 3D, but at lower quality. The amount of heat is the same.

 

It seems they mean everything 3 dimensional (games, 3d cad work, etc.).

No reason to lie here, under load it IS loud. I'm looking at the P150, and had to accept its loudness, gotta have some headphones/earbuds ready . However, any other notebook with this much power won't do much better, if any better at all.

 

Page 2/3 of this thread has the decibel levels we recorded: http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/656018-youtube-videos-resellers-p150em-p170em-w110er-3.html

 

Ah ok, that part of the review confused me a bit

From what i'm reading someone said this:

"Quiet bedroom at night = 30 dB
Quiet library = 40 dB
Average home = 50 dB
Conversational speech = 60 dB
Vacuum cleaner = 70 dB"

So if the system gets about

"Idle 34.5 / 34.5 / 38.9 dB
HDD 34.5 dB
DVD 37.8 / dB
Load 47.9 / 53.6 dB"

then that doesn't seem very noisy at all really. and honestly when you're gaming you probably won't hear much of that noise because you have sound coming out of the speakers overtop of it or you have headphone/earbuds in.

I feel like before I pour $1,800 into a p170 em malibal desktop replacement i'd need to test one out in person. anyone know if this can be done? or perhaps there's a video of someone gaming on it and recording the noises you hear?

 

Yes there is a gameplay video:

Sager Np9150 gameplay and screen - YouTube

As you can hear, as soon as a game is fired up, the fan noise is quite noticeable. Not much of a problem in normal conditions, but can become annoying in a quiet room at night, especially when you can't crank the volume all the way up.

 

You made a good point, but im in a house with like 4 other roommates and we all have our own seperate rooms, so unless im trying to game and the gf is over and trying to sleep... I dunno, I can definitely hear it over his talking and some game sound too, sounds like my desktop machine.