AVADirect Clevo P270WM Review: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675M Powerhouse Discussion

Clevo's much-loved X7200 notebook has been put out to pasture but the nearly identical P270WM is here with the new Intel X79 chipset and the latest NVIDIA graphics. Take a look inside the most powerful gaming notebook we've reviewed.

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Wow. Incredible specifications. 32GB of RAM ... six-core Intel Extreme processor. Holy cow.

 

Yep. You've got to give the folks at AVADirect credit for putting together a rig with awesome specs. The Clevo forums here will be loaded with resellers who will be offering the P270WM this year, but these guys were the first to bring a GTX 675M with SLI to the table.

 

Holy cow... now that's a desktop replacement/gaming notebook.

Good grief...

 

Wait, so this laptop is not delayed and they are actually shipping it out now?!

 

You'd have to ask AVADirect about order status. I know we got the FIRST one of these from them ... so they might have more ready for orders or their might be additional time involved as they get the new parts from Clevo, NVIDIA, etc.

You'll have to contact AVADirect, Eurocom, or the other resellers to find out what the estimated shipping time is on these new Clevo systems.

 

I have a question regarding the CrystalDiskMark scores: the test data has been obtained with random data, all 0's or all 1's?

 

As for the dual power bricks, I suspect that even with dual GTX 675M cards you won't often run into situations where you need more than one of those massive 300W power adapters. As we mentioned in the review, when we just ran benchmarks or played Crysis, Skyrim, Batman: Arkham City, or Witcher 2 we saw no difference in the performance when using one power adapter compared to using two.

That said, I'm CERTAIN that Clevo did plenty of testing and determined there are situations (probably when you've got other things connected via USB and/or when maxing the power draw on a desktop-class CPU and dual graphics cards at the same time) when you need that second power brick.

Clevo and resellers wouldn't ship these with two of those massive power bricks if they didn't think it was needed. Who in there right mind would haul two of those things if they don't NEED to? Like I said, it's like carrying a second laptop.

 

Eurocom is offering the 8C/16T E5 Xeon on their version - world's first and only 8-core SLI notebook!

My X305 suddenly feels obsolete today...

 

Thank you Jerry. AVADirect is thrilled to have been given an opportunity to provide the first US sample to Notebookreivew.com community. Production units are still scheduled to ship early/mid May.

 

haha, 2 to 1 power adapter. That's something new.

 

A question not really related to the review per se, but looking at a monster like that makes me wonder about the state of external graphics. Nowadays a modern laptop CPU have a TDP in the 30-40 watt range while a modern desktop GPU is running in the 200W range.

External graphical cards have been with us for a very long time (I still remember an IBM Thinkpad Dock with a PCI-slot) and so seem from a technical POW very feasible.

Why have no proper solutions for docking a *powerful* external GPU reached the market? Does anyone have any clue?

 

There are third party external graphics solutions (ViDock) but it seems we get nothing but excuses from notebook manufacturers and GPU makers when it comes to answering the question, "Why don't we have a standard for external notebook graphics?"

GPU makers blame the notebook OEMs for not wanting to put dedicated external graphics ports on the outside of the notebook or standardize certain BIOS features to make external graphics work without problems. Notebook OEMs blame GPU companies for constantly changing fundamental hardware and trying to force the OEMs to obey strict standards for making external graphics work.

I won't say that standardized external graphics will never happen, but there are a lot of lame politics involved. The average consumer wouldn't believe all the ridiculous reasons why it took so long to get standardized graphics driver updates for notebooks. Some of the older members of the forums remember when we had to download illegally hacked desktop graphics card drivers that "sometimes" worked when we wanted to update our drivers on notebooks.

 

Can we get comparison data for an Alienware M18x R1 with 580M SLI and 2960XM, added to those benchmarks?

 

12 to 13 pound mobile Server :O --- Now that's an interesting thought concept right there..

 

In my view this is wayyy overpriced... particularly when you factor in the poor screen and viewing angles.

The raw processing power of the reviewed model is spectacular, but the implementation of that power, in terms of the gaming experience, is poor.

A TN screen on a laptop with this much graphics power is simply ridiculous.

My own laptop (i7 Nvidia Gigs of ram, 520SSD etc..) which I've owned for almost two years, is a much BETTER gaming machine.

And why is my two year old laptop a better gaming machine? Because it has a beautiful 10-bit in hardware IPS screen (Dreamcolor). If gaming is really about the immersive experience, then a six or eight bit TN screen will never get you there.

Running a laptop with this kind of screen is just awesome, and provides the best investment in user experience for any computer user, who works in graphics and plays high quality games.

Just like excellent loudspeakers and 96K 24bit sound are essential for real quality, so a decent screen is to a gaming/graphic machine.

Are there any "good" games in 10-bit color? ?

 

Duh. I'd be embarrassed to sell it at that price, but, it's the enthusiast market, "enthusiasts" always get the shaft.