April 06, 2010
Shane McGlaun
AVADirect X8100 Core i7 Gaming Notebook Review
If you are looking for a gaming machine, the AVADirect Clevo X8100 is a serious rig for the gamer with coin to burn. You can find cheaper notebooks out there, but cheap and fast aren’t typically uttered in the same sentence. The AVADirect Clevo X8100 blitzed our benchmarks with the top score, or very near the top, in all but battery life. We can forgive the battery life; this is not a machine you buy expecting to work away from the outlet all day.
CONFIGURATION
See what components went into this custom computer build:
Socket G1 Core i7 Mobile Processors
INTEL
Core™ i7-740QM 4-Core 1.73 - 2.93GHz Turbo, PGA988, 45W TDP, Processor
Clevo Notebook Graphics Modules
Dual ATI® Radeon™ HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 Mobile Graphics Card for X8100, CrossFire Configuration
DDR3-1333 SODIMM Memory
CORSAIR
8GB Kit (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1333MHz, PC3-10600, CL9 (9-9-9-24) 1.5V, Non-ECC, SO-DIMM Memory
SATA Notebook Hard Drives
SEAGATE
750GB Momentus ST9750420AS, 7200 RPM, SATA 3Gb/s, 16MB cache, 2.5" HDD