finally!! upgrade from M17x r1 to R2!!

Just got off the phone with my case manager, and after a full system replacement 3 times in 7 months. He logged into my comp manually today and saw the latency, and has put my case forth for a r2 replacement! he said 90% sure when they phone me on 19th, the replacement sales team will talk to me and replace my machine.
So ill expect a £3900 equivlant which i paid on the r1!

Also the plot thickens! after reading some posts, about dual 5870's i decided to phone sales and bascially say ill buy if it has this option for CF 5870, the guy said CF 5870 are available at £345 - same price as the 4870! he said this is because he thinks this will replace the 4780 online. Sooo even tho its not online, phone and order it and say u want the 5870! i just hope the replacement team will let me do this =)

also how much differece is the CF 4870 to CF 5870?

im soo happy=)

 

Congrats btw. And to answer your question, I think the current status or belief is that it's about a mile, perhaps more?? ahead of the CF 4870s. No one can be sure yet cause CF 5870s aren't out but so far a single 5870 has exploded expectations...

 

when they phone on wednesday ill definiatly want 2 5870s if the single is a head of crossfire 4870! oooo im excited now! =) im gona be checky and ask for 6 gig ddr3 rather than 4 due to my 'stresss' this machine as put me through ;p

 

4870<5870<4870XF<5870XF

We will never know how big the gap is between 4870 crossfireX and 5870 crossfireX until they release it in the m17x but we expect 15-20% increase.

 

drool! ive bn put on my 280 with alot of issues and fps lag ive had sumtimes! so i look forward to trying ati and hopefully *touch wood* they let me get the 5870 in crossfire even tho the options not up! but ill just say sales team are selling it ^.^

 

Haha, I think the quote is "knock on wood"..."touch wood" sounds like something completely different. Congrats though

 

Dude, after lurking here for a few days, I had to register to post on your response. That is classic! :laugh:

 

lmao touch wood funniest thing ive ever seen on here. But seriously I kinda want an r2 damnit stuck with my r1

 

the 5870 is basically an overclocked 4870 with directx11 (which in itself doesn't give an performance advantage over 10.1 however). We get another 150mhz on core/shader speed, but memory bandwidth is less, even though the GDDR5 runs @ 1ghz vs 888mhz, it's half the width (128bitvs256bit)

it should be roughly 15-25% faster.

 

I'd suggest checking out this thread, specifically the last page. Elkay posted a brief summary of what's going on with his. Maybe you are going through the same issues. If so, it might help his cause by running a few tests and posting your results.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware/410440-m17x-stutter-86.html

 

ye i tried that and it never fixed anything! ive had my M17x r1 since day one... 7-8 months old now! never too late to demand a replacement ofc afters some motherboard replacements!
turst a dirty mind to take that to a perverted extreme ;p its a british expression ^.^

 

adrian, the stutter thread is actually in the "gathering data" stage. Basically, if you're able to run some tests and post the results, it could go a long way towards others in your boat getting theirs replaced or at least Dell understanding the issue...

 

LMAO! I dunno, sometimes touching wood can bring about some luck too.

 

I touch my wood everyday

 

Indeed
Hehe.

 

hahahaha that's TMI dude