NP9262 is history...

A friend of mine called Sager and was told that the NP9262 is fazed out. In fact it is not even listed anymore on the Sager website. You know what that means!!! Soon it is coming!!!

http://www.sagernotebook.com/category_browse.php?cid=&lcdsize=17

 

is this good news or bad news ^_^

 

XoticPC no longer has it listed as well.

 

Bad news I think for those who just bought the 9262, good news for the ones like me that are waiting for the D900F or the M98!!

Of course the 9262 is still a great system.

 

the Clevo D901C is still the second fastest gaming notebook with SLI 9800M GTX.

the LGA775 processors and the 3 internal HDDs still make it a top-notch workstation as well.

I doubt that it will be "history".... it will still last for years.

If Clevo gives it GTX 280M support, then it will last even longer.

 

Gophn way second D900F and M980NU are not out yet

 

the D900F (with single GTX 280M) will not perform faster than the D901C (with SLI 9800M) in gaming.

but the M980NU will be the next flagship Clevo high-end gaming rig with SLI GTX 280M.

 

Yes but until first M980NU or D900F are buyed D901C is still the king the most powerfull laptop in the world

 

Heres a question. First my D901C Specs are:

Intel® Core™2 Quad Q6700 (2.66GHz/1066MHz/8MB)
4096MB DDR2 800MHz Memory
SLI Dual nVIDIA Geforce GO 8800GTX 1GB DDR3

Since this D901C is being phazed out, I want to know what the best upgrade path would be.

Now I guess I want to know if 8gb of memory would really make much difference? I know if I can get a 280m gpu, I will, but if I cant, it seems the 9800m isnt much of an upgrade. Am I wrong? Would a cpu upgrade make much difference? I know mine is a bit "outdated" at this point.

Memory and gpu are straight forward, so what CPU would be best money for power choice? I think I'd like to stick with quad, but I'm up for suggestion. All this is hoping I get my D901C back from PCMW.

 

Memory will not help. Maybe a new processor such as x3370 or q9550s.

PL

 

no real performance increase at all.

9800M GTX performs 5-10% faster than 8800M GTX (9800M GT)... not worth it.

the Q6700 is still a plenty powerful quad-core.... beats all the mobile ones still.

your system is quite powerful still, probably the CPU upgrade could do something but not too much over the current setup.

 

Is this a good time to ask if anyone wants to sell a 8800mgtx?

PL

 

BMonk i upgrade my 8800M GTX SLI to 9800M GTX SLI and i pay $1700 USD and i can tell you there is difference and if you add one Q9650 will be much more but for you maybe the best way is to get new cpu like Q9650 now and wait few months too see if Clevo will release GTX 280M for D901C and if not you can buy two 9800M GTX then

 

cool, maybe I'll just save that money for a screen that doesnt have a giant orange/blue PCMW logo on some cheezy carbon fiber on the back of it. hmm, Now i'm not even sure if the logo is orange and blue.... wow I really want my notebook back.

 

my logo is black with blue and red letters but is remove it yestarday i will remove the carbon too but first have to make new cover

 

The D900F shouldn't outperform the NP9262 at least until another 1-2 upgrades in video cards are released (after the 280m), and only if they're not offered (or another type of card upgrade) to the NP9262. Nvidia still has a ways to go before any single card will outperform the 2nd or 3rd best card with SLI

 

i can prob change the boot screen for you bmonk as long as they didnt use insyde.. if you get it back get back with me

 

Well as a person who's been following the Asus W90 thread as well as a Whitebook owner it's safe to say it's ONE of the most powerful, not THE most powerful anymore...

 

Once I get my GTX 260M, my 9800M GT will be up for sale. It may be a month or so before the cards are up for sale, but it'll be in the NBR Marketplace once I'm selling it.

 

I've heard that the Asus W90 has a lot of dependability issues, driver problems, and some of the video cards/notebooks are coming DOA.
Where as even though the 9800m gtx isn't quite as powerful, I haven't heard as many negative things about it. For the record I'm not an Nvidia fanboy, I run ATI in my desktop and haven't had any problems.

 

hm why are they phasing it out and not offering 280m upgrades? it should last till next year when the new gpus come out. judging purely by the fact that the 5796/8660 models are being offered upgrades, the capability should definitely be there.

whats the point of advertising user upgradable GPUs if they're not offering them.

if i'm not mistaken, the D901C first came out with a 8800m correct? and a year later its deemed obsolete after only being able to be "upgraded" to 9800m?

 

Actually the D901C came first out with:
- 7950GTX (SLI option)

then:
- 8700M GT (SLI option)
- 8800M GTX (SLI option)
- 9800M GT (SLI option)
- 9800M GTX (SLI option)

as for Quadro's:
- FX 1600M
- FX 3600M
- FX 3700M

thats a whole lot of videocards for a single system.

 

Well thats not really completely correct though Gophn, imo. I mean I think a system is a new model if it has a different motherboard, which we had to get for the 8k series. Correct me if I'm wrong. So our motherboard really only saw 2 generations of GPU's.

 

thats true.

the D901C did have at least 2 motherboard revisions.... one for quad-core support, the next for 8800M GTX support.

 

right, the "revisions", kinda like if they had decided I needed to be able to birth a child, they would need to do a revision, but would they still call me Simon?.... Hmm, yes a perfect analogy

 

As I've said elsewhere, while the Clevos are the closest any notebook has come to the modularity of a desktop, the phrase "user upgradeable" really should be replaced with the phrase "user replaceable" because the modularity in the Clevo notebooks is more about being able to replace parts, not to upgrade them seamlessly.

 

The 5797/8660 are the top models in their line, the 9262 is not.

 

there probably will not be another gpu upgrade path for 9262 because clevo has never continued support for phased out models in the past. in other words, support for 280m gtx in d900c would require a bios update supplied from clevo and this is not going to happen on a system that is no longer available.

 

That's a bit of a downer...but at least the more current versions of the 9262 should be able to run the latest games on high for the next year or so.

 

Seems like this is the king of the hill for workstation apps? Gaming isnt a priority for me. I need to run open gl apps like maya, realflow nuke

 

then by all means, get it with a Q9650 and a Quadro 3700M.... that will make it king of mobile 3D workstations.