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    D900F review at Toms Hardware

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by DJDave, Jul 7, 2009.

  1. DJDave

    DJDave Notebook Consultant

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    DJDave, Jul 7, 2009
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    Aryantes Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    Not really surprised.

    A single expensive nvidia GPU has not proved to be a bang-for-your-buck choice over a single inexpensive ati GPU really. The ATI 4850 has been proven to be a monster for a cheap price.

    I'm kind of upset that Clevo hasn't released ATI crossfire support for their models.

    The M980 should be a totally different story.

    Not many games are CPU bottlenecked these days are they? The D900F is what they say, a mobile workstation, NOT a super gamer platform although it more than adequate for that.

    SLI and Crossfire have come a long way to the point where they are quite superior to single GPU solutions.

    Of course, a dual-gpu single card works the same.

    Most people here ( i think ) were quite sad to see that the D900F was only single GPU capable.
     
    Aryantes, Jul 7, 2009
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  3. electrosoft

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    I don't view the D900F as Sager/Clevo's premier gaming platform. It, along with the D900C and previous Clevo/Sager desktop CPU in a mobile package solutions, has and always will be a Desktop CPU replacement first and a gaming machine second. It just so happen the thermal budget of the Core 2 allowed an SLI config.

    You can't always have the best of everything in a realistic package. Either you want the most powerful CPU solution out there with upgradability to other i7's including the 6-core monster coming down the pike, or you want monster gaming in the form of the M98.

    The M17X and potentially the 9850 have effectively equaled and/or canceled out the NP9262
    in regards to 280M SLI and QX9300's which can BIOS OC to ~3ghz levels in a Quad Core package. The mobile parts have caught the 9262 desktop parts and in regards to the GPUs, surpassed them if only marginally.
     
    electrosoft, Jul 7, 2009
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