GX 480M oem available online!

It looks like the rjtech . com web store has the oem part GTX 480M for the D900F up for sale.

I have a D900F with Win7 and a GTX 280M installed, and would love to upgrade to the GTX 480M... but.. it has a $940 price tag..

How many have actually upgraded their D900F to the GTX 480M yet and could say what state the drivers are in right now.

Is it worth the $940 price tag yet? Or is it better to wait for drivers to mature and more reviews from people using this new laptop card?

 

Holy....! $940, I could build an i7 desktop with a real Desktop GTX480 for that price, lol.

 

you can get two 5870's with heatsinks and the CF cable + bonus i5/7 CPU for that price.
Disaster.

 

Whoa!! what a deal ....

NO

 

why not get a 5870 for half the price, same if not better performance, + it will OC like 15-20%.

 

5870 is almost 1/3 the price at $350ish from Rjtech ... Crazy stuff ...

 

Ye get a 5870 for that price lol...thats jaw dropping. You could hope that the price decreases after the initial boom

 

you also need a new PSU right? thats another 120.00?

 

I guess that will put a serious cramp in the 480M SLI discussions.

 

Maybe the new PSU is included in the KIT ?> for that price i would hope so...

 

Dont waste your money.. Tale a look HERE and i think youll get the picture.

 

But-but-but...it's made by NVIDIA! Buy it you must!

 

But you can't run CUDA on the 5870M.

 

I, as a gamer do not want nor need to. I think if someone is doing some serious work they will sooner get a Quadro card that also offers CUDA...
And if youre going to mention Physx next, not all games support it, and i myself have not noticed any real performance increase or difference with it turned on or off.
As i see it its just another marketing thing.. but if you really want or need these, you have no other choice but to pay the premium..

 

Just wait for the next GPU from ATI. Will be way faster than the 480M, at half the price.

 

$940, must be some sick joke but it isn't April and no one is laughing.

 

i'm not sure why everyone here always think the next card will be WAY faster, the ati response is likely to be 10-15% faster.

 

If ATI takes efficient advantage of the new TDP ceiling, they can go way beyond 15%.

 

Yeah, but really who WANTS ati to start pumping out 100w laptop cards? Efficiency has sort of been their thing for a while now. It's amusing to think that if ati would just put some more funding into software/drivers, nv would have no hope of catching them in the foreseeable future.

 

i really hope they dont, we need to keep laptops small, power efficient and and cool. If you want power get a desktop with a 1200 psu.

 

My w870 aint small, but I don't mind. I would get the gtx480m if it was at least 50% faster than the 5870m in crysis. I think we still have to wait and see. What is the warranty on an oem gtx480m?

 

you guys know that theres rarely 50% leaps right? thats kinda dreaming...

 

This is the thing though. By the time ATI's next GPU comes, Clevo, AW, MSI, and others will already have chassis in place which are designed for GPUs with 75W+ TDP.

They would be foolish to not take advantage of headroom that's already there. I'm not saying they should shoot for 100W, but why not something like 85W?

 

I think they are foolish if they do.

 

Why? It's not like releasing a 100W laptop GPU will make their lower-end parts cease to exist.

Personally, I think AMD should wait to see how the 480M goes before taking any action at all. If the GTX 480M sells somewhat despite the ridiculous pricing, it would definitely be in AMD's best interests to put up a competitor.

 

It's not just likely, AMD WILL release a high wattage GPU since the infrastructure is ready for it. High end mobile GPU used to be only 20+W just 2-3 years back, look where is it now. Won't be surprised if it goes to 100+ standard in these few years.

 

There is a catch though in my opinion. Nvidia will be able to use Optimus technology with Sandy Bridge which will leave battery life untouched by the high-consumption of the new cards, it doesn't matter then if you have a 20W or a 100W card.

Unless ATI comes out with something similar, Nvidia will have an advantage in this regard.

My guess is that the second generation of the Fermi, the 5xxM series on 28nm combined with Sandy Bridge is something really to look forward to.

 

Any idea when its coming out? So i know if i can hold off buying the new laptop until that happens...

 

Unfortunately I cannot give you an exact date, but it will almost certainly be in the first half of 2011.

And I doubt you want to hold off for that long.

 

I do want. Efficiency is just as great for putting faster cards in larger machines as it is for putting faster cards in smaller machines.

Right. That's what the Llano APU is for.

You can still get switchable graphics with an ATI card and Intel IGP if the notebook manufacturer supports it, but it'll be manual.

Llano paired with an ATI card may eventually offer something automatic like Optimus...along with the potential for Hybrid Crossfire, which is why I'm more interested in that combo (especially for 14-15" machines).

I don't agree that first half of 2011 is almost certain. I expect even more delays than there already has been...especially since Nvidia refuses to switch to GloFo.

 

After the Hybrid SLI fiasco I'd be more than fine with a manual switching (in BIOS). I simply don't trust soft level switching (yet).