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post #41 of 57
6/3/05 at 11:20am
Alienware page on 6800 Ultra

http://www.alienware.com/intro_pages...6800ultra.aspx

Not sure it's fair to compare a Go6800 with ddr1 memory with an Ultra with ddr3. Also, the "6800 Ultra" is NOT the very first mobile GPU to support DirectX Shader Model 3.0....the standard 6800 also supports it and I believe it preceeded the Ultra. Anyway, still interesting. Wish they would have attached some numbers to those 3dmark bar graphs though...

Oh, and for the car comparisons....I consider the Alienware 7700 to be the Escalade, the Sager 9860 is the Suburban (ie, same vehicle, but without the Cadillac name and without some fancy trim) and an XPS Gen 2 is the Dodge Durango (ie, comes from a company with a tarnished reputation, but they are trying like hell to keep their customers happy).
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post #42 of 57
6/3/05 at 11:45am
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Originally Posted by mackoy_06
Well said.

Grats on your new rig. I'm envious about the ultra!
Same here!

You did some detailed research - in the end, it's true - it's whatever system that works best for the individual. Congratulations!
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post #43 of 57
6/3/05 at 2:53pm
Hey, where can I get those cool Asbestos Gloves that you guys all use?

Seriously, my 6800 Go already makes my machine run pretty warm as is -- and I'm not even gaming with my rig.
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post #44 of 57
6/4/05 at 5:24am
I use my rig to cook quick noodle.
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post #45 of 57
6/4/05 at 5:25am
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Originally Posted by keisur
What are you going to run it on?
It will be the new brain for the Alien.
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post #46 of 57
6/4/05 at 10:02am
A quick question for a newbe,
At the moment is their much point in having a 6800go ultra on a 60Hz laptop screen? A fps higher than 60 will surely cause tearing, so v-sync will need to be enabled to stop tearing and so limiting the fps to <60.
I have to have v-sync enabled to stop tearing on HL2, doom3 and UT2003 because of this.

Assuming my thinking is correct, then in-game the cards will perform the same.

Or am I missing something.

Dipster
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post #47 of 57
6/4/05 at 10:46am
Just use the nvidia control panel to set other refresh rate....i have set it up like for 100hz and the screen works fine, just up it to 75 or something near that
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post #48 of 57
6/4/05 at 11:42am
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Originally Posted by GrantHell
It will be the new brain for the Alien.
I didn't think these mobo's supported the 64-bit processor? maybe I'm wrong but I didn't think it was just a drop in.
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post #49 of 57
6/4/05 at 12:38pm
Sager offers the 64-bit on theirs
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post #50 of 57
6/4/05 at 1:16pm
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Originally Posted by keisur
I didn't think these mobo's supported the 64-bit processor? maybe I'm wrong but I didn't think it was just a drop in.
The chipset is Intel 915P which does support 64-bit but it's really a "junior" model compare to its 9xx brothers.
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post #51 of 57
6/4/05 at 1:52pm
ahh, ok.
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post #52 of 57
6/4/05 at 1:53pm
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Originally Posted by xtian
Sager offers the 64-bit on theirs
I know but I thought you got a different mobo depending on whether you ordered the 5xxJ or the 6xxJ processor.
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post #53 of 57
6/4/05 at 2:09pm
I don't know about that
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post #54 of 57
6/7/05 at 6:47am
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Originally Posted by xtian
Just use the nvidia control panel to set other refresh rate....i have set it up like for 100hz and the screen works fine, just up it to 75 or something near that
Won't using an unsupported frequency damage the monitor in the long term?
Or are LCD's hardware limited to 60Hz so you are not really seeing your 100Hz anyway?

dipster
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post #55 of 57
6/7/05 at 9:47am
LCDs have a single refresh rate, but it is measured in milliseconds, the 7700 i think its 25ms, so it doesn't matter how fast or slow you set the refresh rate, the LCD will only work at one refresh rate, at least that is how i understand it to be.
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post #56 of 57
6/7/05 at 10:51am
I thought they were set at either 59 or 60 and maybe some other settings but not anywhere close to 100. I don't even have an option to set the refresh rate to anything but 59 or 60 on either my external LCD or my laptop screen.
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post #57 of 57
6/7/05 at 6:48pm
So with a refresh of 25ms on the AW 7700, anything over 60fps is academic?
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