Review Clevo P370EM Barebones Notebook

[Redaktion]

For enthusiasts. The Schenker XMG P722 PRO is definitely a notebook in a class of its own. The massive 17-inch chassis comes, for a surcharge, with two GeForce GTX 680M cards. Demanding gamers will be happy about the three hard drive slots and a backlit keyboard. Does the high-end notebook come close to the Alienware M18x R2?

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Clevo-P370EM-Barebones-Notebook.81409.0.html

[Khurram]

The chassis temperature under loads is worrying. 100C for CPU and 95C for one GPU is far from appropriate. I wonder how such massive copper cooling + fans combo can fail to deliver. Do you think Schenker messed up something? Or is this a design fail??

[Florian Glaser]

We didn´t remove the cooling-system, so i can´t say, if the thermal paste was bad. In contrast to the P170EM-barebone the CPU- and GPU-cooling-systems are not fully seperated. Maybe that causes the high temperatures. Under normal (gaming-)circumstances the values shouldn´t reach critical levels.

[rogue1]

I've been all over the net reading up on anything about this machine, and the cooling system is just fine.
It should be noted that putting dual graphics solutions in a 17" screen profile is not easy to do and the temps we see on this system are high, but only on synthetic benchmarks that are known to fry components.
And we know with a good repaste and good thermal compound we should expect a respectable drop in temperature. I'm not highly worried with the cooling of this system, overclocking potential might be reduced, but it's unlikely that dual-gpus will actually need to be overclocked that much.

As for the rest of this review, I think it sums up pretty much how this system is looking (obviously can't say yet, don't have this system).

[Nico30]

I just bought this notebook two weeks ago, benchmarked it a bit, and honestly, this article is somewhat accurate.
- Gaming: I took the 670SLI and is just fine and way less expensive. Since now, I have not found any game that could slow the beast  8)
- The touchpad IS frustrating. After ten minutes, you can realize that you won't use it often and try a proper mouse instead. But again, who really play games with the touchpad? For the office usage, well, don't buy this kind of notebook anyway.
- The power supply is indeed enormous. I haven't seen something this big before...That makes this laptop a bit difficult to carry if you're not used to heavy laptops.
- The noise: really, it is NOT loud. I play without headset and I am NOT disturbed by the noise.
- The sound is just fine, no need to argue here.
- The battery life is also fine considering the SLI usage. Indeed it would have been really interesting to downclock the graphic card/switch to the integrated card when you are on battery. But hey, more than 150 minutes of gaming is really ok anyway!
- Most of all: you can config it the way you want. I took it with a SSD and 670 SLI and cost me less than 1800 euros. There is up to now NOONE who can deliver this kind of product at this price.

Ccl: if you do not fancy flashy laptops like Asus/MSI and you want power instead, if you do not wish to put 3000 euros to have similar spec in Alienware, well then buy it! Except the touchpad, I'm really pleased with this laptop!