M17x-R2 - Core i7 CPU Info Thread! - Page 7

^^ You are incorrigible

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Let's take this over to the ASUS G73 thread. This is an interesting discussion.

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Need to upload it NWGuru. Post alone doesn't count



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NW you are good to have here. You really push it to the limit! Nice job. CPU-Z reading 3.5Ghz is that the Turbo Boost? Or are you pushing the 2Ghz stock that far. I am lost right now. But that score I understand and it is great?

Nice NW, very nice indeed.

the precision M6500 has been updated with USB 3.0

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/d...re-i5-options/

hopefully the AW line and other Dells are not too far behind

Thats such good news
cant wait to get the AW m17x R2
or mabe it will be called D2 lol

with Usb 3.0 & dual 5870 cards

That would be something with the HD5870 CrossFire on a notebook. They still need to work out the kinks at the moment first with their ATI models (R2?)

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the way things are going with R2, unfortunately it seems that we won't see dual 5870s until the summer. That's if crossfire is even available with those cards.

Sure that CrossFire would be available with HD5870. The question is if that would make sense for the manufacturers to carry these line - or the consumers willing to pay - and still making a profit out of it.

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I know the 5870 Cards do support xfire, it maybe more a case of will dell offer it.

I would order it if it was an option, no doubt. When your spending $4-$5K on a laptop your wanting the best options

Ouch!

But then again we spend €2000-3000 for graphic cards in house to run some wacko applications.

Still it is a niche market, manufacturers need to be sure that they get some sort of profit back, the way Dell handles warranty and Support, it might be a losing game in this high end machines for them.

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http://1toppc.com/Merchant2/merchant..._Code=G73JH-A1

Given you get Asus G73JH with ATI HD5870 GDDR5/i7-720QM/8GB DDR3/1TB 7200rpm/Blu-Ray for $1600, I can't see dual 5870s costing much more than current 4870 setup.

CF is highly likely to be available. And I foresee a lot of USB chips stuck onto pci-e lane of the PM55 chipset. Once HP introduced it across it's products, it was/is likely for Dell to follow suit. Intel being too big and slow (and dumb) to see a good thing like USB 3 and take advantage of it, isn't going to keep the rest of the industry down.

However AMD needs to get a mobile driver program if they really want to play in this market. Folks spending 000's of $/Euro on these machines don't really want hacked drivers as a result of their money. A few of us diehards are happily using said drivers, but the wider market won't really accept it. This is 2010, and AMD is woefully behind on this topic. AMD also needs to universally support all its mobile chips DX9 or later with said driver to really show that's its support is full fledged. We'll see if that happens. They have a huge lead on the DX11 front.

Isn't it amusing how a certain unmentionable substance flows downhill. In the CPU arena Intel is on top and AMD often gets the leftovers. Yet when it comes to GPU's, AMD is on top and Nvidia comes in second. Makes for a kind of high, medium and low of the pecking order when you really look at it. Of course what the order is today, dictates nothing about what it will be tomorrow.

USB 3 seems likely to be a checkbox soon. DX11 not too long after that. 320GB Intel SSD's are in the not too distant future. I7 mobile quads going to 32nm and gaining an appropriate speed increase won't be far off.

And here we see literally a 3DM06 mobile record. Does it get any better than this?

Cool

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Very disappointing. Dell/Alienware had plenty of time to play around with i7 and dual GPUs, so you would think all issues would be wrinkled out by now. It will take these corporate thieves forever to resolve this, which pushes dual 5870s even further..

My only hope is that promising results from Asus G73 will make Alienware work harder..