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    Could a T7500 bottleneck the 8800m?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Hackman84, Aug 2, 2007.

  1. Hackman84

    Hackman84 Notebook Guru

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    Hi sorry for this post, I know there's no info on the 8800m yet.
    But from your experience with the 7950 do you think the CPU could limit the new mobile DX10 highend GPUs?
    I thought C2D like the T7300 or T7500 should suffice but now that I'm close to buying (m570ru) I'm getting cold feet. :(
    Thanks for your input! :)
     
    Hackman84, Aug 2, 2007
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  2. bazald

    bazald Notebook Consultant

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    As someone who has actually done some dev using DX9 and OpenGL, I can say with a great deal of certainty that the CPU will not limit the mobile 7950 GTX. C2D is such a vast jump from P4 that I'm stunned. As DX10 is supposed to put more work in the GPU or driver, the CPU load should actually drop if anything AFAIK.
     
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    Thanks, that's what I thought but better safe than sorry ;)
     
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    The 8800M doesn't even exist right now - however, you can check desktop reviews of the 8800 card with different CPUs and see how much the benchmarks differ. A desktop 8800 vs. a mobile 8800M is not exactly an apples to apples comparison but if the desktop card isn't bottlenecked by a slower CPU then you know the mobile one won't be. :)
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Aug 2, 2007
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