Sager NP8690 - New Owner!

Hi!

I just got my NP8690 yesterday after dealing with a Mac Book Pro for five years, so I've been out of the game for some time now. I'm very excited about getting a laptop, but I am basically a newbie when it comes to taking care of it/optimizing it.

I've already visited the owner's lounge for the NP8690, but it was over 100 pages of thread long and was hard to sift through all the discussion to find solid tips.

Like I said, I came from a Mac looking for gaming prowess, and I'm pretty sure I found it, but am unsure how to maximize the experience. I saw sprinklings of things like updating the BIOS, system drivers, benchmarking, fans, temp, thermal compound, battery life but if anyone could lay exactly what needs to happen, that would be great...

8690-11 with i7 740QM 6mb, 4gb DDR3, 500gb SATA, stock thermal compound, windows 7, and nVgF GTX 460M 1.5gb


Thanks

EDIT: Bad news, I just found five dead pixels -- four green clustered in one area, and one red kinda just hanging out.......

 

Have you tried the methods here yet to try to "un-stick" your pixels? If not, please read the whole page thoroughly or else you may damage your screen.

Welcome to the Clevo family!

My recommendation, only start updating bios/vbios, drivers and what not if you are having problems with a particular game or program and it is required to fix it. Of course, some people like to tinker and update stuff wether it needs it or not, all up to you.

I really hope you enjoy gaming on your new machine!

 

I am also interested in the same questions.

So far I have seen some users update their BIOS to fix the computer not recognizing GTX460M and 470M problem. Not sure exactly the consequences of not updating tho.

For video drivers I have seen some problems with GTX470M but since you have a 460 you probably won't have this problem.

 

As far as updating the bios, I say if you don't need it and your computer works fine, don't do it. I starting having problems when I updated. But I was able to revert back to an older one and some of the problems went away.

For the dead pixels, try this - JScreenFix - Fix stuck pixels and screen burn-in. Its worked for me.

 

hi ford and welcome to nbr

heres a list of good software to monitor your computer to keep it in tip top condition. http://forum.notebookreview.com/gam...d-monitoring-your-temps-more.html#post4772062

also Nvidia drivers can be found HERE

 

also take a look at the official Gophn thread http://forum.notebookreview.com/not...idia-ati-cpu-hdd-do-your-temps-worry-you.html

 

Thanks for the info. I just like to point out that Nvidia site doesn't have any drivers listed for GTX470M. Are we limited to 3rd party sites like laptopvideo2go? Or are we doomed to waiting for nvidia to offically support it? How can they put out hardware that they have no "official" software support for?

 

i know it only says

but has anyone managed to get them to work with 470 cards.

 

Okay, so thanks guys for all the suggestions. I've tried JScreen with no success, but I'm wondering if you guys trust anything here or is most of just a bunch smoke and mirrors?

THanks!