**Official Clevo W110ER / Sager NP6110 Owner's Lounge**

[HTWingNut]

Hmm, I let my system idle last night, well not completely idle, but run memtest86+ since I was testing my ram at 2133MHz for 8+ hours and when I booted into windows CPU is at 50C! But the fan was moving very slowly.

I shut down, then started back up, but now the fan doesn't move at all and temps are back up to 60C. Strange. Seems after some time, the fan kicks in low and doesn't shut off, so it drops temps. But not sure what would force that or why it wouldn't do it at any other time.

I don't get it. Weird.

[Clevernerd]

Hmm, I let my system idle last night, well not completely idle, but run memtest86+ since I was testing my ram at 2133MHz for 8+ hours and when I booted into windows CPU is at 50C! But the fan was moving very slowly.

I shut down, then started back up, but now the fan doesn't move at all and temps are back up to 60C. Strange. Seems after some time, the fan kicks in low and doesn't shut off, so it drops temps. But not sure what would force that or why it wouldn't do it at any other time.

I don't get it. Weird.

Indeed, so maybe with some tweaks with fan we should be able to lower idle temp, well, crossed finger.

P.S: 3 weeks after order, my CPU is not there yet, that's why i can't give no feedback with a cpuless machine...argh ! so far i dunno if i stick with the i7 3720QM or wait for the i5 3360M or even i7 3520M

[R3d]

Alright I got the battery down to 10% yesterday and I'm pretty surprised at how long it lasted. I had the screen brightness one setting above the lowest, wifi on, and the webcam and bluetooth turned off via the hotkeys. Used the standard 'balanced' windows profile. I also disabled a bunch of services and startup programs that I didn't want (e.g. the bluetooth ones, the hotkey tray program, the THX and VIA audio tray stuff).

By my count it took 6 hours to get there. Started at 8:40PM and took an hour break (turned the notebook off) at 11:50PM and continued at 1:00AM until 2:50. About 30 mins of it was just idling with the screen off, downloading games from steam while I was in the shower and 25 mins was watching flash videos. Other than that, I was pretty much just browsing some forums/tech websites (e.g. engadget, gizmodo, etc.). I was also downloading steam games in the background for an hour or 2.

Is there any way to measure power draw through software? I remember hwinfo had the discharge rate for the dv6z but it doesn't appear when I run it on the Sager. Not sure if I want to keep it though... I could live with the screen res but the black levels and contrast is just killing me.

[Nosferatum]

By my count it took 6 hours to get there. Started at 8:40PM and took an hour break (turned the notebook off) at 11:50PM and continued at 1:00AM until 2:50. About 30 mins of it was just idling with the screen off, downloading games from steam while I was in the shower and 25 mins was watching flash videos. Other than that, I was pretty much just browsing some forums/tech websites (e.g. engadget, gizmodo, etc.). I was also downloading steam games in the background for an hour or 2..

Dang...now I think I should call my reseller and change my i7 quad to the i5.....I don't think I need a quad for gaming....as long as I can get at least 30+ fps...

Can you run the Witcher 2 and see it performs? Heck, I am checking this thread every day to see if anyone tested the game on this little beast!

[R3d]

I don't have TW2. Is there a demo?

[roophz]

Alright I got the battery down to 10% yesterday and I'm pretty surprised at how long it lasted. I had the screen brightness one setting above the lowest, wifi on, and the webcam and bluetooth turned off via the hotkeys. Used the standard 'balanced' windows profile. I also disabled a bunch of services and startup programs that I didn't want (e.g. the bluetooth ones, the hotkey tray program, the THX and VIA audio tray stuff).

By my count it took 6 hours to get there. Started at 8:40PM and took an hour break (turned the notebook off) at 11:50PM and continued at 1:00AM until 2:50. About 30 mins of it was just idling with the screen off, downloading games from steam while I was in the shower and 25 mins was watching flash videos. Other than that, I was pretty much just browsing some forums/tech websites (e.g. engadget, gizmodo, etc.). I was also downloading steam games in the background for an hour or 2.

Is there any way to measure power draw through software? I remember hwinfo had the discharge rate for the dv6z but it doesn't appear when I run it on the Sager. Not sure if I want to keep it though... I could live with the screen res but the black levels and contrast is just killing me.

6 hours. Awesome.. I know which processor to get now cheers mate. Been waiting for a long time for somebody with a sandybridge processor to quote battery life

[R3d]

Just did 25 mins of prime95/kombustor. Temps are a little toasty. I'm very impressed with the fan noise though. It got loud, but not nearly as loud as my dv6z gets. I think I'll do a repaste sometime down the road when I decide to get a SSD.

The battery life is a lot higher than I expected though. I think I'll do another run down today or tomorrow to confirm the results.

[Nosferatum]

I don't have TW2. Is there a demo?

sadly, I don't think there is a demo available.....

[IKAS V]

Just did 25 mins of prime95/kombustor. Temps are a little toasty. I'm very impressed with the fan noise though. It got loud, but not nearly as loud as my dv6z gets. I think I'll do a repaste sometime down the road when I decide to get a SSD.

The battery life is a lot higher than I expected though. I think I'll do another run down today or tomorrow to confirm the results.

Your CPU temps are very high dude.
I would repaste as soon as possible, sure the test's you ran are extreme but they are much higher than they should be.

[windsortheater]

loving my W110ER - really nice machine, however the lack of CPU boost when using dedicated graphics is annoying for me. Most of the games I play are CPU intensive (ARMA2) so missing out on the boost that is there but disabled is super annoying.

Hopefully we can get a BIOS fix or something. Even something that ups it - at least make it temp sensitive. When playing ARMA2 I don't see anything over 72C at 2.6ghz. I know I could go to 3ghz or maybe 3.2ghz before I hit 90C or >. At least make it thermally based and not just a 'rule' - if NVIDIA GPU = no boost. That seems just plain lazy.