More CES news, mobile 8x00 sightings.

http://www.anandtech.com/displays/showdoc.aspx?i=2904&p=14

I read the CES article on the front page but this shows fully named 8400 and 8600 graphics chips, plus the 8600 is confirmed to be MXM II.

 

That's great news. I'm interested in seeing what the go 8600 can do.

I'm wondering when all these new systems with next-gen GPUs are going to hit the market--in the US in particular .

 

Quite interesting, thanks for the news.

I'm starting to get anxious now for the Centrino Pro platform to come out - 800MHz FSB Core 2 Duos, i965 chipsets, NAND flash memory, and now possibly DX10 dedicated GPUs . . sounds gourmet.

 

AND the purple Centrino Pro Logo...don't forget!

This summer will definitely be an exciting time to buy a new notebook, especially if that go 8600 is available by then .

 

What about the possibility of upgrading existing MXM II notebooks to directx 10, which I believe the 32bit version of vista supports though I could easily be wrong.

 

Great to hear this news, bad for me as I will play my ongoing "waiting" game AGAIN! lol.....
Hope it will hit the shop in May or June same time as my Company's Bonus, I will have more cash for the machine then

 

I wonder how much of this is just for show. Anandtech said that the mainstream desktop chips G84 and G86 won't be available until April or May. It would be very interesting if the mobile versions shipped before their desktop brothers.

On a side note, I wonder why the Go 8600 only has 256MB of RAM. nVidia seemed to be pushing prety hard to push 512MB into the mid-range with the Go 7600 and Go 7700. One model isn't too representative though so we'll see. I doubt even the Go 8600 will generally need 512MB, especially when nVidia is releasing a desktop 8800GTS with only 320MB of RAM. (What a wierd number).

 

I wonder if the new cards can use for XP SP2? Dont like Vista as I'm not a "DUMMY" for testing Intel new product

 

Yea with all of this new tech coming out for vista (8800GTS, 8800GTX etc) I doubt Microsoft is going to have a hard time finding testers, Myself included

 

The 8800 has 6, 64bit memory controllers to give it the 384bit memory bus, there is no combination of equal standard memory chips to get 256mb of ram As for the ram amount, to keep costs and power consumption down, high speed memory of high capacity is expensive and with the large and expensive chips already. If you switched to lower speed higher capacity chips you probably loose more performance.

 

Yup, it certainly does.

 

Silly question, but still, let's say the laptop you're using now has a go7700 that supports MXM II, so if you have the go8600, you can switch it. Correct??

 

I have no practical experience with MXM, so can't say for sure, but that was the entire point in the standard, so it should be possible.

 

Yes, it probably is possible, however the thermal output of the Go 8600 needs to be known before you do upgrade. That way you can make sure the cooling in the notebook can handle the extra heat, if any. Personally, I don't think the slower Go 8X00 series cards will get all that hot, because so many tweaks will be made to reduce their thermal output, that they will still be very powerful and still have very good powerformance.

 

Does any notebook whit 7700 has MXM II ?? Asus notebooks don't have that right?

 

I don't think any other notebook uses an MXM Type II card. Asus certainly don't use it, although it has been reported that they use a sort of MXM, or rather removable graphics card. But it is highly unlikely that it is upgradeable. The thing with MXM is that most manufacturers don't go to all the trouble of adding upgradeable graphics to their notebooks, because they see it as an extra cost, and they know that only a small percentage on buyers will know, or even want to upgrade the graphics.

 

MXM and ATI's failed AXIOM format were designed to make it easier for manufacturers to upgrade the video cards in notebooks, not end users.

 

I'll also add that MXM has seen decreasing industry support lately. The guy to talk to is Ice Tea. He knows MXM intimately.

 

I hope it ll be in the Macbook Pro.

 

I second that.

 

Why would you want a gaming chip in a macbook?

 

Macbook Pro, not Macbook. And well, to play games perhaps?

While we (Mac users) might still have to boot to winblowz to play most games, at least we have the choice of using a (in our opinion) better OS for everything else