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New Laptop Help

jchiver

jchiver

jchiver

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Hi,

I have been looking arround for a gaming laptop. I was going to go for the Dell XPS m1710 with the 7950GTX card but then i came accross a Rock laptop that has the new NVidia 8700M GT 512mb card in.

My Question now is do i go for the 8700 or the 7950? Is the new 8700 quicker? will it be quicker?

and one major benifit it has DX10 on which i will be missing on the 7950. When DX10 games start coming out will the 7950 be slower then?

I do want to be able to play games like CS:S and BF2142 in high res with all the options turned on and i have read that the 7950 can do this but can the new 8700?

Thanks for your help.

J
 
i hate laptops cards so overheat in them i use to have one with 7600gs in it left on bed for few hours card just melted :eek:
 
The 7950 is a better option than the 8600 mobile, but I'm not sure about the 8700.
The specs look alright for the 8700 and I think the power consumption would be lower. Like you say it's newer architecture but it might not beat the raw power of the 7950. At this moment in time I don't see DX10 as being an important reason for buying a card, for all we know they will be rubbish at handling proper DX10 games.
Can't find any 3dmark results, I'm betting it would be around, maybe below the 7950's. At the end of the day, just go for whatever is the best deal.

What are the rest of the specs?
 
I Took a Look at those Rock laptops...very nice

I can see the attraction of Your computing world I one neat transportable bundle but my advice would be find something running XP with a 256mb 7600 that should play Your games ok, the money You save You could also build a Shuttle type system and monitor which will be more upgradeable in the future.

I Have a Toshiba satellite 17" 1.8 dual core, 256 7600, It supprised me how well it plays games and is very quiet and reasonably cool Very unlike some other high power Laptops that get stinking hot and are noisey
 
The 8700 GT is simply an overclocked 8600 GT - nVidia claim it is marginally faster than the 7950 go. Can't find a link to where I heard that, unfortunately, but given it's near the same performance with (going by the desktop 8600) lower power conumption and DX10 support, it's the one to go for.
 
Yeah - I heard that 8700GT was a little quicker than 9750GTX. If I were buying now, I'd prolly go for the 8700GT because of it's extra features as well as performance.

Ginga
 
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