m9750 gaming questions

ok so my friend has a m9750 but only has a 7950 gtx graphics card what can you expect out of that card? he has the middle cpu i dont know which one and he has 4 gb ram 1900x1200 screen
crysis
CoD world at war
etc

and how much does alienware charge to upgrade them ? like is it the same that on the build page?

thanks for the help

 

Does AW upgrade like that? Ebay may be a better option. That GTX should run most games "decent" at lower resolutions. Crysis, maybe 1280.1024 @ 30 FPS - CoD same res around 45 FPS or so.. He may be able to go 1440x900 @ decent rates...but wouldn't go any higher than that. It's a decent card, but not gonna run anything @ native res. Maybe Worms.

 

so just run at 1280 i should be fine? rather AW do his since hes under warrenty another 2 years

 

1280 should run great.. AW probably has an upgrade program.. I'm not entirely aware of their workings. But, it would still be less expensive to check ebay I'm sure. Then throw that card up on ebay for sale.

 

come one people i wanna hear what yall run your games at

whats better the 7950 gtx or 8700m gt

 

7950M GTX for sure !

 

To help out Mr.Moo:

I have a m9750, 7950GTX SLI, 2.0Ghz CPU, 2 gig ram, 1900x1200 screen.

Here is the deal on games: I run mostly Strategy, Action, RPG, etc. Im not a Crysis fan.

Neverwinter Nights 2 - Run in SLI, with edited SLI profile, 1900x1200 res, 30 fps average

Oblivion - Run in SLI, with edited SLI profile, 1900x1200 res, 45 fps average

M2TW - Run in SLI, with edited SLI profile, 1900x1200 res, 45 fps average

The Witcher - Run in SLI, with edited SLI profile, 1680x1050 res, 25 fps average

Ok, now some games simply do NOT have good SLI performance. This has two major factors. One, I only have half the ram for textures, so that means I need to drop the res down to 1440x900 most times for those cases. Second, only one GPU working (but you already knew that).

Mass Effect - Run in single card mode, 1280x800 res, 25 fps average (this will be the same settings for Crysis, UT3, etc for me)

Hope that helps

 

thanks any one else?

 

Brainer has a good guide of what the 7950 GTX's in SLi are capable of and I believe Alienware still has an upgrade program to install an additional 7950GTX for SLi. However, "upgrading" to 8700s in SLi is actually a steep step down in performance and not recommended.

Check out Brainer's Guide SLi vs non-SLi Performance

 

bump any one else?

 

7950gtx is more powerful than 8700m-gt. when the HD4870 comes out, your friend might want to get a cheap set of used HD3870s from an OCZ whitebook owner who wants to upgrade.

 

yea i woulod love to do that but he wants to keep his warrenty ...what i was askin for info on the 7950's lol i can give him mine once i get the 4870's