it's available in the the uk and fr configurator, BUT, only single 680m for now ...
of course they're saying they don't have any info from the marketing departement...
(thanks dell !)
also, same cost than the 7870m crossfire for a single 680m :£430.00 / 500,00 €, I guess it'll be £860 / 1000 € for the sli
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I will now however wait to see how it performs in the real world, games etc, not silly benchmarks.
I also notice that its the 2gb VRAM version, whether that makes a huge difference, again I will have to do more research.
All in all very disappointing pricing and as mentioned no SLI available yet.
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That's great news - I just checked it too and its still single 680m @ £430.....which is actually better than the price my rep told me they were gonna be...he said a single would be around £450-£480 so I expect sli to be around £8-850 hopefully - they were never gonna be the same price as AMD but its better than I originally anticipated.
I havent spoke to my guy yet but I plan on seeing if he can start taking orders for sli even though its not showing - normally the reps have access to things we dont or cant see on the website.....if so, I will report back with the finding! -
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Yep in Australia you can add SLI 680m for the slim price of $1000AU lol. I hate AMD with a passion (mine recently purchased M18x r2 has crossfire 7990m) but even if I waited a month and bought now, there is little chance I would have opted for the 680's because of the massive price difference. Still, makes me sad.
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steviejones133 Notebook Nobel Laureate
Just an update. Although SLI is not visible on the UK website, it can be added manually now for the M18x R2 - UK website price from my contact is to be £1020 (£850+vat) which is more than what I was expecting....it actually doesnt make sense for it to be THAT much more than one card...if its £430 for one card & heatsink, surely it shouldnt cost that MUCH more for SLI...my maths says that 2 cards and 2 heatsinks should be around £860 so that means the SLI ribbon is costing £160 LOLOL - mind you, looking at a single 675m vs. 675m SLI, thats also alot more than double the cost of a single so I guess its in line with Dells pricing strategies.
Saying that, it does annoy the hell outta me that for those in the US, a single 680m is $550 and SLI is simply double the cost - UK pricing is just crazily unfair...
Its £430 for a single 680m in the 17x.....
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Thanks for the update,
I hope it won't take too long before they add the sli to the site for France,
I also hope it won't cost more than twice the single card...
hopefully, in France, there is a pre-negotiated discount which is around 25/30% for students ... but it's not available since the choice is not possible on the website ...
update:
ok ordered it,
for this configuration :
m18xr2 nebula red:
500gB
6gB ram
Sli 680m gtx
i7 3920xm factory oc'ed
wifi killer
blu ray reader
3 years warranty and insurance
the orion bagpack
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Well just checked the Swedish pricing for the 680M and it is about 753$
Or 5050:- sek
I can get 7970m SLI for the exact same price :S And i suppose two 7970m beat a singel 680M
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haha, it's not cheap at all, next time, i'll buy a second hand Ferrari, maybe will it be cheaper
I checked change rate between dollar and euro, it's quite the same price for a similar configuration, so i'm happy not being too screwed by European prices this time
I'll also add two Intel 520 480bB ssds and cl10 1866mhz memory,
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UK SLI prices are up.
£590 more than 7970m xfire.
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I don't know if anyone noticed but the GTX 680M drivers were posted for the M18xR2 on dell's support website today. 302.72.
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I'm not sure if anyone has posted this yet, but here is the official translation of the notebookcheck article: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-GeForce-GTX-680M-vs-Radeon-HD-7970M.77110.0.html
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), however it's still a pittance compared to Dell's profit taking on the pricing. This point will be more relevant once the pricing comes down to reasonable levels
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Yeah its pathetic. New threads every single day. They don`t have the same problem either: Its everything from green artifacts, to BSODs, to high temperatures, to faulty Sager batches, to Enduro problems giving you less performance than you paid for, to Crossfire problems, to only using DX9 in some games etc etc
I can`t believe that AMD is allowed to push out something as crappy as this to the market without atleast making shure the 7970M run stable. They don`t actually get any better driver reputation with this to be honest...
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From my recollection of owning 6970 and 6990 based systems, the sitution was bleak back then too.....AMD's "new" strategy of less frequent releases focusing on "quality" (said with tongue-in-cheek) leaves alot to be desired at this point in time (from what I see anyway)....how long has it been without proper driver support now? - I lose count of the weeks.... I can only think of "empty promises" right now to best describe AMD support.
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Bought it for nearly 1k when it first came out and had driver issues with green artefacts in Crysis, BSOD, high temps.
How do I know it was drivers? Because the problem would always change depending on which driver version I used.
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I had a g73jh with 5870m and all it gave me was headaches on getting drivers installed and games crashing. went to a g74 with 560m and the upgrade was a huge relief (yes i know Nvidia is not perfect but it NEVER gave me any crashes/problems ever). After all the talk/benchmark about the 7970m I bought a np9150 with it, not knowing that AMD hasn't changed at all with their driver support. Now I am back to headaches and crashes from installing drivers (the correct way with the clean install and only the driver) not to mention the unstable/unplayable FPS on games like BF3 multiplayer. If the 12.7 WHQL does not even fix anything with the clevos with 7970m I'm not going to hesitate selling it and getting an alienware instead, possibly with 680m. -
just to reiterate...this is not the 7970m thread...
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Just a word of warning to leave the flamewars about the 680m vs 7970m out of this thread. We've already had many of those. Discussion is fine as always, but leave acerbic comments and personal attacks out of it.
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Until a 680M or 680M SLI is received, there isn't all that much else to talk about.
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July 10th is my date for getting my 680M SLI... Only praying that they shipped the right power adapter, or it'll be another 48 hours to get real numbers...
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Lots of GTX 680M tests uploaded by "hackness" in a thread in the Sager forum.
Apparantly it runs much better than the notebookcheck review. Check it out
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Cloudfire said: ↑Lots of GTX 680M tests uploaded by "hackness" in a thread in the Sager forum.
Apparantly it runs much better than the notebookcheck review. Check it out
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/673583-p150em-upgrading-675m-680m.htmlClick to expand... -
yep brother fox...the battle now begins....some one actually has a card now.
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This is going to be so exciting. Clash of the Titans.
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Overclocked: 7280 in GPU score for the 680M
hackness said: ↑Just now. Used MSIAfterburner clocked to 853MHz on core and 2300MHz on memory.
New 3DMark11 score: Generic VGA video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor,CLEVO P15xEMx score: P7150 3DMarks
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Dang, that's sweet for one GPU. I hope it works properly in SLI.
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time to see how much $ i have in my saving
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Cloudfire said: ↑Overclocked: 7280 in GPU score for the 680MClick to expand...
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Yeah LOL its unreal. I just have to post this for everyone to see.
Visit his thread and rep hackness for this everyone.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/673583-p150em-upgrading-675m-680m-15.html
With this massive overclock he gained 9FPS (+23%) with everything maxed in BF3. It still only reached MAX 67 degree celsius!!!
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Nice! The 680M SLI'd should be right with the 7970M Crossfire (80-120FPS on Ultra settings).
Can he do a Uniengine Heaven 3.0 run with max tesselation?
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Speedy Gonzalez Xtreme Notebook Speeder!
Arestavo said: ↑Nice! The 680M SLI'd should be right with the 7970M Crossfire (80-120FPS on Ultra settings).
Can he do a Uniengine Heaven 3.0 run with max tesselation?
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Speedy Gonzalez said: ↑Sadly the 680m SLI is going to destroy 7970M crossfire....Click to expand...
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Thats gonna be a long wait
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Cloudfire said: ↑Thats gonna be a long waitClick to expand...
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Wait, is Hackness not running at 1080P? Gull darn it if not!
hackness said: ↑Well it still shows +135(max) so maybe not for the 680M.
1280x1024, 16QxCSAA(Through nvdia panel), Draw quality 8, background 3, shadow/filter highest, DoF/AO on, fps in Uldah ranges from 44~55fps, fps didn't show a sign of dropping, it just black screen and driver crashes, I haven't tried it outside the town yet.Click to expand... -
Didn't condense posts, delete when able please.
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Arestavo said: ↑Patience is a virtue that I had to learn the hard way. I can wait! (hell, if I was rich - but I am not)Click to expand...
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Arestavo said: ↑Patience is a virtue that I had to learn the hard way. I can wait! (hell, if I was rich - but I am not)Click to expand...
680M is OUT!
Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by ironminded, Jun 4, 2012.