**OFFICIAL W860CU/NP8690 Owners Lounge**

Working remotely on my 8690 right now... to those of you who just ordered new ones, sure hope you like 'em as much as I love mine! Be sure to report back when you get 'em!

 

Mine's status is still on pending though... Ordered on 5th March, though I hope it's because my reseller only updates the status once they receive the laptop from Sager.

 

Which company did your order from? I ordered from Mucro and they updated my status after the laptop was shipped from Sager. Took exactly 2 weeks to arrive on my doorstep.

 

To everyone that got there's with a 5870 congrats.
If you can post some temps it would be great.
I know there good in it's bigger brother but just want to make sure the smaller size does not hinder the cooling.

 

Sure thing. I'm gonna run a couple benchmarks on mine with the stock thermal paste and then possibly again with some arctic silver I have laying around.

 

Excellent!
This is the laptop of my dreams, right size , the best GPU and build quality is top notch.
Thanks

 

I'm starting to consider adding a second hard drive to the 8690. Which model sata enclosure would fit the optical drive bay?

 

Would the optical drive accept SSD im guessing yes ?

 

Mucro as well, so they only update status when it's shipped, that should explain it.

 

Any 9.5mm SATA ODD caddy will work. The face bezel may need a little work, but it will function just fine with any HDD or SSD you shove in there.

 

Thanks SS! So either of this would work?

http://cgi.ebay.com/SATA-2nd-Hard-D...e_Internal?hash=item5ad7c425ab#ht_3227wt_1140

http://cgi.ebay.com/SATA-2nd-HDD-Ha...ge_Internal?hash=item35a7b0bdfb#ht_2594wt_914

 

Yes. 10char

 

Spasibo--

10chars.

 

Пожалуйста.

 

CPU Temps under load fell over 10C for me when I did the same.

 

hey guys, I was reading some posts that occurred a good bit earlier in this forum about methods of applying thermal paste.

the argument was between the spreading and the dot method. Did anyone ever post a link showing actual experimental temp differences?

I know there is that video on youtube showing that the spreading method creates air bubbles, but it also covers more space than the dot method or the line method.

I was just wondering if we have actually verified experimentally (by showing actual cpu and gpu temps at load) which method is better.

cheers.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=465339

 

awesome. thanks Soviet.

 

Hi everyone,

I am new to this forum and have been lurking in this thread for a week. I would like to thank the contributors for such an informative thread.

Since my current laptop graphic card crashed again, one month after reviving it using the oven trick. I am very concerned about heat issues.

I am planning to get a new laptop for gaming (mainly WAR) and work, but couldn't make up my mind. The contenders were alienware, asus and toshiba. But after doing my research on user feedback, I have decided to go for sager since it addresses the heat issue.

One question for fzhfzh, I am planning to get from Mucro in singapore as well, did you purchase the two year warranty and 30days no dead pixel package? I noticed they do not offer the 30days no dead pixel with the one year warranty

Hope to see your feedback on the ati card too.

Take care

 

Hey Soviet, you know where i can find the new Nvidia driver for GTX 280M? There is only the old one on the Sager website

 

http://www.nvidia.com/content/global/global.php

 

Hey guys. I got my 8690 earlier today and I'm really happy with it. The build quality seems absolutely amazing. Opened up the box and slapped Win7 pro 64bit on it and it is flying. There are two problems I seem to be having with it so far.

The first problem is with the wireless, it is extremely slow and fluctuates big time. With my old laptop (HP DV5z) I would get great speed and max out my internet connection over the wireless. With this wireless it seems to fluctuate between 8 KB/s and up to 1.0 MB/s. I installed the driver that came with the laptop, I haven't tried any other drivers yet. Maybe I will see if there is an update from Intel.

The second problem is that I was going to post temps for everyone since it seems to be a common concern, but my video card temp isn't showing up in HWmonitor. A screenshot of the HWmonitor window is below. Can someone help me get it working?

Also, if 3Dmark06 EVER finishes, I will do a test with just a fresh win7 install and the included drivers from the CD.

 

Nice rig Mikey... Too bad about the wireless, should of got an Alienware.

But hey, fastest laptop in the class, hurry with that 3d06 score.

 

The wireless driver that initially comes with the notebook is ancient garbage. Update to the latest one on Intel's website.

 

Well here is the 3d06 score.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=13435119

It isn't exactly stock, there is one thing I did. I read some posts earlier in this thread about the piece of plastic (or whatever it is) blocking the fan to the CPU. I went ahead and took that off because to me it doesn't make sense to block the intake for a fan, pretty stupid imo (hopefully that didn't mess with my warranty). I'm not sure if that would have any effect on my 3d06 score or not, but it did have really nice load temps. I will attach a screenshot of HWmonitor. Should I be impressed with this score?

 

Took the plunge, just ordered from powernotebooks, very excited. Actually im not much of a gamer, will be using this laptop mostly for video editing (and general bada**ness)..

My specs:

1080 fhd led!! (though im a bit worried about the shiny screen)
i7 720
raedon 5870!!
4gb ram
80GB X25 SSD!!

w/diamond thermal, and a nice lil blu-ray drive, windows 7 and no office because i ran out of money lol

 

nice specs
just get your the office 2010 beta then

 

Or OpenOffice.

 

do we need to download the latest bios? where should we go?

 

+1000 on upgrading the Wireless drivers. Get the latest & greatest from Intel. I got mine a month back and have run it exclusively wireless and it's super solid & stable.

As for the ATI not showing up on HWMonitor, chances are the latter hasn't been updated to talk to the ATI card and pull the temps... hence why it is missing.

Honestly, forget about what's on the CD. Go over to Sager's site, get the latest & greatest drivers that they've posted, then supplement those with more updated drivers from major vendors (like the wireless drivers, etc.).

I got my box a few weeks ago and I haven't bothered. Is there a need to do so, that I'm not aware of? If there's no need, why bother?

 

Great suggestion!! +1 rep!!

 

X2... plus a few...

 

Just a question, do Mucro have that "Deposit received and pending" status all the way until Sager shipped it to them? And is the status updated when Sager starts shipping or when Mucro actually received it? 1 week past now, and it's still "Deposit received and pending"...

It makes my anxious and very sad not having it now and having to deal with my 3 years old laptop with only an ATI 1600, maybe I'll just start overclocking it until it burns...

 

I only had, the date I ordered, "Pending". Then, the day after, I paid in full. Then the status changed, on CNY night to "Confirmed and Paid". Then when Sager shipped, a week later, it changed to "Shipped". Which payment method did you choose? 10% now 90% on delivery? If that's the case, then they'll update you when the order is shipped. Or I could be wrong, you should try emailing or calling them.

 

Any of you guys have much luck OCing your GPUs, and if so has anyone figured out how to get clocks to stick at boot?

 

Upgraded the wireless driver to the latest from Intels website and the wireless seems to be working great, thanks a bunch Soviet. +Rep!

If anyone else wants a link, here is the driver I downloaded and installed.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18748&ProdId=3200&lang=eng

 

WOOO!!! Notebook arrived today! actually i had to hunt the ups man down because i missed him. i have two questions:

1.) where do i go to update the ati 5870 driver? i went to the sager website but it doesnt have any options for that card yet.

2.) CPUID doesnt show my gpu temps, just cpu and some other stuff. how do i fix this?

 

1. You cant the new driver update isn't out yet. Hopefully will be at the end of the month.

2. It doesn't show temps the best way to do it is to download Hardware monitor which displays all temps.

 

I am not able to get the GPU temp to show up in HWmonitor with this laptop. I would really like it to show up though. Also, do you have the piece of plastic covering your CPU fan like I did?

 

GPU temp shows up fine for me on my laptop. I dont know which piece of plastic you mean I didnt see anything. Can you describe it to me so next time its open I can have a look.

 

The piece of plastic is just a really thin piece of plastic, almost like a film type material. It is sticky on one side and is just simply blocking the fan intake on the chassis, it isn't stuck to the fan but the chassis.

 

yeah, im not sure why HWmonitor doesnt show gpu temp for me? i am confused. also, i havent noticed a peice of pastic covering anything. if there is one i reckon it doesnt matter much since the cpu is idling right around 48-50C with the stock thermal paste.

i just ran 3dmark06 at standard res (1260) and got 14205!!!
cpu temps after 1 run got to about 60C

question: the two cpu test parts in 3dmark06 ran at like 1fps...is that normal?

 

Yes, that's normal.

Did you connect your notebook to an external monitor when you ran the benchmark at the standard default resolution of 1280x1024? Your 1600x900 panel is not capable of producing that resolution for the benchmark.

 

Well spotted he must have, if thats the res he did the test at.

 

OK called them, woot, expected arrival date next monday or tuesday.

 

Does anyone know anything about this SSD?

Imation 2.5" M-Class SATA II 128GB SSD

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350327820211#ht_3029wt_1189

At $110, I am super tempted to get one.

This, or the Intel 160GB for $368 after Bing.

What do you think?

EDIT: Never mind. The Imation is worse than a 7200 rpm drive. Oh, well.

http://www.laptopmag.com/review/storage/imation-m-class-ssd-128gb.aspx

 

Imation=Imatation

 

Yep, I just bought the Intel.

 

Very wise decision.

 

yeah, i ran it at 1280x1024, no external monitor. i was just excited because the score is way better than the one posted from the benchmark done by xoticpc.