Clevo W870CU Review With ATI 5870m

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The_Moo™'s Clevo W870CU Review Also Known as Sager NP8760 My machine was purchased from Gentech PC .​

|| UnBoxing || Pictures || Screen || Keyboard || Touchpad || Temps || Benchmarks || ​ ​

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boxing

UnBoxing​

pictures
* Pictures





screen
* Screen









The screen is GREAT. The screen viewing angles are amazing as you can see in the pictures. The screen itself is the BEST LED I have ever used. It beats the G73, Alienware M15x, and Dell inspiron 1545. The screen is VERY bright and perfectly fine for a classroom or outside on the bench. It is no RGB LED which I owned on the Alienware M17x R-2 but I think this one is better since it doesn't burn my retinas.

keyboard
* Keyboard


I have owned a MacBook 13 inch and an Asus G73 and i have found chiclet keyboards to be nice but it varies greatly on the quality of the keyboard. I have to say this Clevo W870CU keyboard is sturdy and has no flex from typing. All the keys are responsive and perfectly spaced. I find myself never having to glance down to find a key because my finger slipped. The only thing that could make this keyboard better would be a backlight keyboard. Also a non-trucated number pad would be nice

4/5

touchpad
* Touch pad

I have owned MANY laptops in the past year and this touch-pad is nice and is near the top of my list. The touch-pad itself is slick, its smooth to the touch right out of the box. It's not like the touch-pads that are slick and your fingers stick and it takes 2 months to build up residue to help the process. Right out of the box with clean hands its ready to go which is a very nice touch. Its also very responsive, responding to the slightest touch.

5/5



* Noise

temps

Temps and Cooling​

Prime 95 Small TFT + Xtreme Burning on Furmark STOCK PASTE




Reapplying of Paste

CPU Synthetic Test​

OCCT Results:

Intel Burn test:


3d Mark 06:


3d Mark Vantage:

GPU Synthetic Test​

3d Mark 06:


3d Mark Vantage:

Actual Game Temps​

Crysis @ Very High 3x Loops


Resident Evil 5



GTA 4






benchmarks

Synthetic Benchmarks​

3d Mark 06:

3d Mark Vantage:

Actual Game Performance​

Devil May Cry 4

ALL high NO AA




Resident Evil 5



Conclusion






Pros :
Cheap
Great Cooling
Plain
Gentech PC was great
Allows customization
Fast

Cons :
Plain
No formal OC abilitys
Short battery
No illuminated keyboard

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Test with a 920Xm

 

Nice pictures. Good point about the keyboard. You can disable the touchpad with Fn + F1. Benchmarks look pretty low.

 

Its here

 

waiting patiently.

 

i am waiting as well, come on HURRY UP!

 

No OS .... Be a little bit

 

any pics yet? Especially of the 5870.

 

I have some they are uploading .... My upload is only 128

 

Cant wait for the pics of the system, as well as in game maybe some videos at some point as well? and of course Benchmarks

 

couple pictures

Inside pictures will be up later

These are just quick shots while windows is installing

 

thanks for the pics, what do you think of the plastic case?
as i was thinking about getting a custom paint job on mine but wondering if i should knowing that it has a plastic case
have you have the NP9262? if so how does the back of the case compare to it?

 

The ati is green.

Also if you can test the multipliers with evga and the 920. See how far it will go on all 4 cores.

 

So being plain is both a pro and a con?

 

It's the same as laptops that look like this:

http://s728.photobucket.com/albums/ww285/ClutchX2/?action=view&current=G50VTX5-LID-F.jpg

It's a preference thing-

 

its plain which is nice but at the same time i like style and a few flair

 

How about some vinyl stickers. Maybe one of an Alien head and you can confuse the crap out of people.

 

Not up to me.

updated a bit more

 

thanks for the more pics, could i get a pic of the back of the screen without the plastic on it? is it dark/black? or a bit brighter - thinking of getting a custom lid design on it

 

Green? Yeah, that's weird, are you sure it's an ATI? I thought it looked like this...

 

The cards are only red if ATI makes them

They can be purple ... Its up to the card makers which color they will be

 

I guess Clevo wants them to match the nvidia ones, which I thought were all kinda greenish.

 

So far the few games i have run are ALOT faster with the 920 then they were in the G73 so this has exceeded my expectations already ... Not sure what was going on with the 920 in the G73 i had though ....

My 920 is an ES btw but it was given to me FREE for helping someone out and i wanted to find a good machine to put it in, this seems to be it ...

 

Still no bin OC'ing in the bios?

 

I didnt even look yet but i will in a bit... i was dumping all my stuff over to the secondary drive so i have the machine taken apart ATM.... Ill let ya know in a few...

 

None for me

PBE Mandrake

 

is that a dent i see above the trackpad?

 

no that is the microphone

there is a little microphone there to indicate it ...kinda dumb

 

Ah okay i thought that it might have been, just wanted to check
what colour is the Back of the lid? is it a kind of dark that this pic would work well with HERE ?

 

Great pics Moo.
This one looks like a keeper.
Scrolling ticker on top is awesome.

 

The Black on the lid is a flat black. Its the same black as the palmrest and my MS Habu mouse

 

is it a dark black colour? or more lighter?

 

dark

I posted temps please check them

 

the GPU got quite hot, you worried by that?
what specs did you get? is it the 15 or 17inch model?

 

17 inch, The GDDR5 RAM hit 90 but the Core was only at 70c

 

Yeah, did it really hit 90C?

That is too hot, IMO. I want to see temps during a long gaming sessions.

 

73C on the GPU. Did you just run a benchmark? What is the idle temp?

 

The GDDR5 RUNS ALOT HOTTER THEN GDDR3.

All 5870's will be like this

idles in the 40's to low 50's

 

Ok, well we have the same issue as the G73.

How do we know which temp is which out of the 3?

 

maybe the:

ShaderIO is the Shader
MemIO is Memory
Thermal Diode is the core

 

Dang. I was hoping for much better temps than the 285.

 

Yeah that is VERY hot

 

Having had 2x RGBLED machines in the past (M6400's) and constantly laughing/servicing my boy's 1737 with RGBLED while WoW just tanks on the 3650 w/ a T9900 @ 1920x1200, it is overkill brightness wise and the off reds and constant icc profiles depending on applications was annoying.

Many pics/videos just looked unnatural to me and were situational depending on the numerous calibrations/icc's required, IMHO.

This thing looks beastly, but like I said, after the M17/Whitebook noise levels of death, I'm gun shy about the noise levels while gaming.

 

That is what I thought, but after much debate in the G73 boards no one is for sure that hwinfo32 is reporting the correct temp for the core.

And if what you say is true, then the diode is the temp that got to 90C right?

It mirrored my MemIO temps IIRC.

Stress again and report back with your findings.

 

i now have to rethink my decision again, i was planning on getting the 15inch
model but with temps like that the thing could melt, so its getting this and maybe causing a nuclear explosion or getting the slightly less powerful Envy but not create a Nuclear explosion

 

People keep in mind that was firmark.

The sky is not falling

HWinfo reports the highest temps which is ALWAYS the GDDR5 like all you ignored once again the core only hit 72c

Very quite compared to the M15x and M17x and specially the Whitebook

Ask Quadzilla

 

There has been no record of nuclear explosion on shipping laptops, even the high end gaming ones- Less powerful GPUs are capable, but tend to be boring.

 

You Never Now It Could Happen, I Am That Unlucky

 

Yeah its very quiet and the only fan i hear running albeit constantly is the GPU fan ..

Im very happy overall ...

No OC in the bios at all ...

 

Spoken by someone who owns a 9262. Furmark is one of the most taxing test out there. I doubt you'll hit those temps playing Crysis, more like 74C at most.