Very Excited! Just ordered a Sager NP9262

[BJRowlett]

I made my order on Sunday April 20. I accidently selected the wrong shipping, I choose for parts only, instead of a whole system. So the price was a few dollars more than expected, but only because of my mistake.

My bank wired the money on Wednesday April 23, and payment was recieved Thursday April 24. My system is now in Phase 2. And the excitement is starting to build up.

I am very pleased with XoticPC's service. They always respond quickly, and with all the information I need. I cant wait to get my system.

PS: My dad was talking with a IT person from work, and told him about system. The IT couldnt believe it, he was so jealous of it. :D

[pad11]

you are going to be SOOOO pleased! Congrats!!

pat!

[RaderCad]

:D

Just wondering what the SLI of the two 8800's is like?
I've seen lots of reviews out there about how fast they are until they boot up a game that is not programed to take advantage of it. :?

Any comments on this?

[bargegod]

hell yeah! welcome to THE FAMILY. u will never wanna part from it trust me. laterz.........

[BJRowlett]

Thank you all very much, It shipped on Friday the 25th. So it should be here sometime this week :) Im going to document everything when I get it, and write a full review on it. Hopefully that will answer some questions about the SLI. (I do plan on gaming, but not a ton, mainly Diablo II, Neverwinter Nights, UT2004, a little Crysis) but mainly it will be used for multitasking while i work with UnrealEd, MSVS2008, Adobe CS3, and Maya 2008. Im really excited to see how much better this is than my current rig, which is ~5 years old, with a P4-HT! lol

Thanks bargegod, i have to say, my experience with Xotic has made it seem like a family. :D

[pad11]

The SLi works exceptionally well in mine...i have a couple glitchy issues w/ games that just aren't coded to use it but nothing that freezes the system or crashes the game...

pat!

[BJRowlett]

My Lappy should be here today :) Im at work, but my parents are home to sign for it. Ive been looking into which notebook cooler to buy, the two i've narrowed it down to are:

ZALMAN NC2000
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834998685

NZXT CRYO LX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834997340

The NZXT might not be large enough though, its 16.6" x 11.6", while the Notebook is 15.5" x 11.75". I dont know if that .15" is enough to make a difference. But It seems as though the NZXT pushes more air than the ZALMAN.

Any experiences with these two, or suggestions of others?

[Justin@XoticPC]

I personally use the NC2000 with my 5793 and I wouldn't change. It pushes allot of cool air into the machine and keeps the machine running very cool. I can't recall who at this time but there was a user on NBR that did some tests with the NC2000 and it shaved approximately 10 degrees off of the running temps. :)

[RaderCad]

Went out and found the review. Seems to work and work well. It will be the one for me as it is quiet and lowers temps a lot.

Here is the review.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=235021

[Justin@XoticPC]

+1 Thanks for finding this :)

[BJRowlett]

Is there a difference between the Silver and Black versions of the NC2000? It seems as though the Silver version gets way better reviews than the Black version.

Does anyone know how far back the holes go? Will they be far enough back to push air into the fans on the Sager NP9262, whose 4 fans are all near the middle of the back.

[RaderCad]

I was wondering the same thing, then I started a side by side of the Zalman 2K and the bottom of a 9262. The area of air pushing out of the 2000 Zalman seems to be far enough back to get the CPU / GPU fans. It is far enough back to get the memory area. Remember the GPU / CPU are both actively cooled but the rest of the 9262 is passively cooled. It may be as important to try and keep air moving to the passive heat exchange areas of the 9262. The hard drives, battery and DVD drive are all in the front 1/2 of this beast. Probably the motherboard and chip-set is somewhere around or even under the removable components. There are a lot of air vents in the front for cooling for these components. So it seems to make sense to try and keep the front of the 9262 cool also. I think that hard drives for a laptop have a maximum running temperature of around 60 degrees centigrade.

You can figure it out, if the hard drives get to hot then you won't be running the CPU and GPU for very long after that.

[Awake]

Going to have to add to this post a bit, I myself have just ordered a Sager 9262 with the following specs:

Intel Core 2 QUAD Q9450 2.6GHz w/ 12MB L2 Cache - 1333MHz FSB
17" WUXGA "Glare Type" Super Clear Ultra Bright Glossy Screen (1920x1200)
512MB PCI-Express nVidia GeForce 8800GTX DX10
4,096MB DDR2 800 (2 SODIMMS) Dual Channel Memory
200GB 7200RPM (Serial-ATA II 300 - 16MB Cache)

I'm very excited to receive my system, Currently in phase 2, took less than 1 hour to confirm the payment. Hopefully I'll receive it within 1 week. Good thing I waited a little bit, as the Q9450 was not available at the time. I'd also like to thank the people who replied to my other post regarding quad vs dual. This forum is so helpful.

[bargegod]

nice config. u will be very satisfied with that.

[dazzyd]

awesome dude.. you will love this beasty..

ive overclocked my SLi cards now so they are running at 25% faster than stock clocks..

make sure u use the new drivers from laptopvideo2go 175.75 with the modded very stable now.

damn im envious.. u got the 9450!!..

[OregonCoastGamer]

Curious about the drivers your using for your SLI dazzy.... is there any advantage to a single GPU rather than overclocking? Last time I tired some modded drivers they were worse.

[dazzyd]

Curious about the drivers your using for your SLI dazzy.... is there any advantage to a single GPU rather than overclocking? Last time I tired some modded drivers they were worse.

well the 3dmark06 score goes up with the SLi setup.. and with the added benefit of overclocking it goes up further.

the ones i have are from the guys over at notebookreview forums on the sager sub forum site that have been tested and are stable. im talking bout the bios overclock on the gfx here that is.

the new laptopvideo2go drivers are pretty stable now too

[OregonCoastGamer]

I will have to give them a shot and see if there are any noticable improvements.

[robamb2002]

I will have to give them a shot and see if there are any noticable improvements.

keep us posted. I'm not messing with drivers until I'm sure they will do more good than harm. You can be our guinea pig :)

[kpauls]

+1 for video2go driver reports :)

[OregonCoastGamer]

keep us posted. I'm not messing with drivers until I'm sure they will do more good than harm. You can be our guinea pig :)

I am going to try the updated driver from Sager first and see how that works out. I will be sure to let you know my results.... OCD....guinea pig.....:p.

[OregonCoastGamer]

Well... sorry to break the bad news, but the new stock driver version 174.90 still downclocks the GPU :(. I have heard that the 175.75 beta drivers increase performance for the 8800M GTX though, so I will give that one a shot ;).

[OregonCoastGamer]

Well, it seems like the beta drivers are better than the official version, but aren't extremely better. I think I am going to roll back to my original drivers.

[xpcdude]

A lot of users report having problems even with the latest Sager drivers.
To make it short, the safest drivers at the moment are the original ones that came with your systems(probably 167.43) which do not downclock the GPU.

[OregonCoastGamer]

Oddly enough I found a 175.80 driver, which I may give a try. For now, I recommend either the original drivers or 175.75 beta drivers. I will let you know how 175.80 work out.

[Sanosukeafo]

Did you find out if the 175.75b drivers increase performance or what?

[OregonCoastGamer]

175.75 will get you a decent 3dmark score, but the orignal drivers are much more stable in gaming. I am sticking with 167.43 myself.

[Sanosukeafo]

Cool thanks. Guess i'll hold what I got till something better comes out. No point in gaining a few extra FPS if games are going to start crashing lol.

[Awake]

Wow...Just got my laptop yesterday and all I have to say is wow. Luckily I had waited and by the time I actually bought the laptop the Q9450 was available, most of the game I play seem to use it well. Haven't had a chance to try out the rendering capabilities (maya etc) as I was having too much fun in Crysis. But I soon found out that lugging it around is not very fun so I was wondering what backpacks everyone could recommend. I really like the SLAPPA Velocity Matrix Pro but I'm not sure it can fit the 9262 Has anyone had experience with this pack? http://www.slappa.com/velocity-matrix-laptop-backpack?sc=2&category=656

Thanks Xoticpc, great price and wicked fast shipping can't be more satisfied with the computer.

[readeh]

Awake can you tell me the temp of the Q9450 cpu?

btw im buying the http://www.slappa.com/ptac-matrix-laptop-shoulder-bag?sc=2&category=133 Will see if the 9262 fits in about a month :P

[Awake]

Awake can you tell me the temp of the Q9450 cpu?

btw im buying the http://www.slappa.com/ptac-matrix-laptop-shoulder-bag?sc=2&category=133 Will see if the 9262 fits in about a month :P

Sure thing man, I'm getting 50C after about 20 minutes after gaming. I'll check out the temperatures after a bit of Crysis too. The temperature inside my house is at about 21C. After about an hour or two of Crysis I am getting high 60C on all the procs. GPU looks like it got pretty hot, mid to high 70C's on the graph.

[readeh]

thanks for the information :D

[OregonCoastGamer]

Just for the record, I hit around 60* C at max, but it usually hovers at 50* C during normal gaming sessions.

[dazzyd]

congrats on your system dude. by the way im running 175.75 drivers. anyone have any trouble with these in crysis or any games.?