Gaming (NVS 5100M vs. QUADRO FX 880M)

Hi

Which one do you recomend for casual gaming?

8540p with 5100M or 8540w with 880M

Price difference is minimal, so i'm going for a configuration that will offer better gaming performance


Thanks

 

Both graficcards use the same hardware, they just have different drivers for professional use. For gaming both should perform very similar. Take the cheaper one, or buy the 8540w with the 1800M.

 

i would recommend going for a 8540w, but with a firepro 5800. then you can modify the official ati radeon drivers (which are meant for gaming, other than the firepro/quadro drivers) to support the gpu and act like a radeon gpu it is based on.

 

Thanks. Well I dont have much choice, it's either 8540p or 8540w with hardware above. Other models are much more expensive.(in Croatia you can onlz buy preconfigured models)

I just wanted to check whats the difference between 880m and 5100m. But Its a great computer anyway

 

if its not very urgent, wait until they get some hardware upgrades (summer-fall '10) or till more models become available in cro. i myself got my 8510p from cro (i was born there, father runs business there) and i was able to choose from lots of pre-configured models at that time (summer '08), so by the time there will be more and more models available.

i awaited the elitebooks 8540 with so much hope to get a successor to that 8510p, but the 5100nvs gpu option of the 8540p is that bad imo. that now im probably forced to wait for the hardware upgrades or the next models, maybe even an envy 15 3rd gen. since the present ones also have some major fails (like additional buttons on the left side and all the ports on the right side only - both VERY annoying when one wants to play games using WSAD/tab/shift/ctrl/F# and isnt left-handed, or the radeon 5830, why not a GDDR5 5770 or a 5850/5870??). fail.

 

Wow, that's the first complaint I've heard about the choice of 5830 in the Envy. Some folks really can't be pleased.

 

well, its the minor complaint of the complaints mentioned, but still, considering all these mobility cards have a 128bit bus, a 5770 with GDDR5 is clearly faster under certain condictions (high resolutions & high AA, else not, of course). not that its something essential (im the first to prefer maxed details over AA and high resolutions), but envy should be top-of-the-line and theres no rerason why not to put a top gpu inside such a product. hopefully at least the envy 17 gets a 5870 with optionable two of them in cf.

but as i said, the 5830 is the lesser complaint, i would have bought the 2nd gen envy 15 at release time in the US if there werent these other fails which really are bad - i tried gaming using all these keys on the left and the mousepad on the right and the additional keys on the left were as much annoying as the ports on the right side blocking your hand and constraining your (USB-!!!)mouse movement area, while playing real-time fps, where both, key stroke precision, as well as a good (and barrier-free) mouse movement area is essential.

 

When I first started using my ENVY 15 to play games the extra row of keys on the left caused a few problems... but within a day or two I stopped hitting them on accident.

As far as the 5830 over the 5770 GDDR5; I'm assuming the choice was made as the 5830's thermal envelope is 24W while the thermal envelope of the 5770 with GDDR5 is 30W.

Back to the OP though - the difference between the NVS 5100M and the QUADRO FX 880M appears to be minimal?

 

For games, yes.