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Finally! Nvidia Go 8 series for notebooks!

post #1 of 23
3/29/07 at 12:34pm
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NVIDIA plans to release GeForce 8 series video cards for notebooks in time for Intel’s Santa Rosa laptop platform launch, chief executive and president of Nvidia Jen-Hsun Huang said recently, during a conference call with financial analysts.

The Santa Rosa platform, also known as Centrino Pro, is likely to be launched in late Q1 or early Q2 2007, which means that commercial shipments of GeForce 8 for gaming and multimedia notebooks are just around the corner, X-Bit Labs reports.

“We are ramping production on our GeForce 8 family of notebook GPUs, the industry’s first DirectX 10 and high-definition video GPU for notebooks. GeForce 8 will be the only DX10 GPU shipping in the upcoming Santa Rosa notebook launch,” Mr. Huang said.

The DirectX 10 is the Microsoft’s latest suite of multimedia application programming interfaces (APIs), which improves computer’s in-game and multimedia performance, compared to previous DirectX 9. Many of the PC games scheduled for release in 2007 have been designed to exploit the new graphics features of DirectX 10.


http://laptoping.com/nvidia-geforce-8-notebooks.html


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post #2 of 23
3/29/07 at 12:40pm
w00t
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post #3 of 23
3/29/07 at 12:51pm
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Originally Posted by ianlg
NVIDIA plans to release GeForce 8 series video cards for notebooks in time for Intel’s Santa Rosa laptop platform launch, chief executive and president of Nvidia Jen-Hsun Huang said recently, during a conference call with financial analysts.
Old news... Not surprising, given that the article you quote is over a month old. This one, on the other hand, is more interesting: Intel Penryn to Improve Laptop’s Performance and Battery Life
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Originally Posted by ianlg
The Santa Rosa platform, also known as Centrino Pro, is likely to be launched in late Q1 or early Q2 2007, which means that commercial shipments of GeForce 8 for gaming and multimedia notebooks are just around the corner, X-Bit Labs reports.
Q1 ends on Saturday...
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post #4 of 23
3/29/07 at 3:02pm
i am doubtful that this is any huge announcement really....

if we see anything it will be the 8400 and the 8600 which everybody knows are coming. they are cards that will be much easier to bring to the notebook since they will have significantly lower power needs and lower heat generation. everybody in the industry knows that they are in the works. i would put money that it is that which nvidias president is talking when he speaks of the 8 series family coming to notebooks.

so basically its not new and its not a huge deal...
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post #5 of 23
3/29/07 at 4:12pm
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so do you think its still worth getting a XPS M1710 with 7950 GTX?
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post #6 of 23
3/29/07 at 4:27pm
yes.
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post #7 of 23
3/29/07 at 4:36pm
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yes.
No.
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Originally Posted by ianlg
so do you think its still worth getting a XPS M1710 with 7950 GTX?
Seriously, though, your question has no answer, at least none that is of any use to anybody other than the person who answered.
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post #8 of 23
3/29/07 at 6:52pm
If they start off with 8400 and 8600 series cards, then I'd stick with the 7900 series. You know everyone wants the 8800 and it would be foolish to settle for a lower card knowing the super high end dx10 cards are coming. I have a feeling those are still well into the future since a lot of manufacturers are still releasing brand new models with 74/76/77/7900 series cards in them, and it wouldn't make sense to make them obsolete so quickly. They'll probably come out with the lower 8000 cards first or the ATI integrated DX10 chips then gradually introduce the top gaming dx10 cards to hype up the market, unless they are heartless monsters and screw over people who just forked over $3-4,000 on a SLI 7950GTX laptop this month by releasing a 8800gtx go next month.
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post #9 of 23
3/30/07 at 1:15am
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Originally Posted by ianlg
so do you think its still worth getting a XPS M1710 with 7950 GTX?
It depends on.

If you have a really old machine and by old I mean a PIII or something equivalent and need a new machine now, get it. Otherwise don't get it and wait until high end 8800's are released.
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post #10 of 23
3/30/07 at 3:49am
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No. Seriously, though, your question has no answer, at least none that is of any use to anybody other than the person who answered.
Person?...Seems you answered as well....Besides he is looking for opinions not a definitive answer (there isn't one) As far as being useless to everyone except the person that answered..erg...I would have to disagree with you there. Opinons & different points of view often help people make important decisions. there will ALWAYS be something newer/faster thats right around the bend. NO matter how nice of a system you get something will be posted the next day saying look whats coming out now! your best bet is to get a sysem that is tested, stable, and powerful imho. I can play any game out there with my system..If you think about that it's pretty impressive considering it's just a laptop. Yes SA is coming around the bend....And I'm sure something else will pop up right after its released saying hey upgrade to the newest version of the SA chipset... It's a never ending battle. Look around decide if this will suit your needs & make a choice.
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post #11 of 23
3/30/07 at 5:50am
Nah, not this close to a major update. If you want an older one, the fanbois are going to be selling their "outdated" 1710s for cheap as soon as the new XPS lappies come out. Patience.
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post #12 of 23
3/30/07 at 7:42am
Yeah, this isn't to big a deal. We know they will be the 8600 and 8400's not 8800's. Really at this point there is almost no hope in my hope for an 8800....they are already going to be developing next generation cards that will be much better and faster anyway. And they just suck far too much power along with the heat output thats undesirable. Don't be looking to see an 8800 people.
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post #13 of 23
3/30/07 at 8:15am
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Originally Posted by SolApathy
Person?...Seems you answered as well....Besides he is looking for opinions not a definitive answer (there isn't one) As far as being useless to everyone except the person that answered..erg...I would have to disagree with you there. Opinons & different points of view often help people make important decisions.
Ahh, context, my friend, context... You may notice that I followed up my own-word answer of your one-word answer with a "seriously", from which you can infer that I was not serious with my answer. Plus, while I agree with you in principle, one would be hard pressed to find your own one-word answer terribly helpful to anybody.
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post #14 of 23
3/30/07 at 10:14am
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Just bought an M1710 with 7950GTX 2GB DDR, vista, true life, 3 year dell warranty etc.. for £1200 If the upgrade to sta rosa & go 8 series a big step then i will just sell it and upgrade again

But i think the m1710 will suit my needs at least a year.
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post #15 of 23
3/30/07 at 10:55am
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Originally Posted by Pirx
Ahh, context, my friend, context... You may notice that I followed up my own-word answer of your one-word answer with a "seriously", from which you can infer that I was not serious with my answer. Plus, while I agree with you in principle, one would be hard pressed to find your own one-word answer terribly helpful to anybody.
Oh Come on Pirx, you expect somone to infer that you are being sarcastic because you used the word serious? Hmmm... I'm sure that makes sense...somewhere. ...mmm...btw your 23 word answer seems to provide about as much insight as my 1 word answer.
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post #16 of 23
3/30/07 at 11:58am
Please keep personal comments for PMs as for the OP were all excited about DX10 Capable cards and although its extremly unlikely unlikely seeing one on current platforms this shouldnt stop you from purchasing a sweet notebook now. Any 7900 series videocard can deliver serious frames on games today and you probably wont have to wait the standard 30 day build time that comes with all new generation notebooks when you could get a current gen one built in no time flat. Not to mention the amount this thing will cost on debut will probably be pretty high too. If you really have the urge for bleeding edge you could purchase a nice system now like a E1705 and then sell it and get the next gen notebooks when they become a reasonable purchase.
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post #17 of 23
3/30/07 at 5:09pm
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Please keep personal comments for PMs as for the OP were all excited about DX10 Capable cards and although its extremly unlikely unlikely seeing one on current platforms this shouldnt stop you from purchasing a sweet notebook now. Any 7900 series videocard can deliver serious frames on games today and you probably wont have to wait the standard 30 day build time that comes with all new generation notebooks when you could get a current gen one built in no time flat. Not to mention the amount this thing will cost on debut will probably be pretty high too. If you really have the urge for bleeding edge you could purchase a nice system now like a E1705 and then sell it and get the next gen notebooks when they become a reasonable purchase.

The 7900gs shipped in the i9400/E1705 has difficulty pushing decent framerates in current games at high quality and native (1920x1200) resolution. As an example, in C&C3 I was forced to drop down to Medium quality to get acceptable framerates, and for Supreme Commander I had to drop the resolution since native res is impossible without making the game look quite ugly.

The 7900gs is a great card, but it hasn't been fast enough for high quality native output for quite some time now. Still, I'm very happy with mine, as it is an enormous upgrade over the Radeon Mobility 9700 that it replaced in November.
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post #18 of 23
3/30/07 at 5:59pm
If you mod the BIOS to GSX & up the core/mem speeds it does not have a hard time at all. you can get excellent performance with that card it just takea about 15 minutes of work


...A lot of ppl have been complaining about performance of Supreme Commander (even ppl with an ATIx1950)
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post #19 of 23
3/30/07 at 7:38pm
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The 7900gs shipped in the i9400/E1705 has difficulty pushing decent framerates in current games at high quality and native (1920x1200) resolution. As an example, in C&C3 I was forced to drop down to Medium quality to get acceptable framerates, and for Supreme Commander I had to drop the resolution since native res is impossible without making the game look quite ugly. The 7900gs is a great card, but it hasn't been fast enough for high quality native output for quite some time now. Still, I'm very happy with mine, as it is an enormous upgrade over the Radeon Mobility 9700 that it replaced in November.
You have problems then cause my stock 7900GS in my 9400 pushes C&C3 to max detail and runs fine, although in the beginning I had some sound issues with studdering but i cleared that up, but the game runs and looks great. Even with when the screen is loaded with mechs,tanks, and troops oh my.. The greatest thing in th game though is the massive Ion Cannon pretty pretty graphics.
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post #20 of 23
3/30/07 at 10:21pm
My question is...Who is running these games under a clean install of XP/Vista & who is running it under the Dell bloatware.


I am running it on a clean install of XP and Vista. No bloatware, just all my crap...Bootup software includes...

NHC
Zone Alarm Security Suite
Belkin Bulldog Services
Logitech LCD Profiler
Logitech Keyboard Profiler
G15 Weather App

Bootup takes about 250MB RAM
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