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Quote: Originally Posted by romes I'm curious. Can the single card notebooks be upgraded to SLI? I know they have kits to upgrade from the 8700 to the 8800 SLI's, but am curious if a single card notebook can be...

Quote: Originally Posted by woodstock mine just fried btw... unstable i think. i have bad luck with gpu's. i fry all of them I'm hoping to leave GPU frying behind with the m1730. My XPS 2 was on a 1.5 year...

Quote: Originally Posted by Turmoil I am running Vista Bsiness 64-bit. Any idea how it runs on the OS? Also, anyone have any experience with Age of Conan on these? No, I've only used it on Windows XP 32-bit. I'm...

I've been using NVidia's 181.22 mobile driver. Compared to the 179.48, it is noticeably smoother in Crysis. The only other game I've played is TF2, but it's a CPU bottleneck. If you're looking for a good driver, check it out. They hid it...

I've watched the 8800m on Dell's page for a while now, and it comes and goes.

If you have the Core 2 Extreme, doesn't the bus speed max out at 1066MHz when you overclock?

Quote: Originally Posted by Yoob@NBF Few months ago this would be a great deal however many competitors in the gaming notebook field have made huge headroom. Toshiba and Gateway now offer quadcore geforce 9800 based...

The 9800m GT might as well be an 8800m GTX re-branded. They both have 96 stream processors, 512MB of memory, and the same clock speeds. The 9800m GT SLI setup will perform identically to the 8800m GTX setup. Search for "9800m GT...

When I go to Dell's USA site, it says "NVIDIA® SLI™ Dual GeForce® 8800M GTX with 1GB GDDR3 Memory" so I think it should say 2GB if they mean 1GB on each card. And while 2GB would be cool and all, I don't think the 9800m...

Quote: Originally Posted by woodstock got my 8800's installed this fukker screams now. worth the effort. no joy on the ac adapters and battery, i was told today they couldn't do anything because they went...