So Clevo and Alienware both using desktop i7-4790Ks.
Lenovo apparantly moving towards desktop GTX 980 (if true) in their notebooks.
Big changes coming to notebooks.
wow. I sure hope they are prepared with a decent cooling system.
Yep, you are right. The AW18 is very thick and big for sure. I guess the move from 57W 4940MX to 88W i7-4970K isnt that big really.![]()
I still hope they are upgrading the heatsinks and perhaps moving to bigger fans to accomodate though, just to be safe and to reduce noise and increase airflow. Its still a closed thin box compared to desktops.
Man the Clevo/Alienware guys gonna have much fun overclocking and stuff now
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With the upcoming release of Fury Nano (175W TDP), next years laptops could see desktop CPUs with desktop performance GPUs easily! Both are going to HBM2, but AMD seems better at DirectX12 with less optimized drivers than Nvidia (look for the article about Nvidia complaining it is the code, not their driver/hardware). It will be leaps next year. Also, Intel is claiming Skylake iGPU with 1teraflop; AMD is claiming Zen APU (early 2017) with up to 32GB HBM2 and 4teraflop. Things are going to get insane in the next 2 years!
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Yeah next year with 16nm GPUs from Nvidia plus finally AMD joining the fight with a completely new architecture for mobile will be pretty interesting.
But even now, or hopefully in a month or two, if GTX 990M is launched, 4790K plus GTX 990M SLI will be sweet
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External GPUs is nothing new. Both MSI and Alienware have their little lame GPU box (well its not small though lol)
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http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/08/e...ing-nvidia-amd-graphics-card-war-on-its-head/
Since talking about eGPUs, check this out! the 290X beating a 980Ti in DirectX12
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omg id laugh my butt off if the 990M is just named gtx 980 cuz THATS what itll be @eGPU
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I'd rather have the 4940MX and 980M 8GB than 4790k and 980M 4GB. My bet is on the website just not being updated properly. They've made some serious mistakes in the past on the website. This wouldn't be the first time.Kade Storm likes this. -
Why they still keep a 4710MQ up there while they switch other options with 4790 and 4790K. That's two completely different socket size.
And soldered graphic card should be able to do 980m with 8G and 970m with 6G. Gigabyte's P35 and P37 series can tell you that. Unless that's what Alienware want the size of graphic memory to be like that -
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My guess:
A LOT of copy paste gone wrong there for the Alienware...they must have panicked and reviewed the old model over the weekend before Clevo announces their new fully upgrade-able Skylake models (no there is no new 18" from Clevo).
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Alienware see, Clevo do?
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one thing is for certain: i have no idea when i wanna buy my new laptop now.
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(a desktop 980 costs about 500USD). Two of these cards will certainly deliver extreme performance far superior to any SLi rig out now but the thing is with that much dosh, I might as well build a water cooled quad sli Titan x rig which would completely annihilate any SLi gaming laptops. It will have a longer lifespan too due to the extreme abundance of raw power. A gaming laptop like mine only has 2-3 years in it compared to the 10-15 years a quad sli Titan x rig has. 2-3 years for a 3000+ USD rig, let that sink in. No more gaming laptops for me. Ohhhh and did I mention that a Quad sli Titan x rig IS 8K READY :'(
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I left lulz before sleeping, woke up to lulz.
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i7-6700K and DDR4 would be the bomb for sure
https://www.facebook.com/Alienware?fref=ts
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Dell Mystery Coupons, por favor! 30% off would be nice.
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Clevo lead, Alienware follow I guess?
Well they say its a "limited edition" for the AW18 with 4790K. Perhaps they upgrade once the inventory is empty? I sure hope so -
MSI also already has Skylake-K notebooks (and ASUS should follow soon):
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plus, i just prefer the form factor of a nice laptop over the wires, and clutter, of a desktop.
i don't even play any PC games at the moment ... well ... a more accurate statement would be: there aren't any interesting PC games to play at the moment. that's the main reason why i'm not in any rush to order a new laptop yet. i can wait and see what these different companies have to offer before i make a decision. i will be going with another Sager, though, since my first experience has been mostly positive.jaybee83, moviemarketing and ajc9988 like this. -
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lettuce be cereal ... that is definitely NOT the best of both worlds. i like buying a decked out 17-incher with the top of the line single GPU-setup every 2-3 years. my NP8850 is almost 4 years old and functioning better than the day i got it. i couldn't think of a SINGLE reason why i would even build a desktop. trust me ... i've been thinking about building a $3k-$4k+ desktop system for years now.
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or just put stickers on your rig. What about triple monitor setup?
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Since when? Last I heard, only Clevo is putting socketed desktop Skylake CPUs in their upcoming -DM series single GPU and SLI notebooks. All the other OEMs are sticking with BGA mobile CPUs. The unlocked Skylake laptop CPU referenced in the Hexus article (i7-6820HK I think?) is still BGA like every other mobile CPU.
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Until they come out, and it's confirmed that they act like MQ chips of old where you could run Linpack without throttling if you didn't have a neutered BIOS, assume that they're all pointless for anyone who wants proper CPU performance.
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i was actually thinking about building a HTPC for my girl's dad because he watches his movies off of those free streaming sites. the quality isn't there alot of the times on those sites. -
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Also, there was once a tri-SLI clevo notebook XDTomJGX, ajc9988, jaybee83 and 1 other person like this. -
@D2 Ultima: yes ive heard about that tri-sli notebook! which was the model number? id love to read up on that monster
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nVidia 2015 mobile speculation thread
Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Cloudfire, May 9, 2015.