Anandtech Preppin x7200(ava direct) review

As the title says it, anandtech is bound to have in a week or so a x7200 for reeview from avadirect.
Here's a preview.
Who Says Bigger Isn't Better? Clevo X7200 with 480M SLI Available from AVADirect - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News

 

I have to say that I keep getting disappointed with the lack of affordable GPU options...

 

Please bump the post when they put the review online.

 

There is GTX 460M with more than enough performance at reasonable price. Also ATi HD 5850/5870 with GDDR5 memory is very powerful and cheap. ATi HD5650 is midrange GPU but very very cheap but I guess you are talking about X7200 options so stick with GTX 460M....

 

The whole point of this thing is high end.

 

I still have my doubts about the high end part. If we could test the x7200 with 2x5870m vs 2x480m, that would give a clearER picture.

 

There is nothing to test. 2x480 is at most 10% faster than 2x5870 but costs 1500 euro more.

You do the math.

 

I just checked the avadirect website, the only gpu options I get are 480m and 480m sli.

Yes, but I don't understand why they only offer the most expensive gaming GPU available. It like only allowing you to choose the six-core CPU.

I suspect Clevo had a deal with nVidia. More options = good, after all... both for the consumer and the seller. I don't think limiting the GPU options to one would increase sales, after all.

 

It may not increase sales, but it may still increase their revenue. Despite the ridiculous prices of GTX480M and especially of GTX480 SLI there appears to be a very decent demand for these configurations. I mean just look at the fact that the SLI configurations are currently out of stock. Of course, maybe Clevo/Sager/resellers simply expected to sell very few units with the SLI initially, given its price, but I personally doubt that version It would be interesting to know in total how many units with SLI have been sold so far

 

I dont have any doubts honestly... SLI scales better then Crossfire and SLI works in more games then Crossfire currently... Being a Crossfire owner on my desktop i can tell you hands down id rather have Nvidia cards as lately more and more games dont work with both cards.. This forces you to run in single card mode otherwise performance gets crippled with both cards enabled and ATI has not done anything to address this...

As for the price differences yeah the 480m is insanely more expensive then the ATI offering so i certainly see why most would prefer ATI even with its short comings but from a pure performance perspective Nvidia will hold the crown...

 

Here it is:
AVADirect Clevo X7200: Six Cores, SSD RAID, and GTX 480M SLI Yields World's Fastest DTR Notebook - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News

 

I would like to see a system with 980X+5870x2 tested both stock and OC'ed before drawing any conclusions.
10% is what you get from a couple of reviews. I have seen what Hellcry did with his machine and honestly, didn't notice any extra % difference.
Of course 480M should be stronger in tessellation (which still is a crap, IMHO. Like those 3D laptop screens...The idea is interesting but the reality sux ).

And I mostly agree with Quad regarding the CF and SLI, BUT... really wanna see how a M5870 CF performs when paired with an extreme desktop CPU.
We might get surprised

 

Yeah you've got the point!