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

stop arguing you are both wright in your own way .
if you want to be king you have to pay if you just want to play then go for a lower end CPU and the higher end GPU setup and then when the price is right or the time comes to upgrade the CPU .easy as pie

 

Let's digress. No one benefits when a thread is bogged down with bickering.

On another note, do you guys think the inverter box will be needed, for the Crossfire setup? Have any retailers put the 6970Ms through their paces, with the default PSU?

 

I agree. I did not mean to cause a ruckus.

Kevin is certainly right that the 990x is not needed now, and may not be needed in the future. However, going off my personal experience with the QX6700 being a good soldier for the last 4 years, I purchased the 990x. It may be overkill, but it may not be. And on an completely impractical note, futzing with computers and building my own and OCing them is really one of my few hobbies. So, I shall not lie here: one of the reasons I got the 990x is because I consider it fun.

That said, I would love an answer to his crossfire question too. Do you need both PSU for it, and how does it stack up against the 485m in SLI? I still havent found a benchmark comparison between the two flagships anywhere.

Anyway, here is the one I just ordered from Xotic:

1 x Sager NP7280 / Clevo X7200 ()
Warranty Sager 3 Year Parts & Labor Warranty w/ Lifetime 24/7 DOMESTIC Toll Free Customer Support
Microsoft Office Software - Microsoft Office 2010 Home & Business Edition - Word/Outlook/Excel/PowerPoint/OneNote
Operating System ~Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit Installed (64&32-Bit CD Included) w/ Drivers & Utilities CD's + Microsoft Office Starter 2010 - Included with OS Purchase
Wireless Network Bigfoot Networks Killer™ Wireless-N 1102
Raid HDD Raid Settings - OFF
Third Hard Drive No Additional Hard Drive in ODD Bay (When adding Hard Drive, Optical Drive Is Not Included/Removed)
Second Hard Drive ~ 120GB Intel X25-M Solid State Drive (SSD2 Serial-ATA II)~
Primary Hard Drive ~ 120GB Intel X25-M Solid State Drive (SSD2 Serial-ATA II)
Optical Drive ~ 6X Blue-Ray Burner/Reader / 8X DVDRW Super Multi Combo Drive
Ram ~ 12,288MB DDR3 1333MHz Memory (3 SODIMMS)
Graphics Video Card CrossFire Dual ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD6970's 2048MB (4096MB Total) w/GDDR5 DX11 Video Cards (User Upgradeable) + Extra AC Adapter & Power Converter Box
Thermal Compound - IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU
Processor Intel® Core™ i7-990X Exreme Edition (3.46-3.73GHz) 12MB L3 Cache, 6.4GT/sec QPI, LGA 1366 6 Cores/12 Threads
Display 17.3" FHD 16:9 "Glare Type" Super Clear Ultra Bright LED Glossy Screen (1920x1080)-

 

if you want oc i think two PSU is a good ide but i also think that two PSU are always a good ide becouse i had a prob with my secondary bby and the PSU died had to wait 1 week for a new one .
Ps Thom like you setup some one siad that is about 7% dif betwen 485 and 6970 and thats nothing some tweaks and your level

 

The AMD 6970 is rated at TDP 85W each, so in CrossfireX the factory is saying that extreme gamers, with everything being MAXED out, or those that run furmark and other similar ones to the hilt, then yes it is recommended to get the extra PSU and converter box for the $150.00 more...
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Hey guys.

Just picked up my Clevo X7200.
i7-950,
12GB PC3-12800 DD3 RAM
2 x GTX485m
1 x Corsair 128GB SSD primary drive
1 x 500GB secondary drive

Ran 3DMark Vantage last night - 21149 3D Marks on normal settings.

 

You need to check your drivers becouse they should not dif to much from wwoods

 

Yeah havent looked at the drivers yet. I think mine were like 25-something.somethingsomething lol

I tried to get the updated ones (if they were updated) off the Clevo FTP but they wouldnt download lol

Are the latest drivers here? -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP7280

 

This is a very nice score right out of the box! Congrats!

 

That was before i updated DirectX as well... not that it makes that much of a difference haha

 

Raid5 issues:

Well, after a a month of raid5 issues, I am calling the issue closed. The XT's have been proven to be incompatable with at LEAST a raid5 setup, and possibly more.

I have replaced the XT's with scorpio blacks and everything is running great.

Due to forum rules, I am not alllowed to post personal correspondance, but at least one reseller is not going to be recommending or suggesting that someone use that configuration, and a follow up with Sager is being done to possibly remove that configuration option.

I would like to give a big shout out to jclausius here on the forums for helping me get to the bottom of this issue.

Also, my reseller has been great in helping me and giving me ideas/things to look at.

Case closed.

 

We have had benchmark threads for the Clevo x7200 and Sager NP7280 models before. However, many now have the SLI 485M's and very soon the AMD 6970M .
Would someone open a nVidia 485M SLI and AMD 6970M Benchmark thread for this model? Many would like this to be consolidated in one thread. Resellers cannot do this...
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I'll post one on the main forum if people are interested. a sticky would be nice

 

Well, for all the people saying that their volume is too low, i think i found out why. I just went to the windows sound options, not realtek's and selected speakers properties. In there i went to the dolby options and checked the two options available. In the bass option i scrolled the bar to the maximum (6). I can say that now it seems lowder and you can feel the bass much lowder too. I've accomplished this with the newest drivers from realtek (2.58?).

 

If you go to Control Panel -> Sound

a) Click Adjust system volume - Are all sliders at the max?

b) Back in Control Panel -> Sound -> Manage audio devices - On the "Playback" tab, highlight Speakers, and choose Properties.

• What shows on the "Levels" tab? I have 100% except for the two Black-Ins which are 0
• On the "Enhancements" tab, I have "Disable all sound effects" unchecked, and "Immediate Mode" checked.In the list, I have
  • Environment Checked -> Living Room
  • Bass Management checked
• On the "Dolby" tab, I have Dolby Prologic IIx unchecked, Natural Boost checked and set to 5
• Advanced Tab -> Default Format is at 24bit, 192000 Hz (Studio Quality) with BOTH exclusive items checked

How does that match up to your settings?

 

Check the dolby prologic IIx and natural bass to 6, it has enhanced my sound quality, and volume. And uncheck the sound intensity equalization (i've just translated from portuguese, so i don't know if that's exactly what you must be looking for), both in the realtek menu and in windows properties. After that the sound should be better.

 

I *think* in English, this would be on the third tab -> "Enhancements". In there look for the option for "Loudness Equalization." Mine is currently unchecked.

Also note, I've never thought the x7200 was too soft on the volume, but that doesn't mean others may have different expectations.

 

Has anyone tried the below driver running 3DMark 11?

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/564567-nvidia-267-76-released-today-seems-work-well-x7200.html#post7290061

 

I dont see where that supports the 485M

 

If you can provide me an inf of a driver that does support GTX 485m I can make that support them for you

 

Where would the inf be located, yea I know.....noobie question.

 

Once you click the installer package, it extracts all the files to C:\Nvidia\Drivers\ or something like that

Go into the folder for the version that has the 485m included and find the .inf file

It is not always the same name between driver versions but is typically 4 letters and obviously ends in .inf

If you sort by type I believe windows reports it as a Configuration Settings or Configuration File

 

there's a link to a clevo driver floating around here w/ 485m support. Sager website driver is 265.77 and the clevo driver is 266.40. Sucks about no nvidia support. Really want to be able to play DA2 in all it's glory.

 

Hi m8 here is a quote from a nother site im on

Ok I'll try it once again.. I would like to install last drivers to have better support on Dragon age 2.

PS : I've just replace nvcv.inf from last driver by nvcv.inf from clevo driver...and it works.. .
Hope it will help
go to c: root folder Nvidia
in there you should see more folders like dispaydrivers open that one then if you have tried the 266.40 a folder called 266.40 should excist take the nvcv.inf copy it then run the 267.76 it wont install we know that so go back into the nvidia folder find the now excisting 267.78 folder and paste nvcv.inf into it you should get a warning that that file excist already click copy and replace run then the setup.exe in the folder the install should work fine now.

 

Instead of changing inf files like that which could cause problems....you just have to copy/paste/edit one line to add support for a new device....

 

All right it realy works ?
becouse i was warned about that at laptopvideo2go they said it was better to do like this .
And i just got this info about this drv from a guy at MVK net and all the info up to now is that is working fine no probs at all thats why i recomended it since it might be easyer then sifting thru hundreds of lines untill you find the right one

and for those who whant to know this is the full adress to the right folder


but the driver nr will dif of course in this case its 266.58

 

It is actually in like the first 10 lines of the driver....(not including commented out stuff)

I believe the first section is where the define the compatible devices and define what section to go to for installation instructions for each (since different generations can be alot different but supported in the same driver)

 

Ok i have to have done it wrong when i tried
But i had a look at the at my inf and the clevo 266.40 inf they look the same but with some extra supported produckts only in the clevo 266.40 but of course i didnt compare line to line of couse
and my drv is 266.58 from Nvidia havent shanged since it works great with my OC profiles

 

If someone can upload an inf for a 485m driver as well as an inf for a newer driver they want to use I will add the support in....I can even show how I did it since it is really ridiculously easy.......

 

Yes, babyhemi - here's what I get running 3DMark 11. SLI is alive and kicking it seems.

 

Thanks! Nice score! 1+

 

Here ya go, I hope this what ya want.......its from my current driver

 

Good afternoon NBR,

It has recently become apparent that running the Seagate momentus XT drives in any RAID configuration causes potential problems. Not everyone who has purchased this configuration has had problems, however enough of our customers have reported issues that Xoticpc has decided to no longer offer the option of running this hard drive in a RAID configuration of any type. You may still be able to choose this option on our website, however during the verifications process our customers will be notified of the problems involving this drive and will be encouraged to drop the RAID settings or choose a standard mechanical hard drive.

If anyone has any questions please feel free to PM Justin or myself.

 

It is what it is.

 

Now what version of the driver do you want to install? I will add it in for you

 

Here are some Crossfire Bench's

 

TBH I am not sure, I would say the latest avaliable for the 480M ?

 

267.76 coming up!

UPDATE: Give these a try, I am rusty on nvidia drivers and they are a little more complicated than ATI ones. I told the driver to load with the same characteristics as the GTX 470m as it is the most similar card architecture wise. Copy the 2 files in this zip into this location once you have extracted the driver package (open it and hit cancel after it is done copying files - it would fail to install anyways) then run the setup.exe. Driver found here

C:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver\267.76\Vista 64-bit\International\Display.Driver

Let me know if it works!

 

will do, may not be for a few hrs at best, at work now

 

no worries, I am getting to bed shortly (east coast)

Also make sure you run the setup.exe from the top level of the driver

 

NP, Central time here....

 

New update for our USB3 Controllers: http://www.station-drivers.com/telechargement/nec/divers/renesas_usb3_2.0.34.0(www.station-drivers.com).exe

It was posted @ 18th Feb 11. Tested working on my X7200.

Original Page: SONY/NEC firmwares

I haven't tested the Version 3.0. Someone test it to see if it works on our controllers.

 

Here is Sager's recent test with the AMD HD 6970M CrossFireX on NP7280 990X ...


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Installed both drivers and firmware. No apparent issues but I don't have any USB3.0 Devices to check.

USB2.0 devices were connected and recognised by the controller so I assume that it works fine.

p.s. new 6300 Wireless drivers are out as well.

 

Thought you guys who are interested in upgrading to 12 GB of DDR3 should see this newegg item. It's Kingston 4 GB SoDimm for 44.99 (1333 MHZ).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...e=10&IsFeedbackTab=true&rdm=34#scrollHelpful1

 

Thats the memory I have in my X7200 right now.

 

They need to make a non XMP 8GB HyperX kit!

 

Got it to work just fine. SLI enabled on dual 485m's running driver version 267.76. Dragon Age 2 finally butter-smooth running maxed out (SSAO disabled however, still kills FPS) Now trying my best to be patient while Creative Assembly patches DX11 (and DX10, for that matter) into Shogun 2! The fact that it was released with only DX9: "A Shameful Display!!"

Thanks for your work, scook9!

 

Glad it worked! Enjoy

 

I thank scook9 too! Would you mind doing a 3DMark 11 run with these drivers.