I bought a very expensive version of this model. There were several minor problems with keys falling off, and the LAN port stopped working. I asked for a replacement part (at my cost) to have my local technician replace the board in a day. Schenker responded that their policy is to only replace parts themselves - I would have to ship my faulty laptop back to them and it would take three weeks !
Technical reviews aside - this Schenker policy of not providing replacement parts is a dead-end model for me. Who can wait three weeks for a repair? I will never purchase anything from them again.

When I read this review when it first came out and I saw the CPU benchmark I thought "hmm maybe this 8700 is not delidded and the current chassis from Clevo is struggling to cool it down", considering the difference between ~1100 cb here and ~1300 in two other Clevo reviews using 8700K (8700 and 8700K should have very similar scores if not overclocked).

But today I had a more careful look and found out that the CPU was only 71 degrees max during the P95 stress test.

I don't think this is normal and I have never seen a thermal throttling set at this low temperature on a high-end Clevo machine. Would be highly appreciated if the reviewer could find out the reason for this heavy throttling of CPU.

So if you need a Laptop focused on CPU multithreading performance  for use as a workstation is far better to buy an Asus ROG 702ZC with AMD Ryzen 1700 that in Cinebench 15 gets 1420 score and costs half the money also is smaller like a normal gaming laptop and far lighter and less bulkier.

Oh how I miss when laptops had replaceable graphics cards. It's mainly barebone makers that do them now, right?

My old MSI GT640 which was reviewed here has MXM, whereas the Asus G752VT I have now (which was also reviewed and it doesn't get any louder than 44dB) doesn't. Something tells me that MXM should be used by default if it's intended for gaming.

Hmm, CPU throttling, too much bang included in this laptop maybe - maybe it's too much to ask of a laptop to effectively cool a six core CPU with the current technology - cooling system needs to be improved.

Quote from: Noblestone on March 12, 2018, 10:34:24
So its massive, costs £4300, is the noisiest laptop i've ever seen tested, can't maintain any CPU boost and you still reward it with a high score?

Recently, your scores don't seem to reflect your reviews.

Agreed. The lack of any appropriate boost shows serious flaws in the rating scale. It's silly how a system with a score of 75% is considered into the "bad" or "highly not recommended" range when a solid 90% of machines are going to be in that gray area. I feel like the rating system needs a huge overhaul. This shouldn't be a system where anything below an 80%, or 8/10, is not recommended. That's not how systems work. Hell, most GOOD movies are around an 8/10... so the fact that such a score is considered 'AVERAGE' means your scale system is broken.

So its massive, costs £4300, is the noisiest laptop i've ever seen tested, can't maintain any CPU boost and you still reward it with a high score?

Recently, your scores don't seem to reflect your reviews.