Sager to begin shipping NP5790 w/nVIDIA 7950GTX late the week of July 9th. Testing w/7950 GTX vs. 8700M shows 7950 GTX is KING!

It should, but not significantly.... from experience.

 

I wonder if shipments were rec'd today?

 

I spoke with someone at Xotic PC earlier today, and they claimed that they should start shipping out NP5790s by the end of the day if all goes according to plan. I probably ordered mine too late, but if you ordered early, you might be in luck.

 

Today!!!!!!!??????? Haaaaa!1

 

Squee! I really hope that's true. I ordered mine June 23... hopefully that's early enough...

 

Today they are staring !!!

 

Justin

staring?

You mean they are sitting there staring at them?

Just kidding...we knew you meant STARTING...FINALLY...Woot!

 

Wow, sounds good! The Sager and Compal forums must be the only group of people who have laptops but don't actually have them yet.

It will come...and those 5790s sure look good!

 

staring.....LOL Should have caught that one

 

Who knows...maybe they are just sitting there staring with amazement

 

Woot!! when can i get my tracking number to start at

 

Tracking numbers are emailed the next business day after they ship

 

i wonder which will come first.. my tracking number or my laptop? (i got next business day shipping...)

 

Who will be the 1st to review this puppy? Can't wait!

 

I have been waiting to hear those words for a very, very long time now!!!!!

 

If I order a Sager NP5790 from xoticpc or powernotebooks, when can I expect it to ship out?

also...is it just me or does the orange trim make the laptop look so ugly...or in the pictues anyway, I hope it doesn't look so bad in real life.

 

i think that it makes a nice accent that you don't find with many other laptops on the market.

 

I thought this would be the best place for me to post my question.

I am very much interested in purchasing a Eurocom M570RU Divine-X laptop. I am however not much of a gamer. While I am interested in playing some games, I never really go through with it. At most I play are emulators, and maybe RTCW:ET and the possbility of some Blizzard games as well.

My main objective is to have my laptop run quiet, and cool...and well keeping present day tech as well would be nice.

So my question is...which would run quieter and cooler...the 7950GTX or 8700?

Thanks guys

 

They will be so close to the same that you could not really tell the difference.

 

hmm now i have to think whether or not the 45$ cost to "upgrade" the Nvidia 7950GTX to the 8700 GT is warranted

i like 256bit graphics, but will i do anything that requires that...who knows

for video watching, which would you choose...i mean the results uptop speak for themselves but does that mean games, video, etc etc?

 

For watching videos they both would perform exactly the same. Actually I believe for watching HD videos the 8700GT might perform a tad better, especially if you get a slow processor. However in general video watching doesn't stress the GPU nearly enough for you to notice a difference. The only major differences would be running games in high res or with high or ultrahigh texture details, or with real time 3d AutoCAD type applications.

 

I think what the table in the 1st post in this thread is trying to tell you is that unless you absolutely NEED DX10, the 7950 GTX will outperform the 8700M...so there would be no reason to pay extra for the 8700M.

 

I would definitely go with the 8700M-GT - it will most likely consume less power and therefore produce less heat than the Go 7950GTX. The 8M series Nvidia cards will handle the video decoding themselves so that should improve efficiency even more. The 8M series is much better for video watching than the Go 7 series from a power consumption/ CPU utilization point of view.

 

Thanks guys for all your help.

So I guess, to future-proof my laptop, and because I am not much of a gamer, I will go with the 8700M-GT.

I am also opting for the built in TV-Tuner. I'm not expecting any night and day difference between the two cards, but technically the 8700M-GT should do a "better" job with the TV-Tuner eh?

 

I should be getting a laptop to review that has an 8700M-GT so I will provide some gaming benchmarks when it arrives.

 

great news

 

Well I just got my 8700m GT 512 Mb and got 5384 3D Mark 06 no oc or any thing just stock setting on the systme and 3D Mark. I like it.

 

yes but look at you resolution. up that to 1024 and you will only get 4500-4700 .. 1024 is the default setting

 

The default is 1280 and that's what it's at the 06 default.

 

no its not look at your last pic you have it at 1280x768.. thats not what most people score it on.. they use 1280 x 1024.

 

I will try it to night and re post that is the default I got after install.

 

5500 Marks @ 1280x1024 in my 7950 gtx
so i guess 8700 would by lake 4700-5100 Marks

 

Cool so yah I should be at around 4500 at 1280x1024 witch is good for me and I will run it once more to night.