Mythlogic Pollux 1613 / Clevo P157SM Review
by Jarred Walton on August 30, 2013 12:00 AM ESTMythlogic Pollux 1613 / Clevo P157SM General Performance
I’m not going to dwell too much on the general performance numbers, as they’re all what we’d expect. The 4900MQ is at the top of our charts (for now), sometimes by a sizeable margin. I do love having a 512GB SSD as well, as it allows me to put pretty much everything I want/need on fast solid state storage, and boot times are quick at less than 20 seconds. Here are the numbers. (I didn’t run all of the application tests on the overclocked CPUs, but I can say that most of the results scaled as expected – it appears overclocking only creates anomalies when we tax both the CPU and GPU on the P157SM.)
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JarredWalton - Sunday, September 1, 2013 - link
What he said for the GPU. As for mSATA, there are two mSATA positions in the P157SM, so you can use two mSATA and two 2.5" HDD/SSDs. No idea on the cooling and turbo stuff for MSI, but I'd guess they're all the same in terms of features; maybe someone else has a better answer.For the performance differences, it could be drivers, it could be firmware optimizations, and it could be differences in maximum sustained Turbo (due to differences in cooling). On the desktop we're at the point where if you use the same CPU and GPU, performance is basically identical within a few percent, but on laptops there's still a lot more variation. Hope that helps.
Freakie - Monday, September 2, 2013 - link
Hey Jarred, you wouldn't happen to be getting an ASUS N550 in anytime soon, would you?JarredWalton - Monday, September 2, 2013 - link
I'll request one, but at present no laptop from ASUS is in route.landsome - Tuesday, September 3, 2013 - link
I am still a bit puzzled by the inability of the single-fan solution of the MSI GT series to do well by Haswell+GTX780M. I have an old MSI GT663R and it keeps a 920XM @ 3.2GHz and a 7970M under control in prime+furmark, no throttling, CPU at 95C max, GPU at 87C. With a 820QM and the same vid card, it's around 85C+85C in the same scenario - and Clarksfield is a hot processor. I also owned an HP 8740W, and its single-fan solution was capable of cooling well a 920XM and a Quadro 5000M (also prime+furmark).So why this sudden weakness with the GT60 and GT70? (Also worth noting that the dual heatsinks on my GT663R are much heavier than the dual heatsinks on the Clevo P150EM I owned for a short while, while the fan is bigger and more potent than any of the two Clevo fans, though the Clevo did cool well too.)
JarredWalton - Tuesday, September 3, 2013 - link
Haswell is the same process as Ivy Bridge, so it's not really any cooler running -- it's just able to go into lower power states more quickly, more or less. In fact, it may run slightly hotter (not sure), all things considered. At present, the GT70 isn't throttling -- it's just running hotter than we'd like. Is it worth considering? For the right price, and if you like the styling more than the Clevos, sure. I don't think it's better, and you can get heavier copper heatsinks for Clevos from some vendors (XoticPC for instance), but go with what you think is best.paulfp - Saturday, December 14, 2013 - link
Battlefield 4 in Clevo http://j.gs/3B5Krickstones - Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - link
I have an order with Sager for a NP8258 (= Clevo P157SM). The original LCD panel was the 95% NTSC Gamut matt finish panel. I was just notified by Sager that this panel is no longer available due to "quality problems".Does anyone have information on what the problems are with this panel? Its been around for a pretty long time now, I don't know why they should begin experiencing quality problems at this point...
Also, I replaced this panel with the standard FHD matt finish panel. Anyone know if this this is a decent LCD? It was only $35 less than the 95% NTSC Gamut. I loaded this laptop up to the gills and am paying a lot of dough for it. I really don't want to be stuck with a subpar LCD.