D901C / Sager 9260/9262 / Pro-Star 9191 Owners Thread

[CobrA]

I just want to thank powernotebooks.com and Donald for turning out one of these babies in less than a week. I put the order in after close of buisness Monday (20th). Its already on its way and scheduled to be here Friday (24th). They put up with my herrassment every day asking if it would make it by friday. Thanks guys

P.S. I also want to thank this forum and all the members posting on it for steering me away from buying an alienware or another inflated brand name instead of this beautiful machine.


Sager NP9260 - Under $3700 w/shipping and no cash discount
17" WUXGA "Super Clear Glossy" TFT Active Matrix screen
DUAL NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX PCI-e SLI Mode w/512MB (1,024MB)
Intel® Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66GHz Processor w/4M L2 Cache - 1,066MHz FSB
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
4GB (2 SODIMMS) DDR2/667 Dual Channel Memory (64bit Vista Required)
160GB SATA 3Gb/s 7,200 RPM Hard Drive RAID Disabled
Combo 8x8x6x4x Dual Layer DVD +/-R/RW 5x DVD-RAM 24x CD-R/RW Drive
Built-in Intel® PRO/Wireless 4965 802.11a/g/n
Built-in Bluetooth Wireless
Smart Li-ion Battery (12 Cell)
Windows Vista Premium - (64-Bit installed - 64 and 32-bit CD included)
Full Range Auto Switching AC Adapter
Standard Carrying Case
TV Tuner for Sager NP9260 MCE (Free MCE remote)
Sager 1 Year Warranty (You have 90 days to upgrade the warrenty)
2nd Business Day Shipping

[Wu Jen]

Welcome onboard CobrA! Added you to the owner's list! Enjoy your system!

[Akilae Hunter]

Ok, so I got done aquiring GRAW2 tonight, and after popping it in and maxing out everything but AA, I noticed it to be very laggy. Just to see what it would do, I enable AA.

At 1920x1200 with everything maxed, I went from an average FPS of mid-20's to the upper 40's AFTER I enabled AA.

Anyone think that's odd besides me?
I'm supremely confused on that...
And for reference sake, chalk GRAW2 up as yet another title that the 9260 can max out without breaking a sweat.

[bazald]

ZODTTD, I revisited RMClock. Used the Reg routine and edited the registry. Unlocked the multiplier and the voltage. Unfortunately, the multiplier goes up to 11x, I need 12x. The volt list grows very long, but I don't think that the programmers anticipated a 12x multiplier requirement.

I'm using a T7700 CPU and I see frequencies 6.0x through 12.0x in indices 0-6. I'm guessing that it is a different problem. Sorry I can't help you, but I'm using a different notebook.

[pbcustom98]

I just want to thank powernotebooks.com and Donald for turning out one of these babies in less than a week. I put the order in after close of buisness Monday (20th). Its already on its way and scheduled to be here Friday (24th). They put up with my herrassment every day asking if it would make it by friday. Thanks guys

P.S. I also want to thank this forum and all the members posting on it for steering me away from buying an alienware or another inflated brand name instead of this beautiful machine.


Sager NP9260 - Under $3700 w/shipping and no cash discount
17" WUXGA "Super Clear Glossy" TFT Active Matrix screen
DUAL NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX PCI-e SLI Mode w/512MB (1,024MB)
Intel® Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66GHz Processor w/4M L2 Cache - 1,066MHz FSB
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
4GB (2 SODIMMS) DDR2/667 Dual Channel Memory (64bit Vista Required)
160GB SATA 3Gb/s 7,200 RPM Hard Drive RAID Disabled
Combo 8x8x6x4x Dual Layer DVD +/-R/RW 5x DVD-RAM 24x CD-R/RW Drive
Built-in Intel® PRO/Wireless 4965 802.11a/g/n
Built-in Bluetooth Wireless
Smart Li-ion Battery (12 Cell)
Windows Vista Premium - (64-Bit installed - 64 and 32-bit CD included)
Full Range Auto Switching AC Adapter
Standard Carrying Case
TV Tuner for Sager NP9260 MCE (Free MCE remote)
Sager 1 Year Warranty (You have 90 days to upgrade the warrenty)
2nd Business Day Shipping

awesome machine, i KNOW you will enjoy it

Ok, so I got done aquiring GRAW2 tonight, and after popping it in and maxing out everything but AA, I noticed it to be very laggy. Just to see what it would do, I enable AA.

At 1920x1200 with everything maxed, I went from an average FPS of mid-20's to the upper 40's AFTER I enabled AA.

Anyone think that's odd besides me?
I'm supremely confused on that...
And for reference sake, chalk GRAW2 up as yet another title that the 9260 can max out without breaking a sweat.

quite odd indeed..

[Akilae Hunter]

OK, correction on my misjudgement of 165.01. They work wonderfully for Bioshock, up from stock. Went from around 10 FPS to about 30 FPS, though thats still at a kinda low resolution... 1300something by 10something, I think. Either way, the game scales to my full screen quite prettily.

I still think it needs some patches for SLI though... I dont think these 9260's should be getting that low of a framerate, especially with SLI. I'm anxiously awaiting some better drivers. (turns out 165.01 does work, just for everything but Source...)

[AstroLad]

Just picked up my 9260. Thanks to WuJen for getting me past the last set of technical questions. Have not bought a new computer in five years and I can't wait. Value seems incredible compared to some of the Dell/Alienware stuff I was looking at.

- Display: 17" Wide Viewing Angles WSXGA+ LCD with Super Glossy Surface (1680 x 1050)
- Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor E6700 / 4MB L2 Cache, 2.66GHz, 1066MHz FSB
- Video & Graphics Card: Single Nvidia GeForce GO 7950 GTX MXM IV Graphics with 512MB DDR3 Video Memory
- Operating System: Genuine MS Windows® VISTA PREMIUM 32/64-Bit Edition
- Memory: 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 2 X 2048MB
- Primary Hard Disk Drive: 200GB 7200rpm SATA 150 Hard Drive- Optical Drive: 8X DVD±R/RW/4X +DL Super-Multi Drive & Software

[Wu Jen]

OK, correction on my misjudgement of 165.01. They work wonderfully for Bioshock, up from stock. Went from around 10 FPS to about 30 FPS, though thats still at a kinda low resolution... 1300something by 10something, I think. Either way, the game scales to my full screen quite prettily.

I still think it needs some patches for SLI though... I dont think these 9260's should be getting that low of a framerate, especially with SLI. I'm anxiously awaiting some better drivers. (turns out 165.01 does work, just for everything but Source...)

One thing I've been finding, the default for the drivers is SINGLE GPU. It's a global, if you don't have a profile for a game it's ONLY going to use one GPU. Try changing it in the advanced under performance to Split Frame Render or Alternate Frame Render. See how that works for you.

[Akilae Hunter]

Ok. After some tinkering around, I got my FPS range to get up to 25-55, at 1600x900, max DX9 settings. It usually hovers between 30-40. Changing resolution has a relatively minor impact on performance as per my tests. Forcing AFR2 gives me about 3 more steady fps on top of my minimum, and like 5 more on my top end. SFR reduced my frames by a negligible amount. All this in comparison to 'single gpu mode'.

For right now, I'd recommend to the 9260 SLI'ers to use AFR2, as it gives the highest FPS possible, and since its not a twitch shooter multi player game, the resulting input lag is unnoticeable.

Uncorroborated as of yet in other games, this only applies to Bioshock for now. Either way, this kind of performance at my now current resolution is about what I was expecting of the rig. Even so, it can only get better as the progress of patches & drivers marches on.

[dragooon93]

Wahhoot, my 9260 shipped today!