Video card question

I everyone i was wondering if a 1GBx2 Crossfire GDDR3 NVIDIA 260M SLI would run faster and better than the ATI 5870 thats in my asus ? thanks for your help.

 

Firsty you could not fit an SLI setup in the G73JH or any other card in fact at the moment because Asus reverse engineer their GPU's. Testing is being done by some to look at the 6970M being fitted but no results that say it will work have been proven yet.

Performance wise apart from benchmarking would be a no. The 5870M is Directx 11 and the 260 is not and that the 5870M overclock very well backed up by the fact that SLI is very dependent on the program/game/software making use of SLI.

This I know first hand from when I had my 8700M GT SLI which provided fantastic benchmark results for its time along with good performance in some games but others it suffered badly and caused micro stuttering and some games it just failed on performance in general, overclocking would be a messy ordeal as well it just did not like it.

At the end of the day double the power does not always mean double the performance SLI does not double the performance just splits the work between two cards giving between 0-40% gain against having one card, you cannot make up for having one very good card. 5870M is the way to go.

 

Ok cool thanks i had a bud that wanted to trade laptops this is his below:

Space Black M17x - Anodized Aluminum,
Processor Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme CPU Q9300 Processor, 2.53GHz (3.00GHz+ Turbo Mode), 12MB Cache
Memory 8GB Dual Channel Memory (2x 4GB DDR3) 1333MHz
Power Adapters 150 Watt Adapter
Display Panels 17-inch WideUXGA 1920 x 1200 LCD (1200p)
Video Card 1GBx2 Crossfire GDDR3 NVIDIA 260M SLI
Hard Drive: 80GB SSD + WD 3200 Belkin 300GB 7200rpm
Nameplate Standard Nameplate (Alienware M17x)
Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Professional, 64bit,
CD ROM/DVD ROM Slot-Loading Dual Layer (DVD+-RW, CD-RW)
Sound Internal High-Definition 5.1 Surround Sound Audio
Wireless Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200(top of the line)
Bluetooth Internal Wireless Bluetooth® 2.1 with EDR

Mine is in my sig just wanted to know what ones better and i think mine is with the i7 core and video card thanks again Dallers.

 

Umm your choice but I would laugh at him.

I7 vs C2D extreme
GDDR5 vs GDDR3

All the other stuff makes no difference price wise they may be similiar because the Alienware series are expensive but you are just going to swap into older technology.

 

Ya im going to keep mine just wanted a socond opinion lol my G7 runs great one had one thing that did work right and it was fixed wiht help from people on this sit and it was the audio lock-up with the sound blaster program the laptop runs everything maxed out dont know what FPS are never benched marked it but i have no slow downs and i play all the new shooters out