Has anyone bought a P25xV2? Opinions

I am in the market for a new gaming laptop and Gigabyte's P25x V2 is looking pretty good right now. The price is great on newegg and, on paper, it looks great. However, I am aware that some Gigabytes get WAY too hot and are way too noisy...any info on this laptop would be appreciated!

 

I got the 1749.99 version off newegg, arrived yesterday. Under heavy load, with the "auto" fan setting, CPU runs around 75C-79C, GPU runs around 79C-83C. In auto mode, I didn't notice any sound of the fans while playing a game with the volume on internal speakers at about 50%. The fans have a max mode, where it sounds equivalent to a small table top fan being in front of you. The top of the laptop under the screen where the speaker is gets pretty hot, and the keyboard gets warm, same areas on the bottom feel warm. Palm rest/touchpad remain cool.

 

Thanks for the info. I like the size and weight of this and the price is great. Do you find the heat to be too great? Do you think that it will harm the laptop or my fingers

I will go up in size to something like the MSI gt 72 if I must but prefer the size and weight of this form factor. Any additional impressions would be a plus!

 

The heat doesn't alarm me. Any laptop with a 880m is going to get hot in certain places, and the keyboard only gets warm, not hot. The temps seemed to stay in a "safe" range, even after an hour of gaming with just the "auto" fan setting on. I bought it for the same reasons as you are interested... price and size/weight. It is smaller and lighter compared to similar offerings from alienware/msi/asus etc. And despite it's size, it doesn't seem to put off too much heat. I've only had it for a short time though.

A few things I don't like: The yellow lid, which some people may like. Overall it puts off a quality feel, but a few things feel cheap.... The lid is plasticy, and the hinge for the lid kind of just goes loose about a half inch before it completely closes, I guess that's a design feature to make it easier to open but I dont like it. Only two USB ports, which may be standard nowadays but the last time I shopped for a laptop 3-4 was the standard, even on 15.6 inch.

Other than that I'm impressed. Battery life is respectable, gaming performance is what'd you expect from a 880m, screen is good (although not spectacular), and the size/weight is probably close to best-in-class.

 

I've just pulled the trigger on one of these, P25x V2 - CF2

I've come from an alienware M17x R2 so this is much more managable in size & weight, really please with initial performance, The yellow is growing on me and mine has the IPS? screen but to be honest I can't tell. there doe's seem to be a fair ammount of light bleed on the screen but I guess i can live with that

 

Almost every screen is going to have a little bit of light bleed on a black screen, but mine also has an excessive amount. I was impressed the other day though when I was sitting across the room at about a 170 degree angle from my p25x and glanced over and realized I could still read the document I had left open.

 

Guys any updates on the P25G V2? Is it still doing well? I am considering getting it.

 

Hey any updates on the P25X V2? are there any problems with it so far?

 

I have brought this laptop back in September which I am very satisfied with the performance and never had a problem with it.

P25Xv2 is all about providing a mean configuration under the hood and facilitating an enjoyable laptop gaming experience. It has to be, because in terms of design and looks, there isn’t much good going on for this 15.6in desktop replacement gaming rig.

The P25Xv2 is helmed by a 4th generation Intel Core i7-4810MQ CPU, which runs at 2.8GHz and can process eight threads simultaneously (four cores, plus Hyper-Threading). It’s surrounded by 16GB of DDR3L 1866 SRDRAM (the maximum for this machine), a solid state RAID 0 array for the operating system (via two 128GB mSATA SSDs), an extra 1TB hard drive for your data, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M graphics adapter with its own 8GB of DDR5 memory. That’s a lot of good stuff right there, and it makes the P25X a potent machine for video editing and other power-hungry work you might have in mind, in addition to playing games.

However, one of the annoyances of this high-end configuration is that substantial cooling is required to keep it running optimally. In our case, I noticed that the fan ran even during general operation, such as when we were viewing Web pages or streaming music. It was quite loud, to the point where other people would wander over and ask me what was going on.

Luckily, Gigabyte does include a system configuration and monitoring utility through which the fan speed can be toggled to a lower setting. This utility can be invoked by pressing the shortcut button labelled ‘smart’, which sits next to the power button. I used ‘stealth’ mode rather than ‘auto’ mode, which made the laptop a lot more pleasant to use. However, using ‘stealth’ mode does affect the performance, as it slows down the CPU and impacts the graphics.