Official Sager NP8150/Clevo P150HM Owners Lounge

[George Washington]

I'm probably going to order from PowerNotebooks just because they had the best price and Donald sounded like a friendly guy. Do they put branding on the outside of the comp and if so what does it look like?

[MALIBAL]

I'm probably going to order from PowerNotebooks just because they had the best price and Donald sounded like a friendly guy. Do they put branding on the outside of the comp and if so what does it look like?

If you are purchasing the NP8150, it will have the Sager logo on the back.

[trvelbug]

the gpu has both copper heatsinks for the gpu die and the gddr5 memory so thats is a good thing.
im more concerned about the cpu heatsink which they replaced with aluminum most probably to cut down on size and weight. im quite confident that there will be no overheating. however a less robust heating solution (compared to the old copper heatsink/heatpipe of the 8690) could limit the dynamic overclocking capacity of an snb cpu.
im sure most of you saw the 2820qm review on anandtech showing that the cpu can go above its base clock to around 3.4 for a limited time (<25secs), and can achieve a sustained overclock of 2.4-2.6ghz on all cores/threads as long as there is thermal headroom.
this could be what may be affected and not overheating on base frequencies. hopefully clevo did their homework and the new heatsink design should be well suited for the snb cpu's.

[Larry@LPC-Digital]

^^^^All Authorized Resellers of Sager have the Sager logo on the machines...)

[trvelbug]

also would anyone know what vt-d and vt-x exactly do?
arent they useful only for vm's?

[HTWingNut]

VT-d allows for direct access to your system's hardware resources instead of just the software emulation.

VT-x basically allows the VM to reserve its own address space, but is pretty standard fare with CPU's these days.

[George Washington]

I just ordered mine from PowerNotebooks and put the wrong city in my address. :jackass:

[Kevin]

nvm wpewimm

[trvelbug]

VT-d allows for direct access to your system's hardware resources instead of just the software emulation.

VT-x basically allows the VM to reserve its own address space, but is pretty standard fare with CPU's these days.

ok then as such they are only important for vmware applications right?
is that intel txt thing of any importance either?

[George Washington]

Well, I just ordered mine and sent the payment in. Don't know how long it will take but I'm fine with the wait - I want it to be perfect.

I ended up going with PowerNotebooks. They had the best price out of anyone carrying the NP8150 ($2,123 total w/ shipping and cash discount) and I am glad I did because Donald is an extremely nice guy and has helped me with a couple of errors already.

My final specs:
nVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M
Intel i7-2720QM
IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU
8GB (2x4GB SODIMMS) DDR3/1333 Dual Channel Memory
750GB SATA II 3GB/s 7,200 RPM Hard Drive (16MB Cache Buffer)
Combo Dual Layer DVD +/-R/RW CD-R/RW Drive w/Softwares
7-in-1 Memory Card Reader (All versions of MS + SD/MMC)
Integrated 802.11 b/g/n wireless LAN + Bluetooth™ V3.0 + HS Combo Card

Ended up cutting back from the Intel Ultimate-N 6300 to the integrated model after reading in this thread that it was not worth it unless you were just on a completely network. With the money I saved on that I went ahead and jumped from 4GB to 8GB of RAM. Stuck with the DVD drive because I don't see myself needing the Blu-ray drive unless PC games ever make there way onto the Blu. Overall, I'm happy. I feel like this system will do me well over the years to come and will most definitely blow this Compaq Mini-110 I've been using for over a year now out of the water. Any comments?