HTWingNut's Sager / Clevo Review Thread

Since I have several reviews out on Sager notebooks I thought I'd consolidate them here because the signature is quite restricting as far as number of characters allowed, so will just point them here. And if you're here through my sig link, thanks for looking!

Please contain discussion to each individual review thread please, I'd like to keep posts in this thread to a minimum. Thank you.

Sager / Clevo Reviews:
- Sager NP8157 / Clevo P650HS-G 15.6" 1080p 120Hz G-sync, i7-7820HK, GTX 1070 8GB, 512GB Samsung 960 Pro, 32GB DDR4 RAM
- Sager NP9873 / Clevo P870DM3 17.3" 1080p 120Hz, i7-6700K, Dual GTX 1080 SLI 8GB GDDR5x, 512GB OCZ M.2 SSD, 32GB DDR4 RAM
- Sager NP8640 / Clevo P640RE 14" 1080p, i7-6700HQ, GTX 970m
- Sager NP9870-G / Clevo P870DM-G i7-6700k, GTX 980 (desktop class), 1080p, 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD
- Sager NP9778-G / Clevo P750DM-G i7-6700k 980m G-sync 4K LCD 64GB RAM
- Sager NP9773 / Clevo P770ZM-G 980m G-Sync Review by HTWingNut
- Sager NP7339 / Clevo W230SD with GTX 960m Review
- Sager NP9750 / Clevo P750ZM with GTX 980m Review
- Sager NP8652 / Clevo P650SG with GTX 980m Review
- Sager NP8651 / Clevo P650SE with GTX 970m HTWingNut's REVIEW
- Sager NP9377 / Clevo P377SM-A with GTX 980m SLI Review
- Sager NP7338 / Clevo W230SS Review
- Sager NP9377 / Clevo P377SM-A Review
- Sager NP8268 / Clevo P150SM-A Review
- DUAL CORE Haswell i5-4200m Review using Sager NP7330 / Clevo W230ST
- HTWingNut's Sager NP7330 / Clevo W230ST REVIEW
- HTWingNut's Sager NP7330 / Clevo W230ST First Impressions WITH VIDEOS!
- HTWingNut's Sager NP9390 / Clevo P375SM Review!
- HTWingNut's Sager NP8250 / Clevo P157SM Review
- Sager NP6110 / Clevo W110ER One year Later and i5 dual core vs quad core gaming benchmarks
- Sager NP9570 / P570WM Review with i7-3970X and GTX 680m SLI
- Sager NP9370 / Clevo P370EM Review with i7-3720QM and 680m SLI Benchmarks
- Sager NP9150 / Clevo P150EM Review with i7-3610QM and 680m (overclocked too) benchmarks
- Sager NP6110 / Clevo W110ER Review with i7-3610QM and 650m benchmarks
- Prema's Clevo W-Series BIOS Mod Review
- (Old but fun for archive purposes ) Sager NP8662 / Clevo M860TU Core 2 Duo 2.8GHz P9700 and GTX 260m vs Core 2 Quad Q9000 2.0GHz

Links/Tips:
- Modded 680m vBIOS Options

 

Held for future stuff

Component

NP8651/P650SE

NP8652/P650SG

 

Hold another post because I can.

 

Bumped, just because i love laptop reviews.

 

Looking forward to your 9570 impressions

 

Just added NP9570 Review.

 

Just a note, when talking about the "PSUs" you describe connecting both "GPUs" to the y bracket

Otherwise very detailed

 

lulz... new feature... thanks for actually reading it...

corrected.

 

I told you I do read them whether that's a good or bad thing is up to you

 

HTWingNut, I have a question concerning battery life on the 9390. Let's say I want to do normal processes on the 9390 such as typing up some notes in class on Microsoft Word. Since SLI doesn't support Optimus technology, is there a way to manually switch from the dual SLI 780M's to the built-in graphics processor of the 4th gen Haswell CPU?

 

No. That's what you sacrifice by not having Optimus.

 

Ok. Let's say a 9390 with a single 780M. That should support Optimus, shouldn't it?

 

No, it's the system that supports whether it's engaged or not, it's hardware and software. This system does not support Optimus, the display is wired directly to the dedicated video card and completely bypasses the Intel GPU.

 

Hey, thanks, HTWingNut. You've been super helpful.

 

I updated all review links (and posting to keep this thread from auto closing).

 

Its a sticky now, I didn't know this thread was here. Thanks @Prema!

 

Excellent review. Thank you.

I think I'll be happy with this laptop. My last scored 7800~ in 3DMark 11 (4930MX & 780M). A score of 12100+ is a great improvement!

My only gripe is battery life, but the enthusiast in me doesn't want to care.

 

Top notch reviews and everything is so well organized as usual. It's been a while since I've been able to checkout the reviews and the 980M is looking very nice scoring 12,1++ on 3D Mark11.

 

Thanks. A lot of links and stuff got lost when they transitioned the forum to whatever it is they did... I'll have to spend time one day and fix it all. I thought they were supposed to fix image=xxx tags and html inline link tags to not be shown, but apparently not.

 

Any known review for the P650RE6 with battery life tests? cant find any and in the Owners lounge cant find an straight answer that can clear up my doubts.

 

Hi HT, please update the list with the new reviews.

 

@HTWingNut for the sake of science can you see how much you can overclock the display?

 

Over 9000!

 

.. You stir.. Tell me it's good for a little more...

 

The 120hz display wont overclock.

 

I concur. Not even 1 mhz, but..... You can up the resolution to 2560x1440@100hz to 120hz

It can be set to 75/85/100/110/120@1080P

 

DSR is also an option through the Nvidia CP.

 

You can use DSR to over clock the lcd? I didn't know that.

Also this screen is locked at 60hz or 120hz

 

At native resolution will it underclock at 80hz-100hz, and will G-sync work at the lower refresh?

Will G-sync track a 100fps game on a 120hz screen, so no need to underclock?

 

I had DSR@33% and 60hz V-sync refresh, but it keeps crashing on GTAV.

 

I have seen a few games that crash or refuse to launch when a display is not run at the default refresh rate. Not sure why that happens. There may be more than the few I have seen because I normally just leave the display at defaults. While I seldom overclock a display, I have never under-clocked one. Why would anyone want to lower the refresh rate?

 

I narrowed it down to one of the settings in the advanced graphics. Refresh rates are good and so is the DSR.

 

In the NVIDIA Control Panel Advanced Settings? What setting was causing it to crash? Maybe that was what caused it for me in the past with some games when running a non-native refresh rate or resolution?

 

For me it's an ingame setting in the advanced graphics for gtav. When it set it to safe mode the game ran fine. So far i enabled all the settings in the normal graphics setting. Going to test the rest of it in a little while.

 

Any chance for a P775DM3-G review in the future?

Seems not then..

 

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Guru-Mars-K-Clevo-P775DM3-G-Laptop-Review.258238.0.html

 

Probably seen that in the almost year and half since posting

 

Well 18+ months no one bothered

 

What happened to @HTWingNut, does he no longer review?

 

Looks like he is taking a break from the forum. No activity since Jan.

 

From what I know, he has retired from NBR. His last activity was almost 1.5 years ago.

 

That’s a shame. His reviews were excellent.

 

We should always treat those who help out here nicely, they wont be around forever.