M17x with GTX460M SLI

I saw this this morning.

 

How does that rank against 5870? Does it destroy them?

 

Still not on the options list for the GPUs in the build menu. but interesting none the less

 

it likely get pwnzored by the 5870 the ati are faster

the 460 could have a great ocing headroom

 

Sweet... I want one.

Dell/Alienware seems to be very slow at updating their website.

 

i missed though the 460m on the m15x has 1.5gb of memory wich make it better for games that makes heavy use of gpu memory like metro 2033 because it eliminate the memory bottleneck but in it self it's slower then the 5870

 

actually they also have the 470m if u ask them.

 

Uhh? Really? Asko who? Sales?

 

I asked a sales support person, and they said the part is not available currently.

 

cool! best of both worlds. Need to wait for the 470s though.

 

yea. ive asked them 2 months ago.

 

A new m17x for Christmas hmmmm

 

sounds like good news

 

its up on the site now for the M15X.

 

With a whopping 1.5GB VRAM!

 

Crossfire 5870's will be a decent bit faster than the GTX 460m's. OC'ed Crossfire 4870's will even be faster . . . .

While they are better than the GTX 285m SLI, I don't know why Alienware hasn't announced the GTX 470m SLI yet? They have the parts, the laptops can support them electrically . . what gives?

 

this is the news that I've been waiting for (I caught wind of this months ago). Now all I want is the update for my bios to support them then I could purchase them later and install hassle free as the 5870's are undoubtedly faster atm!!!!

 

IF anyone spots it a possible config... let us know. I still don't see it as a option.

 

I also dont understand why Nvidia designed 460,470m with 192 bit of memory bus width compared to 256 in enthusiast GPUs.

 

hmmm they have it on the M17 title page. but under video card option when you build one it only has the 285 sli (but this is their recommended card) I would hazard a guess that someone messed up on the page and it is supposed to be the 460sli that is recommended. But with less then 2 months to CES i would wait on sandy and ATI.

 

I saw it at Slashgear. Apparently M17x R3 is also on its way with 6970/6870.

Alienware M17x R3 coming soon with Radeon HD 6970/6870 GPU - SlashGear

 

More info on a R3 release

Sweet

 

the R3 looks sweet i can't wait to see it in action but i must still resist buying

 

man
I'm just buy M17x R2 and get my hand on it for 2 weeks
now they prepare to launch R3 with better GPU :[[
if i have know this sooner I will wait to get R3 :[[

 

ATI/AMD has not even released yet a mobility version of the 6xxx series cards.... i don't think that the R3 will be released any time soon

 

I would also expect the R3 would be Sandy bridge Mobo as well.

That would point to a early 2011 relase I would think.

 

CES 2011

10char

 

expect to see the the better GTX580M any time soon.

 

the 6XXX series will come to mobile before the 580M, if history is any indication. ATI have been doing much better getting their mobile cards out the door after the desktop card releases.

 

and i can,t wait to see the consumsion of the 580 since the 480 was adrealy higher then the mxm standar and nvidia didn't develop any new achitecture


it will likely bloow new records

 

the 580 has a better power consumption thn the 480.

 

I hear tha you will need neclear power plant to power the GTX 580M in SLI, ha,ha,ha. Lol

 

clevo is likely devloping thier gen 2 portable nuclear plan after the i7 980x and 480m sli in one machine they likely have a good experience in it LOL

if you haave a link explaining that i,d liek to see it the more competition they brign the better

 

This is true, Granyte. What is up with Alienware being so far behind Clevo? I really, really want to stay with Alienware. But, I also don't want to be a fanboy and ignore a better product when I finally get around to buying. So, until then I'm keeping both fingers, toes and eyes crossed.

 

i agree i wish AW would pick up the pace and get a move on, i love the look so much better than a clevo but we cant ignore a better product for asthetic purposes when we need performance out of our machines

 

it was from an nvidia guy in PDX. tht time he wont tell u wot product it was. thn after 3 days. gtx580 was announced.

 

actualy alienware is in no way behind clevo

yes the 920xm is no competition for the 980x but i'm quite sure the 980x can't have 4 cores using turbo boost as high as the m17x

and 480 sli vs 5870 cfx hummmmmm i'm going for the 5870 any it's not like they lack power but at least they don't give 30 sec baterie life


@GreaseMonkey90 i saw it i don't recal it saying anything about it i just recal the guy having to make the guys there react because they would not them self

 

after comparing the 2 cards on nvidia site. the 580 is just 6W lesser thn the 480

 

agree with you on that, i don't own gaming pc right now but after comparing alienware and clevo i think alienware win.
how can someone say tha alienware is behind clevo, for me all clevo design are ogly. lol

 

The GF110 used for the desktop GTX 580 wouldn't be used for a GTX 580M. A mobile GTX 580M would more likely use a GF104 like the GTX 470M.

Also an FYI, when you're looking at power consumption numbers for the desktop GTX 580, Nvidia has built monitoring hardware onto the card that throttles the card down when it detects specific stressing programs (like Futuremark) to prevent the card from reaching it's max power.

 

That is a very good observation, M8!
So much for Furmark testing.

 

yes sound good

 

5870m's walk all over 460m's...This is old news... Only a good option if you need those CUDA cores... which 90% of people don't.

470's would be a different story though.