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post #1 of 12
8/1/05 at 8:00pm
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NVIDIA Geforce Series 7 Go details
Allthough the desktop graphic cards are just being released, information about the new mobile parts has been floating around the internet. There will be 3 different parts for each price class (value, mainstream & highend), all based on PCIe.

Value: G74M-Chip (Geforce 7200go) with 8 pipelines
Mainstream: G73M-Chip (Geforce 7600go) with 12 pipelines
High-end: G71M-Chip (Geforce 7800go) with 16 pipelines

The actual names are not set in stone yet, and can thus change later, but chances are that NVIDIA will stick with its current naming scheme. All these grapic cards will use the NVIDIA MXM layout, so notebook manufacturers do not need to completely redesign their board layout.

Another interesting timbit seems to be SLI in Notebooks, the 7600go and 7800go are SLI capable, while the 7200go will not be.

All (not just the value parts) will use TurboCache, and thus will be able to use system memory if needed.
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post #2 of 12
8/1/05 at 8:18pm
SLI in a notebook!? Thats awsome but...do you have any idea how much that will cost?
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post #3 of 12
8/1/05 at 10:15pm
if the 7600go is similar size/power consumign as 6600go but performs like an overclocked 6800go would be awsome
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post #4 of 12
8/2/05 at 12:24pm
Now only if someone would know whether you could replace your GeForce Go Series 6 GPU with these... (preferably yourself)

When can you expect these cards to make their market entrance??
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post #5 of 12
8/2/05 at 12:51pm
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Originally Posted by RuptuReD
When can you expect these cards to make their market entrance??
In another thread, someone mentioned late 2005, but no one knows for sure yet.
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post #6 of 12
8/2/05 at 4:57pm
How you going to fit SLI into any notebook other than a 17" Clevo
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post #7 of 12
8/3/05 at 12:07am
Why would you need and/or want SLI in any other notebook besides a 17"? They are the only ones with high enough resolutions to be able to put SLI to use with todays and the next generations of games.

I mean, the 6800 Ultra in my XPS2 will run anything at full effects, full res (1920x1200) at great framerates, I would imagine a 7800 would do even better, and dual 7800 in SLI would be even more overkill.

On a 15.4" with lower than 1920x1200, SLI'ed 7800's would be useless. Thus, the only ones that will need and/or want SLI'ed video would be a 17" anyways. Or if they go bigger than 17" in the future, those, too.

Dave
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post #8 of 12
8/3/05 at 12:41am
I think most people on this forum would be thrilled to see 7800 series cards in notebooks. (whether or not we will see it before the 90nm refresh is anyone's guess).

I just finished building a Dual Opteron rig, and the 7800GTX OC from BFG is probably the biggest jump in graphics performance I have ever experienced on a computer upgrade, coming from a 5900U. 3D Mark 05 is running close to 10,000, and I havn't even begun tweaking the card yet. This card is running circles around my housemate's 6800GT, which was not even pulling half the frame rates on BF2 at 1600X1200.

I should be able to play any game out there, including those coming out this fall/winter, at 1600X1200, with the max settings including AA/AF, with >> 60fps. And right now, it's pulling >> 100fps on UT2004, with everything at absolute max settings.

I got it with Dell (kudos to them for delivering the card ahead of estimated date), for ~500. For those who are avid gamers, this is a no brainer; don't hesitate to build a new rig with one (or even two) of these babies, and pop in an A64 X2 CPU; and your gaming will be set for the next 24 months. This is truly an experience of a lifetime.
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post #9 of 12
8/3/05 at 7:14am
I heard that the 7600go preforms on a par with the beastly 6800go but consumes the same amount of power as the 6600, don't know about the heat yet!

As for mxm, i think its a bit of a gimmic - in 17 inchers maybe but not in mainstream 15.4.
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post #10 of 12
8/3/05 at 2:11pm
Sli in a note book isn't that hard to do.. check this pic

This is a SLI mobo combo from newegg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2E16813128282R , as you can see the other SLI card is extremely Tiny

But hey the socket doesn't fit? i think only the middle is suppose to fit.. take a look at the detail under the specs.. "Dual GeForce 6600GT GPUs"

pretend having SLI in your notebook two 6600gt or 7600... playing video games on a notebook.. wow that is great for a WXGA 16++x1+++ LCD screen.
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post #11 of 12
8/3/05 at 2:21pm
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Originally Posted by HardBall
I think most people on this forum would be thrilled to see 7800 series cards in notebooks. (whether or not we will see it before the 90nm refresh is anyone's guess).

I just finished building a Dual Opteron rig, and the 7800GTX OC from BFG is probably the biggest jump in graphics performance I have ever experienced on a computer upgrade, coming from a 5900U. 3D Mark 05 is running close to 10,000, and I havn't even begun tweaking the card yet. This card is running circles around my housemate's 6800GT, which was not even pulling half the frame rates on BF2 at 1600X1200.

I should be able to play any game out there, including those coming out this fall/winter, at 1600X1200, with the max settings including AA/AF, with >> 60fps. And right now, it's pulling >> 100fps on UT2004, with everything at absolute max settings.

I got it with Dell (kudos to them for delivering the card ahead of estimated date), for ~500. For those who are avid gamers, this is a no brainer; don't hesitate to build a new rig with one (or even two) of these babies, and pop in an A64 X2 CPU; and your gaming will be set for the next 24 months. This is truly an experience of a lifetime.

wow... even tho i'm not a hardcore gamer.. but i'll be crazy to jump from a geforce 2gts and go6600 to a 7800 series
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post #12 of 12
8/3/05 at 3:56pm
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Originally Posted by Emotion
Sli in a note book isn't that hard to do.. check this pic

This is a SLI mobo combo from newegg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2E16813128282R , as you can see the other SLI card is extremely Tiny

But hey the socket doesn't fit? i think only the middle is suppose to fit.. take a look at the detail under the specs.. "Dual GeForce 6600GT GPUs"

pretend having SLI in your notebook two 6600gt or 7600... playing video games on a notebook.. wow that is great for a WXGA 16++x1+++ LCD screen.


Honestly, I'm not sure what you are talking about; the "the other SLI card", are you referring to the small device right below the Graphics card in the picture?

That is a DPS card which is standard on many Gigabyte boards that provides extra stability from the Power supply; you don't even need to know the specifics of the card, just look at all the inductors protruding from it. And it certainly does not fit into a PCIE slot. If you look at the board layout:



The blue slot all the way on the far right edge of the mobo (above the CPU in a regular setup), is the DPS slot. The single video card, on the other hand, is a PCB that contains two video chipsets, so de facto two 6600GTs on the same card. And this card cannot be SLI'ed with another video card through an SLI bridge (which it lacks).

The video card itself is actually quite large, definitely longer than an X800XL; for if you look at the picture, the card is more than 2.5 X the length of the PCIE X16 slot; which is almost on order of the length of a 7800GTX (the longest card in today's consumer grade cards). That thing definitely won't fit into a notebook, even if you can make the thermal characteristics work.
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