**Official Clevo W150ERQ / Sager NP6165 Owner's Lounge**

[ruly]

Rauch are you gonna try to OC the 650m with MSI afterburner?

[Hasselol]

Can anyone test the Latency of the soundcard? Thinking of buying one as Studio laptop and DJ laptop, and it's important to be able to get 1 ms latency in programs such as Traktor Pro (Using ASIO or similar).

I got info from a retailer that the laptop uses a VIA VT1802P soundcard. So if anyone have experience from that card on a another computer thats fine aswell.

[Baenwort]

Do you have a program that measures and reports it? You'll get a response a lot more quickly and reporting exactly what you are looking for if you include the measurement program.

The one that I've seen talked about is http://www.thesycon.de/eng/latency_check.shtml but I don't know enough about your field to know if it does what you want accurately.

For example on my machine I get a average of 200-300 and a max of 768 microseconds.

[Hasselol]

Do you have a program that measures and reports it? You'll get a response a lot more quickly and reporting exactly what you are looking for if you include the measurement program.

The one that I've seen talked about is DPC Latency Checker but I don't know enough about your field to know if it does what you want accurately.

For example on my machine I get a average of 200-300 and a max of 768 microseconds.

I'm unsure on how that program translates into actual audio latency on playback but as you say, thats the measurement program I've seen music guys use aswell when testing. Your vaues are good and it definately helps me on my question. So thank you very much!

UPDATE: http://www.resplendence.com/download/LatencyMon.exe

Try this program and post a screen shot or something, would be very usefull, thanks!
Also remember that programs you have open affect the values.

[theDARKW0LF]

I'm looking at the likelihood of buying the NP6165 in around 2 months or so from now, and have never bought/owned a high-powered gaming laptop before (current laptop has a 540m)... How well will it run the likes of Alan Wake? Just got the game the other day and loving it, and probably gonna pick up American Nightmare as well.

Also, I suppose this is the newest iteration of this particular model? Nothing I have to look out for just around the time I purchase it, right?

[Sorbus]

I'm looking at the likelihood of buying the NP6165 in around 2 months or so from now, and have never bought/owned a high-powered gaming laptop before (current laptop has a 540m)... How well will it run the likes of Alan Wake? Just got the game the other day and loving it, and probably gonna pick of American Nightmare as well.

Also, I suppose this is the newest iteration of this particular model? Nothing I have to look out for just around the time I purchase it, right?

According to the Notebookcheck benchmarks (link; note that Alan Wake is not one of the default selected games, so you'll need to explicitly select it), Alan Wake should run on the 650M really well on low, and with around 37FPS on medium. Since American Nightmare has identical system requirements on Steam, I expect that it would run just as well. Both should be run much better than on a 540M.

The NP6165/W150ER is the newest iteration of this model, yes; I don't think that a refresh is expected until next summer, especially considering that it only came out a few months ago.

[theDARKW0LF]

According to the Notebookcheck benchmarks (link; note that Alan Wake is not one of the default selected games, so you'll need to explicitly select it), Alan Wake should run on the 650M really well on low, and with around 37FPS on medium. Since American Nightmare has identical system requirements on Steam, I expect that it would run just as well. Both should be run much better than on a 540M.

The NP6165/W150ER is the newest iteration of this model, yes; I don't think that a refresh is expected until next summer, especially considering that it only came out a few months ago.

Hmm... I suppose that's pretty good; definitely a step up from my 540m's 20-30 on all low. I'm guessing it isn't 1080p or anything. Too bad the game wasn't more well optimized, but I guess it'll have to do.

Thanks for your response!

[kimterran]

I got a question. Both of these HD slots are SATA 3 right? I'm getting the 750GB 7200rpm HD and I am planning on getting a SSD later on. Do I still need to switch the drives or can I just put it on the 2nd hard drive slot and just install my OS and boot from there?

[Hasselol]

I got a question. Both of these HD slots are SATA 3 right? I'm getting the 750GB 7200rpm HD and I am planning on getting a SSD later on. Do I still need to switch the drives or can I just put it on the 2nd hard drive slot and just install my OS and boot from there?

Yes they are both SATA III (6GB/s) According to a Retailer of this Laptop that i asked.

[Composer]

I just received my W150ER yesterday, I have a question for anyone else that has one. Does your "5 %" key not fully go down when pressed in the top left corner? Mine is pressing against some metal piece protruding up from underneath.

Edit: Okay I fixed it by popping off the key to see what it was. I thought it was a screw coming up from underneath but it was a little piece of black plastic from I don't know what. The key works as it should now.... weird.