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

Core™ i7-740QM 4-Core 1.73 - 2.93GHz Turbo, PGA988, 45W TDP, Processor
Socket G1 Core i7 Mobile Processors
INTEL Core™ i7-740QM 4-Core 1.73 - 2.93GHz Turbo, PGA988, 45W TDP, Processor
Dual ATI® Radeon™ HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 Mobile Graphics Card for X8100, CrossFire Configuration
Clevo Notebook Graphics Modules
Dual ATI® Radeon™ HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 Mobile Graphics Card for X8100, CrossFire Configuration
8GB Kit (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1333MHz, PC3-10600, CL9 (9-9-9-24) 1.5V, Non-ECC, SO-DIMM Memory
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
750GB Momentus ST9750420AS, 7200 RPM, SATA 3Gb/s, 16MB cache, 2.5" HDD
SATA Notebook Hard Drives
SEAGATE 750GB Momentus ST9750420AS, 7200 RPM, SATA 3Gb/s, 16MB cache, 2.5" HDD