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8600M GT?

Sleeper

Sleeper

Sleeper

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Hey,

Just ordered a new Dell Vostro 1500 Laptop and it's got a 256MB 8600M GT Video card in it, just want to know how to expect it to fair up with the latest games?

got a c2d T7300 in it and 2GB DDR2 cant wait for it to arrive.

Ta
 
Sleeper said:
Hey,

Just ordered a new Dell Vostro 1500 Laptop and it's got a 256MB 8600M GT Video card in it, just want to know how to expect it to fair up with the latest games?

got a c2d T7300 in it and 2GB DDR2 cant wait for it to arrive.

Ta
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i got my vostro 1500 today and am very disappointed, it seems there are two versions of the 8600m GT

one has DDR2 ram with effective 800MHZ
one has DDR3 ram with effective 1400MHZ

the latter has 75% more bandwidth


dell chose to go with the DDR2 800Mhz one :mad:


ill probably buy bioshock tomorrow and see how it runs on that chip, if it doesn’t run well im going to send my laptop back, they should have said they where using a crippled 8600gt :mad:
 
ps3ud0 said:
Perhaps try here?

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17769413

P.S. cells do you have a source for that - very tempted myself and wouldnt mind seeing who is doing the better version...

ps3ud0 :cool:
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my source is the laptop sitting next to me :(


i don’t have it connected to the net so cant view my 3dmark06 results or i would have done some testing



here is a thread where some people are discussing the two versions.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=147708

seems in CSS the standard one with DDR3 is getting 40% more FPS


dam stupid dell, they probably didn’t even save £2 doing this :mad:




edit: wrong link, changed to correct link
 
I was more looking at which laptops if any have the DDR3 version - seems the Asus G1S does, but I cant find anything (looked really quickly) that said DDR3...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
Some laptops have the ddr3 version


The thing that gets me is that it would have cost them no more than a fiver the use ddr3 over ddr2!

Apart from cost there is nothing that stoped them using ddr3, which would have been about 40% faster in games (with its 75% more bandwidth) and probably ran cooler as ddr3 uses less voltage compared to ddr2




Very disappointing


The 8600gt in this notebook is really a cross between a 8500 and a 8600



To make matters worse the 8400gt that some dell vostros come with have DDR3 :mad:
 
whats the difference between the 8600gt desktop and the 8600m gt lappy?

are they both 32 stream processor cards with 128bit memory interface?
 
Reaper_9239 said:
So how can you find out if your lappy has the 8600m gt with ddr3 or ddr 2 version. I'v got a new MacBook Pro 2.2ghz with the 128mb 8600m gt?

Thanks
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Perhaps check the website as I presume its the latest refresh ;)

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html

Its DDR3...

Video and graphics support

* 15-inch MacBook Pro
o NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor with dual-link DVI support, 128MB of GDDR3 SDRAM on 2.2GHz configuration; 256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM on 2.4GHz configuration
* 17-inch MacBook Pro
o NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor with dual-link DVI support and 256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM.
iSight
* Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors
* DVI output port
* VGA output using included DVI to VGA adapter
* Built-in iSight camera
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ps3ud0 :cool:
 
Sleeper said:
Hey,

Just ordered a new Dell Vostro 1500 Laptop and it's got a 256MB 8600M GT Video card in it, just want to know how to expect it to fair up with the latest games?

got a c2d T7300 in it and 2GB DDR2 cant wait for it to arrive.

Ta
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I got simila rig, but with an 8700M GT in it. has a bit more memory 512mb and clocks a bit higher than the 8600.. but i will run 3dmark on it at some point and let you know how well it does. Seemsa good card so far tho...
 
nintenjo said:
I got simila rig, but with an 8700M GT in it. has a bit more memory 512mb and clocks a bit higher than the 8600.. but i will run 3dmark on it at some point and let you know how well it does. Seemsa good card so far tho...
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Ooooo - please do - I have the 7950GTX and am dying to know how the 8700M GT sizes up against it. You show me yours and I'll show you mine ;)
 
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