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780M gaming, any good??

Dizz

Dizz

Dizz

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Hi all,

Just wondering if any of you out there are gaming with a 780M and if so what system its in and how well it plays games. I'm really considering spending out on a laptop with the chip in but want to know how it handles your games and if your happy with it?

Do you think its worth spending out now or potentially waiting to see whats on the horizon in terms of the 800 series mobile chips.

Cheers
 
780m will be good for a long while yet! from what i've heardthe 800 series is just going to be tweaked 700 series anyway, not any new architecture improvement.
it won't be worth the price difference.
my laptop has the 680m gtx card in and can max most stuff out, just look at youtube vids for what settings the 780 can play games with good fps at.
 
Dizz said:
Hi all,

Just wondering if any of you out there are gaming with a 780M and if so what system its in and how well it plays games. I'm really considering spending out on a laptop with the chip in but want to know how it handles your games and if your happy with it?

Do you think its worth spending out now or potentially waiting to see whats on the horizon in terms of the 800 series mobile chips.

Cheers
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The 780m is a full blown Kepler GK104 (1536SP) with lower clocks. Its gaming performance (CPU dependant) is around that of a GTX760.

My laptop has a 780M / 4700HQ combo and plays everything I have thrown at it without any issue. You won't be able to max every setting in a game and get 60FPS (just as you can't on a GTX680) but "high" is possible in pretty much anything out there.
 
Frijj said:
770m here and I think I can max everything i've played at a decent framerate :)
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I've got the same in mine and while it can't max things like BF4, Thief and COD at 1080p it's still got plenty of grunt to play at a mix of medium and high detail.

VincentHanna said:
I'm pretty sure my friend has two of these in his Laptop, is that possible?

He says he can play Battlefield 4 at 1080p with Ultra settings without any issues.
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SLI in a laptop is certainly possible I don't know if there are any 780m SLI setups but it wouldn't surprise me if there were.
 
Cheers for all the responses guys, sometimes threads about laptops can die a death here. I'm certainly very tempted, I dont really feel the need to whack everything on ultra, i'm more than happy to have less shadow detail, slightly less FoV and no v-sync etc to get more out of the chip.

How is the cooling in your 780M setups, have you had to use a notebook cooler??

The laptop im thinking of getting is the ASUS ROG G750-JH
 
Cooling in my Clevo P170SM is what I would call adequete. The 780M runs hot mind - mid to high 80's is not uncommon. It will throttle at 93 degrees in a Clevo setup. I had to re-paste mine a couple of times (with MX2 in the end) to get temps to an acceptable level. The Clevo HSF design leaves a lot to be desired.

I have no experience of the Asus gaming laptops but, I have heard that their cooling setups are pretty decent. Expect the 780M to run hot in any chassis design though.
 
It only classes as "running hot" if you can turn the laptop over and fry and egg on the chassis :p
 
Has anyone here got the 780M in the MSI range? I'm caught between the MSI and ASUS ROG laptops at the mo...I think the MSI would be easier to work on (upgrades, re-pasting etc) but the ASUS looks the ****.
 
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