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The benchmark is run using the unit I have. Not every unit have the same spec since it is fairly customizable, so this benchmark is just serve as a reference. Of course, you can even use it to compare to your current gear and see how it compare to yours.
Thermal Compound: IC Diamond Thermal Compund - CPU & CPU
RAM: 16GB DDR3L RAM 1600MHz - 2 X 8GB
Primary Drive: 128GB MSATA SSD + 1TB 7200RPM HDD
Wireless Network Card: Realtek WLAN+BT
Operating System: Window 8.1 (Trial)
Illegear is a relatively new laptop brand that is cream of the crop among customization gaming laptop in Malaysia. If you have heard of Illegear, a majority of you must have know it from this laptop, Illegear Z5. This time again, thanks to Illegear, I am able to "fondle" it for a week or so. So, let's go into the PBM.
PC Mark's result is quite amazing, recording a 3260 with it's G70M graphic card i7 processor.
Fire Strike 1.1 scores 6646. Although it is score better than average gaming laptop, but this is just a decent score that you got nothing to shout. Since Z5 is not a multiple GPU unit, you can't complaint too much, can you?
Fire Strike Extreme get a even lower of 3390 scores, but I do notice that the temperature of both CPU and GPU are quite contained. A thumbs up for you I guess?
You know I am not a boring ordinary blogger, I have my fair share of *cough* view in examining laptop using my *cough* own scale.
So this is the laptop when idle. The temperature of the CPU is around 45 degrees +/-
When the laptop performs rendering (video), the CPU can shoot up to 80 degree Celsius.
But if the laptop is moved to a air-cond room, the temperature drops down a few degrees.
If you are still not satisfy with our PBM, you can go to Lowyat, where they have the review and PBM there as well.
So aside of the PBM, here is my view of the laptop:
1. The laptop looks edgy due to it's LED light on the cover and around touch pad. Not your plain boring flat chest basic bitch notebook, this one at least has some characteristic on it.
2. The elevated chiclet button is like a mechanical keyboard wanna be. It hard for desktop typing but it does comes in handy when gaming.
3. The macro keys that located suppose to be a added feature that comes in handy when gaming but it's position is too close to the power button and it only allows 2 keys combination for each macro key with only 4 buttons available. It might or might not be sufficient for you, depends on the program you are using.
4. The screen of this unit of Z5 is the IPS type. The color is quite solid, even in extreme angle, the color didn't wash out at all.
5. The screen is very wobbly, if your table is not stable, be prepare for a rough journey during your Kanjeong gaming session. It might or might not turn out to beneficial for you, depends what are you looking for.
6. Another added value of this unit is that it has build it web cam and mic, which locate on the top of the screen. The resolution is small but the quality is quite ok, better than what I was expecting from a web cam. The mic however, does capture a lot of white noise on a low amplitude, so your voice is still audible clearly when you are near to it.
7. As for audio output, I am blown away of how accurate the stereo speakers are how powerful the sub woofer is. Of course it's not as good as a home theater, but traveling with this kind of sound system is more than sufficient for my gaming experience.
So, that's all from me. If you wanna see what's inside Z5 and it's internal hardware component, you can view our video here:
If you already have a unit of Illegear Z5, please let us know what do you think about it, do it out perform what you expect?
So, a while a go I teaser this photo in our blog. We were very excited on our first Gaming Laptop review laptop on the YouTube Channel. It's Illegear S5, an OM from Clevo P651SE.
The unit we are having, the spec is as follows:
Display:15.6 inch 4K QFHD Display Sharp IGZO Wide Color Gamut & Viewing Angle (3840 x 2160)
The result of the PBM (performance Bench Mark) was quite decent. With it's mobility, I don't expect it to perform like a desktop, but 2.6 K on PC Mark 8 isn't bad at all.
Since this is a Gaming Laptop, it's only fair to compare it's 3D capability.
A whopping 68K score on Ice Storm.
Its performing higher than average gaming laptop.
If you want to compare score with your laptop, you may go to HERE for PCMark 8 and HERE for 3D mark.
My personal opinion on this laptop:
Like most gaming laptop, the GPU can only perform in optimum if you plug it into power supply. I know 4K display is the current big thing but for me it's the my least impress item. Most of the application is not design to have such resolution, as a result, you end up like Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong)
When I open up photoshop, I can't see sh!t. When I am playing DOTA, the notification is smaller than mosquito. Even if you use up scale software, it doesn't work.
Other than that, I am quite satisfied. I love how low it's price can go compare to some major brand with the similar specification. If you are interested, check out Illegear website on this customable S5 unit to know more about it's price.
For other information about it's spec and our opinion, please watch our review video :
Updated on 9th April:
Wanted to know hows does S5 look on inside? We have you covered.
