8800M GTX & Clevo D910C Owners

I was just curious to know how many of you D910C owners are getting
the 8800M GTX card single or SLI. Personally I am concidering purchasing one card to begin with even though my notebook is no more than 2 months old. It absolutely blows the 8700M away.

 

Maybe you should read this thread.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=192191

it's long, but well worth reading if the 8800M GTX intrests you.

If you have a Rev. 4 Or Rev. 5 motherboard you can't upgrade without a Motherboard replacement.

Removing the Memory cover, you will find the Rev Number of yours Just below the Memory sockets on the motherboard.

Rev.6 will have plug and play compatablity. But there not released yet.

Edit: Seen in your Sig that you have a Quad, So you have the Rev. 5 Motherboard.

 

Ouch........

 

I will be doing it but I waiting for more information about the new processors. I really am more interested in that at the moment. The cards are a bit more than I expected but the shipping the unit back for another mother board sucks. I would like to keep it to a minimum on the number of trips for that.

 

im back after a long absence.. to the forum,

i have also updated my order now to the NP9262 woohoo.. cant wait till late dec early jan... only had to pay couple hundred more for the upgrade..

 

Did you ask whether you could upgrade it yourself...

I was told you can... Once the new procs come out...
Thats when I will be switching....

Joe

 

I haven't looked into it yet. I am waiting for the final word on the CPU. From what I have read my understanding is that Sager does not want 901C users to do the upgrade themselves. This might change but I have not heard anything as of yet.

 

I really have no option....

I can't do without my box for a day...

So thats what I will be doing..

I talked to Justin a couple weeks ago... And he said I could do it..

I will also wait for the new CPU's... I really think its a waste of time to do an upgrade for only a GPU... Especially since the drivers will suck for a while...

I rather use the box now and upgrade later...

I was even thinking about waiting til after the Peryns...
There suppose to have a direct channel to memory from the CPU, just like AMD... Which will definitely change the motherboard setup again...

My box now screams...

Joe

 

I agree with the waiting for now. Not that the 8800m would not be a good upgrade. But I use my computer as close to 24hrs a day as you can. I typically have 2-3 running like that. I have considered buying a low end machine with the SLI setup and swapping the stuff I want to it and then doing an upgrade to this one. But I haven't been able to justify it yet. I am still very satisfied with this setup. So I will just wait a while and see what happens. Maybe something better will show up in a few months.

 

I'm in the same boat. I use it 10 hrs a day for work, and then a couple hours at night/weekends for gaming.

Being without a computer for work is not an option.

I did send a disgruntled email to Clevo directly... not that anything will come of it. I think it's a bad show to release a rev 5.x board when they knew a rev 6.x board was in the works. Less than 2 months for a board rev with no future knowledge -- I don't think so.

If by some miracle I get a response, I'll share it.