7800 GTX GO benchies

[Ronin]

Originally posted by: supafly

Originally posted by: Ronin
I've verified with Dell this morning that in about a month, they'll be able to offer the 7800 for the XPS Gen2 (at most likely a $400 or so price point), where they will either send a technician out to install it, or you can do it yourself.

What about the 9300? Please tell me we can put them in a 9300!

I'll get em back on the horn and see. Since I didn't use the 9300, I didn't think to ask. 🙁 heh

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: Ronin
Hopefully we'll see a Turion variant soon enough. I would definitely love to go after that monster. 🙂

You won't see a Turion variant because AMD & AMD-affiliated resellers want Turion to be seen as a thin & light solution; not something in a huge honking DTR.

However you will probly see A64 X2's & FX's in a serious DTR notebook from places like Voodoo, Hypersonic, Evesham, RockDirect, etc

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: nitromullet
WTF!?! no SLI for notebooks!?! 🙂

NVIDIA is working on it, but I couldn't get them to tell me about it yet 🙁

 

[Sonikku]

Originally posted by: ddogg

Originally posted by: Sonikku
*giggle* Pairing ultra high end video cards with Intel chips is funny.

its not funny at all....it may just seem odd to this forum since we are all enthusiasts here....most of the ppl out there use high-end cards on P4 machines.

What I find laughable is Dell offering gamers a SLI 7800GTX, labing the system as a "SERIOUS GAMING MOFO!!", only to pair it with a Intel chip. Now, if a GTX put's a bottleneck in nearly all AMD chips, and a SLI setup only put's a GREATER bottleneck in the CPU, then what logic is there in using an Intel chip? Stupid Dell.

 

[Ronin]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak

Originally posted by: Ronin
Hopefully we'll see a Turion variant soon enough. I would definitely love to go after that monster. 🙂

You won't see a Turion variant because AMD & AMD-affiliated resellers want Turion to be seen as a thin & light solution; not something in a huge honking DTR.

However you will probly see A64 X2's & FX's in a serious DTR notebook from places like Voodoo, Hypersonic, Evesham, RockDirect, etc

We shall see. This isn't about AMD, this is about the notebook manufacturers, who manufacture what they want. If the Dothan can make it into a notebook with a 6800 Ultra or a 7800 GTX, it would stand to reason that it would be in the best interest of the consumer, and the companies, to create a Turion based notebook in the same form factor, since they are in direct competition.

 

[Ronin]

Originally posted by: Sonikku

Originally posted by: ddogg

Originally posted by: Sonikku
*giggle* Pairing ultra high end video cards with Intel chips is funny.

its not funny at all....it may just seem odd to this forum since we are all enthusiasts here....most of the ppl out there use high-end cards on P4 machines.

What I find laughable is Dell offering gamers a SLI 7800GTX, labing the system as a "SERIOUS GAMING MOFO!!", only to pair it with a Intel chip. Now, if a GTX put's a bottleneck in nearly all AMD chips, and a SLI setup only put's a GREATER bottleneck in the CPU, then what logic is there in using an Intel chip? Stupid Dell.

The Dothan is a monster. The Turion is even better, but the performance coming out of the Dothan based laptops is rival to a desktop. Your logic is seriously flawed, I'm afraid.

 

[Creig]

Wow! That's an amazing laptop! I didn't think Nvidia would be coming out with their Go version of the 7800 so quickly. Excellent job, Nv. Their entire 7800 line is coming off flawlessly so far and I'm sure ATI is sweating bullets by now.

On a side question, has an industry standard been widely adopted yet for laptop video card connectors/form factor so that people can upgrade them easier?

 

[Ronin]

Creig, unless I'm mistaken, ATi and nVidia never came to a common denominator agreement, but I do know that Sager was offering their D900T with both the X800 and the 6800. I'm not sure how much of a change would have needed to happen, unless the cards were manufacturered specifically to fit the same form factor to provide multiple options to the consumer (this would have been done on the vendor side, rather than ATi's).

 

[Shadowmage]

AMD s939 laptop version with 7800GTX is already out.

 

[imported_Kensai]

AMD X2 + 7800GTX SLI + 19" Superduper high resolution screen! 😛

 

[JackBurton]

Holy Christ! That is an AMAZING mobile video card! NVidia is coming out with both guns blazing! Jesus. Once the dual core Intel CPU/NVidia GO 7800 GTX laptops come out, I'm in. 🙂

 

[jiffylube1024]

Very impressive! Too bad that review site doesn't know about the Widescreen Gaming Forum site (or just simply how to edit .cfg files) because the fix to make Doom3 run in Widescreen is a piece of cake, and then they could've posted some 1440X900 benchies for that puppy 😉 .