Quick questions about 8800m and more!

Ok, I am looking to finally get a gaming laptop as my desktop is over 3 years old and giving me hell with everything. I know that a laptop will never out-perform an even priced desktop, but it can't be that huge of a difference as long as most games are playable.

So the first question was, I was reading that the SLI GO 7950 GTX was the way to go over the 8700m. Now I see the 8800m coming out very soon and that it edges out the 7950. However I'm sure it will be very expensive and I don't know if I'll be able to afford two for SLI. So if I am only able to buy one, will it still out perform two 7950's with SLI? If it's not as expensive as I think, I may able to just get two 8800m's, but I doubt it.

And the last two questions are, will a core duo 2ghz setup be good enough for most current games? Lastly is Vista wise to use? I hear many bad things about it and what it does to performance, perhaps XP is better when specifically dealing with games? Thanks

 

For games like Crysis I advice Vista, not that Vista runs Crysis better then XP or something but because you can enable DX 10 effects. There have been some reviews though that DX9 looks as nice as DX 10 with Crysis, so the choice is up to you. You could also go for dual-boot.

The 8800M is better then the 7950GTX. As you can see here in the review of nVidia (I know, it is not the best source because they might want to promote their own product) that the 8800GTX Mobile is faster then SLI 7950GTX! And the 8800GTX is more feature-proof.

The 8800GTX is going to be launched with the Santa Rosa refresh (T9xxx). I find 2.0 GHz a little low for the 8800GTX. I would advic the T9300 (2.4 GHz, 6 MB L2-cache, 800 MHz FSB) with 4 GB of DDR2 (yes I do advice 4 GB) and a fast 7200 rpm prependicular hard drive. But you will need to wait until january before you can configure such a system. But it will be top-notch for 1 year for sure.

Good luck.

Ahmet

 

Thank you for the reply, that would be a monster of a system and I'm not sure if I could afford it. The 2.4 ghz processor I'm sure I could do, I just don't know about 4 gig ram unless its insanely cheap. A 120 gig 7200 drive would probably be easily obtainable.

I read this earlier from Sager:

On November 19th nVIDIA launched the GeForce 8800M GTX, the very latest in mobile graphics, and Sager is pleased to announce it will be one of the first offering this technology to its customers. We will be taking Pre-orders for units featuring this exciting new technology starting December 6th 2007 and will begin shipping later in December.

So it may be sooner than January but that may not be true.

 

I like the M570RU Divine-X, orange stripe with black back cover. I am not exactly sure what it will look like though, I saw a review of the same but older model from the end of august 2007: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/two-middle-weight-gaming-notebooks,review-990-4.html

If it's that same chassis I would be highly interested in it. Is there any way you could answer that for me? Maybe I should just give Eurocom a call. Also would having a 1440x900 native resolution help with fps instead of getting the max 1920x1200?

 

Yeah 1440x900 would help FPS since you can play natively for a pretty long time as compared to 1920x1200 which in my opinion is way to high for laptop gaming in the first place. That is if you are only going to play games. Else a 1920x1200 is very good for graphics works, but 1440x900 is more future proof in regards to gaming nativel and at good fps

 

wernt you temporarily BANNED for constantly trying top get everyone to buy with eurocom? seems your down that path again...


to the OP wait for the 8800m GTX....its about as powerful as SLI 7950GTX from the 3dmark score anyway, its the onlt benchmark we really have at this point to judge.