Having suffered
through The Godfather: The Game on the lowest performance settings at 1,024 x 768 for the last week on a six-month old
desktop, we can certainly see the appeal of a 19-inch laptop sporting two nVidia GeForce GO 7800 GTX video cards in
SLI-configuration, but according to Trusted Reviews, the
AJP M590K-H is not the one for us.
Basically the same machine as a trio of other notebooks we covered previously -- the
Rock Xtreme XL,
Evesham Quest A630, and
CompAmerica
Tigershark TX-5900 (all four share the same Clevo-supplied chassis) --the AJP model gets low marks in a number of
areas, which doesn't bode well for its siblings. Most problematic, according to TR, were the low benchmark scores the
M590K-H turned in with both graphics cards turned on -- in some cases, performance was actually worse than just running
a single card. Along with the weight (a backache-inducing 14.5-pounds), crappy sound (even with headphones),
relatively-low resolution (only WSXGA ), and steep price (over $4,000), the unacceptable SLI implementation makes us
think we'll go with the reviewer's advice and hold off until the 7900 GT card goes mobile, or at least wait around to
see what
Dellienware has to
offer.
posted Mar 31st 2006 9:30PM
I hope they go with the name Dellienware. I like it.
Well, one thing that I think is interesting is that SLI generally requires both cards to stack. That would bulk up the notebook too much. So, surely they are doing something different with their SLI configuration...
i.e. both cards are onboard.
I don't understand why anyone would buy that crap. My laptop is 4.5 pounds, almost 2 years old, and can play any game you want to throw at it. And it can get 8 hours of battery life. Need better performance, use a desktop.
19 inches.. and it has less resolution than my 14". pah!
Well, having them onboard is great and all, but I'd still be inclined to think there might be a speed penalty associated with their greater distance apart. This isn't simple scan-line interleave. For the scalable link interface to work efficiently, I would imagine the two cards would really have to communicate with very little delay.
zverg what kind of laptop do you have just out of curiousity?
I've recently ordered a Dell Precision M90 laptop with the NVIDIA QUADRO FX 2500M 512MB RAM videocard. NVIDIA's web site (http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_11761.html) list the mobile videocard faster than it's fastest Ultra High-End desktop counterpart, the Quadro FX 4500. My question is does anyone know how fast the FX 2500M is compared to the SLI configuration for gaming?
I'm salivating at the spec's and can't wait for my laptop to arrive.
dude that's not a notebook that's just a small desktop. On a different topic anybody know what the hell happend to slashdot? "OMG Ponies" wtf?
Slashdot has been hijacked by Sexy Naked Female Geek Hackers. Sorry J/K to all the female readers out there.
o im sorry im a lil tipsy its april fools i had 2 ask my friend wut was up. i feel retarded
Bo-
A quadro no matter how great the specs are will generally run much slower for games than even a mid level Geforce because it is built for acuratly rendering 3D for programs like CAD and Maya which is quite different than playing the latest versions of Half-life or Doom
$4000?! No way...
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