**D900F (Sager 9280) Owners Lounge**

I was talking to a eurocom represenative about a few things and i asked him about the new graphics cards! ATI 5870 will be in this machine, and also the new GTX 285M! Just a backlit keyboard and its all good.

 

Wait, so they'll be offering both the ati and nvidea card?

That just doesn't sound right..

 

Well, it is the most customizeable line of notebook on the market. Why not? Dell has 'em beat with the M6500, far as GPU selection goes.

 

Yeah the options of what you want to put in this machine is limitless no holds barriers. Dell does have a hold on them with the quadro fx3800m but wait they already have it for the machine on eurocoms website!@. But sorry to have you excited March 2010 is the ETA! Oh well until then The precision Reigns unless the 285M comes out soon. Eurocom is charging an arm and a leg, he told me that they will match sales with xoptic pc but how about that 3 year labor and parts warranty standard? Just wow so many options and so expensive.

 

In the M6500, the standard Ati Firepro M7740 is a strong card as well, and that has been available since September. Why has Clevo remained stingy with the D900f GPU selection? Clevo can't possibly have that many GTX 280M in stockpile... It's the king of workstations, and there's money to be made

 

could they not have just done away with the battery and insted put in a desktop GPU card?

I guess that would just be too good to happen

 

If they did that it wouldn't be a "laptop" anymore.

 

And you'd need a power supply twice as big...

 

Yup you would need a power supply twice as big, and it deff would not bee a laptop workstation. Clevo needs to stop being so stingy with this amazing machine time for an upgrade, which will be in two months and how about the 980x core i7 sheesh.

 

How can I use that e-sata port on the side? Can I plug my old laptop sata drive in and copy to the new HDD? SUre would make transfer easy.

 

if you have a esata case or esata to sata cable + power....sure you can.

 

Ahhh...some more accessories to buy! You knew I'd be here, didn't you John? Thanks again bro!

 

no problem.
it's what i use and still use for loading. 10 times faster

 

Just picked this e-sata docking station.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153071

 

nice... i just have the little hand held one.

 

Also again confirmed this will deff have the gtx 285 nVIDIA® GeForce GTX 285M
1GB GDDR3 Video RAM on board
Support PCIe x16
Microsoft® DirectX® 10 support
MXM 3.0, Type B
Support HDCP

http://www.clevo.com.tw/en/products/prodinfo_2.asp?productid=19

 

you can do that, you will need a e-SATA cable to connect to your HDD. And I believe you will need to power the HDD externally since the eSATA port might not be able to power the HDD.

inside of Vista/Win7 its plug and play
for XP, you need to plug in the eSATA device before powering up the system.

 

hey gophn!

whats the word on this gtx285m?

 

gonna try to get my hands on one for my next review unit.

 

cool!
thought you we're going to keep that i7 unit for a minute.

 

GTX285M ~ GTX280M OC'd Gophn?

 

In about two months the ati 5870 will be ready to be released. Damn that card only runs at 50 watts lol. I am very close to ordering it through eurocom they price matched me very well from xoptic pc. Only 2,430 something around the price.

 

if your thinking of putting the ati card in the 9280...not sure that's going to work....the bios has to support the card...and not sure clevo is going to be going for that....speculation of course...and that's if you we're talking about the 9280

 

It says right on eurocoms website when you go to configure it. Man I am stuck between this and a m17x or m11x I am just so sick of buying machines so much. I am more interested in a m11x anyway. I just want something that will last and man I don't like sloat loads much even though two of my machines have them. This seems to be able to last for a few years and totaly upgradable.

 

eurocom has been well known to over exaggerate the truth....
but dont get me wrong..i sure hope that is true!!
and that netbook is looking like a win/win

ok, someone smack me! am i reading this right?
950 bucks for ONE 9800m gtx
http://rjtech.com/shop/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=29855

 

Yeah its looking to be good getting a ssd on that is a lot cheaper. A whole month plus to order. Why do they exgasrate, talking about eurocom? The gtx 280 is pretty powerful though. Do u think its worth to get the machine?

 

if your a serious gamer..your going to want a dual card machine...if your more work than play...a single card machine with i7 cpu

 

Well I do play games hardcore on a quadro fx 3700m for most of the time I get some pretty high frame rates mass effect two stays steady on 1600x900 at 60 frames. Gta lv is also good. I do a lot of video editing etc.. I am getting into running vmware etc... The alienware 17x and this machine are about evenly priced I can get the m17x slightly cheaper though but with a core i5. I just would like to have a led panel on these sagers but I am told it is good and I once had a lg philips screen which is what I read this one uses.

 

nothing wrong with the i5 cpu...
and the reason for good fps is because your resolution is 1600x900
it's quite a bit different when running at 1920x1200 or 1920x1080.. you wont get anywhere near those numbers maxed out.

m17x:what is the screen size/gpus/and cpu in it?

 

17 inch screen rgb led, dual 4870s core i5 and i7 cpus. 16 differen color keyboard backlit.

 

take the m17x

 

Yeah I know but I just love the fact of having a desktop processor in that machine raw power lol

 

The m17x is already again having probs especially with that small psu sheesh. Screen flickering when gaming. Thank god I never run into these probs.

 

But then the m17x is a bit more powerful i just feel a quadcore is not worth it dual cores still rock and the i7 has a lot of probs with throttling.

 

I would think twice about buying from Eurocom if I were you. Check my sig for details.

 

I have a Eurocom and have thus far not had one problem

 

hello guys,

is there anyone know how to make S/PDIF work? i already have mini toslink adapter. is it the leftest port in the fornt I/O?

thx

 

Consider yourself very lucky, considering the horror stories I and others have had to go through dealing with that company and it's president.

My next Clevo will definitely not be from them.

 

Yeah deff get it from xotpic pc.

 

please delete

 

Sweet!!! My order just shipped. I can't wait. I am giddy.

I am in the middle of replacing a mobo on an Area51 7700m, and am on a Dell Inspiron 8500 P4 right now. So this can't come soon enough.

*See sig for specs I am waiting for

 

Just got my 9280 on Monday. Man this thing flys.....I can't believe how fast it is. I really had my doubts, even with a desktop i7, that a notebook could keep up with a comparable desktop rig. No doubts now, lol.

I did some tests comparing my desktop i7 920 oc @ 3.2ghz to the 9280 i7 960, and the 9280 is just as fast as the desktop (work chores that is!) Of course it can't compete graphically, but that's not why I bought it.

What's really amazing is this notebook is just as powerful, even graphically, as a top end single card desktop rig from only 2 years ago. I get almost the same type of 3dmark06 on the 9280 as I used to get on my Q6600/680i/geforce 8800 rig. Pretty darn nice!

The only complaint I have is the noise the ac adapter makes....sounds like a hard drive clicking away. I thought with ssd's I'd have a quiet system...I have to put the adapter behind my printer so I don't hear it...really bothers me. btw, fans aren't loud at all to me.

 

Speaking of fans, how do I get them to run at 100%? I read somewhere there's an F1 toggle? Speedfan?

 

I dont own this beast YET
but..
Mutant Tractor posted this

Fn+1 = Fans Max
Fn+2 = SRS Sound On/Off
Fn+3 = Fans Medium (Aparrently)
No idea what the rest do


Hope it helps

 

Nice...it works! I was pressing Fn F1, instead of just 1. Thanks snooze!

 

Is there a complete Fn list?

 

In the user manual

 

Hummmm...never thought of the users manual...it came with one? LOL...

 

Hey Q56... your on HWBot too man?
Benching for EVGA, im with BenchTec UK
Impressive results dude!
/Off Topic

 

Yea, I'm there...trying to get up to your 3dm06 result. About 80 points away...time to get this lappy cooled down and maybe do a volt mod flash (if I figure it out).

Power keeps going on and off tonight as I live on the US east coast and we got hammered with a wicked snow storm...benching doesn't look too good for tonight.