D901 with 9800M GTX in SLi according to Clevo?

Hi, just noticed that Clevo lists the d901c as supporting the 9800M GTX in SLi.

http://www.clevo.com.tw/en/products/prodinfo_2.asp?productid=18

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Nice...

They say you need a separate version for the Quad core processor, but they don't say the same for the 9800GTX SLi.

 

Awesome! Final countdown to the 22nd...3 more days to go! Beginning sept 9800gtx sli models should be popping up and oh boyyy trust me, will I be one of the first to grab one!

 

Yup, we are hoping to get stock in about 2 weeks It was always more a question of when official support would be announced but because SLI specifically wasn't listed the speculation started....NVIDIA told me not to expect any 98GTX SLI issues either so alls looking good

 

3 cheers for Neil! Looking forward to Kobalt's website updating this

 

At the moment I haven't heard anything about Sager supporting these models, but hopefully they'll announce it soon as well

 

I'm going to get one GTX for now then hook up SLI later.

 

I notice for the 9800M GTX they say "Vista SLI ready" rather than "XP and Vista SLI ready" as they say for the other cards. I wonder if XP support will be added. Any guesses?

 

OH maaan... waiting for this so long... the 9800mGT sli i knew would only be a temporary beast... the 9800mgtx SLI, will be the next 7950gtx sli, a longlasting powerhouse imo, since the Gtx2x0 will probably take a bit to be put into laptops. i gotta swap out my mobo tho.. dang it.... but i cant complain. I got a good full year outta this machine with no problems, crippled as it was with one gpu (originally planning to get 2 of watever the 8x00 series card was, but then just waited since i was at school anyway)

 

These are exactly my thoughts as well, and its even more gratifying to know that we've been able to wait through these insanely stressful times of uncertainty and resisting the ever so sweet temptation of getting 9800gt sli. \o/

 

Yeah, I'm preparing my shoe recepie in honor of Clevo as I told I would if it managed to come up with a barebone that would survice 3 generations of video cards even with motherboard replacements. It seams they did it but I'm holding the lunch untill I see some benchs

Congrats Clevo all in all you and the d901c came across like a nice bet

What cooling beast the d901c barebone is!!!

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PS: Better start puting some money apart for a mobo upgrade and at least one 9800M GTX as one already is better then two of mine. Maybe I'll add a 128GB SSD to it too.

 

I gave in

 

do you think this baby will service even MORE generations? with maybe a few more mobo upgrades of course... Think about it, the chassy is still looking good, and modern, shiny hand rests . it can't get any more cooling capacity... why would they build a new system altogether?

 

One word - Nehalem.

 

D'OH.... although a laptop version of the desktop nehalem platform probably won't be ready till mid 2009... its just barely gonna make Q4 '08 as it is... so this beast still may be the main user of the GTX280M... ya neva know :-/

 

Truer words have never been said.

 

Call me picky, but I would really like to see an HDMI port, eSATA, and a biometric scanner on there before I would consider lugging that 12 lbs. + behemoth power brick from airport to airport.

 

The Clevo page lists 8800 GTX and 9800 GTX as MXM Type III, while the 9800 GT is listed as MXM Type IV. Typo?

 

look at that. it appears the 9 series gpu's will not be able to output s-video so that jack will be useless which kind of sucks.

 

I don't know what will be the future for d901c. As long as the mobo format and component placement doesn't need to be reshuffled I don't see any reason for this chassis wouldn't be able to survive more 1.5 years (it is very well done).

Indeed I don't think Nehalem will be the problem at all. What might be a problem is for instance Clevo decides to replace DVI for HDMI and to put a finger print reader as suggested. I hope they don't do it, or at least provide it as an option.

Looking forward to see if this chassis will survive 3 years with upgrades. One year and a half is gone. So it is not at all unforseeble more 1.5 years. After that I would not old my breath. Untill now is looking good, ahead to beat new records.

I say more 1.5 years since again IMHO we will be able by that time to buy cutting edge, SLi and RAID enabled laptops in smaller packages due to both technical advances in CPU's and GPUs (less heat generation). Furthermore as external video cards mature these kind of beasts may turn to be unecessary at all. ATI advances in 2009 will tell as they seam to have a edge on this technology.

Inspite of the problems in the past I now fully trust Clevo technical objectives.

Anyway this is entirely off topic. I know people always want more and more, but I'm happy now with my options as it seams Let's see if I keep happy as more info is available.

Just a quick link so people know where the I stated that I would eat my shoe:

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Just wear something suitable for a cakewalk. The calories are a problem, but shoes with a buttercream frosting sounds good...

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