Sager NP7958F1 (CLEVO NH58AF1) with IPS 1080p@144Hz, nVidia RTX 2070 8GB, AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, 16GB DDR4-3200, 500GB PCIe NVMe SSD, +FS $1473.47

GentechPC summer deals continue to provide custom thermal paste and thermal pad application and now a dead pixel warranty for (almost) free. I have been lurking for an RTX 2070 laptop for months now and I have not seen anything that really compares for desktop replacement purposes.

https://www.gentechpc.com/Product...NP7958F1-B

Make the following modifications to the standard configuration (base specs below):

2020 Summer Sale : 1
Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut on CPU/ Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut GPU +$.01 [Add $0.01]
2020 Summer Sale : 2
Free 30 Day No Dead Pixel Warranty +$.01 [Add $0.01]
2020 Summer Sale : 4
Fujipoly Ultra Extreme Thermal Pads on necessary area for optimal cooling performance +$.01 [Add $0.01]
Logo Modification
None, Remove Sager Logo on the back + $.01 [Add $0.01]
CPU
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, 3.6~4.4 GHz 8 cores 16 threads, 7nm, 32MB 65W +$200 [Add $200.00]

Price as configured: $1,519.04
CASH coupon code (3%): -$45.57
Pre-tax total: $1,473.47

Assembler is based in Covina, CA, so figure your tax situation from there. (In Orange County this was $114.21 tax for a grand total of $1,587.68 for me.)


Original Item Specs:
Sager NP7958F1 (CLEVO NH58AF1) 144Hz, nVidia RTX 2070 8GB, AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Manufacturer Stock Configuration :
15.6" 1920x1080 @144Hz IPS-level, Matt [sic] finish
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6 cores 12 threads, 7nm 65W
nVidia RTX 2070 8GB GDDR6
16GB DDR4 3200MHz PC24000
500GB PCIe NVMe SSD
Intel WiFi 6 AX200 + Bluetooth 5.0
USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C
14.21" (w) x 10.16" (d) x 1.28" (h)
5.951lbs
OS- Optional

MSRP: $1319.00
Cash Price (3% off): $1,279.43

This ships with no OS; I suggest grabbing a grey market Windows 10 Pro key from cdkeys or some such and dealing with it yourself, as it will be cheaper than factory installation and eliminates the possibility of bloat- (or ad-) ware.
RAM is 1x16GB configuration by default, so you should also grab another 16GB SODIMM somewhere for dual channel goodness -- again this is cheaper to do yourself than to have them add it, but I'm not your dad so do whatever you want.

Q: Battery life is going to be abysmal, what is wrong with you?
A: Nothing, I said desktop replacement. Did you really think a 5.9lb laptop with a desktop processor and an RTX2070 was going to be a magical unicorn gaming ultrabook?

Q: But Zuuuuuuuryn, this is only an old, stinky Ryzen 7 3700X, this will be an obvious CPU bottleneck reeeeeeee
A: That's not technically a question, but for the sake of argument let's make a couple of fairly reasonable assumptions and see what Userbenchmark has to say. For this, we'll step back to the previous FP deal for a 2070 laptop back in March (that Acer Predator Helios 300):

Userbenchmark PC Build Comparison [userbenchmark.com]
Baseline Bench: Game 81%, Desk 92%, Work 82%
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X [userbenchmark.com] $280
GPU: Nvidia RTX 2070 (Mobile) [userbenchmark.com]
SSD: WD Blue SN500 NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB [userbenchmark.com] $72
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB [userbenchmark.com] $60

Alternative Bench: Game 76%, Desk 88%, Work 67%
CPU: Intel Core i7-9750H [userbenchmark.com]
GPU: Nvidia RTX 2070 (Mobile) [userbenchmark.com]
SSD: WD Blue SN500 NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB [userbenchmark.com] $72
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x16GB [userbenchmark.com] $123

NB: Originally found this via XoticPC (configuration here [xoticpc.com]), but they came in at $1564 before coupon and Gentech is local to me. XoticPC is in Lincoln, NE, so that may have advantageous tax circumstances for you.