Need advice on resolving issue with SagerNoterbooks

I own a m70tu-np5797 that I ordered 2 years ago (July 08). I was recently replacing my HDD and cleaning the dust out of the laptop when I noticed the video card was branded underneath the heatsink "geforce 8800gtx". I freaked out because I ordered a 9800gtx. When I turn on the computer and boot into the bios the card that is displayed is a 9800gt I never really noticed this before. My question is how do I go about this problem? The computer was ordered 2 years ago was with the 365 dollar option at the time and I only have an 8800gtx or 9800gt(confusing because the card is branded 8800gtx and the bios displays it as an 9800gt). I will be calling Sager tomorrow when they are open but I wanted to hear some feedback as to what are my options?

Thanks,
Steve

 

Honestly, it's not worth the effort IMO. If you used it for 2 years and didn't notice, it couldn't have been that big of an issue for you. It's probably going to be a tonne of work to get a minimal increase in performance.

That being said, if you feel it's important, go for it. Call them an just tell them point blank what the issue is. You will probably need your invoice and/or receipt.

 

As JohnnyFlash says, there is little performance difference between the 9800GT and GTX (the 8800M GTX is the 9800M GT, nvidia just did a rebrand) so you won't notice any major difference anyway.

 

There is 10-15% performance difference, with the 9800M GTX being faster than the 9800M GT.

 

this was noticed at the time of the new (or supposed new) release of the 9800GT which in fact was a re branded 8800GTX
tbh i didnt think there was a 9800GTX but only a 9800GTS and 9800GT
as mentioned above its too late now to do anything.

 

There definitely was a GTX, but it wasn't anything special

 

was there theriko,must have missed that one

 

Check your receipts and the serial numbers. If the card is the wrong one, you deserve to get the other one.

 

That's unfortunate, but 2.5 years later might be way beyond the "statute of limitations". Unless they have a policy of taking a record of each part which is put into the machine, it'll be pretty hard to prove this far after the fact.

Did you never run any benchmark, or system monitor? Any of them would've said 9800M GT.

I'd almost guarantee that there's no 9800M GTX sitting around anymore, so cash considerations should be your goal.

 

You could install GPU-Z just to check what the clocks are reading.

Download GPU-Z 0.5.0 - FileHippo.com

Mine read (9800m gtx): 500/799/1375 which are default.

 

It's not an issue of clock speed, the GTX has 112sp vs the GT's 96sp on the same process.

If you want more power, try picking a cheap 260m from eBay. Cheap and better than the 9800's.

 

Oh I didn't know the GT and GTX had the same clocks. Was just mentioning GPU-Z really so he could get all the info about the card. I mean if the BIOS says GT then im sure thats what it is.

 

GT is 500/1250/800 at stock, w/ 96 shaders.

 

Probably not, the countdown regarding the statute of limitations for fraud typically doesn't start until the fraud becomes known to the effected party if it was purposely concealed by the individual or company that committed the fraud.