**OFFICIAL W860CU/NP8690 Owners Lounge**

Damn... that is some fast service right there. Did you pay for expedited shipping?

 

Hey! I'm rather new to the forums, but i definitely just bought a Np8690, and I also play steam fairly frequently

http://steamcommunity.com/id/butteredtoast

 

I don't have Steam at work, but I will add your buttery goodness to my friend list when I arrive home.

 

Mine shipped out as well!

Dear Valued Customer,
We wanted to inform you that your order has been updated with the following status & additional information:

New status: Phase 4 (Order Shipped)
Some additional notes placed on your order:

Your order shipped out last night! Please find the tracking # attached to this email.


Scheduled Delivery Date:
11/11/2009
Shipped To:
AVENTURA, FL, US
Shipped/Billed On:
11/05/2009
Type:
Package
Service:
GROUND
Special Instructions:
SIGNATURE REQUIRED
Weight:
16.00 Lbs

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Location Date Local Time DescriptionWhat's This?
BALDWIN PARK, CA, US 11/06/2009 12:29 A.M. DEPARTURE SCAN
BALDWIN PARK, CA, US 11/05/2009 7:25 P.M. ORIGIN SCAN
US 11/05/2009 8:26 P.M. BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED
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It gets here on the the 11th though since I picked slower shipping

 

I got confirmation that mine had been transferred to Xotic's Nebraska facility yesterday. Once there, they'll be shipping it to me. I don't get the shipping number for the first shipment though, only when it's coming my way.

I am retardedly excited... like kid getting his first bicycle excited.

 

That's funny, I ordered mine from a different company than the rest, and they all seem to come out of Baldwin Park.. hrrmm.. me thinks this is just standard warehouse re-shipping, regardless of which company you order from.

 

I think it's because Sager's distribution warehouse is located in Baldwin Park. Newegg has warehouses there too. I gotta drive down there when I get back to California in Jan just to see it. I bet the whole city is a giant warehouse. BTW Brandon I was in Chicago (well Rolling Meadows) for a 1.5 months and just got back a few weeks ago. Chicago is a nice clean place, giordano's pizza was great.

 

If you ordered a Sager NP8690 they all come from the Sager factory in City of Industry, CA, and are originally routed through Baldwin Park.

 

I ordered a W860CU, so apparently the Clevos come out of there as well.

Joker - Giordano's is amazing stuff. Next time you're in town let me know, there are places that are even BETTER than Giordanos, if you can imagine that!

 

Toronto is actually pretty good on the food front. Very multicultural.
And UPS charges something like 4% brokerage fees unless you get express shipping. Still sad I wont get it till sunday as I expected it to come during the week when I was not home, so I got it shipped to a friend who could stay home to recieve it.

 

Also, here is my entire shipping history
MISSISSAUGA, ON, CA 11/06/2009 9:10 A.M. IMPORT SCAN
11/06/2009 7:48 A.M. PACKAGE DATA PROCESSED BY BROKERAGE. WAITING FOR CLEARANCE / DELIVERY RESCHEDULED
FREDERICTON, NB, CA 11/06/2009 8:42 A.M. POWER OF ATTORNEY DOCUMENTATION IS MISSING AND IS REQUIRED FOR CLEARANCE
MISSISSAUGA, ON, CA 11/06/2009 7:41 A.M. IMPORT SCAN
11/06/2009 5:54 A.M. ARRIVAL SCAN
LOUISVILLE, KY, US 11/06/2009 4:25 A.M. DEPARTURE SCAN
11/06/2009 4:20 A.M. EXPORT SCAN
11/06/2009 3:36 A.M. EXPORT SCAN
11/06/2009 3:36 A.M. EXPORT SCAN
11/06/2009 3:35 A.M. EXPORT SCAN
11/06/2009 2:22 A.M. ARRIVAL SCAN
ONTARIO, CA, US 11/05/2009 7:49 P.M. DEPARTURE SCAN
11/05/2009 6:45 P.M. ARRIVAL SCAN
BALDWIN PARK, CA, US 11/05/2009 6:30 P.M. DEPARTURE SCAN
11/05/2009 6:04 P.M. ORIGIN SCAN
US 11/05/2009 8:26 P.M. BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED

 

Great, clearance issues, ETA monday

 

had a look at a W860CU today at www.kobaltcomputers.co.uk , the screen is significantly better than M860TU, much much brighter and sharper and not as glossy. I like it baby!

 

Here's mine:

AVENTURA, FL, US 11/06/2009 12:01 P.M. OUT FOR DELIVERY
BALDWIN PARK, CA, US 11/05/2009 6:30 P.M. DEPARTURE SCAN
11/05/2009 6:04 P.M. ORIGIN SCAN
US 11/05/2009 8:26 P.M. BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED

 

How were the viewing angles, contrast ratio and colors? I need details man!

 

http://www.notebookjournal.de/tests/test-review-deviltech-9700-dtx--clevo-w860cu-nkmo-1039

you'll love w860cu's screen 260nit average, high contrast and good viewing angles.

 

260 nit you say? That alone makes me happy.

Edit: the battery time makes me cringe:




About the display, this seems like really good news!:

 

Here's my status:
Delivered on Oct. 9.

5150Joker, I think you will be very please with the display. All my friends agreed that the display is the best they have seen yet. It won't be as good as RGB displays but its pretty darn close.

 

Hey guys, just about to pull the trigger on one of these, but I'm really stuck on whether or not to fork out the 200$ for dead pixel insurance. I'm in Canada, so I wouldn't get the free 3day shipping, couldn't I just be able to claim to be unhappy with my purchase and send it back and get a full refund if get a dead pixel? What am I even paying for here??

 

Supposedly it's the same display used in the Dell Studio XPS 16 (the 15.6" WLED version). If that's true, then I know I'll be impressed. I should have mine by Wednesday...can't wait! If you guys know anyone that wants to buy a notebook for cheap, I've got my Asus G51 for sale (see my sig).

 

Starting with post #27 to #34. http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=429548&page=3

 

Thanks for the info Soviet Sunrise, in light of this information I am going ahead with my order. I still can't stomach the 200$ strictly for them to check my screen, so I'm going to go all the way and get the 2 year warranty + deadpixel insurance for 230$. I figure this way I'm at least getting a little more for my money.

 

Yes, that is a good choice. Two years parts and labor warranty with dead pixel warranty stacked ontop of it for $100 more is a good compromise.

 

While I'm waiting for mine to arrive... I know it's been said that it's very solid, but I'm curious about the construction of the 8690. I've found mixed comments about what is plastic and what's metal on it. Clearly the bottom is plastic, but what about the display lid and the palm rest? If any of the panels are aluminum, are they painted or anodized?

I also remember reading that the frame is aluminum and instead of plastic.

Anyone know?

 

Judging by the weight, I'd guess it's fully plastic.

 

DragonForce is the hardest metal known to man.

 

Wow, 12 miles away from my home and wont arrive 'till monday.

 

Yeah I just got off the phone with UPS:

Me: hi this is spybenj. I'd like to refuse shipment so please return to sender.
UPS: normally we have to make a delivery attempt first.
Me: I'm having a vasectomy that day, I won't be available. Please send it back.
UPS: Oh sorry. Ok item will be sent back.

 

Alright ChinNoobonic, you don't have to be the first one to break 14k in 3dmark06, I went ahead and did it myself.

 

Woooo! Great job! What were your GPU OC settings?

 

Excellent! Suade, have you joined the W860/W870 Steam group? If not here's the link: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Clevo_W860_W870 Everyone else with a W860 are encouraged to join as well. This group is a "branch" of the KGB specifically meant for the elite agents (W860/W870 owners).

 

The clocks are 700/1690/1150. I know, its extreme but if the card can take it
why not see what it can do without putting it on fire of course. I'll will push it even further if some one challenges me to beat those numbers. Man, only if I can OC the cpu 15k would be the target to hit for.

Thanks, I haven't joined yet but will be later when I get off work. In Soviet Russia, you don't join the steam community but the steam community joins you!

 

Wow 700 core is impressive! I'm surprised the core and shader clock held up at those speeds. I'll be installing Windows XP SP3 and Win 7 on mine when it arrives. XP yields higher 3dmark scores than Vista/Win 7 so if my card OC's as well as yours, consider yourself challenged!

 

I have been messing around with my laptop for the longest time and finally got some temps worth posting. I removed the sticker that blocks the CPU intake and my temps fell by about 7*C for the CPU. Silent Mode now works since I removed the sticker, no more increasing temp while active ^_^.

 

Chin can you take a picture of where the sticker is, I will do that aswell.

 

As we know higher clock speeds do not always translate to a higher 3DMark score. Sometimes a lower clock will give you a better score. This was proved over in the Alienware forum for one. For example I scored the below with 630/1600/1000 setting. True I have the 920x extreme CPU but it doesn't help out that much in 3DMark06.

 

Not sure if this is too offtopic.
Im getting L4D2 as I've decided and I have 3 people for a group and need 1 more.
Any 8690 owners want to get L4D2 with me for $35?

 

If you break down the score, yours actually got a huge boost from the 920xm. His GPU's SM 3.0 score is well above yours thanks to the overclock. If you added your CPU score to his, then his final score would have been >14,600.

 

Someone help young benj out!

 

True, all video cards will top out at some point but where it will top out depends on the video card. As we all know, not all video cards are made equal. If you were to compare your shader scores to mine it already shows with my higher clocks scores better. With the 920xm in my machine and you can imagine where my score would be. Now my main question is how further my card would go with the steady increase in performance before it blows up.

babyhemi, are those your max clocks that gives you the best performance or are you just playing conservatively?

 

Nevermind, I got all 4 people
And noobic, youve pushed it enouigh. Time to retire rofl

 

I didn't run any specific tests, but viewing angles are definately better than the older machine, colours seemed bright not too washed out and contrast was good but I only used the machine with windows desktop on it so hard to fully judge. Its not as good as my Dell M1330XPS but not far off it either.

Edit: This was a FULL HD laptop BTW.

 

The guys over at www.kobaltcomputers.co.uk did a test of the different CPU's

Here is Neil's (CTO) post:

I thought it would be a good idea to get some comparitive benchmarks between the CPU options on these two laptops. Seeing as we decided to put the same GTX 280M in both chassis the CPU choice is the main way to increase the performance. I decided to keep it simple (admittedly partly due to lack of time!) so we ran 3DMark06 for GPU and the CPU bench as well as the full Cinebench run. The latter runs the same test in a single thread and then multithreadded which will give a good indication of how the Turbo Mode performance works on the different CPUs.

Here is the core load vs core speed information:

i7-720QM
Max Intel Turbo Boost Frequency (GHz):

4 core: 1.73
3 core: 1.73
2 core: 2.40
1 core: 2.80



i7-820QM
Max Intel Turbo Boost Frequency (GHz):

4 core: 2.00
3 core: 2.00
2 core: 2.80
1 core: 3.06

i7-920XM
Max Intel Turbo Boost Frequency (GHz):

4 core: 2.26
3 core: 2.26
2 core: 3.06
1 core: 3.20

What all this basically means in laymans terms is that in multithread intensive apps the CPU will keep its speed down to reduce heat output but when running non multithreaded apps like the majority of games the CPUs will increase their speed for better performance on only one or two cores. So for example in the 920 Cinebench results the CPU was running one core at 3.20GHz for the single CPU Render Test but running at 2.26GHz for the Multiple CPU Render Test.



Testing was carrier out with a clean install of Windows 7 HP and 4GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM. Before the pics here are the individual results:


720 1.6GHz-2.8GHz

3DMark06 - 11,827
Cinebench Single Thread - 3,741
Cinebench Multi Thread - 10,207



820 1.73GHz-3.06GHz

3DMark06 - 12,363
Cinebench Single Thread - 4,142
Cinebench Multi Thread - 11,879



920 2.0GHz-3.2GHz

3DMark06 - 12,772
Cinebench Single Thread - 4,366
Cinebench Multi Thread - 12,848
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There are screen shots over on their forum...

Neil.

 

just on the materials front, there is alot more plastic than on the 8662. The keyboard area and I'm pretty sure the lid is all plastic. Which for me is a positive as its alot hard to to scratch than the 8662, which was very easy to scratch.

 

Yeah -- what sticker?

 

Since the Core 2 Duo architecture is aging now, people are looking forward to i7. It brings a great deal of changes, the biggest being that it effectively eliminates the market for higher clocked dual cores. Although Intel will still release cheaper dual cores, there isn't a performance advantage to speak of against the quads.

I wanted to know where the QX9300 stood against the 720, 820, and 920. On one core, even the 720 would look to be faster. On 2 cores, the 820 and 920 would undoubtedly be faster. But on 4 cores? I wasn't so sure. Anyway, here are the results at 2.93ghz.

3DMark06 - 12,775 (185.85, old test but stock clocks)
Cinebench Single Thread - 3,270
Cinebench Multi Thread - 11,551

At 2.53ghz, the results would only look worse, heh. In 3dmark06 it scored the same as the 920. So we can generally assume multi-threaded game performance, where CPU clockspeed is a factor, the 920 and OC'd QX9300 are roughly equal. Thing is, the 920 can still be OC'd...

The QX9300 gets killed in the single thread CPU test, even by the 720. In multithread, it's just a bit slower than the 820. Surprised me at first, because the i7's are low-clocked when all 4 cores are running, but hyperthreading lends a helping hand here.

 

The notebook journal guys seemed to be quite enthusiastic about the display. I'm surprised you don't find it to be as good as the 1330 xps which is a fairly "low end" system.

 

Yah Jason at PcTorque said they would have the 1080p screen models ready this week, so I'm gonna guess I get mine.....Friday with 3 day shipping. Give or take how long Sager takes on inspecting my 9280 I sent in which they got Friday, and then crediting me with the $$/difference. I know I'm tired of using the old man's desktop, I just want to sit on my bed and be on my own comp, Although this is the desktop I sold him, so it WAS mine at one time I guess. ( man I hate desktops now! It's like this...keyboard, and and, this external screen, the big speakers, the cords!!! I'm ruined by Sager's dynamite laptops )

 

I had a Gateway P-6831FX, trust me, I WILL be enthusiastic over the display!

Of course that laptop broke boundries, and was a GREAT laptop, but the screen? Phew

 

lol, not 3 years ago it wasn't mate! First machine with WLED backlight screen and 330 nits