M1730 9800 Gtx Sli

HI guys just registered to the forums so i thought id post, dno if anyone else is aware, as i havnt found any chatter about it yet. But the m1730 now comes with 9800 GTX SLI combo in Australia, ordered mine the other day and am waiting on it to arrive estimated about 5 more working days. Exiting times. Ive also noticed this variation is not avaliable on the US site which also suprises me ?

any how just thought it was a interesting piece of info to share



Anyhow ciao for now

 

Thanks for the info...

...hopefully the 8800's drop in price.

 

Not if they're selling the 9800M GT's for an extra $200+

 

Here in Spain the 8800M are still available. So you can choose 8700M, 8800M or 9800M.

 

Interesting! Dell dropped their 8700GT SLI option in New Zealand at the start of the week. The 8800GTX SLI is the only option but is now $400 cheaper at $4299NZD.

Can't see the 9800GTX option on the Aus site. Do you mind if I ask what the price is?

Edit - nevermind, found it. I'd still love to see an XPS with just a single card... could save $1000 off the price and still kick serious butt.

 

Well from what many have posted on the M1730 Owners thread the 9800M GTX will give you the same performance as the 8800M GTX so for people like me having this option available is just wasting money needlessly.

 

Wow, that sucks.

 

a small performace gain is definately gonna be there, if its worth it who knows. As im buying a fresh laptop not upgrading and existing m1730, i chose the 9800 gtx's so we will see i guess. Price is good, i paid $4200 AUS for the 9800 GTX SLI and a 3 yr unconditional warranty. Rest of the parts are normal T9300 CPU, and 4 gig ram.

Last month was gonna purchase the laptop with 8800 GTX sli and it was the same price as i payed now at that stage so im more than wrapped with the setup etc.

 

It's probably a very small gain, if that, but at least it's the same you would have paid for last month for a supposedly better card.

 

Congrats. Performance gain though, will be too little. What you will have, is the benefit of double the texture-memory, hands down. This could help you with certain poorly patched games. I'd say you could probably run STALKER Clear Sky without half the problems that the 8800 owners seem to face.

 

The 9800M GTX SLi will give you better performance as long as the CPU is an X9000 at at least 3 Ghz. My T8300 bottlenecks me in almost every game.

 

does anyone have the 3dmark benchmark for this setup ???

thanks