Official Sager NP8150/Clevo P150HM Owners Lounge

[HTWingNut]

To keep things on topic, the 485M has doubled my frames over the 460M in 3D which is what I was hoping for. I absolutely love this laptop although my secondary HDD is starting to momentary "freeze" for 1-2 seconds when gaming and then recovers. It is very random but I am starting to wonder if it is the CPU causing this already because it did not do it when I first built the laptop.

Could this be caused by the defect in the chip set?

By secondary I'm assuming you mean you got an ODD tray and put your hard drive in the tray? That uses port 2 and could very likely be due to the SATA failure. However, if you have access to another hard drive you might want to image your current one to the other one and see if it exhibits the same issue.

What hard drive is it?

[paladin44]

How is the secondary hard drive being used when gaming? Is that where you have your game installed? If so, I would recommend only installing your games and other software applications on your SSD, and leave your secondary hard drive for storage only.

[HTWingNut]

How is the secondary hard drive being used when gaming? Is that where you have your game installed? If so, I would recommend only installing your games and other software applications on your SSD, and leave your secondary hard drive for storage only.

Assuming you mean until SATA controller is fixed, correct?

[rancid]

How is the secondary hard drive being used when gaming? Is that where you have your game installed? If so, I would recommend only installing your games and other software applications on your SSD, and leave your secondary hard drive for storage only.

OS is on Intel 80GB SSD, games and apps are on Momentus XT in ODD bay. I do a lot of editing so I waned the hybrid drive. Could be a drive issue I guess. I may swap it out with a regular SATA drive to see if it fixes anything.

For those complaining of ghosting in games I would say this is dependent on the type of panel you are using. I have seen the regular 24" LCD's that do 3D and there is ghosting. If you use a DLP-based TV or Projector there is no ghosting in games or movies (or so barely visible you can't even tell.) I have a $4,000 projector that does 3D and there is ghosting because of the type of panels it uses. My cheap-o Optoma for $600 has none.

I would say 3D is hit or miss but this laptop can do it and the kit isn't expensive so I would at least consider it if you are a gamer and have a capable display.

[paladin44]

Not necessarily. Unless there is a good reason to install applications on a SATA II hard drive port when you can install them on your SSD using a SATA III port I would say the SSD is where they should go, as long as you have room for them.

How much free space is on your 80GB SSD?

[HTWingNut]

paladin44 if you're referring to games and apps in general, I would leave them on the hard drive unless there's any benefit from going on the SSD. Games take up a huge amount of space, and no real benefit from installing them on the SSD. Also, the Intel is SATA II speeds only.

Now if the concern is for the SATA controller chip failure. I agree. Use the secondary drive as little as possible until its fixed.

[blacklight186]

Games take up a huge amount of space, and no real benefit from installing them on the SSD.

Some games take a loooong time in between map loads... In those cases, installing it on an SSD would be good if the space allows for it...

[HTWingNut]

Some games take a loooong time in between map loads... In those cases, installing it on an SSD would be good if the space allows for it...

A lot of times that's not necessarily due to the speed of the HDD. It's processing and loading into graphics memory.

[mythlogic]

Also on the topic of screens. Here is some wonderful visual comparison pictures for everyone.

Visual Differences Between The Different Screen Options. Photos?

The 8150 comes with the V.0 screen by default.

[Ryan]

You're just trying to bust my wallet.. mythlogic.....

The panel looks soooo da*n good.