*** Official Clevo P150EM / Sager NP9150 Owner's Lounge ***

Looks like it. Good for you. I ordered from Xoticpc and saved on tax by skipping Sager direct. Plus Xotic has some great deals. Not sure what the average process/ship times are for others who've ordered from them.

 

Well, as I live in Utah, I didn't pay tax at Sager either. Got free shipping too, and it will end up being 2 day shipping.

 

You ordered directly from Sager? just pray you don't have any problems because from what I've heard the CS there is bad :<


but holy hell, 7 days is how long it took to ship to me! (stupid memorial day weekend).

 

Heh, I am my own tech support I won't ever be calling Sager unless I need to RMA a part.

 

Hi, I read laptop magazine's review of this notebook and they were impressed. They did say the speakers were weak and not loud enough, anyone else having this problem?

 

The speakers aren't great, but you can do some tinkering with settings to make them sound passable. They are plenty loud enough for me. It's quality that is more of a problem.

 

OK, so. I used to be able to play skyrim just fine a couple of weeks ago. But my hard drive died and had to get a new one from sager. Once I reinstalled all the drivers and stuff, skyrim refuses to play with the 7970M. It will start on the HD4000, but when I try to run it on the 7970m, it fails to launch and gets a "Skyrim has stopped working" error.

Am I doing something wrong here?



Edit: Psyche. Apparently having AMD application profiles installed makes things unhappy. Didn't have that installed on the old hard drive.

 

I've had 2 keyboards now! The Tab and Shift on the first 2 needed a good hammer to get tehm to register... The A key on the replacement one does not always register! Totally annoying as I can normally type with some speed!

 

hey guys
i was wondering if its possible to run 7970m in crossfire in a sager np9150?

 

It's possible alright............................. there just no room for it hahaha, still bugs me the P170EM doesn't allowed xFire nor SLi

 

There's a 17" Clevo that does... P370EM.

 

No
1) 2 cards are required for X-Fire
2) There is no second interface port on the motherboard
3) There is no space in the case for the additional card or the required associated cooling.

 

Any reason to grab a 9150 over the 9170? Any cooling differences between the two? What are the differences? I like that the 9150 with 15" is nearly 2 lbs lighter overall. Is this correct, only one HDD bay on the 9150? You get two it seems on the 9170?

 

Doesn't count! It's not out yet

 

Basically you're buying it because of portability.

 

See here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/sag...em-versus-clevo-p170em-size-comparison-2.html

Great comparison on size difference. But basically only differences are the 17" screen and extra HDD bay and brushed aluminum vs rubber coating on NP9150. Otherwise everything else is pretty much identical.

 

I can officially post here. My 9150 is at the house waiting for me.

 

My machine has arrived! They forgot to send my HDD caddy that goes in the optical bay though. That should be sent soon. I like it quite a bit so far.

 

I expect a review from you soon ^^ unless you want to be in the 680M vBIOS race as you've got the 3920XM

 

Haha, I will probably flash one of those bioses, yes I will be waiting for my Vertex 4 to arrive before I do too much, as right now I am runnnig off the C300 pulled from my old Dell.

 

am i able to hackinstosh it and have win7 on this with no problems/errors that will bite my ?

using gtx675.

 

Hi Hurricane9 thanks for the info. I guess I'll keep looking!

 

Is there a BIOS update available? do you know what it addresses part from the addition of the kepler 680M?

 

Hi!
I ordered mine with SSD and a HDD. Do I gain more speed of adding a MSATA SSD to use it as a cache or something? Can it be used as a cache for the HDD`?

 

No no, it's the video BIOS, custom made by several users to make the 680M opt more than it's made for (some would disagree )

 

Only if you're using the HDD as the os drive, otherwise your SSD will be super speed

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Anyone know how many sticks of ram are used for 8gb, 12gb, 16gb respectively?

Xotic has the 16gb 1600mhz ram as a free upgrade. I've heard stories that more RAM can actually slow down performance. Also, does more ram mean significantly more heat?

 

How many sticks depends, there isn't exactly a hard rule. More memory does not slow he machine down. Sometimes you may sacrifice some clockspeed to get more ram, but this will not make much difference in the end, and if you actually end up using/needing that extra ram then you are way better off with more.

 

When you configure it will show #x# so dimm. The free upgrade is 4x4gb.

Heat? No. The ram isnt a major contributor to the overall heat Of your system.

More ram does not make your system slower. The usual suspect for slower system is incompatible RAM and/or mix and match of different RAM (clocks and latency, timing, etc).

On the subject of RAM. Remember when going from 512mb to 2gb was considered ridiculous by many people? Who needs 2gb of ram? Hehe.

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Everybody said I was crazy when I got 16, but I'll show them!

 

Nah, 16GB is minimum nowadays IMO.

 

16 GB is nowhere near being the minimum. I'd give that honor to 4 GB in low-end PCs and 8 GB in performance PCs.

 

Okay, hmm. So I have the 8GB (4x2) RAM. Isn't there 4 RAM slots available, I believe two under the keyboard? Would I be able to buy another 4x2 set of RAM and put it there? Is that a good idea, if possible?

 

4 slots in total
2 under the keyboard
2 under the laptop

 

Yes you can also buy them, just make sure they are the same speed (1600Mhz, 1333Mhz)

 

Okay cool, are the 2 sticks that sager installs under the keyboard, or under the laptop? Just so I don't have to rip off the keyboard if I don't need to.

 

If you buy it with two sticks, they conveniently put them under the keyboard for you

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Yup, they put it under the keyboard. At least it was for me anyway. I just took them out and put it under the laptop I dunno why but I just did.

Either way, it's not that hard to take off the keyboard. I did it in 5 minutes. The speaker grill pops off easily.

 

Sager standard procedure is to put them under the keyboard as mentioned, you wont need to get to them unless you need more the 24GB of RAM since the two open slots will support up to 8GB sticks each.

 

Awesome, thanks. I'll probably pick up another 8GB soon, since it's only like $50.

 

more than 8GB RAM is wayyy more than enough. Save yourself the extra $50 unless you REALLY need the extra memory. Whenever I'm heavily multitasking or playing games, I never use more than 4GB of RAM.

 

Yeah, I rip/burn a lot of DVDs and do some heavy video editing/rendering, so it'd probably be helpful in the long run.

 

Hey is there an information tab in catalyst control center for 12.6 ? I cant see the information tab in mine

 

Hey guys,

so I finally finished installing drivers from the CD that comes with this beast, it was more of a hassle, than I thought it'd be actually, because some of the drivers kept freezing on me during the install.

Anyway, there are 2 things that I didn't manage to get up and running. For one, it won't let me install the the bluetooth driver, keeps telling me that I don't have the hardware. The thing is, I thought that Windows 7 wouldn't even need a separate BT driver, as this is usually part of its package. No sign of bluetooth anywhere though and pretty confident I ordered a combo card.

The other problem is with the Intel rapid start technology driver, everytime I click to confirm that I want to install it, nothing happens. Do I really want/need this thing? A quick search just turned up a faster wake up from sleep mode, nothing really worth much attention from what it seems...



Onto other stuff concerning my new machine.

When I took this thing out of the box...wow, I've never seen a laptop built this well, it feels so rigid and strong, very impressed But... some fool at Sager managed to get one of the screw heads on the back cover completely stripped, I was working on removing it for a full hour, haha. Now I need to find a new screw somewhere...

But once I got things up and running... I can't believe I tried SSDs just now, never imagined it would be that blazing fast (well, it's a clean install and no bloatware, but still, the longest part of booting is me typing in the password!!!).

Now I'm gonna start installing games, so done bothering you with my excitement for the moment

 

I'm really happy for you ! You remember me 1 month ago. I removed the password for this reason haha. Welcome in the club.

 

You have to turn the bluetooth thingy on first with Fn+12 before installing the driver.

 

Haha, thanks.

Now that just makes me feel dumb, thanks for the help

 

Probably not, actually. I have 12 GB in my desktop and even when rendering, editing, burning DVDs, etc., I probably max out at 60% RAM usage (~ 7 GB). I rarely go over 50%, even when rendering.

If you have the $50 to spend, feel free to go for it. But don't expect any significant changes as I highly doubt you would be using all of your 8 GB in the first place. Your CPU will probably bottleneck before your RAM will.

 

Hello guy! Can anyone tell me if this Sager's mSATA is SATA II or SATA III? I've been wondering since XoticPC's NP9150 page show only Intel's SATA II 310 series mSATAs as options...

 

The mSATA on the Sager NP9150 & NP9170 is SATA II.