**Official Sager NP5160 / Clevo W150HNQ Owners' Lounge**

[Ryan]

As long as it is SATA, and 12.7mm in height, they should work fine.

[thewhum]

First post here, trying to look for a midrange gaming laptop. Does anyone know how the Sandy Bridge recall will affect the 5160? Will the release be delayed or will the resellers still send out laptops with the old chipset?

[moonshadow101]

Anyone know if the February 20ish processor release will affect the graphics on this? I know it will be a tiny bump if anything, but I'm going to order an NP51** at some point in the next month or so, and I'd like to know if the 540m is going to become a 540.5m or something in two weeks.

First post here, trying to look for a midrange gaming laptop. Does anyone know how the Sandy Bridge recall will affect the 5160? Will the release be delayed or will the resellers still send out laptops with the old chipset?

If I recall correctly, the recall is only for the chipsets used in desktop motherboards, so the laptops should be entirely unaffected.

[hispeed4567]

There won't be a new GPU refresh for a few months. Earliest would be summer and even that is a stretch. 540m = 540m in Feb, Mar, Apr, May, June, who knows how much longer.

[kakapo]

If I recall correctly, the recall is only for the chipsets used in desktop motherboards, so the laptops should be entirely unaffected.

No, all 6 series chipsets are affected - laptop and desktop. Check back in this thread the 8310 owner's thread and a couple in the Sager and Clevo area (one is a Sticky and the other is a long one about the Sandy Bridge issue).

[mythlogic]

Yea the dual-core i5/i7 sandy bridge processor release has been pushed to go along with the relaunching of the 6series chipsets. So we are waiting on a new date for that. There won't be a GPU bump on that platform in the near future.

[sea_of_fate]

Just thought I would post a link to the NP5170 since someone posted a link to this forum from there... Same exact thing, something like $45 dollars extra for a larger screen, and what I ordered January 22.
**Official Sager NP5170 / Clevo W170HN Owners' Lounge**

Shame to hear about these delays, but the latter (Sandy Bridge recall) is only for desktops?

[Ryan]

No, every laptop with SB is affected by the issue.

Sad..

[Espada]

anyone know if this laptop will be cheaper with the i5 instead of the i7?

[mythlogic]

anyone know if this laptop will be cheaper with the i5 instead of the i7?

Yes yes it will, as the best dual-core is forcasted to be a bit cheaper than the 2630qm so yes yes it will be