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    Are there any really good laptops with a vid card other than Geforce 8

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by avi85, Jul 5, 2008.

  1. avi85

    avi85 Notebook Consultant

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    specifically:
    mobility 3850x2, 3870
    9700m-gt
    or something in the same league, but not GeForce 8...

    Preferably 17" but 15 might also do...
     
    avi85, Jul 5, 2008
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  2. Voodoofreak

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    I believe Toshiba x305 will have a 9800M GTX in it. However, it will be released later in the month.
     
    Voodoofreak, Jul 5, 2008
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    Yes .
     
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  4. avi85

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    feel free to give examples :rolleyes:
     
    avi85, Jul 5, 2008
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  5. DFI Fan

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    Dell Studio 17 has a HD3650. Studio 15 has a HD3450. Many other laptops have these as well.

    More laptops with Geforce 9 series and HD4000 series graphics will be coming out within the coming months. Except companies to incorporate GF9 and HD4000 graphics when they redesign there laptops around Montieva and any other future Intel notebook chipset platforms.
     
    DFI Fan, Jul 5, 2008
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  6. KGann

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    Why are you staying away from the 8 series? You realize most of the 9 series are just die-shrunk 8 series, correct?
     
    KGann, Jul 5, 2008
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    he probably doesnt.. People still have thoughts that the 9 series will have the same leap the 8 series had over the 7 series.
     
    brainer, Jul 5, 2008
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    yeah.. people still think that.
    i wudnt expect a huge performance increase between the 8 series and the upcoming 9's, having that said, if i were to buy a laptop i would not wait for the upcoming series! :cool:
     
    yz_991, Jul 5, 2008
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  9. lord_shar

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    The primary features the 9000m series will offer for laptops are 1) CUDA/PhysX physics hardware acceleration and 2) Hybrid SLI for lower power consumption when not gaming. Other than that, they will be pretty similar to current 8000m GPU's.
     
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  10. JCMS

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    Except that the Geforce 8 can do CUDA too (CUDA is Nvidia's USP architecture) so they will be able to do physX too.
     
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  11. lord_shar

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    Thanks for the correction. This means that the only worthwhile perk about the 9000m's is the hybrid SLI.
     
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    Isn't the 9 series also going to be a die shrink, at least at the high end, meaning lower power consumption and less heat? It's not a huge benefit, but it is a real one.
     
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  13. Lord Egregious

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    I was wondering about the 9 series here too. I'm using the 8600 right now and I just want something a little better. Not even a huge jump but just a little more power than I have now. The 9800 will be the die shruken 8800 right and thats better than the 8600? If so I'll be looking for that.
     
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    the g8 people would probably have a to wait a little bit longer to get the phyx since nVidia seems to be treating its newer customers first. And Hybrid SLI doesn't work unless its with an Nvidia chipset, and there aren't any around yet.

    @Egregious, going from the 8600 to 8800gtx would be a HUGE jump, cost and performance wise. Going to a 9800gtx would be bigger in those to categories too.
     
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  15. adyingwren

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    But doesn't lower thermal and energy requirements mean they can stuff more graphical power into the same laptop?

    And wouldn't it theoretically help any overclocking?
     
    adyingwren, Jul 5, 2008
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    Is there going to be a 9600M series?
     
    benx009, Jul 5, 2008
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  17. JCMS

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    The G96 is a die shrunk G84 (G84 is a 8600GT/S, 8600M GT, 8700M GT, 9500M GS, 9650M GS, G96 is 9500GT, 9600M GS, 9600M GT, 9700M GT). G92 is a die shrunk G80 (G80 is 8800GTX, GTS 320 & 640, G92 is everything else named 88xx or 98xx + 9600GSO).

    There is the G92b, a 55nm G92 that is the desktop 9800GTX+ but doesn't seem like it's gonna be the 9800M GTX.
    There's also the rumored G96b and G94b, 55nm, would be 9650M GT and 9800M GTS

    From the specs, the desktop 9600GT's mobile counterpart is the 9800M GT
     
    JCMS, Jul 5, 2008
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    No need to wait for us XPS M1730 owners we have a dedicated PhysX card in our XPS´s ;)
     
    Magnus72, Jul 5, 2008
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  19. Lord Egregious

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    I needed a laptop for college in August but after using this m1530 for two weeks I figure I'd better just wait till something new comes out. The 8600 is just under what I expect my graphics card to be able to do. Luckily I'm heavy into TF2 and that runs on my current old as dirt desktop so I can hold out some more.
     
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    Alienware already has their variant of hybrid-SLI working on the m15x. They refer to it as "binary graphics."
     
    lord_shar, Jul 6, 2008
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    The reason I want to avoid the 8-series is because of this, most people seem to believe that the problem relates only to the 8-series.
     
    avi85, Jul 6, 2008
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    The 8800mGTX/GTS are G92m cores.
     
    KGann, Jul 6, 2008
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