**OFFICIAL W860CU/NP8690 Owners Lounge**

You got to be careful what your telling people here. You ALWAYS need to update the EC file before the W file. I have heard of bricking if you don't.

 

Well.. I already had flashed the normal .16 bios when I flashed the EC from .10 to .11 and it worked..

And I got my 920xm es together with some arctic silver 5 thermal paste.
The temps on stock are same as my i7 720.

After some testing with throttlestop I got dual core turbo mode at 3.5 ghz its really nice

But with multipliers at 17 with 4 cores it throttle's back at 80c when im doing 3d rendering.
I tested this also with prime 95 and with that program it doesnt throttleback i got temps up to 86c so I'm kinda confused on what the problem may be..

Ok.. i fixed my dvd drive by manually opening it and after that it worked just fine..

 

I agree, except This is what I did and it worked fine. I wouldn't post stuff on here if I knew it would brick your laptop.

 

It’s a long read, either on this thread or the 8760 thread. But it was talked about in several posts by people that do know what they were talking about. You and chaos just got lucky that you didn’t brick your units. No need to dismiss what I am saying just from your limited experience of flashing your units.

 

Tell me in a few sentences what was said (I dont have time to read through the long read)? I may have been lucky...but for future reference I'd like to know what I need to do to not brick it. What's the difference between the EC file and W file?

 

Well.. I have flashed lots of biosses and 1 time I had to reinstall my windows, so I know there is a true risk of bricking the laptop or killing the windows installation.

Does anyone have when booting windows 7 a black screen for 2 minutes and then it just boots like normal?
My brother has the same on his desktop with totally different hardware, so I know its a software problem.. but at google I cant really find a solution..
Startup repair didnt help either..

 

Test post... this thread is only displaying 433 pages for me

 

in the sager service manual it recommends removing the wifi card first before removing the cpu/replacing the cpu.
do you guys do this?

 

Where did the rest of the posts went?
Did the forum crash?

 

i now finally have the NP8690 with GTX 470m. Damn, i thought it would be bigger, but it's actually decent-sized.

 

any 1 knw if having an i5 will greatly affect battery life or not?

 

two questions

1) i have the 280m can I still upgrade to the hd5870 or 285gtx?
2) will we see the radeon 6 series?

 

If you're looking for battery life then this is the wrong notebook. I'm not entirely sure what the battery life difference is.

 

i just upgraded the drivers to the 261.00

Now, the brightness on my np 8690 doesn't change at all even with lowering or increasing, it just stays the same...

anyone have a clue?

 

First question, yes.

Second question, if the 6 series is compatible with MXM 3.0 then yes most likely

 

Where did you get the Nvidia 261.00?

 

You're not missing out on anything beyond 258.96 WHQL on a G92 card lest you are playing any of the new games listed in the change logs.

 

got it off laptopvideo2go.com, installed it with modded inf.

 

Have you noticed any other negative side effects to going with the 261.00 driver or is the only thing the inability to adjust the brightness?

 

Does anyone have any tricks to stop the GPU from downclocking when on battery? (GTX 470M in my case, but any information will really help)

Droping the GPU from:
535 Core
750 mem
1070 shader

to:
73 Core
162 mem
147 shader

is quite extreme... I call it getto optimus technology

 

uh, in Darksiders the radar's icon keeps flashing in a weird way, but that's about it...

anyone know the good driver for np 8690? 261.00 ain't it.

 

You could start off by reading the first post of this thread. I basically outlined it like I read it, but again it's bared in one of the two threads, I can't remember which one or how far back. The thread explicitly says the same thing I said about doing the EC before the W file, and I think they explain a little bit about what the difference is.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/416916-clevo-bios-thread.html

 

Yes we have been hearing of issues with the 261.0 driver for many nVidia cards...
You would be hard pressed to beat the regular Sager drivers right now...
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260.99 , the one's I'm using right now seems to be pretty decent.

 

@ChronoBodi

where did you buy your machine? or you just upraded gpu to gtx 470m? does your retailer sell just 470m card?

 

can anyone give a recommend for the best driver for 460m? if you can share inf pls do

 

I highly recommend following Laptopvideo2go for NVIDIA drivers. The head mod updates the .inf files continuously. I wish I still had a NVIDIA card so I could keep up-to-date on LV2G. There is a very strong and knowledgeable community over there.

 

Why would you remove the wifi card for a cpu replacement?
I didnt do it, because there was enough space to remove the fan/heatsink.

And the speed increase from a 720 to a 920xm (also overclocked) is petty nice, I had it without crashing on all 4 cores to 3.2ghz but the temps got up to 90c so i turned the speed down.

 

thats what was printed in the service manual i have. but i guess it aint necessary. thanks

 

ok guys , i'm searching for 260.99's modified inf working with 460m np8690 , if anyone has it pls share with people , it would be appreciate

 

The below is what one member did...

 

I had already tried it but it didn't work . I'm asking for anyone who is an expert in modifying inf , pls help .

 

Seeing that you have the 470m....can you run some benchmarks for us (3dmark vantage GPU score specifically) to drool over? Also, if you feel so inclined...overclock it and run the benchmarks again to see what the card is capable of!

I just cant seem to find any benchmarks for the 470m.....so if anybody has any sites with benchmarks let me know!

Edit: nevermind...found a thread. http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/531695-gtx-470m-benchmarks-sager-np8690-clevo-w860cu.html

 

Well after having been a lurker on the forums for some time, I just wanted to post that I finally made a decision and ordered an 8690 from PowerNotebooks!

15.6” 1920x1080
i7-840QM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M 1.5GB GDDR5 (couldn't justify price of 470M)
IC Diamond Thermal Compound
8GB DDR3/1333
500GB Seagate XT NCQ Hybrid w/4GB SSD
6x Blu-Ray Burner/Reader/8x Super Multi Combo Drive
Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 Wireless Card

Hoping this will last me a few years of relative mobility for frequent moves. This is my first personal laptop ever, having always built my own desktops in the past. Thank you all for the great advice I've read over the past month!

 

thanks.

do you think its possible to create a 224 bit width with gddr5 gpu and fit it into the w860cu? what could be the tdp?

 

congrats. good build. should last you a while.

 

You should have bought the cheapest processor and install yourself a 920xm from ebay
Your system is identical to mine only you got the geforce and i the ati, and you wont be dissapointed by the peformance!

Can the geforce handle 3 monitors?
When I use the hdmi and dvi ports I can only have 2 screens active and have to disable one.

 

Lovely spec you have there Lightloch

 

Ordered my Clevo 860 from Pro-star. Cant wait to get it!!

Config:
i7 920QM
8GB DDR3
GTX 460m w/1.5GB
500 GB 7200

I plan to swap out the hard drive with the SSD, heard great things about the performance.

Also, looking for a good gaming mouse and I am all set for the next year with all my gaming needs.

 

Congrats Sagars

SSD's do have a decent impact on notebooks in particular; up to three times the speed (depending on specs) than standard HDDs, silent, generate far less heat and consume far less battery power.

When 250+GB SSDs become a little more affordable i am going to go for one myself.

 

I would go for the Logitech g700 mouse! I love it! I think the reviews alone will convince you on newegg.com. Check it out!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826104377&cm_re=g700-_-26-104-377-_-Product

 

Thanks guys, I am really excited to try it out... its a huge upgrade for me. My last computer was an Asus A8 w/ T7200 and Geforce Go.

Have you guys heard anything about Pro-Star? They have been nice to deal with during the order process but I have been feeling paranoid about the quality of components they are going to use. I went with them because they were the only people with the 720QM as an option , dint feel like investing +150 for the 740qm. I would rather get a SSD Hybrid and the gaming mouse.

@Zalgradis: SSD's are great for the regular tasks you perform on daily basis and Mon - Friday its pretty much windows and internet explorer for me.

@bstapley: That mouse looks cool! I feel intimidated to even try... This is the first time i am looking into buying a mouse with more than 3 buttons! For the last 3 years i have been gaming with the optical mouse which came free with the Asus A8js.

 

Got the G500 based on your encouragement! I was all set for the MX518... Newegg has a $20 rebate. got it for $40.

 

@bstapley

sir you have gtx 460m right? have you successfully installed 460m?.. based on your system below you currently using 280m.. where is fermi?

 

Can the geforce handle 3 monitors?
When I use the hdmi and dvi ports I can only have 2 screens active and have to disable one.

I noticed that my HD 5870 cant use 3 screens simultaniosly.. wich is really stupid because my old ati x1400 mobility could do that ...
Does any one has a fix or register hack for it?

The G700 looks like a pimped up mx400 lol..

 

Ya. I actually have 2 w860cu's. My buddy won them at work and I bought them off him. I'm selling my one with the 280m. I have successfully installed the 460m in one that I'm keeping for myself (which I love).

 

Is the one you installed the GTX 460M in the newer motherboard that includes USB 3.0?

 

your buddy won them at WORK? i'm just wondering what work? you mean to say his company well raffle prize gtx 460m?

 

SHIPPED!! Should be here Monday!

 

No just the older motherboard. I do not have USB 3.0.

No his work is an IT company and all the sales guys wanted top of the line computers. So they made some sort of sales incentive to win them...and he ended up winning both of them. They did not come with the 460m (I purchased that from Rjtech separately and installed it in the one that I am keeping for myself).