harware cycles...nvidia 96xx m series

I've only recently begun to take an interest in laptop hardware, so please forgive me if I'm asking stupid questions! I was wondering what nvidia's track record for notebook graphics card releases is; i.e. is it usually a yearly thing, or do they release new cards when they feel the market is ready for them? I'm wondering when we're likely to be seeing the "9600 GT's" or whatever they call them...

Also, is there any chance they could release a souped up 8600 GT - clocked slightly higher or improved in some other way? I'm just procrastinating about whether I can stick with my current laptop long enough until they come out without going insane!

Thanks!

 

The chances of them re-releasing the 8600M GT OC'd at stock is pretty well non-existent. In a marketing perspective it makes no sense, and if it won't make them money there's no way they're going to do it.

What do you have now? I feel for you wanting to upgrade with all the great games coming out, but I'd say it's worth the wait for the next big thing to come out GPU-wise before upgrading. In the end it'll be worth it, as you'll have a hand up over everyone else playing the same games.

 

...currently I have a 4.5 year old laptop with a Pentium 4 2.6GHz processor and integrated intel graphics!!! I haven't been able to run a game for about 2 years...so whatever I get is going to be 10000000000 times better than what I have...

Its just really frustrating: I reckon that notebook gaming is going to really come to life and become a much better experience over the next year, but if I wait I will still check these threads every day and waste a whole load of time which I should be using to prepare for university interviews!

THen again, I'd probs waste it gaming if i did buy a new one now, so its a lose-lose situation really from that perspective!

 

depends on what ur needs are...u can get a good specd dell 1520 for about $1000 right now...if u really want to game and can't or don't want to wait, then get one pretty soon... i got my 1520 in early September and been pretty happy since then

 

I wonder that too. Any news about new nVidia cards or ATIs?

 

not yet, look thru the gaming section more closely and u'll find similar threads

 

a souped up 8600m gt is a 8700m gt. there is possibly a new gaming card coming out next month so you should atleast wait to see that.

 

Does anyone know if the 8700GT has been put into a 15" chassis? I don't think it has, but worth asking I guess...

Also, is there somewhere you can get good quality videos of games running on, for example, an 8600m? It's all very well looking at tonnes of screenshots but you don't really get an idea that way of how a game really plays in my opinion...and youtube ain't great quality

I'm becoming pretty confident that the 8600GT is all i need; it seems to play great looking games at reasonable resolutions and decent frame rates (CoD4 I hope...maybe even give crysis a go at lower settings)

 

Search button is your friend and you wont ever see a 8700m gt in a 15.4 laptop, they can't handle the heat.