GTX 675m vs 670m in Clevo p150em

I am looking to get the clevo p150em next month, and trying to decide between 675 and 670 cards. i personally lean towards the 675 because of its 10~20% more performance and the fact its $100 more which i could still afford. 680 is out of the question, simply too expensive. I will be using the laptop for the next 4 years, and hope it will be able to run most new games on high (not ultra) 1080p for the next 2~3 years. after that i dont mind runing games on medium. i saw on youtube that the 675 temp is still acceptable (correct me if i am wrong). i am looking to do maybe a 50~100mhz overclocking for core and maybe 100~150 for memory.

So please let me know what you guys think thanks!

p.s. i only need about 20 or low 20s fps to play a game

 

get the 7970m instead. double the performance of the 670m and takes same power consumption or takes 60w less then a 675m and is like 60-80% faster.

 

7970 is $200 over the 670 though, kinda out of my range

 

how about if i downgrade my display to glare type (had matte before) and ram from 1600 to 1333? that would save $60 with which i could upgrade to 7970 what do you guys think?

 

7970m upgrade is well worth it. 670m is basically a 570m computer so it will depriciate very quickly. In 2 years time entry level gpu should perform similar to the 670m. Currently mid range gpu like the 7850/7870m perform similar.

Also the newer gpus weigh less, require mainly less cooling and take less power.

 

Save up or look for a good deal. Dell outlet normally have great deals on new systems a month or 2 after release.

 

http://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/....aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=dfh&cs=ukdfh1&puid=fce54029

Here is a 580m cheap m17x r3 but I don't look at 580m prices.

Here is a 6970m crossfire m18x:

http://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/....aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=dfh&cs=ukdfh1&puid=7a550fec

I would advise waiting for the new 7970m and 680m's though but just a general pricing info on how cheap dell outlet is normally although prices are quite high compared to before at the time.

 

I kinda have my eyes set on the clevo. I don't buy dell

What did u mean by waiting for 680 and 7970, I thought they are available already

 

Go with the 7970m with the downgraded ram/screen. Its going to be double the performance of the 675m. You can ALWAYS upgrade ram in the future and for cheap, and matte vs glossy isnt a big deal IMO. You said 680m is out of the question, well guess what? the 7970m gives you the same performance for a wayyy cheaper price. Top of the line man.

 

meant on the dell outlet new machines become available cheap mainly customer returns refurbished.

I would save up as $200 is not much compared to the cost of the machine.

 

hows enduro for the 7970m though? I have heard bad things about it :S

 

Well its worth getting the 7970m, most manufacturers fix the bugs and the 7970m being a high end part it should be fixed soon enough.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/677531-amds-support-ticket-7970m-enduro.html

 

also, how much is it possible to overclock the 7970? how much heat does it create (or less) over the 675? will the p150em case be able to handle the overclock?

 

I'd say that it'd be worth it to downgrade the RAM and upgrade to a 7970m. The 7970m's performance is going to blow the 675m out of the water. It's the flagship card. In the long run, the RAM speed's going to be negligible for gaming and the graphics card's going to be what's most important. If you feel the need down the road, it's a lot easier and cheaper to upgrade ram than a graphics card.

And don't worry about the 680m, since the 7970m's more or less on par with it (bad drivers at the moment aside) but $300 less.

 

It has some great overclocking potential, somewhere in the high 6, low 7000 3dmark11 scores. Heat wise its about the same or less than the 675, and I cant answer your last question because I dont have the p150em but everything I read about the 7970m show its a great card. If you want top of the line gaming performance you want a 7970m or a 680m, end of story.

Enduro is young just like Optimus was a year ago so give it time and it will get better. Regardless you can head over to the Sager/Clevo forum and read up on the 7970m, all you see there is great things.

 

i think i am gonna get a 7970 then its only around $20 more expensive than the 675 after i downgrade the RAM and screen.

One question: is the 7970 able to run Physx? like in games like batman arkham city. i think physx is only avaible to nvidia cards or both? Thanks

 

Well considering the 7970m is a 28nm card and consumes 60w less stock then the 675m you can oc it very well seen 7000 3dmark11 scores on the 7970m. 7970m oc should create similar heat to a stock 675m with same cooling system.

 

You can run physx no matter what, with AMD cards its handled by the CPU instead of the videocard, but yes it still works. The 7970m can max out Batman AC on ultra settings pretty nicely.