P35W v2 News

What kind of magical fairy world do you live in where 90C is too hot for a <1" thick 15.6" laptop?

 

So 90c for the gpu and 91c for the cpu are normal temperatures for these laptops??
Does anyone knows where can i buy the bluray drive of this laptop? Because the model gigabyte sells here in Australia comes without the optical drive.


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Someone should try undervolting the CPU using Intel Extreme Tuning Utility and see if the temperatures get any better.

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!! The gpu never gets to 90! Who said that?
What! He plays in the sun ?

 

That seems to be normal for all of the new thin/light gaming laptops with the 870m (GS60 Pro, Blade).

 

A world called 'physics'?
I think 90°C are too hot no matter how thick the laptop is. A laptop's thickness has nothing to do with temps being too hot or not for a hardware component. It's not really surprising to see temps in this range on a thin laptop with a 870m, but that doesn't mean that these aren't too high temps.
Nvidia for sure doesn't set it's throttling threshold on around 90°C, because they were funny about doing so, but to prevent the gpu of getting even hotter. Temps constantly in this region in my opinion can't be very healthy on the mid to long run...

 

Idk about you guys but I been checking my temps and the gpu seems to be at 75 and less...... So not sure what you guys are doing with yours. I just have mine on a cooling pad and I don't even turn the fans on the cooling pad lol

 

I just called GenTech and the lady told me it's still on preorder (should become available next week). Well at least now I have an affirmation. Where did you get yours from WhiteBoy?

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I was having a lot of issues with my P35Wv2-CF1 laptop.

• Keyboard heated up to 135F while paying games on Ultra such as Watch Dogs. This made a portion of the keyboard almost too hot to touch. The computer CPU & GPU reached about 90C during this event. I used a thermal temperature gun to measure the heat of the keyboard.
• Fingerprint magnet… I started drawing things using my fingers on the back of the screen.
• Wires are attached to the removable plastic backing which makes it a pain to open up the laptop to replace components.
• The removable bay is only ejectable by using your fingernails to pull it out after unlocking it.
• I had a weird issue where a metal-like tape (maybe used for grounding) bunched up when replacing the ODD with the HDD bay.
• The speakers are under the computer, facing towards you. When I lay my hands over the keyboard to type or use the trackpad the sound gets badly muffled/distorted.
• The screen has a huge frame around it an especially at the bottom. It reminded me of very old laptops, but the reasoning for this could be the slimness.

Things that I noticed, but it didn't really bother me.

• The fans can get pretty loud when games play. Make sure you use a headset because no one wants to hear the fans on mic or yourself.

Good things?

• You have the choice of on what side to connect your USB on. I’m a righty so plugging everything on the left reduces the amount of things my mouse has to stay clear of. It works out nicely that the Ethernet port is on the right too. The charger plug is curved so it doesn't stick out much on the right side.
• I was able to play Watch Dogs and a few other games on Ultra with not too much lag. I did notice that Ultra isn't really playable when I was driving around fast in cars on Watch Dogs. Regardless this is a powerful laptop for the size.
• SLIM! WOW! The screen is so thin and when it’s folded up it amazes me of the amount of performance this device packs.
• The quality of the screen is amazing to me. My eyes don’t hurt after being on the computer for so long. I’m not sure if it’s the 1080p or the matte type display.
• Heat on the computer is distributed so that there is almost no heat around the QWERT part of the keyboard down to the trackpad. This is nice if you plan to lay your hand on the computer while playing games.

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I got it from gentech

Gentech pc
Xotic pc
Excaliber

They all had maybe 4 or 5 shipped to them from gigabyte.
So I wouldn't be surprised if they are sold out. I know gentech and excaliber are sold out.
I literally was the first person to receive it from gentech.
I have a past with them so I got it shipped the moment it hit the warehouse

 

Ah, that would explain things. Guess I'll have to wait patiently like it's Christmas. Meanwhile, my current laptop's hard drive has failed, and I'm now trying to run a few diagnostics software on it to see if I can still save it. Good thing I imaged the drive a few days back. Now I must survive a week, maybe even two, on mini XP using a live ISO.

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Haha oh man, you have to disconnect the subwoofer before removing the back panel.... You could have ruined your sub woofer. I thought I mentioned it before to not forget that!

As for this ground wire thing. I think you just had to push it in cause that's a flexible wire so just putt it in properly
That's not an issue.

And the speakers are great. The windows 8 equalizer is awefull!.
Downoad DFX audio enhancer and feel the power and crispness of the sound. When you download that. The best settings I found were
3
3
3
2
2
That's the order of the number from top to bottom on the equalizer

 

But congrats on the laptop bro! Looks great! And idk but my keyboard never gets hot....

 

I got one big problem wit hthe GS60 and the P35W V2. To the owners of the laptop, is the bezel as huge as it looks? Im kinda leaning toward the y50 since the bezel for both of the other laptops looks thick.

 

I actually prefer it that way..... It's much more classic. This laptop is so classic and old school looking but packs some serious powers literally everyone who saw it told me why is your laptop old but then see what it can do and shhiitt their pants....
And plus with the thickness of the screen. The hinges had to be flat and wide to support and provide strength. Unlike other laptops the hinge is like 0.35 inch thick but this laptop is like 0.08

So the strength had to be given somewhere else like the width of this hinge

 

You are getting 75c when playing demanding games? What kind of cooling pad do you have?!

 

So someone asked a question on the P34G thread that intrigued me: what DO we do if the battery dies? It's not a [conveniently] replaceable one, and I'm not even sure if anyone will sell it.

 

The laptop is beautiful, well built and powerful.

However, with the temperatures and noise it seems like the technology world is not yet ready for a slim gaming laptop.

While temperatures in the C 90s will certainly work for a time, it will erode and damage the equipment before long. I do not know of any technician/expert/reviewer who sees this differently.

Since I do not want to buy/sell a laptop every year, I am afraid I have to go for the Asus ROG G750J series, Too bad, really. :-(

 

I tried G750 and ended up with P53G. G750 is not a laptop IMO, it's a portable desktop. If you'll have it mostly stationary, then it's a wonderful machine. But it's not something I would carry around all the time.

 

The problem is if you ever move those the power cord will break and it will break its connection to the motherboard in the process. So you get planned obsolescence in another way. I'd just like a gaming laptop that can cool itself and won't lose the ability to have power. It unfortunately seems like too much to ask though.

 

Beautiful pictures!!! I wonder if all those stickers can be removed without leaving any scratch and paste them on the bottom. Just to give a more simple and sleek look to the laptop.


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I honestly didn't even think to remove them. I'm use to having them on my previous laptops. It almost gives the laptop some added beauty. haha
It would probably just come right off. I assume they would have the foresight that people might want to remove it.

 

Frugoo, or anyone else, how has real-world battery life usage been for this notebook? I'm really close to pulling the trigger to buy this.

 

Yeah all my laptops have come with stickers but this one has a lot of stickers. I'm starting to like the simple look such as the msi GS60. Just one black core i7 sticker (beautiful) and the other ones on the bottom cover.


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Removing them is simple, I removed the ones in my old hp and just used rubbing alcohol for the residue. But I agree, it actually gives the laptop a better look and adds flavour to it. I won't remove them of my p35w for sure.

And I noticed that in the pictures you have an ssd drive and you added another 60gb msata.... Don't ever raid those cause they are not the same brand and type. When raiding you need to have two identical drives with the same speed. Or else you'll eff it up

 

I've found a video on youtube, about a guy repasting with ic diamond a p34g v2 laptop. The CPU temperatures dropped from 91c to 86c. That's pretty good i think. I'm a little worried about the 91c for the CPU...high IMO.


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Hmm, sounds like a plan.

 

Given that this laptop has such a thin profile and little headroom for heat dissipation, I'd say that's normal for this type of laptop. When I get my laptop, I'm definitely going to undervolt the CPU and GPU (if possible).

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Here is the link of the video. I know heat sinks and pipes are pretty similar in both models. So it should be easy to repaste the CPU and GPU.

http://youtu.be/Lbn3PMfogzk


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GenTech just shipped out my laptop; should be here Thursday. Ooh I'm so excited!

Also, for those who has the Intel 7260 chip, can you tell us if you're encountering any problems with it? I'm seeing a lot of complaints about the slow speed issue over on the MSI GS60 thread.

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When did you place the order?

I believe you're going to need a router that AC for compatibility is what I'm reading.

 

I placed the order ten days ago, which at the time was probably not in stock. I'm hoping there won't be any issues with the WLAN card, because you better believe that my university will not have AC access points available.

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Nice, I'm still deciding if I want to upgrade from my MBP and get this model or not. So 10 days isn't that bad.

I believe because I work at an Ivy League University and they don't have AC routers either so I'm not surprised to hear any university's not having AC routers in place.

 

I believe GenTech has the laptop in stock now, so if you order it now, it should get shipped out fairly quickly. I haven't heard any owners complaining about Wi-Fi issues yet, so I'm assuming either this laptop is not plagued by the issues GS60 owners are having or the P35 owners simply doesn't have this card.

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Which Ivy League University ?

 

The screen of the p35w/p35g might not be IPS. After reading on gigabyte's website i found that on the specs of the p35k it says "IPS FULL HD" while on the p35w specs it just says "wide viewing angles display and Full HD".


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This would be a deal breaker ! How sad. Especially when xotic pc and countless other sources say it's an IPS screen.

 

One thing to remeber is that IPS is just a name for a technology made by LG. Laptops like the MSI GS69 uses an eWIDE panel which is very similar to IPS but the name of the technology is different. However, both technologies perform very similar.


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I'll need to sell my MBP first but still waiting on some reviews from users here once more get it before I make the jump. my MBP has a 650m which plays D3 decent so I can wait a bit. I might wait out until Broadwell & for MX cards to come out but not sure. All depends on whats out there by the time I make the leap. Plus, I'm curious about heat. I'm very disappointed that you have to underclock & undervolt to keep temps down.

I actually thought about getting another Sager with 870m or 880m but not sure if I want to lug around a 6-7lb laptop again. I actually had a Sager 9150 w/ 680m but sold it to buy the MBP I currently have since it was only 4.5lbs. Figured I wasn't really going to game much on a laptop so I made the switch. Now, there are thin light weight gaming laptops, I decided it might be time to switch back to a Windows gaming laptop if I can find a thin one.

 

Believe me, I too would love to wait for Intel's new Broadwell processors and NVIDIA's Maxwell GPUs, but I'm heading off to college soon and simply cannot wait another half a year for any decent laptops with those chips. My current laptop's hard drives (both the stock and spare drive I bought) are both failing, and its performance just isn't up to today's standards. The Razer Blade is too expensive and doesn't offer enough storage capacity; the Sager NP7338/Clevo W230SS is too small and bulky for my liking; the MSI GS60 is too flashy. This laptop seems to be the perfect fit for me: thin, lightweight, powerful, and doesn't scream "I'm a gamer".

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This is basically the thesis statement of this thread.

 

If anyone sees this laptop with 16GB Ram and Raid 0 256 GB SSD +Hard Disk +ODD for less than 2000$,
Pls notify us

 

It looks like you can get the specs you want off of iBuyPower if you use the coupon code "boxbox5". Hope it helps?

 

Thx ! It helps !

 

My webcam isn't working. Device Manager can't even see it. I looked for drivers for it on the Gigabyte download site, and don't see any. Does anybody know what drivers it needs?

 

Did you get driver disk with your purchase?

 

Perhaps you accidentally hit Fn+F12 and disabled it. Try hitting that again.

 

Good call, I rem on my Sager not being able to get webcam to work until I did something like this.

 

There was a video of a p35w v2 with a 4k display on youtube, is there any indication that there will be a Maxwell 870m version in the future?

 

Wonder if it will be possible to buy the P35W now and possibly replace it with a 4K display.