GTX 580m Sli & AMD 6990m Crossfire available in the UK now to order!

Hi Guys,

Just been speaking with my very good rep and friend. He has told me that the M18x is now available to order with the above gpu's......they arent live on Dell UK yet but he has pricing for them as follows: (pricing is the upgrade cost over base gpu configuration). If you wish to use my rep who does very good deals, let me know.

For you guys in the US and other countries, I am sure they may be available too as some people have already been discussing non-website prices with chat reps etc etc....

Nvidia GTX 580m Sli is £859 exc VAT so total cost around £1,075.00

AMD 6990m Crossfire is £384 exc VAT so total cost around £480.00

These are obviously UK figures so anyone wishing to order with either can shoot me a PM and I can get you in touch mith my rep if you like (for UK & Ireland Residents only im afraid)....I am pretty sure that if you want to order with the above, he can also do a great deal overall, with regards to the total system cost.

Anyway guys, thought I would let you know of their availability....finally, we know how much they are gonna cost in the UK and that both are available....so go get 'em !!!!!

Cheers
Stevie.

 

Great news that the 6990m is available. It shall provide good competition to the 580m. Hope to see benchmarks of the two soon.

 

This is awesome news Stevie.

Thanks for the great news.
Especially after the 580M Price punch in the face LOL!

Cheers.

 

Hehehe - np Chief! - thats like erm....just over $1700 USD......for the Nvidia's.......

I like the fact that AMD have kept it real with the pricing of their latest offering.....

 

Just confirmed my order, with this top bloke from dell. Cannot wait to get my machine now. I wanted the fastest card available but the price difference between the two is ridiculous, so i just jumped in and went for the 6990. I just hope there isn't a big performance diff between the 580 and the 6990 as we have no banches on the 6990 as off yet.

 

What i couldn't get my head around Stevie was the fact the 6990m (£480) was cheaper than the 6970m (£490)...It best not be slower i won't be happy

 

Great news! Now all we need to know is the clocks

 

I will see if i can find 'em out......

 

Hahaha - I wouldnt worry mate - they are gonna be faster.....I am wondering what I can do about my system....had it almost a month now with 6970's......grrrrrrrrr....."gimme ma 6990's, Dell

 

You can sell the 6970s and get the 6990s when available. I wouldn't worry though. You are looking at 5-10% difference in gaming and that won't make much impact at all with any games coming out anytime soon. Upgrading will be way too expensive and not worth marginal increases. Unless you are tyring to figure out a way to send your system back but I am against that but that is only my value. I mean that is a price someone pays for technology.

Some people may wait for the 6990s but you have had the pleasure of gaming on the most powerful rig for the past 30 days...surely that has some price/value in and of itself. Just enjoy your system!

 

Im not sending the system back.....im happy with it, its running well. If it aint broke......

I may see if I can manage a "swap" of the parts....see if Dell will send me the new cards and I will post 'em back the old ones.

Either way, Im not too devastated, just a bit miffed is all

 

That's the thing about bleeding edge, you can't stop. You must have the most powerful rig or no rig at all. Lol, I'm not into serious gaming or benching but heck, already thinking about upgrading my system. ..sob...

 

Exactly, its an addiction for some. Got to have the best, fastest, newest thing, computer hardware i can just about afford to go with that. Good job its not cars i'm into or else i'd be buggered and bankrupt.

I'd imagine the 6990 will be atleast 5/10% faster than the 6970 surely...Which means it will be 5%/10 slower than a 580m, i'm happy with that its (6990) closed the gap for still the same price as a 6970, can't complain.

 

The 6990M could very well be on par with the 580M if not better. We still know nothing about the clocks.

 

I am almost 100% sure the 6990 will be the 1122 shader card ichime's just to own if not why that was an ES card and why they stop offering 6970's on sager's

 

Yay, 6990M CF for my new M18x) Hope we don't have to wait another month for the release) Great news, BTW Stevie! The only thing i doubt about is if it is optimized for high OC due to shaders and (probably) clocks increase... it's based on the same core, right?

 

hey stevie,are they also available with geforce 560 gtx, if yes then may i have details of your repl please as i will be quite happy with geforce gtx 560. thanks in advance...

 

Can Nvidia afford to not drop their price after this? If the 6990 is on par, or better, and still more than twice as cheap... that makes the Nvidia product poorly placed in the market.

 

I will ask my rep for you but I wouldnt imagine so.....

 

Can confirm, 6990m is now available from UK reps. I am on live chat with one now, he is supposed to be getting me a quote and sending tech specs ...

My Canadian rep could not give me any info about them 6990m

 

When you say Dell are taking orders for the as yet unreleased 6990M do you mean to say:

1). Dell are taking orders and will build and ship in the usual time period?

2). they are taking advance orders which will be serviced as and when the chip comes available for the AW system?

 

Wow steviejones133 that is a news brother you are one of the best on this forum, thank for the info!.

 

Ok just finished a long chat with dell UK rep.

He confirmed the 6990m is available ... however could provide NO details on the graphics card. He simply pointed me to the AMD website ... and said that was all he could do.

he quoted the 6990m XF @ £470.00

 

I think you are guys are being led up the garden path by overly enthusiastic salesman taking advance orders for a future product.

There is no sign of the 6990M anywhere apart from here.

 

07/04/2011 03:16:42PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "Welcome to Dell Chat Sales, This is Sudheer , your Dell Sales Advisor. My email address is [email protected]. Hope you are doing well."
07/04/2011 03:16:48PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "Hi Jason"
07/04/2011 03:16:50PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "good afternoon"
07/04/2011 03:17:11PM jason: "good afternoon."
07/04/2011 03:17:24PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "Are you looking for the graphic card alone or as computer with the above card ?"
07/04/2011 03:18:05PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "as = a *"
07/04/2011 03:18:17PM jason: "I have just heard from my mate that the m18x can now be configured with dual 6990m in Crossfire even though its not live on the web yet ?"
07/04/2011 03:18:26PM jason: "looking for it in the m18x"
07/04/2011 03:18:41PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "let me check the model and the available options in graphic card"
07/04/2011 03:18:49PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "I am checking"
07/04/2011 03:18:56PM jason: "thank you"
07/04/2011 03:19:07PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "you are welcome"
07/04/2011 03:19:32PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "the graphic card options we have are"
07/04/2011 03:19:36PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "Graphics : Dual 1.5GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460M SLI"
07/04/2011 03:19:43PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "Graphics : Dual 2GB GDDR5 AMD® Radeon™ HD 6970M CrossfireX™"
07/04/2011 03:19:54PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "I am afraid we have the above two cards only"
07/04/2011 03:20:45PM jason: "oh, odd, my mate even has a quote of £480.00 for the dual 6990m ...."
07/04/2011 03:20:59PM jason: "but he did say its not on the website ... only manually added"
07/04/2011 03:21:15PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "ok let me check again"
07/04/2011 03:22:03PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "Sorry for the delay"
07/04/2011 03:22:41PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "Yes you are right"
07/04/2011 03:22:59PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "we do have the option i,e we can add it from our end"
07/04/2011 03:23:05PM jason: "sorry so how much is it ?"
07/04/2011 03:23:17PM jason: "and can you give me the tech specs on the graphics cards ?"
07/04/2011 03:23:39PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "Sure"
07/04/2011 03:23:39PM jason: "# of shaders, and memory clock speed by chance ?"
07/04/2011 03:24:28PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "As per the tools we work on the description is Dual 2 GB DDR5 AMD Radeon HD 6990M Cross Fire X"
07/04/2011 03:24:30PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "and"
07/04/2011 03:25:59PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "the cost is 470 on top and"
07/04/2011 03:26:36PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "I am checking for the details of the card"
07/04/2011 03:29:04PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "would you like to get a quote"
07/04/2011 03:29:08PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "for the laptop with graphic card"
07/04/2011 03:29:29PM jason: "yes if you could email me this chat log and a quote I would appreciate it"
07/04/2011 03:29:42PM jason: "stop m18x with just that upgrade and the 2 year advanced warrenty"
07/04/2011 03:29:55PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "you will get the complete chat conversation to your email and"
07/04/2011 03:30:16PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "for sending the quote I need to create a record on your name and then send the quote"
07/04/2011 03:30:43PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "we do not have the option for sending the quote directly we need to manually add and then send through the order management tool"
07/04/2011 03:30:46PM Agent (Sudheer_A_R): "Sorry for the trouble"

 

he misquoted the stats of the 6990m in the middle of the convo (i cut it out) by quoting the stats of the desktop 6990 ... but its pretty clear the card is currently available for order...

 

Let me see the quote and/or ship date pls.

I guess AMD must be shy over this chip. Either that or their marketing department are in Ibiza.

 

i couldn't get a quote sent to me since I don't have a mailing address in the UK ...

 

Thanks for the kind words!

I did say that it wasnt showing on the website....obviously it is available to manually configure. Most of the info my rep gets me is pretty much spot on. What reason would he have to tell me this? - its not gonna get him any business if he is lying and it would also make him look like a dummy wouldnt it? (Based on the fact he told me this morning that "if I knew of anyone who wanted these components, for me to give them his details so he could make a sale....)

He's in the process of getting some technical details for me - said he will mail me with the full tech spec of each option when he gets it - I will post it up when I get it.....

 

This makes me want to return my M17x R3 and order the M18x with the 6990M setup...

 

Clevo is not asleep.
http://i.piccy.info/i5/52/59/1695952/Driver_Page_800.jpg

 

I dont doubt you Stevie and I know you always act with best intentions.

I wish this to be true and will be amongst one of the first waving an open cheque book. I am sceptical when there is no source of info on this product. It is currently unreleased and not even AMD's own website mentions it.

I believe they are taking orders but can they fulfill them?

 

I bloody well hope so as i've just made my order today.

I very much Dell would go around selling a product to people that they cannot produce. I think they'd be a sh*t house if they starting acting in such a way Jono. Any company would be and it would be all over the web how bad Dell are etc...give companies bad reputations.

 

Has AMD even made an announcement about this card?

 

GET THIS !!!!

I just got off the phone with AMD
The 6990m has been available since June 15, 2011. It has been up to the "systems integrator" aka reseller/end product manufacturer as to when they announce them. Secondly I was told that the tech specs aren't available per se. I asked the gentleman, "so we can order the cards, but we can't be told whats on them?" His reply was basically yes. That the cards in their end format vary between system integrators and thus it is up to the system integrator to release the tech specs.

He said to consult Dell. But confirmed that the cards are available.

 

Very strange and odd.

 

Lol, that's crazy. As one of the system integrators and AW resellers I have no clue of the specs or that the cards are available.

 

yea well, it took about 15 mins but they guy from amd put me on hold and did some looking around and thats what he came back to me with ... I was like ... ???

 

Lol...probably system integrator" and AW reseller are 2 way different things

 

Of course they are 2 different things! The problem is, for AMD companies like Dell and HP will always have priority over small SI's like us

 

I know this is an alienware forum, but shouldn`t the resellers aka Aikimox know about this GPU especially when they sell Sager as well and they are always first to feature new tech?

No way that Alienware have some sort VIP priority from AMD

 

Generally, yes but in this particular case it's not so. So far, I've tried all our channels at Dell and Sager with no definite answer. There are no hands-on's and no previews available for the 6990M. Probably because of the incident with the 6970M when ES GPU's ended up in people's systems before/shortly after announcement in addition to preliminary reviews of some systems with ES cards inside. Apparently AMD decided to play it more cautiously from now on.

And yes, Dellienware always has a VIP priority from AMD simply because they buy millions of cards from them annually.

 

except now we are stuck in a sitch were AMD probably has a comparable or superior card on the market available to order (through Dell UK atm) and we don't have stats on it .... lol. Just sort of the exact opposite end of the spectrum ... the card is there and we know nothing about it.

 

Now that you mention that you probably right remember the guy who purchased a machine with 2 6970's ES and he didn't know they give him ES's cards until he take the machine apart ? I remember he contact AMD first to check if that was true and they confirm that to him

Probably AMD don't want to see more cases like this so they give priority to DELL with the release of this card

 

whats the 3dmark vantage scores for 580m?

 

I see although I don`t understand why any OEMs will get priority with news about new GPUs. Priority with shipments I could understand but I thought AMD treated their customers the same about news. Especially Sager which is pretty big too

 

Hmmm. Now Im wondering if the 6990s will work ib the 17x R2. Any idea uf the will be similar to the 6970s physically?

 

Hehe me too DR me too!

Isn't it great to have so many options all of a sudden lol!

I Can't wait to see the 580M vs the 6990 go head to head oles!

Cheers.

 

Hi all, what a strange coincidence, first rep i spoke to would not tell me a thing about the new cards for the UK but then by some chance i spoke to the same rep as Stevie and have been told exactly the same thing, and i was quoted a build time of no more than 2 weeks and perhaps even sooner. Also i asked about the the 580M for the M17X and was told it will be £420 upgrade price. I asked him why they dont show in the build page on the webite but he said to email him the spec im looking for and the can add the new cards his end. Amazing guy as well, very helpful and happy to answer all my questions.

 

Well there goes my plans for the crossfire 6970m spec out of the window. I'd be interested in seeing how much of a performance difference it will make and if there will be any other changes to the m18x.

Stevie could you give me the details of your rep? I'd love to finally get a good m18x ordered. Thanks.