is the 8800GTX good enough?

I've been having lots of driver issues with my 8700M, I'm looking to upgrade to the 8800GTX (for about 100-150$). Is it worth it? Are the drivers good? Will I get tons of bugs like with the 8700? How is it compared to the 7950GTX?

 

if you can upgrade for only $100 or $150 I think it's totally worth it in terms of performance, but I have no idea about the driver and bugs.

Based on the benchmarks, one 8800M GTX is better than two 7950 GTX's in SLI.

 

Upgrade for $100 is nice... the performance difference from what I have gathered through the net is ~ +4500 3dmark06 points more than the single 8700m. And as this is the new TOP notebook card from nVidia I would expect a significant amount of support for this card (drivers). If you have the opportunity to get one I would say its a no brainer! I'm waiting for mine right now, cant wait!

 

and 1 single 7950 or even 7900 is better than 2x 8700's (I have proved on 10 out of 11 occaisions.)

so yes anything is better than the 8700's.

and 3dmark means not that much at all. the dual 8700s can get how much???

and I can beat them in Crysis or Bio or alot of games at resolutions higher than 1600x xxx with my oc'd 7900 gtx

 

wow dexgo, you really hate those 8700s... In respose to the OP I would definitely say that the upgrade to the 8800 for $150 is well worth it after seeing the major increase in performance people are getting on gaming benchmarks. No other card out there will touch it at this time, even in Sli

 

As someone lucky enough to have used the 8700 in SLI and an 8800 GTX, id say definatly. 8700 > 8800 is like night and day.

 

sorry but are you saying the 8700 in sli are better? I'm not trying to object, I just didn't get what you were saying and I haven't touched either so I wouldn't know.

And also, on notebookcheck.net even a Go 7950 GTX has higher fps than 2 8700M GT's in SLI so I'm assuming an 8800M GT would be better than two 8700M GT's

 

8800>7950>8700

 

I'm curious as to how you can upgrade to a $740 card for $100-150. If you can, you would be pretty dumb not to take advantage of it.

 

totally agree on that. I wish I could get it for that price

 

Sorry i meant > as in from 8700 to 8800. An arrow, not "Greater than" XD

 

The 8800m gtx should be The laptop video card for at least a year. except if they are making a 8900 or something like that...

Its the top laptop videocard of this generation!

 

^ Yes I agree. It really is a SIGNIFICANT step in the right/powerful direction for laptop gaming (which a couple years ago was rather a joke). I've always gamed on a laptop and I prefer lounging anywhere and playing my games as opposed to a desk. But to each his own.

 

The transition from DX9 cards to DX10 cards has been an ugly backpedal in terms of performance until the 8800M GTX release.

If you’ve been waiting for a worthy DX10 notebook graphics solution, your time has come.

 

Yeah, hook me up bro.