IBM's nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M

I'm looking for a good notebook that can handle games such as CS:S, Call of Duty 2, the flight simulators, halo, and then halo 2, and i really love this new IBM they just put out... and i'm thinking if i configure it like so..

T7300 2.0 ghz C2D
4 GB ram
Vista Business 64
1 GB turbo memory
100 GB HDD 7,200 rpm
nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M

And i'm wondering if the nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M is good enough to play those games and possibly some of those games in the future. Does anyone have any reviews or knowledge about it? Is it part of the new DX10 line of gpus? What is it comparable to? the Go 7400 or 7600?

Thanks guys, i really like this laptop because it's IBM and it comes with 4 gigs of ram for under $2000

 

I hope you do not mind if I add to your post. How much dedicated ram does the nVidia Quadro NVS 140M have?

 

I have no idea, i posted to find out, i'm finding little info online about it. The thing is, the ram right now is on sale, and i'm afraid that if i wait and review it a lot before i get it, then i'll lose that deal.

 

You don't need 4 GB of RAM. Equip it with 2 GB - 4 GB is just overkill. Most modern applications don't need it.

Benchmarks say the Quadro NVS140M gets close to the X1600/Go 7600 series of cards. So, it's inbetween a Go 7400 and Go 7600.

128 MB

 

Hmm... i was kinda hoping for more vram, but i guess it's alright. they say...
"Workers who require plenty of graphics power will appreciate the Nvidia Quatro NVS 140M card that comes with this configuration. We saw a solid score of 5,244 on our 3DMark03 test, which means you should expect a silky-smooth Vista Aero experience. This GPU also has enough oomph for some gaming on the side; it produced a very good 56 fps when we ran F.E.A.R. in autodetect mode (800 x 600-pixel resolution)."

so i guess that's not a bad framerate, but i'm wondering if it's DX10 compatible?

 

The NVS 140M is a full DX10 compatible card. The low score in 3DMark03 sort of tells you its unpredictable performance in games. The 56fps at such low configurations in F.E.A.R isn't very impressive for a DX10 card.

 

The Quadros are not built for gaming, so they will get low scores (as to be expected). These are for more rendering type work.

 

You'll get better performance in a game on the Quadro NVS 140M than the Geforce Go 7400, but I know that's not too reassuring, considering the Go 7400 can't handle Supreme Commander or anything that new at all

 

Yeah, i don't know, i'd rather spend like $2000 on something that will play more games

 

You should consider some of the new Asus or Compal offerings - laptops like the Asus C90, G1S, and Compal IFL90 will come with the Geforce 8600M GT, which is more than powerful enough to last for a while, and all can be found for $2000 or less.

 

Or, alternatively, if you're after a Thinkpad, wait for the 15.4" widescreen Thinkpad T61p, which will have the nVidia Quadro FX 570M.

Not sure how it shakes out compared to the GeForce 8XXX series, but it should definitely beat the NVS 140M in the 14.1" T60.

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Never try 64 in 2007, it will only bring you trouble. Lenovo had removed vista 64 from its website. Confirmed. Only business vista 32 available now.

 

I don't mean to hijack the thread but I'm pretty new to the whole notebook scene. My current pc is nearing 5 years old now and it has AMD 2800, ATi 9800 128mb, 1 gb DDR400.

It was pretty good with games up until recently. It didn't run fear well at all though. I'm just wondering how the notebooks now compare (or even the next generation like HD 2600XT with a santa rosa chip and 2+ gb of ram).

I'm looking for a laptop for college and since I'm traveling far I don't want to bring xbox or anything..

 

Where did you find this information? I am looking at the T61 but holding out for a 15.4" screen. I have heard in some other threads that Lenovo customer service is telling people that it will be available around June 4th, but I can't find any other information. Have you heard when the T61p will be available and what all it will offer?

 

June 5th apparently is some critical date for the T61p (launch date? announcement date?)

It's coming with the Nvidia Quadro FX 570M graphics card. Most other features should be the same.

 

I just bought a t61 configured exactly as you want it, cost me 1200 bucks and its amazing!. The quadro handles cs source at full graphics at about 90 fps!!!. Also the battery life on it is great to! (recommend the 7 cell battery!)

 

Wow! You dug deep to find this thread

 

Quadro NVS140M is based on GForce 6800M G/GS, it is 10 times faster in benchmark than iGMA X3100. The following link list all video chips performance ranking, NVS140M is in 3rd class:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVidia-Quadro-NVS-140M.4216.0.html

I just bought a T61 with 2GB RAM, Core2Duo T7250 with NVS140M, very fast. However, it consumes energy crazy. Without using WLan, the 6 cell battery only support 2 hours run time, suppose 4 hours. The system shows NVS 140M has 512MB video memory, based on Lenovo's spec., it should be 128MB.

Don't go for Vista, it is quiet slow, the best is XP pro. Especially 64bit Vista, you will have a lot of problems in web browsing and so on. If the application is not 64bit, runs on 32bit will only make 64bit system worse.

You don't need 4GB RAM if you are using 32bit Windows system The 32bit CPU can only map 2 to power of 32 (4GB) memory address, since 1 bit is used for parity check, 32 bit OS can only access 2GB RAM (2 to power 31). You are wasting your money if you have 2GB RAM can never be mapped.

Get a faster rpm SATA hard drive instead (7200rpm rather than 5400rpm), you will see much better performance.

 

Hey guys,

I have an inspiron e1705, but it's getting old, and I want something smaller. I was looking at Dell's Latitude D830, and I was wondering, since the latitude comes with the quadro NVS card which can't handle games particularly well, would it be possible for me to perform a switch (the inspiron has a geForce 7800 in it), or would that be totally out of the question? I'm trying to avoid buying one of the regular Inspirons as that would force me to switch to Vista - not something i'm looking forward to just yet.