Official Clevo X170SM-G Thread

[MaxxD]

On 3/13/2026 at 9:58 AM, S.K said:

After spending a good 4+ years with my Clevo X170SM-G, powered by a binned 10900K delidded + liquid metal cpu, 128 GB of overclocked Corsair HyperX memory, 2080 super and a premamod overclockable bios, I am finally upgrading. The laptop is still a monster to say the least but my requirements have surpassed the capabilities of the 2080 super which is why I am moving to a Lenovo Legion 7 Pro with AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D + 96 GB RAM + RTX 5080.

Sad to abandon this beast though, since it still looks like a brand new machine (always used with external mouse and keyboard) and the RGB is still gorgeous + body is scratchless and the battery backup is still like it is brand new. But hey, we have to move on in life eventually. Memories of notebookreview forum created a bit of nostalgia for me when buying the new machine (in white color this time)

 

It looks like I'll be able to sell the KM-G machine and its many parts, accessories and everything else for a very good price.
Since I've already switched to an RTX 5090 machine, it's also fully water-cooled, like the SM/KM-G was, so I don't need it anymore and it's at least 3x better (faster)

[Snowleopard]

I need a donor X170-SM-G for parts to repair mine, not looking for a working one, just a cheap parts machine. I don't want to pay Eurocom $25 each for 4 sets of screws and $50 shipping to the US and any other parts I might need so I am looking for a dead parts machine if anyone has one sitting around or knows of any. I only saw KM-G's on ebay and alot of those parts are slightly different than the SM-G.

[Snowleopard]

On 3/13/2026 at 4:58 AM, S.K said:

After spending a good 4+ years with my Clevo X170SM-G, powered by a binned 10900K delidded + liquid metal cpu, 128 GB of overclocked Corsair HyperX memory, 2080 super and a premamod overclockable bios, I am finally upgrading. The laptop is still a monster to say the least but my requirements have surpassed the capabilities of the 2080 super which is why I am moving to a Lenovo Legion 7 Pro with AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D + 96 GB RAM + RTX 5080.

Sad to abandon this beast though, since it still looks like a brand new machine (always used with external mouse and keyboard) and the RGB is still gorgeous + body is scratchless and the battery backup is still like it is brand new. But hey, we have to move on in life eventually. Memories of notebookreview forum created a bit of nostalgia for me when buying the new machine (in white color this time)

After buying an x170sm-g and now needing parts for it any not being able to upgrade to an RTX580 or 90, I am done with Cleveo.

I reverted back to one of the i7 laptops I have from 2012 that still has replacable parts. I am going to try and hold out on a new performance laptop , I really don't know how they can be called performance laptops with mobile CPU and a max 55w CPU. Tablets will be more powerful than that eventually.

Since computers are just money dumps with worse depreciation than a car. I am not going to upgrade  till PCI-6.x , DDR6 and 128gb or 256gb so-dimms come out. No more over priced paper weights with BGA.

Maybe they will come with 17 or 18 inch OLED 8K 240Hz screens then too. Who knows. So I guess that will be around 2028-2030 so 2-4 years out.