6970 avaliable on dell website

I still wouldnt buy it for $2000. With those specs and still using a pathetic HHD? SSD only please. Oh and only 16 gb ram ? meh r3 has 32

 

Just thought folks would like to know about some(more) reviews are out for 6970.

Hot Hardware

Notebookcheck (From late January)

Tom's Hardware (from late January)

Read and enjoy!

 

Thanks. All the reviews were done with the same eng samples, w/o proper BIOS/Drivers. Still, you can see that even handicapped this card's performance is impressive to say the least.

 

@ Aikimox: 1stly thank you for the info on display. It's always my biggest concern you know

2ndly: 24fps Crysis benchmark @ 1080p, 0xAA, 0xAF on a SINGLE card is INSANE!!!

 

nice review links BlackestNight21!

It makes me feel good that I decided to wait for 6970M and not order hastily! now the wait is even more with the whole Intel glitch!

 

I'd like it to be 30+ with proper drivers

 

I'd say it would touch the 30 mark with fully mature drivers and decent clocking; it's already more or less 50% faster than the 5870m. Thing to keep in mind is that from a proportional stand-point, even a 3 FPS gain in Crysis (Very High) is a major gain. But that in itself is majorly EPIC! I mean, this card in Xfire could very well give us Crysis at Very High with near 60 FPS, and I think it'll have head room to handle 2 x AA without too much of an FPS hit.

 

Yeah! I believe your guessimates and arguments are correct, Kade and Aikimox. Guess Crysis is soon gonna be no hardware killer anymore

 

^^ A 5-year old game is finally defeated, lol.

 

LAWL! Nice one, Aikimox.

Although, I think it was already somewhat tamed with R1 and R2 hardware. An overlcocked HD4870 or 280m GTX SLi could handle this game at very high, and with just a few tweaks, run it nicely. I'm talking about a cutom config of the game with all the main DX10 bells and whistles such as shadows, sunshafts, full-screen motion-blur, and SSAO.

There's already a video on the web where an M17X R2 with overclocked HD5870ms ran the Crysis benchmark at very high, scoring an average of 44 FPS -- very impressive. Even Joker's got a video that shows the game running nicely into the higher 30s and mid 40s with lows at 30.

All I'm saying is that our present hardware does tame Crysis, but these new cards in dual-configuration will possibly own the game.

 

You can't upgrade to 32GB unless you want to pay around $2,000 in memory. Dell isn't allowing the purchase of the 8GB SODIMM sticks yet.

 

Anyways, 32GB of RAM is absolutely useless. There is not one application even photoshop where online bench show a difference in between 16Gb an 32Gb. There is a huge one on some rendering apps in between 4Gb and 8Gb but past this it's not really justified unless you do video editing for actual movies where files are gigabytes big and need to be rendered faster but even then not sure there would be a difference in between 16Gb and 32Gb and until I see factual results, I would say it's not worth it no matter who you are and what you do with your laptop.

 

Back in the days when SSD did not exist you may benefit from creating RAM disk using those "useless" RAM. Now it's much cheaper and more convenient to buy an SSD instead hence making 32GB of RAM totally useless.