Question for Justin (XOTIC PC) Upgrade Package for NVIDIA 9800M GTX?

Hi, Justin (XOTIC PC) I just want to ask you if the NVIDIA 9800M GTX does come out is SAGER company going to have an upgrade package like the NVIDIA 8800M GTX? I have backed off for the 8800M GTX due to the 9800M GTX.

 

there is no plan for 9262 upgrade regarding 9800m gtx in any time short.

 

Hi, Nirvana I hope that the NVIDIA 9800M GTX will be able to fit on the Sager NP9261/2 I am holding off for the NVIDIA 8800M GTX.

 

not in any time soon.

 

Why wont they fit? Has there been official confirmation?

 

that's what Donald have told us.

 

Nirvana, can you please direct me to that post?

 

MXM Type IV modules are the same at the moment.

Clevo did not design their upcoming M860TU and M570TU with a different slot.

Physically, all the current Clevo gaming notebooks have the same slot and the 9800M GTX will be shipped in MXM-IV format.

 

Can't you people get a hint?! You will know, when you are SUPPOSED TO KNOW. This is like the 100th thread of someone asking what is happening with the 9800m GTX!!!

 

sure. ------------

 

Ah yes...and I said the same thing.

There may come a time when it does become available, and we will be sure to announce it here, with the details on our own forums. Both Xoticpc and PowerNotebooks.com have them.

 

but as gophn said they are still using the same slot. when they do get released i dont see any reason why it should not work in the existing systems that use the mxm-IV format.

 

the thing would be the driver support, especially if you want dual 9800M's to SLI.

 

i cant imagine they will not be there with new ones from laptop2go???

 

There could also be a thermal budget issue, we simply don't know yet.

I also would not rely on laptop2go to provide SLi drivers for a Clevo developed nVIDIA SLi solution.

Just be patient enough to wait to see what Sager/Clevo develop.

 

Thermal Budget? I thought the 9M series was supposed to run faster and cooler than 8M series?

 

That is not necessarily so.

While nVIDIA claims the chipset itself will run cooler, once you build it onto a card complete with all of the other components that make it faster...guess what...the entire package does not seem to be cooler at all...it is definitely hotter

 

you had your hands on 9800m gtx already?

 

Sorry, that's classified

 

ok......now YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT THAT MEAN

 

That's a very good point - one line item of the thermal budget that always seems to get overlooked is the dedicated memory onboard the GPU card - that memory runs fast, and is a significant source of heat in its own right. I see no contradiction in taking a somewhat cooler graphics processor, pairing it up with materially hotter memory, and ending up with an overall package that is hotter than its predecessor rather than cooler.

Paladin44 makes a very, very good point.

 

BUT: the D901C and the M570RU both used to be equipped with the 7950GTX.
The 8800M is cooler than the 7950GTX if I'm not mistaken.
Question then is: is the 9800M hotter or cooler than the 7950GTX?

 

Considering the current reticence of Clevo & Co., and applying a little judicious between-the-lines reading, I would imagine that the 9800 - at least the pre-production prototypes handed out to ODMs - run hotter than the 7950.

 

auwch
pretty bad job they did with that card then
ah well, I'll keep on waiting .. maybe the 9600M (if ever released) is better than my 8700M,and that *WILL* fit into a M570RU

 

Why not just an 8800m?

 

I take it, then, that you're unhappy with the number of angels who can dance on the head of a pin?

Seriously, no-one here said anything about the 9800M not fitting into the M570RU, so why are you assuming that it's a foregone conclusion that it won't fit? With all due respect, irrational doom-n-gloom is as unnecessary as irrational exuberance - neither one is in your rational self-interest.

The most that can be said at this point is: nobody other than the engineers at Clevo and Sager, and maybe some of the resellers who, in any case, are under NDA, knows diddley about whether it will or will not fit, and the rest of us are only justified in going so far as to conclude that there are issues that need to be sorted out - the rest of us are not justified in drawing any substantive conclusions as to whether, or not, those issues will be favorably resolved.

I know it's hard to do, but relax, enjoy the system you've got right now, it's a killer machine

and will continue to be so regardless of whether or not it will take a 9800 series GPU, just like the formidable AC-130 Spectre, which is, after all, built on a venerable airframe that's been around for more than 50 years.

 

Called Clevo today and they said currently no plan of 9800M upgrade for M570RU. Physically i think it will fit, but maybe that depends on Market.