*** Official Sager NP8170/Clevo P170HM Owners Lounge ***

got it!?!? you should see my sheepish grin, was stuck on a power mode, via power conservation mode ...

 

Mine is 1.01.04fLS2

 

I have the same issue. Even when the laptop is idle. it's really annoying.

 

Got mine last night. Happy about the screen upgrade even though cant compare to the stock. One stuck pixel, not too bad in the upper left quarter.

So far so good. Windows installed easily, all the drivers as well installed very easily.

Ive been using it for the past day at work and have to say I was worried about the keyboard but im reassured now. For anyone that has doubts, yes its a bit smaller than usual for this size. My only gripe if i would have to would be the smaller number pad as I work with numbers and run many scenarios, but im getting used to it and its not too bad.

Starting to install some games but i'm not worried at all and am sure will more than satisfy my needs. For anyone who has doubts about purchasing this computer, in my opinion (so far) you should go for it as its turning out to be great. I feel like I was stuck in the stone age with my 2 year old HP totally ignorant tolerating inefficiency and under performance, this thing is so freaking fast.

Appreciate everyones comments very very much and am now going through again the threads to get to the shortcuts, hints, etc. Thanks again this forum is so very helpful.

 

My 8170 is delivered today!
I have to agree this forum has been very helpful

 

Mine should be in on Friday!

 

Hi guys, i have just received my laptop this week.

I'm rather new with benchmarking but i have seen the scores others have posted and they are well above 14000 and im quite worried about mine.

i am using 3DMark06 and here are my scores:

Benchmark
Width 1920
Height 1080
Anti-Aliasing 8 sample AA
Anti-Aliasing Quality 3
Texture Filtering Anisotropic
Anisotropic Level 16
VS Profile 3_0
PS Profile 3_0
Force full precision No
Disable HW shadow mapping No
Disable post-processing No
Force software vertex shader No
Color mipmaps No
Force software FP filtering No
Repeat tests 3 times
Fixed framerate Off
Comment

3DMark Score 10267 3DMarks
SM2.0 Score 4286
HDR/SM3.0 Score 3493
CPU Score 6 K
Game Score N/A N/A
GT1 - Return To Proxycon 39.517 FPS SM2.0 Graphics Tests
GT2 - Firefly Forest 31.918 FPS SM2.0 Graphics Tests
CPU1 - Red Valley 2.032 FPS CPU Tests
CPU2 - Red Valley 2.845 FPS CPU Tests
HDR1 - Canyon Flight 38.151 FPS HDR/SM3.0 Graphics Tests
HDR2 - Deep Freeze 31.700 FPS HDR/SM3.0 Graphics Tests
Fill Rate - Single-Texturing 6394.216 MTexels/s Feature Tests
Fill Rate - Multi-Texturing 27906.682 MTexels/s Feature Tests
Pixel Shader 265.454 FPS Feature Tests
Vertex Shader - Simple 160.944 MVertices/s Feature Tests
Vertex Shader - Complex 40.405 MVertices/s Feature Tests
Shader Particles (SM3.0) 92.769 FPS Feature Tests
Perlin Noise (SM3.0) 185.823 FPS Feature Tests
8 Triangles 22.202 MTriangles/s Batch Size Tests
32 Triangles 78.887 MTriangles/s Batch Size Tests
128 Triangles 78.455 MTriangles/s Batch Size Tests
512 Triangles 80.054 MTriangles/s Batch Size Tests
2048 Triangles 80.431 MTriangles/s Batch Size Tests
32768 Triangles 80.605 MTriangles/s Batch Size Tests

My final score is 10267 as above.
I have not overclocked anything and everything above is stock.
My driver is 270.61
My temps never reach above 89 degrees celsius.

Is there any cause for concern for me?
Please advise..

 

Btw I wanted to ask, how is the quality of the chassis for you guys? While the internal hardware is running fantastic on my rig, I find that the chassis quality is a little disappointing- power button is slightly slanted, the wrist plate is a little uneven, and a bit of plastic turned discolored (whitish) underneath the forward audio grill.

Does Sager's warranty cover chassis damage?

 

bl00py, what video card do you have? What CPU? RAM? etc?

 

Hi AnakiMama,

Here are my specs

Intel i7-2820QM
IC Diamond
2 x 4GM RAM (stock)
Intel 510 120GB SSD
750GB HDD
GTX 485M
Stock Screen

I have benchmarked again using the free basic 3DMark 11 and my score is P3025.

Please let me know if im missing anything.

The problem is i cant tell if my gfx card is working properly at all

From the looks of it, it looks quite bad?

 

When people run 3dmark06 they usually do it at the default settings (1280x1024, no AA, no AF), from your previous post it looks like you ran it at 1920x1080 with some AA and AF

 

P3025 is fine for 3DMark 11. That's normal.

 

What was the GPU score?

 

In response to chiapet874...My laptop also had some minor paint missing by the touchpad and lowerleft section. Its not bad but enough to bother me. I doubt anyone got flawless chassis which is a bit disapointing. Everything else is good though.

 

Less then 48 hours between shipping to delivery. Thanks XoticPC !!!

Nebraska -> Kentucky -> Germany -> Switzerland.

First test will be memtest86+...

 

Beg to differ but after your comment i relooked all of mine and no flaws here. Except for that one stuck pixel.

 

I received a P3232 from 3DMark11. GPU score was 2959 and Physics score was 6890. That was using the Catalyst 11.5 driver (8.850).

 

Hey i'm having trouble with my bluetooth adapter, whenever i restart windows my np8170 turns bluetooth off at startup. Where can i change this option so bluetooth is always on when i start?

 

Go into your BIOS and then go to the menu option labeled 'Advanced Chipset Control'. There is a bluetooth toggle there. It's set by default to turn off at each reboot.

 

Cheaper then nostra.at ? With the low Euro (compared to the CHF) ...

 

I find the quality of mine to be quite high.

Mine doesn't have the blemishes yours does, or any at all.

 

The Drive vibrates quite often. But i've already ordered a Blu-Ray burner. Hope it fits, and hope i can replace the bezel of the drive.

 

I downloaded Catalyst 11.5 from AMD site and installed but now its not installing the new driver (ver 8.850) . When i look up the driver version it's still stuck on 8.841.

First I couldnt even get the 8.841 drivers, but thx to TheGreatAnonymous i did.

so now need to search again c if i can find another download for it besides AMD.

frustrating

 

Have a look at this thread. It's how I got mine updated.

 

I was just about to post and say i found a link for the

11.5a (ver 8.850.6)

download from Guru3D.com

I guess i got a little to impatient lol and thx AnakiMana

 

8170 now available with 3D emitter. You will see it on many reseller websites today. (Only available with 485M)

 

I noticed it's not listed on Xoticpc.com when customizing an NP8170. What is the upgrade cost?

 

Here you go...3D emitter is built in the system. NP8170 w/ Matt FHD/3D (120Hz)

FHD -> FHD/3D matt + 1x NVIDIA active shutter 3D glasses)

+$200


Additional NVIDIA Active Shutter 3D Glasses are available too!

 

They are up on the 8170-S1

 

I'm not going to review the NP8170 again, there are already many other reviews on this forum, but here are my views and comments. I have the NP8170 for 24 hours now, and I'm very impressed with the "Super Clear Ultra Bright LED Glossy Screen w/ 90% NTSC" screen. I'm glad I took the time and the money to get the screen upgraded.

Got a scare today, when the JMicron Gigabit network stopped working in the office, but it may have been a glitch, as I had already transfered over 500GB of data non-stop to the laptop. Had to fail down to the WiFi in the office to finish my transfers. Tonight, it's working again after.

Downloading the Intel Centriono Ultimate-N 6300 drivers from XoticPC or Clevo took too long last night, so I installed the Official Intel ProSet Wireless WiFi 13.5 drivers. I really like the GUI interface from Intel.

For quick system benchmarking, I did a Geekbench 2.1.13 (x64) run on my old Sager 9262 with a Q9550 (4c @2.8Ghz) and 8GB and I had a score of 4700. Ran Geekbench 2.1.13 (x64) on the NP8170 with i7-2820QM in Performance Power mode (4c/8t @3090Mhz) and 16GB of memory, and my Geekbench score is now 10002 (Saw a 11000 on first run, but I had not installed all the drivers and software & services).

Erik

 

I have 8gb (2x4gb) of the default Samsung DDR3 1333 memory in my Sager NP8130 config and want to expand to 16gb. My current Samsung memory information is attached. I am looking to purchase an additional 8gb (2x4gb) of the same default Samsung memory. It's my understanding that some Sager/Clevo owners are upgrading to DDR3 1600 memory and might consider selling their current Samsung default memory. Please leave me a message if you are willing to part with your Samsung memory for a reasonable price. Again, my Samsung specs are attached and I am looking for matching Samsung RAM sticks. Thanks in advance for your considerations.

 

Wow thanks guys for all the help you provided in my previous post regarding my benchmarking.

+1 Rep to lpnowlan for pointing out my stupidity Thanks!

 

Justin@XoticPC, babyhemi great news! Exactly what I was waiting for.

 

Anyone care to explain or link what is the % of color gamut, something in simple terms I could understand

 

It's a term referring to the NTSC Color gamut, which is, put simply the range of all possible colors that can be produced with RGB (red, green, and blue). A 100% color gamut screen can display every single color that can be made with these primaries. A 50% display can only display 1/2 of them (and can lean more red, or more green, etc).

Essentially, screens with higher percent color gamut can display a much wider band of the available colors accurately.

 

I have searched the whole thread and didn't find a single pic of the standard black case.

Where can i get some photos?

 

Is there any reseller that offers better quality screen like the 90% screen with 0 dead pixel warranty ?

 

If you're just looking for photos of the 8170 stock, check out the product page on the reseller you're looking at. Most should have galleries with pictures of the laptop. Clevo also lists them as well on their site.

 

Taken with an iPhone, so ignore the quality.

 

I rather they keep this case and offer me $5 off my total instead

 

Can anyone comment if the 120Hz 3D display would be better/equal to the other upgraded screens that are available? Does 120Hz make that much of a difference? I definitely want to upgrade the screen but I'm not sure which one to go with.

 

It is too early to know the details on the NEW 3D 120Hz display. By this coming Friday we should know more.
_

 

I ran the Metro 2033 demo maxed out including physX and dx11 features, it runs great at 720p but much higher gets some lag.

YouTube - Metro 2033 Demo - GTX 485m - Part 1 of 4

 

I'm happy they included the bag. It's cheap, but it's not that bad. Everything I had was for 15" or smaller.

 

How long did you have to wait from order to door? What is the average wait time for a build?

 

Dang, that looks like the case jehovah's witnesses use in my neighborhood.

Can we have some pics of the interiors please?
I have to take this lap to my university, maybe i should look for a backpack?

 

lolwut? It's just a standard laptop case. I have two 15" ones that look similar.

 

AF is like zero hit, on modern GPUs. Always use 16x.

 

Well mine took longer because I got caught in a GTX-485 back order at Sager I think. So it took about a week longer. I ordered on 4/15/11 and received it on 5/11/11 (NBD shipping). Seemed like forever. I would say 3 weeks would be realistic depending on your shipping method.