Mobile 8800

cavemanoc · 24 Feb 2007 at 18:26

Looking at picking up a shiny new laptop for some away-gaming. Anyone got any news on when we can expect mobile versions of the 8800's to appear?

jaykay · 24 Feb 2007 at 18:40

not for along time atm
the g80 is too big for a lappy and it just couldnt cool it fast enough

lay-z-boy · 24 Feb 2007 at 18:52

nvidia have said they will not do an retail 8800 mobile till a shrink due to the HUGE power requirements and heat output, however, they will be doing lower powered versons such as 8600gt etc. etc.
I tested a beta portable desktop with the best effort they could do, it was a total joke to say the least.

cavemanoc · 24 Feb 2007 at 19:43

so 7950GTX is about as good as it gets until the die-shrink? (not interested in SLi - would like more than 3.2minutes of battery life and a bush-fire rating of fair or lower

lay-z-boy · 24 Feb 2007 at 20:19

cavemanoc said:
so 7950GTX is about as good as it gets until the die-shrink? (not interested in SLi - would like more than 3.2minutes of battery life and a bush-fire rating of fair or lower

7950gtx is the fastest single card solution available for laptops, although the latest sli drivers for laptops disables one graphics unit on battery and the other in lower power and can attain a respectable battery life (in comparison to other top end machines such as the m1710, single gpu version)

cavemanoc · 24 Feb 2007 at 20:43

actually it was the 1710 I was looking at - had a good giggle when 'steve' told me that the battery would last between 5 and 6 hours

Any idea what an accurate figure is for them with the 7950's both high and low power usage?

Metalface Mark · 24 Feb 2007 at 20:55

cavemanoc said:
actually it was the 1710 I was looking at - had a good giggle when 'steve' told me that the battery would last between 5 and 6 hours

Any idea what an accurate figure is for them with the 7950's both high and low power usage?

I picked up my 1710 with 7950gtx yesterday mate, i can do a gaming test tomorrow and tell you how long it lasts, ive not ran it off the battery yet.

Edit : if i pull the power lead out and keep full settings on the pc, it says 2 hours 40 mins.

cavemanoc · 24 Feb 2007 at 20:58

Awesome - would appreciate that - looking at the reviews (once I'd wiped the drool from my keyboard) they reconned about 2hrs with the screen at 6/7 brightness and wifi on full so looks pretty good - love to know how long it lasts in Oblivion!

Metalface Mark · 24 Feb 2007 at 22:05

cavemanoc said:
Awesome - would appreciate that - looking at the reviews (once I'd wiped the drool from my keyboard) they reconned about 2hrs with the screen at 6/7 brightness and wifi on full so looks pretty good - love to know how long it lasts in Oblivion!

I dont have oblivion unfortunately, only things ive got installed are counterstrike source and WOW at the mo, if i can get my daughter to stop playing WOW, ill give it a go tomorrow.

BrynS · 24 Feb 2007 at 22:11

Fujitsu-Siemens have a Core 2 Duo laptop (AMILO Xi 1554) with a Mobility X1900 (RV570) which should give a mobile 7950GTX a run for its money while offering better filtering quality, at least until mobile G8x and R6xx variants appear.

Cheers,

BrynS

nintenjo · 24 Feb 2007 at 22:13

I myself was in a similar position.. as im planning to get a new PC / laptop in the middle of march..

I have already delayed the arrival of the DX10 Mobile GPUs long enough and its seems to be to large a hurdle for them to over come any time soon. So im planning to get a 7950 GTX somtime next month..

How will this chip compare with a 6800LE 128mb (which im now aware is pretty rubbish)

Im planning to play games such as Supreme commander and Armed Assult on it.. no realy DX10 stuff yet.. although will have Vista installed.

EDIT: o and bare in mind ill want to play most games at native res of 1650x1080

GingaNinja · 24 Feb 2007 at 22:31

I thought long and hard about the m1710. Looks like a great machine, and I was offered one (sales rep over the phone) for £1200 (C2D 7200, 7950GTX, 2GB, Vista, etc.). I'd want to keep it for at least 2 years. It was a hard decision, but in the end I just felt it was too much money for a machine that is already, to an extent, out of date interms of its DX9 GPU. I expect there will be a DX10 part available before too much longer but it won't be top of the range. It'll prolly be 2008 before any DX10 mobile parts with any oomph become available.

Ginga

lay-z-boy · 24 Feb 2007 at 22:38

InwardSinging said:
I picked up my 1710 with 7950gtx yesterday mate, i can do a gaming test tomorrow and tell you how long it lasts, ive not ran it off the battery yet.

Edit : if i pull the power lead out and keep full settings on the pc, it says 2 hours 40 mins.

With NHC you can tweak it to get it to do 3h 30min, although i have 8% wear on my battery so i get around 3hr now.

Fujitsu-Siemens have a Core 2 Duo laptop (AMILO Xi 1554) with a Mobility X1900 (RV570) which should give a mobile 7950GTX a run for its money while offering better filtering quality, at least until mobile G8x and R6xx variants appear.

Cheers,

BrynS

rv570 is also known as the x1950pro, the mobile version is slower so the 7950 is faster.

nintenjo · 24 Feb 2007 at 22:41

GingaNinja said:
I thought long and hard about the m1710. Looks like a great machine, and I was offered one (sales rep over the phone) for £1200 (C2D 7200, 7950GTX, 2GB, Vista, etc.). I'd want to keep it for at least 2 years. It was a hard decision, but in the end I just felt it was too much money for a machine that is already, to an extent, out of date interms of its DX9 GPU. I expect there will be a DX10 part available before too much longer but it won't be top of the range. It'll prolly be 2008 before any DX10 mobile parts with any oomph become available.

Ginga

For that price i would have had it

can you get me the same offer please..

Metalface Mark · 24 Feb 2007 at 23:01

nintenjo said:
For that price i would have had it can you get me the same offer please..

I got £600 off mine after 3 days haggling, paid just under £1800 for it with the gen2 clear cover, bluetooth, 100gb 7200 HD, 2gb ram, 2.33, 7950gtx, xps backpack, 2 year warranty.

nintenjo · 24 Feb 2007 at 23:07

InwardSinging said:
I got £600 off mine after 3 days haggling, paid just under £1800 for it with the gen2 clear cover, bluetooth, 100gb 7200 HD, 2gb ram, 2.33, 7950gtx, xps backpack, 2 year warranty.

Well thats a closer price to what i had seen.. Although i dont actually want a dell, im planning to go with another competitor, but probably cant post on here.

Is a: T7400 2.16ghz, 2 gig RAM, 7950GTX 120Gig HDD for £1500 all inc.. So probably be my purchase. As much as i like dell i hate there Laptop cases.

GingaNinja · 25 Feb 2007 at 00:14

There's some info here on 8 series mobile parts. Looks like late Q1/early Q2 to coincide with Santa Rosa (another reason to delay buying a laptop right now). They won't be high-end parts, but maybe mid-range 8 series will compete well with high-end 7 series; who knows?

Ginga

nintenjo · 25 Feb 2007 at 00:21

yeah i kind of already knew that.. which is another thing that makes me want to delay... Lets hope the have a fixed date by mid march then i may delay

cavemanoc · 25 Feb 2007 at 16:55

nintenjo said:
Well thats a closer price to what i had seen.. Although i dont actually want a dell, im planning to go with another competitor, but probably cant post on here.

Is a: T7400 2.16ghz, 2 gig RAM, 7950GTX 120Gig HDD for £1500 all inc.. So probably be my purchase. As much as i like dell i hate there Laptop cases.

Yep - that's the price that they offered me over the phone on Saturday - still plenty of room to come down I think - also hoping for the £1200 mark then I'll bite their arm off!

If it really can do 3h+ I'll be a happy man - sick of having to change battery half way through movies - tried to watch Munich the other day and it killed both batteries - still haven't seen the end :rolleyes:

Just wish I could afford one of those m2010's 20.1" screen..... oooooooo....... mmmmmmm....... ooooooo...... Damn - another keyboard ruined!

Metalface Mark · 25 Feb 2007 at 17:15

I just played warcraft, the battery crapped out after an hour on performance mode.

Edited to say, my lap is now burning hot