#Clevo Firmware Update 1080p

If you look at an HD 7770 GPU that costs $125 and compare that to a 7870 at $240, is there value in the upgrade? Yes: it's substantially faster (nearly twice as fast), which opens up the possibility for 1080p gaming in most titles. We frequently discuss the value of upgrading to a faster GPU in our desktop GPU reviews. JarredWalton - Tuesday, Octolink No, it's not the first time the argument has been made.

#Clevo Firmware Update full

I should also note that charging times are quite reasonable for the battery, taking under two hours to reach 100% even when youвЂ™re putting a significant load on the system thatвЂ™s where having a large enough power adapter is beneficial: under full load, the P170EM still doesnвЂ™t come near the 220W rating of the power brick. Sure, if you fire up a game (or happen to come unplugged), your battery isnвЂ™t going to last that long, but if youвЂ™re trying to bulk up by carrying around a 10+ pound notebook + accessories at school you could conceivably get through four hour long classes before you need to plug in. ItвЂ™s good to see close that weвЂ™re able to hit around 4.5 hours of moderate use on battery power, and that should be enough for most people. NVIDIA, the fact is the P170EM is a large gaming notebook and battery life is only a secondary (or tertiary) concern. Basically, the higher the loads on the system as a whole, the closer the two notebooks are in battery life and power use.Д«ut despite the above concerns regarding AMD vs. ~18.3W for the 7970M, so itвЂ™s a bit closer, and for H.264 playback the 7970M draws ~21.7W vs. Power draw during our Internet test is ~16.7W for the 680M vs. WeвЂ™re not using the same physical notebook of course (so thereвЂ™s a different LCD, motherboard, battery, etc.), but even so that particular result is more than a minor deviation. While the battery life improves on both laptops with the updated BIOS, itвЂ™s perplexing that the HD 7970M version is using substantially more power-idle power draw is ~15.1W for the GTX 680M compared to ~17.3W for the HD 7970M. I still feel like both the Alienware M17x and the P170EM could do better with further optimizations, but at least with the updated BIOS/firmware Clevo is able to surpass the normalized battery life of Alienware in most cases.

#Clevo Firmware Update plus

WeвЂ™re still nowhere near matching the prowess of designs like the Samsung Series 7 or Razer Blade, but weвЂ™re dealing with a substantially larger chassis that has the ability to support three spindles plus an mSATA drive-not to mention FireWire and several other seldom-seen features. The original BIOS was 1.00.05 while the updated BIOS is 1.00.10. WeвЂ™re including the before/after results for both the HD 7970M and GTX 680M after applying the BIOS/firmware updates. Both dGPUs should be off during our battery life testing, so IвЂ™m not sure whatвЂ™s going on here perhaps the BIOS/firmware still isnвЂ™t fully optimized for the AMD GPU. When all was said and done, I then retested battery life, and sure enough things have improved quite a bit-though oddly, where the GTX 680M and HD 7970M were quite close before, the GTX 680M now does quite a bit better. The BIOS on the other hand updated without any issues.

I donвЂ™t if thatвЂ™s something related to the notebook vendor or just par for the course, but by default I couldnвЂ™t just run the flash utilities. Specifically, the EC updates (I tried all of them before taking the next step) are for ROM ID P170EMx whereas the AVADirect notebooks both have ROM IDs of P170EM (no вЂњxвЂќ suffix), so I had to use the вЂњignore ROM IDвЂќ option. Updating the EC/KBC firmware to version 1.00.09 and the BIOS to version 1.00.10 wasnвЂ™t quite as simple and painless as IвЂ™d like. (That youвЂ™re able to get better BIOS support via NBR forums than from Clevo is beyond ludicrous.) I still feel Clevo is really making a mistake by not providing official BIOS updates-they would rather you contact your notebook vendor and ask for a BIOS-but I decided to go ahead and snag the latest BIOS for the P170EM from the Notebook Review forumsвЂ™ Clevo BIOS thread.

#Clevo Firmware Update update

I felt at the time that the BIOS/firmware was to blame, but without an official download location from Clevo I was hesitant to update either notebook. I noted in the first P170EM review that battery life was rather poor, even for a high-end notebook.