*** Official Clevo x7200 and Sager NP7280 owners lounge ***

I think it's just a translation for the old German review right?

 

You are right; the original German review is dated Nov 30th.

 

Can someone lend me a hand? I decided to try out the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility that came with the laptop. I set it to not exceed spec on the voltage and let it go. I chose a short test, just checking it out.

It performed a few tests and then rebooted but now it is stuck in a crash, reboot, crash loop. When I try to stop the session, it still crashes. Is there anyway to get this utility off the stupid setting? Like maybe a way to get it to launch and immediately revert it's changes?

 

I loaded defaults in the BIOS but if I allow the utility to run or if I run it myself, it just does the same thing, resumes it's session and crashes my system.

You'd think that it would have enough sense to not to do the same thing over and over again.

My question now is whether I can know that my system is back to default and stable and whether I need to forget ever running this utility again.

 

I am not stable at all now. I don't know what it did but something is not right. When my system reboots, I choose not to run the utility. I downloaded CPU-Z and ran it. The FSB seems right (133Mhz) but my system still does a hard reboot after a few minutes.

Can anyone fill me in on how to make sure everything is back to default and whatever changes this horrible utility has made to my system are reverted?

 

Have you tried clearing the CMOS? Also try a boot into safe mode so that XTU cannot load. Did you set XTU to apply settings at startup?

 

If you mean cracking the case and removing the battery, nope. I'd hope it's accessible

I uninstalled the tuning utility. Actually the option in Programs and Features was "change" which presented me with a checkbox to remove tuning profiles (or some such) but it seems to be uninstalled now. The guy I spoke with at Xotic suggested uninstalling in case it have any services applying the settings causing the crash. Seems logical enough.

Now I am waiting to see if I go down again. Ugh, not the kind of thing I want to experience on my new $2600 toy. I expect crashes when trying to find the right OC, but wondering whether something is damaged as a result makes me want to hurl.

 

Nothing should be damaged. If it makes you feel better, I have ran my laptop at 1.5V vcore for extended periods of time and it is still tanking along

And the Clevo boards tend to have the best power circuitry in them compared to all the other laptop brands

 

After removing the Intel Extreme Tuning utility everything seems to be fine. The auto-tuning function was trying to make a pretty drastic jump from 133 to 180 MHz FSB. Not sure why it started so high. Also not sure why it kept trying to set the same value (it would show that it expected 180 in the log output after each crash.)

Has anyone else used the auto-tuning function of the utility with success?

 

Removing the CMOS battery is very simple, its right next to the ram under the keyboard, just need a long philips to unscrew a few screws on the back/bottom and take off the touch button panel to access the keyboard screws. always be carefull when taking off a laptop keyboard, their ribbon cables may break easily

 

Pulled the trigger. It's from babyhemi.
i7 950, 460M sli.

 

^^ Congrats! Great config, great reseller! You owe us some benches and pics

 

hmm, something tells me my memory isnt running at the right frequency... or is 3Dmark just crazy? hope link works, used stock drivers for this run and about to run again with 263.09 drivers from laptopvideo2go

Result

as you can see, it says SLI is dissabled... I think I used the stock drivers anyways, gone through so many I don't remember which driver I'm on

 

Yes I do, oh yes I do

 

and Result

Score is quite a bit better, but I also noticed the GPU Core MHZ is half of what it should be, is this normal? some multiplier not getting added into 3dmark's specs? CPUZ says the same thing under 3d graphics settings

 

My memory on my desktop for the gpu shows like 120000MHz lol just worry about the score - and judging by the scores only one card is working

 

it seems the highest scorer for GTX 480M is only 300 something points ahead of my 2nd try, and it was used with older drivers which are specified in the link. Result hopefully some working sli drivers for 3DM11 soon, I wanna go for one of the highest notebook scores

 

Is this Intel Extreme Tuning utility pre-loaded on the laptop because mine should be here next week and I don't want to run into that same problem. Not that tech savvy to be trying to troubleshoot yet. lol

 

It was pre-loaded on mine. It's certainly nothing to be afraid of if unused. In my case, I am just never going to use the auto-tune function again. I may reinstall it once I have more time to tweak and try manual adjustments with it though. It seems that where the auto-tune goes wrong is setting an aggressive FSB OC and then stupidly retrying it over and over again.

 

I read that intel is suppose to be releasing an update for it very soon that corrects a lot of the bugs.

I am waiting for that.

 

should receive mine in couple of hours lol its at the airport just i hope
customs wont be so high ....
ordered mine with i7-950,gtx 460 sli, 6gb ram,80gb ssd and 2x500gb 7200rpm with ultimate wireless.
these couple of hours seem like days ...

 

nice; throw some pics up once you get it

 

Pics? is he getting a special edition? lol.

congrats Moudine

 

Thanks jmcmike,

I'll most likely not bother it until I hear more info about the upcoming updates to ensure the bugs are worked out. On a positive note...just got my tracking number!!! Monday is my day! Yea...woohoo!!!

 

x7200's are like babies - each one is a special, unique snowflake

 

yeah i know

come on baby light my fire

 

You mexicans...that is at least the second reference to marijuana from you haha

 

ok i got it woooow a huge adapter i knew it was goin 2 be big but thats
reallyyyyy huge hehe .... i like it a lot very nice look, so solid n all that
i installed win 7 ultimate and some games like farcry 2 and need for speed shift all are perfect with highest setting i just had one blue screen when i was playin shift then nothin but black screen i had a shut it off has any1 encountered such issue ?? the speakers arent all working i feel the sound is low does any1 know how 2 fix that as well
yea and one more last thing in nvidia control panel should i use the cpu as physics or the gpu ?

 

Well said...

Well said as well...

I didn't know that???... ...
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What!! lemme finish my job


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Three.

Lol

 

Talking about the power supply, why has no one compared it to the xbox's power brick? That's the biggest power brick I've ever seen.

 

Because it is bigger. lol

The old 220W was about the size of that brick already

 

do you have 2 cards or one?
if you have 2 cards...then your not running sli. you need to mod the quadro 265.90 driver which has sli and apparently...no flickering..or use nvidiainpector and change some line to something else and have sli with flickering.

i was thinking the same thing...lol

yes, just looked at mine and that xbox brick is huge!

480m and 5870m
side by side compare.
http://3dmark.com/compare/3dm11/75303/3dm11/73842

 

Wait your i7 950 is clocked at 2.1GHz?

 

nah. that's my i7-920xm they dont report it right..at least...not yet.

 

ok i was wondering how 950 got in the x8100... lol

 

well..since he was only using one card...i jumped in there with the g73jh.

 

Oh... right. Didn't see your sig lol

 

hey guys so any1 managed to find better nvidia drivers for the gtx 460m sli ... mine has crashed a couple of times now and the pc gets urensponsive..
and about the sound not all the speakers are working i read somewhere that it can be fixed but cant find it, so if any1 knows about that let me know plz ...

 

You got yourse ? I still havent got mine !

 

Hi, can anyone enlighten me on some questions, what's the difference between clevo and sager? I visited Clevo web page, but didn't see any config or buy button, how can i make a purchase?

Is there any user review of this laptops? With desktop processor and double 480?

And some stupid question, does it have battery? How long does it work from it?)

 

yea BYTALES i just recieved mine yesterday all the way to Africa lol ....
but am havin some minor issues with the laptop which no1 is providing help at this lounge ...
ill try some googling and see what i can find .. u prob would have the same issues , some annoyin crashes in games with blue screens and the speakers they just dnt all work, for a reason i dnt know l ... other than that its an amazing beast u feel how powerfull it is just by looking at it lol

 

@vorob:

clevo is the manufacturer of the barebones / laptops.
Sager is a US-located reseller. There are also resellers in Europe, e.g.: Mysn

Some other resellers (non-European) are:

Avadirect
Eurocomm
Malibal
etc.

You can find many reviews, e.g.:
Notebookcheck.com/Test-mySN-XMG-U700-ULTRA-Notebook

But there's many more (search for clevo x7200, the "international" name for this Beast). Some sites that have reviews in multiple configurations (GTX480M, GTX480M SLI, GTX460M SLI, Core i7-950 - Core i7-980X) are:

Tomshardware.com
Anandtech.com

Good luck with your choice !

 

thx man, you solved some of my issues except battery

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5020311/Screenshot/desktop_20101210135334.png
what's the difference?

 

also in configuration on sager page i see

17.3" Full HD LED Display with Super Glossy Surface (1920 x 1080)

is it 120hz?

 

nope its just 60hz

 

Maybe the deutche ppl want to make sure everything works as intended before shiping it.

 

ull still have the same issues loool its everywhere dude ... but hey
gdluck hope u wont have any issues .. nvidia is plannin on releasing a new
driver soon that will fix this minor crashes

 

Hmm then why i thought it would be 120? Maybe there are other manufactures who offer 120?