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    680M is OUT!

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by ironminded, Jun 4, 2012.

  1. vince207gti

    vince207gti Notebook Guru

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    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
     
  2. GaryO

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    Hmmmmm, that UK 680m pricing is NOT good :mad:

    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.

    Nvidia playing on the AMD xfire driver issue perhaps ??
     
  3. steviejones133

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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!
     
  4. GaryO

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    Lets hope your rep can give some decent discount to offset that pricing ;)

    My latest config comes to pretty close to £4k :eek:
     
  5. jivemaster

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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.
     
  6. steviejones133

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    I imagine he could put a serious dent in that for you Gary....

    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.....

    So, those of you who want to order from the UK/Ire, you can PM me and I can see if my rep can help out, if you like.
     
  7. vince207gti

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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

    it costed me 3997 €
     
  8. Mark4germantank

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    Nice build/price
     
  9. Tazadar

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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 ;)

    I don´t know about you guys but i concider the pricing is "slightly" higher then i would ever think.....
     
  10. Peter

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    Congrats mate!!! youve got great deal, its so cheap eahhaha lol well its not but compare to UK price it is :D
     
  11. vince207gti

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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 :D

    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 :D
    I'll also add two Intel 520 480bB ssds and cl10 1866mhz memory,
    can't wait receiving it haha
     
  12. 3Stars&ASun

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    You sir are a bause.
     
  13. regaltang

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    UK SLI prices are up.

    £590 more than 7970m xfire.

    That's a lot - especially considering my 7970s play everything available maxed out without a hitch.
     
  14. steviejones133

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    I am asolutely disgusted in Dell's pricing on this. Why on earth is it soooo much more expensive for two of the same thing? if I bought two tins of baked beans, it would cost me twice as much as one tin - ok, so there is an SLI ribbon to account for but that does NOT come to £160.
     
  15. jywang

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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.
     
  16. Optimistic Prime

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    You seem to not be understanding that upgrading from a 660M to a 680M is not the same as buying a second 680M. The price of the 660M you could say is "subtracted" from the total price of the 680M giving you the upgrade price while the second 680M is full price because your not upgrading from anything already included, your buying another card entirely.
     
  18. TommydCat

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    I think he understands it well (or at least has heard the point enough :p), 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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    the 9800m gtx is still in the out limits of space and time pricing...what makes you think the 680 will be cheaper...lol

    although they did drop the 580m at one point for 2 weeks..haha
     
  20. Mr. Fox

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    Well, that is assuming your 7970M setup functions correctly. The plethora of issues with 7970M being posted just in our community alone is pathetic. I'm eager to see what the GTX 680M has to offer, and how close to being right it is when it is launched.
     
  21. Cloudfire

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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...

    Did 6970M have the same amount of problems?
     
  22. steviejones133

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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.
     
  23. DarkSiren

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    It sounds like all the problems I got back in 2008 when the desktop 4870x2 was released.

    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.

    Not that I hate AMD. I might get the 7970m because the 680m is out of my budget but damn AMD seems like you get what you pay for :/
     
  24. 3Stars&ASun

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    exactly, AMD deserves all the negative rep they are getting right now, like it or not they are HORRIBLE compared to Nvidia driver support, I have experience with both.

    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.
     
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    just to reiterate...this is not the 7970m thread... :)
     
  26. tijo

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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.

    Mention of the 7970m is inevitable in this kind of thread, but try to focus on the topic as much as possible.
     
  27. Johnksss

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    mention...yes...but when it covers more than 90 percent of the thread...
     
  28. Arestavo

    Arestavo Notebook Evangelist

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    Until a 680M or 680M SLI is received, there isn't all that much else to talk about.
     
  29. TommydCat

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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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    :D
    exactly why this thread should be like 2 pages long.
     
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    My delivery date is July 11th - I'm curious - when did you originally order?
     
  33. Mr. Fox

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    That one made me howl in laughter.

    I'm going to have to check out that information in the Sager forum to see how well it's working. I don't normally give a lot of weight to reviews by notebookcheck. They are frequently wrong. Thanks for the heads up.
     
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    yep brother fox...the battle now begins....some one actually has a card now. :D
     
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    This is going to be so exciting. Clash of the Titans. :D
     
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    Dang, that's sweet for one GPU. I hope it works properly in SLI.
     
  38. Cloudfire

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    I think its the record for 7970M/680M
    Best part is that the max GPU temperature is 72 degree celsius while running Crysis 2 benchmark with this OC...
     
  39. 3Stars&ASun

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    time to see how much $ i have in my saving :D
     
  41. Zero989

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    Ok. *ORDERS M18x R2 680M SLI*

    Incoming 13K 3DMark 2011 score...
     
  42. Cloudfire

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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!!!

     
  43. Arestavo

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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?

    EDIT: I'll just ask in that thread xD
     
  44. Speedy Gonzalez

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    Sadly the 680m SLI is going to destroy 7970M crossfire....
     
  45. Arestavo

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    Can't wait to see it! When the prices come down by 1/2, I'll go back to green !
     
  46. Cloudfire

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    Thats gonna be a long wait :D
     
  47. Arestavo

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    Patience is a virtue that I had to learn the hard way. I can wait! (hell, if I was rich - but I am not)

    EDIT:
    Wait, is Hackness not running at 1080P? Gull darn it if not!


    EDIT: His Heaven 3.0 benches show 1080P, a false alarm on my part!
     
  48. Arestavo

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    Didn't condense posts, delete when able please.
     
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    you might have to wait atleast 365 days, 8760 hours, 525600 minutes.
     
  50. Prasad

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    Respect. My sentiments exactly. +rep!
     
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