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Elipsus

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  1. Hi all ! My clevo p150sm is great, but one thing...that stand for all "high end" notebooks, is the enormous AC adptator Do someone know if i can find smaller ones ? I have first thinked about dell 180w power supplies, but since i don't have dimmensions, i have doubt ! so if someone have it, can you tell me the size please , ;D then i tought about the one that power ASUS G750, wich seems much smaller, but again i don't really know the size, and can't find anywhere to buy , so help is apperciated ! soldering is no really a problem for me, but i have question about the number of cables, and i will take any advice you can give me ! Elipsus
  2. (it's about the anywhere MX) I use this mouse since two year, and i think gaming with this is okay, the input lag is not bad in my opinion, and a good thing is that you can use it with only 1 battery ! ( much more lightweight ), and the battery life is awsome ( 2 month heavy usage with one battery ) , and the free-wheelmouse is just the best invention in the world I have considered buying an orochi, but hte very high price, and the fact that the cord dont charge batt leaded me to this one ! I had a roccat Pyra wireless, wich is rechargeable with cord, but construction is cheap and battery dont last more than few hours.
  3. It's okay for Hotkey since the programm don't really change, but be more carfull with other drivers Actually, for me, even if hotkey is not installed, the leds and all the fn shortcuts are functionnal so, if you don't use the control center , i can just uninstall it ! Elipsus
  4. You should go to the clevo download center : CLEVO - Download and select your model, you should see the latest Hotkey programm. Elipsus
  5. Hi everybody ! Her is my modest contribution , a "big" review about my Clevo P150sm buyed 3 weeks ago do not hesitate if you have remarks or question ! Configuration tested: -i7 4700MQ -GTX 770m -8Gb RAM -Intel 7260AC Wireless controller -BD drive (from older notebook) -95%gamut FHD Matte Display I m coming from a MSI GT60 (2012 Gen) with i73610 +gtx675m, his mother board crashed This review is for persons who already knows a bit about computer, and about this clevo. (more intended to response question you might pose) The exterior and connection: The clevo is faaaaar less «Jacky tuning» than the MSI, most of the parts (lid and palm rest + touch pad) are rubberized, with gray-lite brown coating, it feel great, no finger-prints, and it's nice, only complain, is that dust don't come up as easily as glossy finish! There is no bling bling parts, all is “functional”, and suit way better for an “adult”. He is more compact, and more lightweight than the MSI, and construction feel very solid and, make no plastic crimping sound when you manipulate it, it's a pleasure! One of my friend found the perfect adjective for the computer: DENSE, really powerful in a respectable size The screen bezel is matte (Alleluia! ), and absolutely impossible to soil! Connections are not phletoric, but really good: 3 USB 3,0; E-SATAp; hdmi, display port, 1 USB 2; Ethernet........no VGA? No DVI? Quite inconvenient, because 90% of connection to video projector are made with VGA (school and office) The keyboard look great, the feeling is good and solid, the keystroke is good, retro-light is good, but not enoughtly customizable in my opinion (the MSI keyboard manager was better for this! ) indicator led are blue, and a bit too powerful, but the led for dGPU is a good plus! The back is made of hard plastic, there are only vents and a “bass-woofer” hole. For a conclusion: the notebook looks solid, well constructed, grease proof, and well equipped The interior: the battery is removable. HDD case is accessible with 2 screws, and allows to remove the unique screw for CD/DVD module. The mounting bracket for the HDD is made of transparent plastic , that is screwed to the HDD with two screws. Opening the main door is easy: 4 screws, slide, done! no cheap clippers that broke in two movement, no weird sound!, only remark about a copper sheet that cover almost the half, I don't really know for what is intended, but I have made a thermal brigde between the dGPU radiator and this sheet. The interior is well organized, dGPU on the left, CPU on the right, RAM in the bottom, CPU and GPU have both a dedicated cooler + fan For the CPU: two massive heat-pipe starts from the copper plate, that cover CPU and VRM. The radiator is in aluminum, the fan is not so big, and well adjusted to the radiator, allowing a good air flow, but can still be improved, by making the aluminum foil mod. For the GPU: the heat-sink is far more large, there are two heatpipe for the GPU, and one , connected to a big aluminum block, that cover memory module and VRM's, the three big heat pipe s are connected to a unique copper made radiator, that is filled with air by a huge fan, but this one is incorrectly placed (since 1st generation), and a part of the radiator is not supplied with air, whereas, on the other side, air flow thru nothing, I can't imagine that the engineers from clevo didn't saw that, this is ridiculous!, on this generation, they have putted some black foam, to cover this area, but this is non-sens! The should have just placed the fan correctly!, so to improve it, you can make an aluminum foil mod. I'am quite depicted of this cooling, I hope a better engineered system, where MSI put little foam instert between radiator and fan plate, a well adjusted radiator, clevo just let the fan fall inside the case, and screwed it in no matter there are hudge air leak. On both heat sink, there are plastic, intended to make the removal easier, but they obstruct a bit the air flow, so, instead of cutting it, i have scotched it with aluminum tape to the heat-sink. The bass woofer is close to the GPU fan, and.....very small compared to previous version, and I think that he is “useless”. Performance summary : Because we have ton of information about perf on web , I will not go “in detail” I was coming from an i7 3610QM, the changements are not noticeable at all. The “turbo boost” work well, but I have never seen the “short power boost” in action, even if XTU say that he is enabled. Good thing is that intel XTU allows a lot of voltage/ratio/wattage configuration, like a desktop, and it's really appreciable! The GTX 770m, perform really well in most games, (Dirt 3 FHD +ultra settings: 60fps or more ) BUT: the base clock is 706Mhz+ boost, whereas the official nvidia page say: 811Mhz+boost, so I got a 15% performance cut from what I excepted (I used for reference the 660, that have the same number of CUDA cores), so I feel a bit abused, and I’m going to report this to my reseller, and ask explanation, this is NOT NORMAL! , I can't see anywhere on the clevo official website, or the reseller's, that the performances have been cutted like this! And I think this cheap-class manipulation is NOT worth of a high end notebook!! I had a talk with my reseller about this, he said that is Clevo who made this, so i think i will switch to Slv7 moded VBIOS I got a good P4132 (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4700MQ,Notebook P15SM) at 3Dmark fire strike, but this was with overclocking (+135Gpu; +500Mem); I think that with a real BIOS, I will be able to go higher! Mic/Cam/fingerprint/touchpad : I have made a "clean " install, and decided to not put "X-FI sound blaster", just Up-to -date drivers (from realtek forum ) Mic is okay, you can be heared correctly, a little white noise, but still usable......BUT with XFI drivers : Mic is absolutly bad, I have spent hours trying to improve it, doesn't matter, you can't hear anything+ a hudge white sound+ echo+ parasites+anything bad you could think of for a microphone. Camera is good, 1080p doesn't really improve over 720p, but good. Fingerprint reader is good, recognized well my fingers, fast, easy to configure, definitively not a gadjet ! Touch pad , is quite good, even if it's rubberized, the feeling is good and responsive, I use it time to time, and no problem. Screen and Sound : Screen is good ( 95% gamut) , colors are vivid but i needed to step down saturation...it was "Too much" , the mat finish is good, and less grainy than my previous MSI, and the retrolight is DAAMMMM powerful, full power makes me go blind ^^ Sound is a joke, “sub woofer “ useless, speakers bad, only good thing is sound power , rest is sh*t tried to optimize with X-fi, but can't make it acceptable.Again, not what we can except from a high end notebook, with “superior ultra mega cool sound”. Temperature and Noise: I have repasted CPU and GPU ( ICdiamond) , and made a aluminum foil mod for radiators Temperatures are really good, in gaming condition ( Dirt 3 , about 45min ) CPU max : 75°C GPU : 67°C ( was with overclocking ) PCH: 83°C In game , ventilation is not really earable with in game sound (even if not very loud ) BUT in office condition the noise are not so good, yeah ,temps are good, the GPU fan is okay , because it don't run when gpu is not used, and in game I don't really care, but CPU fan is boring: instead of a continuous low flow, it alternate between zero and 1st speed , wich is already really audible/disturbing (imo ) in office use condition, I would prefer a continous , but less higher flow instead of that. (like MSI and others made), I think this laptop is relativly noisy, compared to Asus/MSI/other. The BIG problem , is the “random” fan full throttle that occur after some gaming time (40min most of the time), even if temperatures are good, and this is annoying !!, i think it's from the PCH temp. So right now i'm considering buying a latop cooler, just to make this stop, even if normally it's good......... On battery: On battery, it's good surprises first, I’m glad to see that CPU perf are untouched, and gpu perf very little affected(600mhz max on batt), my old gtx 675m was down-clocked to 75mhz (instead of 620), so I can still play in “not so bad” conditions, and that is pleasant! I lasted 4h vewing a movie and some text editing (this review ^^ ) its good and appreciable In conclusion : Good product, good construction, good performance ,but some things like these have to be considered : 770m frequency ...... Sound/ mic :JOKE (“superior sound”-my **s) fan alignment : IGO-JOKE (serioulsy ! Cmon guys !) no DVI or VGA ( they could have , At least ,furnished an adaptator !)
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