7800 Go GTX has arrived

[Ronin]

The installation took maybe 15 minutes (you pretty much have to take the top half of the laptop apart in order to swap cards).

I've spent some time today doing some benchmarks (purely synthetic right now), and these are the scores I currently have. I'm going to start working on creating bioses for higher clock speeds to see what I can really do with this card.

7673 - 2k5
16805 - 2k3
24803 - 2k1
77553 - AM3


Stock clocks are 400/550, and I currently have the card running at 470/1300 (as shown in the pics).

Thus far, I'm very impressed with the performance of the card in comparison to it's desktop counterpart.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

awesome man..how do you get hold of these? i presume you have to get them off who ever built the laptop? dell? alienware?

does this card have 20 or 24 pipes?

i remember the 6800u go had 12pipes, (basically is a 6800GS) wondering if they have done a similar thing with this

 

[Ronin]

RT report, just for you, otis.

$ffffffffff ---------------------------------------------------
$ffffffffff Northbridge information
$ffffffffff ---------------------------------------------------
$0400000000 Description : unknown
$0400000001 Vendor ID : 8086 (Intel)
$0400000002 Device ID : 2590
$0400000003 AGP bus : not supported
$ffffffffff ---------------------------------------------------
$ffffffffff Display adapter information
$ffffffffff ---------------------------------------------------
$0000000000 Description : NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX
$0000000001 Vendor ID : 10de (NVIDIA)
$0000000002 Device ID : 0099
$0000000003 Location : bus 1, device 0, function 0
$0000000004 Bus type : PCIE
$000000000f PCIE link width : 16x supported, 16x selected
$0000000009 Base address 0 : dd000000 (memory range)
$000000000a Base address 1 : c0000000 (memory range)
$000000000b Base address 2 : none
$000000000c Base address 3 : de000000 (memory range)
$000000000d Base address 4 : none
$000000000e Base address 5 : 0000df00 (I/O range)
$ffffffffff ---------------------------------------------------
$ffffffffff NVIDIA specific display adapter information
$ffffffffff ---------------------------------------------------
$0100000000 Graphics core : NV47 revision A1 (24x1,8vp)
$0100000001 Hardwired ID : 0090 (ROM strapped to 0099)
$0100000002 Memory bus : 256-bit
$0100000003 Memory type : DDR (RAM configuration 07)
$0100000004 Memory amount : 262144KB
$0100000005 Core clock : 468.000MHz
$0100000006 Memory clock : 652.500MHz (1305.000MHz effecti...
$0100000007 Reference clock : 27.000MHz

 

[bcoupland]

Nice card. It would be interesting to see some pics of the 7800GTX Go. Do you have any? What lappy did you put it in? An XPS170?

 

[secretanchitman]

whoa, sweet card! and awesome OCing too...

 

[ddogg]

nice card...pretty impressive scores

 

[Ronin]

The Go GTX looks exactly like the 6800 Go Ultra does (it has to have the same form factor to fit in the XPS Gen2).

If you haven't seen the 6800 Go Ultra, here's a pic:

http://server.counter-strike.net/images/misc/gddr36800gou.jpg

As said above, this is an XPS Gen2 that I put this in, replacing the Go Ultra that was in there previously.

 

[Wentelteefje]

WTF... :Q That's pretty impressive... :thumbsup:

 

[JRW]

Very nice :beer:

 

[Cookie Monster]

A laptop thats faster than your normal PC gaming rig!!

 

[Leper Messiah]

My 9800 pro beats your 7800 Go GTX in 2k1. Gets pwned otherwise though. Oh well, 7800GT from newegg by friday.

 

[Ronin]

pffft

2k1 is wholely CPU dependent, and that's probably why.

I'm doing some more benches now. I've created some additional ROM files to flash with to see if 470/1300 is in fact the max the card will comfortably do (I ran ATiTool for about an hour without any artifacts whatsoever, so I'm comfortable with it's current speed as stable).

 

[DrZoidberg]

very nice, a notebook that can play FEAR as well as desktop... :shocked:

Is the 7800Go much more expensive than desktop 7800gtx like over 800?
Seems like 2 long heatpipes, how do u fit such long heatpipes in your notebook, does your notebook get very hot?

 

[Ronin]

Dell sells them for around $500 on a good day. The laptop screen is 17", so it runs the length of the laptop, pretty much. The card idles at around 64C in mine, with load temps in the mid 80's, but the heat actually isn't that noticeable.