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Decent cooling can go hand-in-hand with high noise levels as the cooling fan spins at an outrageous speed to expel the hot air from the chassis, however Clevo has avoided this pitfall. I use a different noise meter than the rest of the KitGuru team, so my results today are likely to seem a little different than normal.
When the laptop is idling on the Windows desktop it is effectively silent.
Loading the CPU increases the measured noise level to around 34dBA, which is audible but not too intrusive. The cooling exhaust is at the rear of the chassis so noise is directed away from the user.
You only really hear fan noise when the nVidia graphics are under load. At a distance of one meter the noise level rises to 37dBA. The cooling runs in fits and starts and is effectively minimal, low or full with very little ramping up and down, however the pitch of the fans is not annoying.
It seems to me that locating the battery near the front of the chassis has given Clevo the opportunity to open up the rear of the chassis to make the most of the cooling package.
Good looking system for the price, don’t often get all that for under £800.
The 765M is a good mobile gpu, but it struggles a little with some of the newer games at 1080p, id rather get a gaming laptop with the 770M in it. 780M is too expensive.