Clevo W350ST (Sager NP7352) Owners Page. BIOS: Can it be Customised?

[Gothen1234]

Hello all,

I couldn't find any other forum pages relating to this laptop:

Clevo W350ST (Sager NP7352)

So I guess this is for all those who are scraping through the interwebs to find some useful modifications for it.

I have noticed many custom BIOS's made for Clevo models such as the W350ET and W370ET and was wondering if there was any word on the updated Clevo models?

I currently own a W350ST (NP7352) and I must say the performance is remarkable!

TECH SPECS:

-INTEL Core i7 4700mq @ 2.40GHz turbo boost to 3.20GHz (4 cores) and 4600HD IG

-8GB 1600MHz DDR3 (Slow timings but no matter)

-2GB NVIDIA GTX 765m

-256GB Crucial C300 SSD

-1TB 5,400rpm HDD

-640GB 5,400rpm HDD

-1920x1080 15.6" Screen

-Webcam, USB 3.0 etc

-£980 when purchased

Battery life can range from 45minutes to 3 and a half hours at a stretch

Some concerns with it though:

-The BIOS is bare and has no configurable options relevant to anything

-The CPU throttles constantly despite temperature

-The fan control is completely illogical failing to kick fully in even after the 4700mq has hit 95 celcius

-The fan control doesn't seem to be determined by CPU utilisation either

-The BIOS screen likes to display itself twice before booting

-There is no way for me to control CPU features like Turbo boost or SpeedStep etc (Windows Power features and INTEL XTU do close to nothing to help with this)

I find that I can play a game like GTA IV on maximum settings for about 2minutes at 50fps before the CPU throttles itself and decides 20fps is far better

Even less CPU intensive games like Dirt 3 are affected by this throttling issue.

I have tried using Throttlestop but it changed nothing, I have unparked all CPU cores and still no difference.

Aside from these issues though I figured I could bump up the GPU clock by modifying the VBios using Kepler BIOS tweaker, which unfortunately cause of CPU throttling makes no substantial difference to frame rate.

I have found a website that holds the current updated bios versions for the W350ST: W35xST/W37xST Series

I want to be able to customise this bios as 'Prema' did with the W350ET so I have access to as many features as I'd see on a Gigabyte z68 board for example.

Has anyone any ideas on how to achieve this? Prema? Anyone?

[Guest]

I have answered your question here

[deathwinger]

Hey Gothen,

Glad to see you got the same system as me. I wanted to find out if you upgraded to the Prema Mod when it came out for this system and what your experiences have been like in comparison to the latest BIOS that came directly from Sager?

Thanks and hope to hear from you soon

[Gothen1234]

Hey Gothen,

Glad to see you got the same system as me. I wanted to find out if you upgraded to the Prema Mod when it came out for this system and what your experiences have been like in comparison to the latest BIOS that came directly from Sager?

Thanks and hope to hear from you soon

Sure thing man

I've only just noticed that Prema has posted the bios mod.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

I will write back to here the minute I've flashed it

[clevo]

did u flashed you 350st? I really have probs with my fan noice and want to know how if it will have an effect to it?!

[halfer53]

I have the same problem too, the fan consistently work in the background, making noises. My bios of my machine is 1.03.03, and EC is 1.03.02. I download the BIOS and EC from clevo Mirrow [1].

[1] W35xST/W37xST Series