Posts by Charles@PCTorque

For that model we like to tell our customers to allow 2-4 days of build time, from the time your order is charged, depending on customization and parts availability. After that is is dependent on your shipping options like ground, 2day,...

Sorry to hear your troubles, but the DC-in/voltage reg. issues affect all notebook brands across the board and are caused by many different issues. Heat, stress on the jack, tripping over the power cord, improper usage, and even the...

Keep in mind Sager is just a middle man. These notebooks come from Clevo and are redistributed under many brands(eg Sager, Alienware, Dell, etc.) so pretty much all the gaming notebook retailers are subject to any issues like the ones on...

Yes, they should be exactly the same. As far as I know the only differences are Mobo/chipset between those two models. Please let us know your results.

Quote: Originally Posted by MrEvil Mind you the XPS Gen 1 was an abomination of Desktop Preshott CPUs and video cards that were equally as hot. The XPS Gen2, M170 and M1710 fixed the noise and heat issues. An M1710...

Intel has already stated that they spared no expense for the creation of this notebook. It has a lot of the technologies (solid sate HD, poly-Li-Ion battery, etc.) that are still a few years out to be marketed and priced for the...

It is rumored that we are going to hear something regarding the new DX10 cards by mid summer. This is when nVidia will give the expected dates for the new cards. Most likely we will see a scaled down version of the 8800 series cards like...

This issue plagued some of the older Sager models but is more specific. You can find tons of info by doing a simple thread search for hinges. Anyway, this issue is normally caused by improper hinge tension set by the manufacturer. This...

Quote: Originally Posted by Matt87622 the fried VRM's seem only to apply to motherboard revision 5.2 While this is a common issue on that mobo revision and earlier, this issue can affect all laptops alike....

As long as it has a DVI port it will support up to 1920x1200 which is the native standard of even single link DVI. Almost all the components other than the chipset in are identical within the 9XXX family. I believe there was some early...