Recoil III 17.3" RTX 2060 performance review

[kirkol]

I have seen a few reviews about overheating with the Recoil II 15.6" RTX 2060. Do these problems exist with the Recoil III 17.3" RTX 2060 ?
I am opting for 500 GB SSD along with 512 GB M.2 Asus SU800 as my storage. I will also opt for 32 GB RAM.
My main use cases will be heavy dev work, occassional gaming and also try out my hand at flexing the Tensor Flow cores in RTX 2060.

 

[Mustafo95]

If you're worried about peak performance then just get 17.3" version for a peace of mind. It's 5mm thicker, taller, wider etc. Every little bit helps.
Also get one of those laptop coolers, Notepad L2 from PCS orwhatever youfind online. They're not gonna be this gamechanger, major help but it will bring down temperatures by 5 degrees most of the time, or 10-15 in lighter load times.

Also you should undervolt your CPU as well when you get it. In theory you'd be able to decrease temperatures by 5 to 15 degrees celsius and still keep 100% of your performance.

Don't get spinning disk drive obviously, not that you're planning to get them anyway. SSDs consume less power, generate less heat.

If you do all of these, you should be able to mitigate most of the damage. Hey, if the laptop is still overheating after all that, you can always shake your fist at PC gods

 

[calrob457]

Does anyone that has purchased this model know what the screen response time is, was about to put through an order tonight for one, but PCS didnt know what the answer was unfortunately, through the chat feature.

 

[Mustafo95]

Does anyone that has purchased this model know what the screen response time is, was about to put through an order tonight for one, but PCS didnt know what the answer was unfortunately, through the chat feature.

If you actually understand what screen response time is and can tell them apart, you should be able to find that kind of very specific technical information on your own or at least find similar Clevo chassis and infer it from there.

 

[calrob457]

Just been speaking to PCS in chat and have been told that the screen reponse time for this laptop is 30ms which seems far too high, especially for a gaming laptop. As such ive decided not to go for this now.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Just been speaking to PCS in chat and have been told that the screen reponse time for this laptop is 30ms which seems far too high, especially for a gaming laptop. As such ive decided not to go for this now.

That just can’t be right, I’m almost certain. I’ve never heard of any screen in the last 20 years being that slow! I think we need some clarification here and will ask the staff.

 

[calrob457]

I thought that there might be a mistake, as that would be worse than my Samsung TV.
Hopefully someone from PCs can drop in here and clarify as I would really like this laptop.

 

[Oussebon]

The forums aren't an official sales/support channel so we can't promise they will (I'd consider it unlikely).

What I would suggest is asking PCS for the model of the panel they are currently using for the laptop model you're after. You can then look up specs on sites like Panelook etc

If you get the panel model, please do post it up as it could be helpful for others (nothing that the models they use are subject to change ofc)

 

[Smoggyuk]

Just been speaking to PCS in chat and have been told that the screen reponse time for this laptop is 30ms which seems far too high, especially for a gaming laptop. As such ive decided not to go for this now.

Apologises for the time it has taken to respond to your enquiry, we had to do some digging on this topic and have come to the conclusion that the 30MS response time is correct, but this is for the Tr+Td measurement of response time when compared to the more common method of GTG measurement.

It’s likely that one of our support colleagues used the resources available to track down the panel in use, when searching for this panel it shows up on panellook with the following response times - 30 (Typ.)(Tr+Td) ms http://www.panelook.com/NV173FHM-N44_BOE_17.3_LCM_overview_36366.html

This is correct information, but isn’t what most people would use to measure panel response times. As stated the most common and marketed term is GTG (grey-to-grey).

Without over complicating the measurement of response time I will detail this below.

Tr + Tf typically means black-white-black (this is the slowest way to measure)
Tr + Td typically means black-white (sometimes used)
Td + Tf typically means white-black (never really used)
GTG is grey-to-grey (fastest way to measure) and is hard to compare to the others.

Td is the delay time.

From our research and from checking other panels we have found that tr+td converts to around 1/5th of the measurement of response time when compared to GTG. As no official measurement or conversion exists for this, as it isn't publically available I do have to go on record that this is a guideline only.

I would be very confident in recommending around 6-9ms total response time in GTG.

I hope I haven’t caused any confusion and if you have any further questions you’re welcome to ask.