*** Official Clevo x7200 and Sager NP7280 owners lounge ***

Mine too, been there at customs all weekend according to fedex! Why oh why did I chose fedex?!?!

Another guaranteed raping on customs from fedex which they like to miscalculate excessively

Due for delivery today though, I hope its a case of fedex not bothering to update their track info, but the damn package is moving in my direction... I hope

 

New Zealand is one of the least corrupt countries on the planet, there isn't any bribes, rip offs, or back handers with Govt Officals.

But I will have to pay $1000 of GST (Goods and Service Tax), I can claim it back as it's a company expense.

 

US$1000 tax for a US$5000 laptop? that means the GST is 20%?

 

The government continue to bend us over

 

Laptop was only $4254, Freight was $359, convert to NZD @1NZD = 0.72 USD makes it Approx $6448 + GST is 15%, total cost $7423. Ouch!

 

Jesus Christ of Nazareth! Thats alot to pay man, Your country has officially won the rip off crown with UK is second place.

Mine only costs the about $4900 NZD, with postage customs tax, everything! I feel for you man, damn!

 

im just glad its 7% here

 

Where is here for you? I'm moving there!

 

I just missed out, as GST (Goods and Service Tax) only went up two days ago, (1st Oct), from 12.5% to 15%.

 

collected and dident even pay it was signed as personal use,,,here you don't pay if its personal use, if its more then one system you pay 5% of the total invoice...

 

Great news, pics pics pics!!

 

Two words: Diplomatic Discount

 

Or you can threat to bomb something unless they give you a x7200..

 

Make sure you guys read this point before purchasing this system: http://forum.notebookreview.com/sag...clevo-x7200-sli-benchmarks-3.html#post6763973

 

How's the other x7200 owners going out there? How's your machine running?

 

Yes, it is very quiet, thought they'd be making so much more noise

 

question Eurocom panther 2.0 had the sli 470 option is that even released yet or is it a pre order? the panther is the sameas the x7200?

http://www.eurocom.com/

look up the options on their panther 2.0,

 

It is the same beast, Eurocom lol, I never look at them seriously, crazy prices. Your link not working

 

Does it hover just off the desk when the fans are on full? "We have lift off Captian"

I'm still waiting on mine to clear customs.

 

Im reading in the other thread that the 480s' coupled with the 980x is shuting the laptop off because of the watts are to much for the power supply which is only 350 watts. Anyone else looking into this ?

 

Do not expect to hear resellers saying that haha, you will have to wait for more users to confirm

 

I have no interest in over clocking so mine should run sweet, if it doesn't and isn't a quick fix I will buy a M17x

 

The laptop is not shutting off is the PSU only

 

And it was happening at stock speeds. Not overclocked

 

OH so only the AC adapter is shuting off, hmm never heared of that. So the laptop just goes to battery then? I cant imagine the battery lasting more then 15 minutes with that setup lol!

 

Probably a healthy 45 minutes or so as long as you are not stressing the system (of course that is exactly what you would be doing when the psu cuts out haha)

 

Not overclocking sadly

yes the laptop goes on battery and the game slowdown

 

Speedy, you mentioned this happened during the Mafia 2 benchmark. Have you experienced it in any other games?

 

No i play tomb rider it was ok and resident evil 5 was ok too

 

It should only be a problem in games that really tax the hardware. That includes titles like Crysis though which would be used to show off such a laptop

 

Does anyone know if I could use a 30" LCD TV (Tv not just monitor) with these 480M's, want to game on it in ultra setting and full size of the tv monitor.

 

Yeah just plug it into HDMI and your all set..

 

Cheers, I will look in to it

 

I use a 37" 1080P TV as a computer monitor for gaming and it works great but30" or 32" would probably be even better.

 

Just make sure it has a decent DPI. I have a 52" 720p tv (was only $500 ) and it is not so great for games unfortunately. Blu Ray still looks amazing though

 

What's a decent TV/monitor for gaming around $500? I don't need a big one, about between 19" to 23" will do. I would like one with decent color reproduction and high contrast ratio.. but then again, everyone wants that lol

btw it's so cold in VA right now lol

 

It is not THAT cold haha, it will get worse!

For $500 you can actually get a really good quality 24" screen. I have a Gateway FHD2400 and I really like it. You cannot find them any more but is an example. Dell seems to be a good source for monitors from what I have heard. You can also afford to consider 120Hz screens at that price range.

 

Worse? Don't make me lough!
You have no idea what cold is. Here, in Alberta the temps during winter can plummet 50C in 24 hours, from 0C to -50C. Not to mention that regular (average) winter temps are -20-30C. So much fun.
Now you know, why I need gaming laptops - to stay warm!

 

I spend a fair amount of time in Wyoming at winter, it is regularly around 0F (-18c) there, so I kind of know cold (and that is at the valley altitudes, in the mountains drop another 20-30c)

If last winter was any indication, we can expect between 10-20f pretty often here this winter though (here being northern VA - cold enough to bench a laptop on the front porch haha )

 

Yeah, that would surely be cold enough. Last winter I was able to lower the 9400 temps in the R1 from 70C to 55 just by opening a window, hehe.

 

I did all of my 4870 benches before the chest freezer on the front porch last winter lol. I would start a run, go and shovel some snow, come back and check. That got me over 14k vantage and 18686 in 06 haha

 

Hahaha! I wish they would accept snow shoveling as a benchmarking tool, - you'd score some nice points there as well

 

The weather in richmond is pretty nice, other than the fact that I have to get up early for school.. That's cold. And to whoever (you know ) that lives in Canada, you are used to cold weather...

Back on topic (as if there is one), any good monitor suggestions aikimox?

 

Monitors are very subjective for people, my recommendation is go somewhere like bestbuy that has a bunch on display and look at them. Figure out what you like. That coupled with some online research can do you well. Then find where ever the one you like is sold the cheapest.

 

I always thought the monitors they sell at bestbuy are not very good... lol

 

Hit or miss. They do not carry the highend ones because they are generally too incompetent (along with much of their clientèle) to actually sell them. I do not think there is a MicroCenter near you, but they also have a good selection usually as well. (There is one up in fairfax though if you are up for a couple hour drive haha)

 

OK... But I will probably get a laptop before a monitor lol

 

That would be the logical way to do things

 

good monitor NEC ips, or Samsung LED if you are looking to save a few dollars.
I use NEC in the office, really nice colors.

NEC MultiSync EA231WMi

 

Tapping my foot waiting, held up by slow customs brokers, now I have to wait two more days to get the beast.

A beast so powerful it's too powerful for it's own power supply, i hear its even more powerful than Chuck Norris!!