Kobalt G150 (Clevo P150HM with Geforce GTX485M) Gaming Laptop Review

1. Introduction2. Packaging and Bundle3. The Kobalt G150: Exterior4. The Kobalt G150: Connectivity and Hardware5. Testhing Methodology and BIOS6. Synthetic: Heaven Benchmark7. Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage and 118. Synthetic: SiSoft Sandra 20119. Synthetic: Cinebench R11.5 (64-bit)10. Synthetic: Super Pi Mod 1.511. Synthetic: Crystalmark and HDTach12. Real World: Media Encoding with Cyberlink MediaEspresso13. Real World: Blu-Ray Playback14. Gaming: Crysis Warhead15. Gaming: F1 201016. Gaming: GTA IV: Episodes from Liberty City17. Technical: Thermals and Acoustics18. Technical: Battery Life and Power Consumption19. Closing Thoughts20. View All Pages

Crysis Warhead, like the original, Crysis, is based in a future where an ancient alien spacecraft has been discovered beneath the Earth on an island east of the Philippines. The single-player campaign has the player assume the role of (Former SAS) Delta Force operator Sergeant Michael Sykes, referred to in-game by his call sign, Psycho. Psycho’s arsenal of futuristic weapons builds on those showcased in Crysis, with the introduction of Mini-SMGs which can be dual-wielded, a six-shot grenade launcher equipped with EMP grenades, and the destructive, short ranged Plasma Accumulator Cannon (PAX). The highly versatile Nanosuit returns.

In Crysis Warhead, the player fights North Korean and extraterrestrial enemies, in many different locations, such as a tropical island jungle, inside an “Ice Sphere”, an underground mining complex, which is followed by a convoy train transporting an unknown alien object held by the North Koreans, and finally, to an airfield. Like Crysis, Warhead uses Microsoft’s new API, Direct3D 10 (DirectX 10) for graphics rendering.

We are using several sections of gameplay which feature some of the most intensive action in Crysis. You can therefore base these results on a firmly ‘worst case’ scenario situation.  We used ‘gamer’ settings and gamed at a resolution of 1920 x 1080 during this test.

Crysis Warhead is no easy task for any computer, let alone a laptop.  But the G150 was able to manage very reasonable framerates at gamer settings at the machine's native 1080P screen resolution.

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