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    9800M GTX Question...

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by jmorrissey3, Jul 16, 2008.

  1. jmorrissey3

    jmorrissey3 Notebook Guru

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    I saw on Xoticpc and on PowerNotebooks sites that both the NP9262 and NP5796 have an option for the 9800M GTX with 1024mb in August...does that mean that you could have two of those in the 9262 with 2048mb in SLI? I also wanted to verify that the NP5796 will support 1024mb of vram? I have a 5791 now, but am thinking about something for my son, who games all the time....I would think that the more vram the better. I just wanted to make sure that I was not misunderstanding anything. Also, do you know if I would be able to swap out my 7950GTX for a 9800M GTX when they are available?

    John
     
    jmorrissey3, Jul 16, 2008
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  2. Shane@DARK.

    Shane@DARK. Company Representative

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    As I stated in this thread, the 9800M GTX will be available in the 9262 in SLI, there's just currently no ETA for when it will happen. And since the NP5796 supports the 9800M GTX, in turn it supports the 1024MB of video memory. I'm not sure about the whole swapping thing, I'm not that up do date with the older Sager models. Maybe Justin from XoticPC can help on that topic?
     
    Shane@DARK., Jul 16, 2008
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  3. dit_xi

    dit_xi Notebook Evangelist

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    9800GXT in SLI, whoohoot! Now all I need is for Clevo to add an HDMI port the the D901C and I'm sold!
     
    dit_xi, Jul 16, 2008
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  4. cdnalsi

    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

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    Yeah, if there's an option for SLi 9800m GTX, it would be 2 cards of 1GB each. So yeah :D
     
    cdnalsi, Jul 16, 2008
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    aznofazns Performance Junkie

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    I don't think the 9800m GTX can effectively use an entire GB of ram, especially when there are two in SLI. If they had 512mb each there probably would be little to no performance difference.
     
    aznofazns, Jul 16, 2008
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  6. JCMS

    JCMS Notebook Prophet

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    256bits bus= Can use 512MB

    And you don't add memory on SLI. You only add memory on X2 cards.

    It's only marketing. Notice on how they don't do that on desktop chips
     
    JCMS, Jul 16, 2008
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  7. walidism

    walidism Notebook Consultant

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    yea that would be great, but honestly, i believe that with a dvi port, you can still connect to your hdtv using the dvi/hdmi cable, and if you have external audio, just route ur pc to that... unless you want your sound to go through the tv itself.
     
    walidism, Jul 16, 2008
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  8. dit_xi

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    Some of us just hate having to hook up separate audio and video cables. I'm lazy, what can I say....
     
    dit_xi, Jul 16, 2008
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    Forgive me if I misunderstood, are you saying the 9800m gtx has a 256 bit bus and can't use the whole gig?
     
    Thug21, Jul 16, 2008
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  10. JCMS

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    Exactly. GDDR3 cannot produce enough bandwidth for 1GB on a 256bits bus. That's why Nvidia used weird numbers on the first 8800s. 768MB @384bits and 640mb @320bits and 384MB @192bits on the 8800GS/9600GSO. The rule of thumb is bus width x2 for the maximum memory. Of course memory type/clocks can alter that. (If it had GDDR5 it probably could).

    It's all marketing, it probably doesn't cost much more and it's really attractive to non-techy people.
     
    JCMS, Jul 16, 2008
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  11. sujinge9

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    Dang, and it seems like the 9800gt isn't as good as the 8800gtx, so it seems like I'm loosing either way.
     
    sujinge9, Jul 16, 2008
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  12. Alfonz

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    So when are we getting the 9800 GTX in SLI??
     
    Alfonz, Jul 17, 2008
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