SpartanShan
Member
I recently changed jobs and will be travelling around a bit more so I decided to use a part of my new salary to switch from my desktop to a laptop. It certainly helped my decision that the full powered Pascal cards can be put into laptops. My desktop had a Gigabyte G1 GTX 970, an i5 4690k and 8GB of ram so I knew it wouldn't be cheap to replicate that performance in a laptop. I was pleasently surprised though to find that the prices weren't actually that much more than the equivalent desktop power and it certainly reinforced my decision. Out of all of the brands that sell the Clevo model laptops I found PCSpecialist to once again be the best priced and on this occassion they actually offered more variety.
I recieved my laptop the Thursday (5 working days after ordering) before the one just gone and I was immediately pleased with my decision to go for the 15" model as it is more than big enough and I suspect the 17" one would be much more difficult to carry around because of the extra size. I also added both the 250GB SSD and 750GB SSD I had in my Desktop to the laptop once it arrived which was not too challenging.
So far I have probably only used the laptop for just over 10 hours as I was away with work for this week and found very little time to use it but it was easy to move when I needed to. It performs exceptionally well on the games I've used it on so far and the only one to test it was GTA 5 on max settings where it struggled to stay above 60Hz in grassy areas online. It still easily outperformed my previous desktop though.
My only complaint so far is that the noise produced is quite noticable with no sounds playing. However it does keep the temperatures at around 40 degrees when doing simple browsing and below 70 for most gaming so it should pay off in terms of the devices longevity.
It's also worth pointing out the battery life is awful, it will only last between 2 and 3 hours for web browsing and I haven't even dared trying whilst gaming but I would suspect under 1 hour. This is stated in the description on the site though and it should be fairly clear this is as much a portable desktop as it is a laptop.
Overall I am suitably impressed with every aspect of the laptop and it has a pretty sleek design as can be seen by the pictures below.
Chassis & Display
Octane Series: 15.6" Matte Full HD IPS LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-6700 (3.4GHz) 8MB Cache
Memory (RAM)
16GB HyperX IMPACT 2133MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1070 - 8.0GB GDDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1, G-SYNC
1st Hard Disk
NOT REQUIRED
M.2 SSD Drive
128GB SAMSUNG SM951 M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 2000MB/R, 650MB/W)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
NOT REQUIRED
Memory Card Reader
Integrated 6 in 1 Card Reader (SD /Mini SD/ SDHC / SDXC / MMC / RSMMC)
Power Supply
1 x 230W AC Adaptor
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Sound Card
Intel 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack
Wireless/Wired Networking
GIGABIT LAN & KILLER™ WIRELESS-AC 1535 M.2 GAMING 802.11AC + BLUETOOTH 4.1
USB Options
4 x USB 3.0 PORTS (1 x POWERED) + 1 e-SATA/USB 3.0 PORT COMBINED
Battery
Octane Series 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (82WH)
Keyboard Language
OCTANE SERIES BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
DVD Recovery Media
NO DVD RECOVERY MEDIA REQUIRED
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Firefox™
Mouse
INTEGRATED 2 BUTTON TOUCHPAD MOUSE
Webcam
INTEGRATED 2.0 MP FULL HD WEBCAM
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Dead Pixel Guarantee
30 Day Dead Pixel Guarantee Inc. Labour & Carriage Costs
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
FAST TRACK 5 WORKING DAY DISPATCH
Promotional Item
FREE PARAGON GAME READY PACK with select GTX 10 Series GPUs!
Quantity
1
I recieved my laptop the Thursday (5 working days after ordering) before the one just gone and I was immediately pleased with my decision to go for the 15" model as it is more than big enough and I suspect the 17" one would be much more difficult to carry around because of the extra size. I also added both the 250GB SSD and 750GB SSD I had in my Desktop to the laptop once it arrived which was not too challenging.
So far I have probably only used the laptop for just over 10 hours as I was away with work for this week and found very little time to use it but it was easy to move when I needed to. It performs exceptionally well on the games I've used it on so far and the only one to test it was GTA 5 on max settings where it struggled to stay above 60Hz in grassy areas online. It still easily outperformed my previous desktop though.
My only complaint so far is that the noise produced is quite noticable with no sounds playing. However it does keep the temperatures at around 40 degrees when doing simple browsing and below 70 for most gaming so it should pay off in terms of the devices longevity.
It's also worth pointing out the battery life is awful, it will only last between 2 and 3 hours for web browsing and I haven't even dared trying whilst gaming but I would suspect under 1 hour. This is stated in the description on the site though and it should be fairly clear this is as much a portable desktop as it is a laptop.
Overall I am suitably impressed with every aspect of the laptop and it has a pretty sleek design as can be seen by the pictures below.
Chassis & Display
Octane Series: 15.6" Matte Full HD IPS LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-6700 (3.4GHz) 8MB Cache
Memory (RAM)
16GB HyperX IMPACT 2133MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1070 - 8.0GB GDDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1, G-SYNC
1st Hard Disk
NOT REQUIRED
M.2 SSD Drive
128GB SAMSUNG SM951 M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 2000MB/R, 650MB/W)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
NOT REQUIRED
Memory Card Reader
Integrated 6 in 1 Card Reader (SD /Mini SD/ SDHC / SDXC / MMC / RSMMC)
Power Supply
1 x 230W AC Adaptor
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Sound Card
Intel 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack
Wireless/Wired Networking
GIGABIT LAN & KILLER™ WIRELESS-AC 1535 M.2 GAMING 802.11AC + BLUETOOTH 4.1
USB Options
4 x USB 3.0 PORTS (1 x POWERED) + 1 e-SATA/USB 3.0 PORT COMBINED
Battery
Octane Series 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (82WH)
Keyboard Language
OCTANE SERIES BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
DVD Recovery Media
NO DVD RECOVERY MEDIA REQUIRED
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Firefox™
Mouse
INTEGRATED 2 BUTTON TOUCHPAD MOUSE
Webcam
INTEGRATED 2.0 MP FULL HD WEBCAM
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Dead Pixel Guarantee
30 Day Dead Pixel Guarantee Inc. Labour & Carriage Costs
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
FAST TRACK 5 WORKING DAY DISPATCH
Promotional Item
FREE PARAGON GAME READY PACK with select GTX 10 Series GPUs!
Quantity
1
