Sager/Malibal P170EM noise/heat emission question

[jonny27]

It seems they mean everything 3 dimensional (games, 3d cad work, etc.).

No reason to lie here, under load it IS loud. I'm looking at the P150, and had to accept its loudness, gotta have some headphones/earbuds ready . However, any other notebook with this much power won't do much better, if any better at all.

[Heihachi_1337]

Page 2/3 of this thread has the decibel levels we recorded: Youtube Videos from Resellers - P150EM / P170EM / W110ER

[aooga12]

It seems they mean everything 3 dimensional (games, 3d cad work, etc.).

No reason to lie here, under load it IS loud. I'm looking at the P150, and had to accept its loudness, gotta have some headphones/earbuds ready . However, any other notebook with this much power won't do much better, if any better at all.

Ah ok, that part of the review confused me a bit

Page 2/3 of this thread has the decibel levels we recorded: Youtube Videos from Resellers - P150EM / P170EM / W110ER

From what i'm reading someone said this:

"Quiet bedroom at night = 30 dB
Quiet library = 40 dB
Average home = 50 dB
Conversational speech = 60 dB
Vacuum cleaner = 70 dB"

So if the system gets about

"Idle 34.5 / 34.5 / 38.9 dB
HDD 34.5 dB
DVD 37.8 / dB
Load 47.9 / 53.6 dB"

then that doesn't seem very noisy at all really. and honestly when you're gaming you probably won't hear much of that noise because you have sound coming out of the speakers overtop of it or you have headphone/earbuds in.

I feel like before I pour $1,800 into a p170 em malibal desktop replacement i'd need to test one out in person. anyone know if this can be done? or perhaps there's a video of someone gaming on it and recording the noises you hear?

[jonny27]

Yes there is a gameplay video:

Sager Np9150 gameplay and screen - YouTube

As you can hear, as soon as a game is fired up, the fan noise is quite noticeable. Not much of a problem in normal conditions, but can become annoying in a quiet room at night, especially when you can't crank the volume all the way up.

[aooga12]

You made a good point, but im in a house with like 4 other roommates and we all have our own seperate rooms, so unless im trying to game and the gf is over and trying to sleep... I dunno, I can definitely hear it over his talking and some game sound too, sounds like my desktop machine.