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post #201 of 255
3/15/05 at 7:53pm
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Originally Posted by Luke@PCTorque
So far the only word from Sager is that the x800 will be the only GPU offered with the 7620.
Hm..does it mean that this GPU won't be upgradable?
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post #202 of 255
3/15/05 at 10:17pm
I for one hope it is. I know its an amazing card right now, but I want to upgrade evetnually if its cost effective and posible.
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post #203 of 255
3/16/05 at 4:53am
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Originally Posted by Luke@PCTorque
So far the only word from Sager is that the x800 will be the only GPU offered with the 7620.
AFAIK this is not true - I have had the D700T pre-ordered for 3 months now and have always had the choice of X800 or 6800 Go, and the 6800 Go DDR3 was recently added too.

I must confess to being slightly concerned over the upgradability of these machines. I thought that was the whole point of PCI-E laptops - future proofing!?

We've already found out the 6800 Go ULTRA won't fit in the 7620 (D700t) so will this be the case for all future gfx cards?
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post #204 of 255
3/16/05 at 5:12am
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Originally Posted by Q4Legend
AFAIK this is not true - I have had the D700T pre-ordered for 3 months now and have always had the choice of X800 or 6800 Go, and the 6800 Go DDR3 was recently added too.

I must confess to being slightly concerned over the upgradability of these machines. I thought that was the whole point of PCI-E laptops - future proofing!?

We've already found out the 6800 Go ULTRA won't fit in the 7620 (D700t) so will this be the case for all future gfx cards?
From who is the question, as I said SAGER has announced the only option available with the 7620 is the MRx800. Other Clevo resellers may choose to offer the other cards with the D700T. Will the other ones work, so far they do with out any issues(in my testing at least). I have a pile of video cards on my desk just for the purpose of testing with these units.
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post #205 of 255
3/16/05 at 6:20am
Luke, but more importantly - does that include the 6800 ULTRA?
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post #206 of 255
3/16/05 at 2:18pm
Can anyone confirm whether the NP7620 comes with a TV Tuner? I don't see this listed in the specs or as an option at the Sager or PC Torque websites.
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post #207 of 255
3/16/05 at 6:18pm
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Originally Posted by Q4Legend
Luke, but more importantly - does that include the 6800 ULTRA?
As nice as that would be, I highly doubt it. I don't think many people ever have a 6800 U
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post #208 of 255
3/16/05 at 7:21pm
Can I see some kind of weight comparison chart of the 5690, the 9860 and the 7620? Like with extra batteries/extra HD comparisons etc.
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post #209 of 255
3/16/05 at 11:18pm
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Originally Posted by Luke@PCTorque
Sorry there were some changes inf the vbios and fan firmware that forced us to re do the reveiw. Should be up soon.
I can't wait to see this! I'm still considering purchasing one of these but haven't decided for sure yet, mainly because of fan noise and performance.
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post #210 of 255
3/16/05 at 11:27pm
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Originally Posted by andrepeterhill
I appreciate the comment [AE] Drifter, I was anticipating that the Go 6800 DDR3 would also offer the new GPU clocked at 450MHz, it's turned out that this has been a separate release in the form of the Go 6800 Ultra - many thanks to Luke for confirming that this WILL be released for the 9860 (woohoo!), can't wait to get my hands on one of these and see if it can be made to hit the 5,500 3DMark '05 mark!
Does not look like that would be too much trouble? Although, who knows how much head room there is...

"And the XPS-2 blows away all portables to date in performance, delivering a 3DMark 2005 score of 4,899, a Doom 3 result of 99.8 fps, and a Halo score of 78.1 fps."

I need the 9860 with Ultra to come out before the XPS2 ships!

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1769520,00.asp
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post #211 of 255
3/16/05 at 11:59pm
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Originally Posted by wadski
Can anyone confirm whether the NP7620 comes with a TV Tuner? I don't see this listed in the specs or as an option at the Sager or PC Torque websites.
The option was removed but the physical port still exists, I am sure there will be an option for the TV tuner in the near future.
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post #212 of 255
3/18/05 at 12:49am
Any update as to when the new review will be up? Just wondering.
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post #213 of 255
3/18/05 at 1:45am
Thread Starter 
The new one is just now up:
http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=69897
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post #214 of 255
3/18/05 at 9:27am
Nice review
It's good that the fans seem to run more quietly now. BTW, will there be an opportunity to change the GPU later, in a couple of months? Or it's x800 forever?
Now just give me my 15" 4:3 screen and I will place an order
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post #215 of 255
3/18/05 at 10:06am
Thread Starter 
We're not expecting it to support any future GPU releases, but we haven't got a confirmation either way.
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post #216 of 255
3/18/05 at 3:26pm
Its still a great machine. I'm probably going to order this thing soon enough. *drool*
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post #217 of 255
3/18/05 at 4:41pm
After reading these posts, my only concern is about fan noise.

Perhaps someone at PCTorque can clarify? For example, if I used it mostly for text editing at work (e.g. not working it hard at all), will it make a barely discernable background hum, or will my colleagues in the same room be annoyingly aware of it's presence?

Also I'm wondering if the choice of CPU would make a difference. If choosing a 3.2GHz CPU over a 3.6GHz could significantly reduce fan noise, I'd settle for the former.
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post #218 of 255
3/18/05 at 5:03pm
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Originally Posted by ivanr
After reading these posts, my only concern is about fan noise.

Perhaps someone at PCTorque can clarify? For example, if I used it mostly for text editing at work (e.g. not working it hard at all), will it make a barely discernable background hum, or will my colleagues in the same room be annoyingly aware of it's presence?

Also I'm wondering if the choice of CPU would make a difference. If choosing a 3.2GHz CPU over a 3.6GHz could significantly reduce fan noise, I'd settle for the former.

I am a man of great tolerance, however after I heard the 7620 with its original firmware I was left stupefied as to what that horrible noise was. Sager has since as you know revised the fan firmware to adjust it for less noise. With the 7620's current firmware the fans are fairly quite even on full but still the pitch of the noise is still some... displeasure able. The true test for this machine will be customer reviews for it, I my self would consider the noise at this point acceptable.

CPU should have little affect on fan noise.
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post #219 of 255
3/18/05 at 5:41pm
Thankyou for the quick feedback.
I sure wish I could hear it first... any chance of you posting an mp3?
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post #220 of 255
3/18/05 at 7:26pm
lol! *makes buzzing noizes into the microphone*

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