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    Toshiba Satellite X205 Question

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by ogrebattle, Nov 3, 2007.

  1. ogrebattle

    ogrebattle Notebook Guru

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    Hi,
    Is 256mb 8700gt better than SLI 8600m in Toshiba Satellite X205-Sli?
    Any personal thoughts woudl be helpful. I am worried about drivers and Vista and SLi. I could care less about benchmarks, resolutions, or frames-just solid and uninterrupted gameplay at high settings for games such as oblivion, crysis, cod4, etc. Any sugestions/thoughts/ingame screens with these toshiba notebooks?

    I want a notebook that will last for a while. I simply want the laptop to arrive and play well...any thoghts on stock cards/drivers from tosbhia on these X205 notebooks?
     
    ogrebattle, Nov 3, 2007
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  2. sgtmatt1

    sgtmatt1 Notebook Evangelist

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    The best you can get is an 8700M GT in SLI
    And i think an 8600M GT in SLI is better then one 8700M GT
     
    sgtmatt1, Nov 3, 2007
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  3. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    The SLI'd 8600M-GTs > single 8700M-GT, so yes if you're gaming get the SLI version of the X205. I believe the version with the single 8700M-GT will have better battery life though.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Nov 3, 2007
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  4. IWantMyMTV

    IWantMyMTV Notebook Evangelist

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    8800M rumored to be just around the corner, and both Toshiba and Dell are rumored to have notebooks with the chips.

    I would say rumor has a lot of merit especially with the Dell XPS M1730...the timing (two weeks) may be off a bit though. However, with all the high profile games being released over the next few weeks, it would be in nVidia's and Dell's and Toshiba's best interests to have the high end chip on the market sooner rather than later. High end games do drive hardware sales.
     
    IWantMyMTV, Nov 3, 2007
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