Octane 17.3" Gaming Laptop

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joncla

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I have been out of the PC gaming scene for quite a while and have been wanting to get back to my FPS (Battlefield series). I purchased the below:

Chassis & Display
Octane Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD 144Hz 72% NTSC LED Widescreen (1920x1080) + G-Sync
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i7 Six Core Processor i7-8700k (3.7GHz) 12MB Cache
Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair 2400MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080 - 8.0GB GDDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1
1st Hard Disk
NOT REQUIRED
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB WD Black™ M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 3400MB/s R | 2800MB/s W)
Thermal Paste
COOLER MASTER MASTERGEL MAKER THERMAL COMPOUND
Bluetooth & Wireless
GIGABIT LAN & KILLER™ WIRELESS-AC 1550 M.2 GAMING 802.11AC + BLUETOOTH 5.0
Keyboard Language
OCTANE SERIES BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD
Operating System
Genuine Windows 10 Professional 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Dead Pixel Guarantee
1 Year Dead Pixel Guarantee Inc. Labour & Carriage Costs

I've been using the laptop for a few weeks now and it's amazing. I played the new Battlefield V beta with all settings at Ultra and the laptop didn't even break into a sweat! The specs may appear a tad overkill, but I'm aiming to keep this laptop for a good few years.

The CPU got a little warm the first few times I played games, so I've dialled back the Core voltage (by -100mv) and that's brought temps down back into the high 70s, low 80s.

I cannot recommend the service from PCSpecialists or this laptop enough!
 
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JDA1982

Active member
I have an Octane too with a GTX1080 and i7 7700K. I found the undervolt worked great, but then after a while the temps shot up anyway.

Keep an eye on the control centre, because for some reason mine decided to keep defaulting to Performance mode for a while, and that was the problem. It's all sorted now, but I tend to just leave it in Balanced mode, that and a -120mv undevolt have made the temps much more manageable. I did keep undervolting right the way to -200mv's but between -120 and -200 it made very little difference.

The laptop was very stable right the way through though, but at - 120mv only No Mans Sky get's it so hot I have to stop playing, and I'm pretty certain that's just bad optimising of that game, which I'm not bothered about becasue I don't play it really anymore anyway. Everything else works like a dream, GTA V, Forza Horizon 4 etc.

The only other thing for people considering this laptop to be aware of is the fan noise, it won't be a problem for some, but could be for others. It doesn't bother me much but it does bother the missues from time to time :).
 
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Rajen

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joncla said:
I have been out of the PC gaming scene for quite a while and have been wanting to get back to my FPS (Battlefield series). I purchased the below:

Chassis & Display
Octane Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD 144Hz 72% NTSC LED Widescreen (1920x1080) + G-Sync
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i7 Six Core Processor i7-8700k (3.7GHz) 12MB Cache
Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair 2400MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080 - 8.0GB GDDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1
1st Hard Disk
NOT REQUIRED
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB WD Black™ M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 3400MB/s R | 2800MB/s W)
Thermal Paste
COOLER MASTER MASTERGEL MAKER THERMAL COMPOUND
Bluetooth & Wireless
GIGABIT LAN & KILLER™ WIRELESS-AC 1550 M.2 GAMING 802.11AC + BLUETOOTH 5.0
Keyboard Language
OCTANE SERIES BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD
Operating System
Genuine Windows 10 Professional 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Dead Pixel Guarantee
1 Year Dead Pixel Guarantee Inc. Labour & Carriage Costs

I've been using the laptop for a few weeks now and it's amazing. I played the new Battlefield V beta with all settings at Ultra and the laptop didn't even break into a sweat! The specs may appear a tad overkill, but I'm aiming to keep this laptop for a good few years.

The CPU got a little warm the first few times I played games, so I've dialled back the Core voltage (by -100mv) and that's brought temps down back into the high 70s, low 80s.

I cannot recommend the service from PCSpecialists or this laptop enough!
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How would you undervolt the laptop? is the BIOS unlocked? and when you undervolt it what clock speeds do you get?
 
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