Look what santa brought me!

I wonder how 8800M GTX in SLI will perform

 

Well x2 the 3Dmark. Id say about 15-17,000.

Going to be more a question of drivers and support in VISTA though for SLI with games. Look at the 8700's for instance. Have to wonder how hot two of those are going to run as well, need some real good cooling.

As i said, at idle the GPU is about 40*c, at load it goes up to about 64*c. Imagine two of those in the same unit @ 60*c... plus the CPU..... ill be astonished if it dont just melt lol. I assume AW are using some new cooling solution, perhaps semi-liquid cooled?

Eitherway the battery life is going to take a massive dip with 2 cards. The current M1730 gives about 40-50ins battery life i believe. The 8800 might be efficient but i doubt its any less power-hungry, especially with more than 3x the Stream Processors per GPU. Chuck in a poweful CPU, some HDD's in RAID, couple of gigs of RAM.... Alienware must have some uber secret weapon for cooling. Though i guess battery power is not a big issue, these are mainly desktop replacements. But still an hour or two on battery is always nice if you want to go for a wonder round the house freely. Playing Crysis in the garden would be kinda cool

 

man im excited to get my quad core now

ughhhh crysis and every game is gonna be fun to play

and best of all my system is going to be more STABLE than my pos desktop i have, i cant play anygame without it eaither freezing or crashing

 

Hey Rob,

I have the exact same laptop coming except that its 4GB 800mhz w/ heat spreaders ram instead of 3. Is ur ram 667 mhz or 800 mhz?

 

667MHz.

Im told the current Intel Chipset only supports 667Mhz RAM anyway, and adding faster RAM works, but provides no actual benifit *shrugs*.

 

Yes, that's true, running 800MHz ram on a chipset that only supports 667Mhz, will make the ram run at 667Mhz. Atop that, running mixed 533Mhz ram with 667Mhz, will make all of the ram run at 533Mhz speed.


Whoo, looking at your benchmarks just makes me want that damn upgrade even more! Why oh why do us americans have to wait until next month on the 15th Then even more time for shipping

 

ya, execpt the upgrade was free for me to get 4GB 800mhz Extreme Performance w. heat speaders RAM at pcmicroworks, so i choose that anyways

 

Just had ago with COD4.

Smooth as butter @ 1920x1200 with 2x AA. The detail was set as high as it could go in the demo, but im assuming there is a "High" or "Extreme" option in the full game. Anyway it looked stunning at the settings the demo offered so

 

Actually no, there isn't a High or Extreme. There is "Normal" lol.

 

Don`t worry about cooling for the SLI version. The D901C is already handling 4 CPUs, 3 hdds and 2 GPUs very easily and gives a battery life of something over an hour. And is pretty cool ( considering it has 4 fans...). How`s Crysis for you Rob ?

 

Could run better but then people with Quad-Core's and SLI 8800 Ultra's no doubt say the same thing too . There is a huge improvement from what it ran like on the 8700 GT (SLI), and you can actually run with HIGH detail and see some of the eye candy that makes it worth playing. In "DX10" mode the demo ran slideshow like on the 8700. I had to switch to DX9 to get a playable framerate. However with the 8800 DX10 mode is perfectly playable, and provides a smooth enough frame rate at reasonable resolutions.

With the exception of Crysis, I have not found anything that wont run @ max detail at native resolution (1900x1200) without any detrimental effects on frame rate. Definatly a true gamers laptop, and i bet enough to convince even hardened desktop users to take a second look at notebooks.

 

Sounds like a nice laptop, still it´s a desktop 8800GTS in that notebook if you directly compare it to a desktop card that is, nothing special performance wise about that if you own a high end desktop system. Though for notebook users it´s good of course

hardened desktop users probably doesn´t need a gaming laptop in the first place. I am one of those though I got myself over 2 years ago a XPS M170.

 

Actually, I think that the 8800mGTX is comparable 2 the 8800 GT, which gets a 3dmark06 score of 10K, if the 8800mGTX benchmarked in XP, then it can easily pass the 9.5K barrier

 

2 8800gt?! that single cards get 10+ marks, as far as i've seen

 

Think he meant 2=to?

 

lol true that, my bad then. math's taking over me right now

 

How's the framerate if you try playing Crysis on DX10 Very High settings at 1024x768 and 1280x800?

 

No the 8800GT has 112 shaders compared to 96 of the 8800M GTX and you can bet you can clock the 8800GT desktop really high compared to clocking the 8800M GTX in a notebook. The 8800M GTX is the same as the 8800GTS though with 512MB Memory instead of 320 or 640MB memory of the desktops.

 

Are you planning to install XP on this machine Rob?

 

can you post solid benchmarks and pictures of ur laptop?.....plus temperatures when you are gaming and stuff
and i want to see screenshots of crysis on your rig.....

 

O M G

Im whining so bad...

I WANT MY M15X NOWWWWWWWWW

Jeez.... stupid alienware decides to wait forever...

 

How's the framerate if you try playing Crysis on DX10 Very High settings at 1024x768 and 1280x800?

 

I hate you.. why because you crushed my dreams and then used a 16 wheeler truck and went reversed and if that wasn't enough with your C2D extreme you had to run me over again with your Amazing geforce card.... you made me feel so pathetic and insignificant today i think i will cry myself to sleep

But yes enjoy <.<
lol jk

nice system

 

Yea, Rob, I was curios about fps, and detail settings. I`m playing Crysis on med/high now with the 169.28 driver at over 20+ fps. That on a NON OCed 7950GTX ! And 1024x768.... So I would expect the 8800M GTX to run all high and 1024x768 at over 30+ fps...AT LEAST
Use fraps and post some screenshots

 

You spoiled, rotten... err, I mean, congratulations

 

Damn Rob thats a beast. Puts my M9750 to shame.