I ordered the Sager NP7879PQ-S (which is based on the Clevo NH77HPQ) from XoticPC in March 2022 as a replacement for my daughter’s Acer Nitro 5, which had basically died way sooner than it should have. The Sager NP7879PQ-S is a 17.3″ laptop running an Intel 11th Gen Tiger Lake Core i7-11800H 8-core/16-thread processor at 4.6GHz max turbo boost. The graphics card is a decent NVidia GeForce RTX 3060 laptop GPU, and the memory is 32GB (2x16GB) of DDR4 ram at 3200MHz, running with a 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus m.2 NVMe drive, and Windows 11 Home o/s as default.
This has been a great all-rounder laptop for my daughter – 8 cores means plenty of processing power, and the RTX 3060 is great for all the games she plays. It has an improved cooling design from Sager with more heat pipes to drive heat away from the CPU and GPU faster, and a new fan design which dramatically increases the air flow volume. It’s pretty hefty being a full size 17.3″ gaming laptop, weighing in at 5.5lbs, and dimensions 15.59”(w) x 10.32”(d) x 1.02”(h), but it’s solid – the lid is metal, unlike the somewhat flimsy plastic on the old Acer.
The laptop features a nice matte finished 17.3” full HD panel (1920×1080) with a 144Hz refresh rate which is great for gaming, wide view angle display, and 72% NTSC color gamut. The panel bezels are really thin so you get the 17.3” screen without the bulk of a 17.3” footprint, although a lot of the time we run it through a LG 24″ Ultragear gaming monitor (same 144Hz and 1920×1080 resolution). The keyboard is a full size keyboard with single zone illuminated (backlit) keys, and there’s a 1MP cam at the top center of the panel which is kind of low spec, but we have an external Logitech C920e webcam sitting on top of the LG monitor which is about 15MP, so no problem.
The Sager NP7879PQ-S has a lot of ports and interface options so I’ll just list them here:
3x m.2 slots (1st for WLAN/Bluetooth combo m.2, 2nd and 3rd for m.2 NVMe drives with Gen 3 and 4×4 interface)
6-in-1 card reader
1x USB 2.0 Port (Type A)
1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Port (Type A)
1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Port (Type A)
1x HDMI output Port (with HDCP)
1x Mini Display 1.2 Port
1x Display Port 1.4 over USB 3.2 Gen 2 Port (Type C)
1x 2-in-1 Audio Jack (Headphone / Microphone)
1x Microphone Jack
1x RJ-45 LAN (10/100/1000Mbps)
The wireless is an Intel dual band wireless Wi-Fi 6 AX with Bluetooth combo and uses one of the m.2 slots. The battery is a removable 4 cell smart lithium-ion battery pack rated at 49Wh, which is kind of low, but being removable means you can carry around a spare if you’re out and about. The charger/adaptor is 180W AC, which you’ll need since the battery only lasts maybe 2-3 hours, and even less if you’re hard-core gaming on it.
Overall the Sager NP7879PQ-S has been a reliable and solid mid-range gaming machine with excellent all-round specs, and my daughter is very happy with it (this is her current laptop as of the date of this post). Here’s a few pictures sourced from XoticPC.
