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ASUS G751

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The new NVIDIA GTX 980M and 970M are specced closer to their desktop brethren than any previous NVIDIA mobile GPU. But do those specs translate to impressive real world performance?

 

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If cooling in laptops and ultraportable devices just advance a tad more...

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Nice results from the 870M SLI, would love to see some SLI figures with GTX 980Ms. 

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Quite fast, didn't hear nothing about battery life.

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These things are beast. I'll wait for someone to put some higher end gpu's in thin laptops.

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Fingers crossed that I can get that ASUS G751  for Christmas. 

CPU: i7 9700K GPU: MSI RTX 2080 SUPER VENTUS Motherboard: ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 4 RAM: 16GB ADATA XPG GAMMIX D10 3000MHz Storage: ADATA SU630 480GB + Samsung 860 EVO 1TB + Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe 1TB + WD Blue 1TB PSU: HighPower 80+ Gold 650W Case: Slate MR Mirror Finish OS: Windows 11 Pro Monitor: Dell S2716DGR 27" Mouse: Logitech G300s Keyboard: Corsair K70 LUX Cherry MX Brown Speakers: Bose Companion 2 Series III Headset: HyperX Cloud Revolver Microphone: Razer Seiren X

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If cooling in laptops and ultraportable devices just advance a tad more...

 

 

We're already basically at the threshold of efficient cooling we're most likely going to get super random heat dissipation anytime soon.

 

Now it'll be up to the chip makers to lower the TDP and up the performance.

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Thanks Nick :D

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I'm actually surprised on how much NVIDIA have closed up the performance gap between their Mobile GPU's and Desktop GPU's! A laptop is much more portable compared to a Desktop, unless you buy a Mini-ITX or Micro-ATX build, which makes a laptop better in some cases to a Desktop, and a laptop has a battery, which also helps to the portability factor.

 

Desktop GPU's are massive compared to Mobile GPU's whether it has a cooler on it or not, they are just down right much bigger, and the performance between a Mobile and Desktop is relatively tight.

 

It actually sounds like it's worth gaming on one of these laptops, especially once we find out temperatures and power consumption, but we have got to remember; Price, for the price of a good gaming laptop you could easily buy a much stronger PC, easily so unless portability is worth load to you and Desktop will still be better.

 

But, nonetheless the gap closure from NVIDIA deserves some respect to say the least.

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Hmm I was thinking of getting a thin light laptop

 

but maybe I will wait for a SLI 980m machine... just because... amazing

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So we are talking about $2499+ each? I suppose my biggest problem with gaming laptops would still be, if I had $2500 in my pocket would I get one of these, or build an i5 4690k + SLI 980 + 144Hz monitor setup...

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@LinusTech @Slick 

Watching the video right now, but

I'd like to point out that most alienwares and clevos have MXM gpus with the x70m and up for each series. You can swap them with almost whatever you want. A lot of clevos models have SLI MXM 3.0 slots, as do alienware m18s. Some clevos have desktop CPUs as well. 

AND
You can actually run them in a desktop. 

Yep. 

MXM is actually just a repining of pcie, and there are adapter cards. If you are interested, PM me and I can point you in the right direction for consistent apples to apples benchmarks.  :lol:

http://mxm.borec.cz/Doc/Electro_mech_spec.pdf

 

Adapter cards look something like this

Acvb3AV.jpg

this one is dated obviously 

muh specs 

Gaming and HTPC (reparations)- ASUS 1080, MSI X99A SLI Plus, 5820k- 4.5GHz @ 1.25v, asetek based 360mm AIO, RM 1000x, 16GB memory, 750D with front USB 2.0 replaced with 3.0  ports, 2 250GB 850 EVOs in Raid 0 (why not, only has games on it), some hard drives

Screens- Acer preditor XB241H (1080p, 144Hz Gsync), LG 1080p ultrawide, (all mounted) directly wired to TV in other room

Stuff- k70 with reds, steel series rival, g13, full desk covering mouse mat

All parts black

Workstation(desk)- 3770k, 970 reference, 16GB of some crucial memory, a motherboard of some kind I don't remember, Micomsoft SC-512N1-L/DVI, CM Storm Trooper (It's got a handle, can you handle that?), 240mm Asetek based AIO, Crucial M550 256GB (upgrade soon), some hard drives, disc drives, and hot swap bays

Screens- 3  ASUS VN248H-P IPS 1080p screens mounted on a stand, some old tv on the wall above it. 

Stuff- Epicgear defiant (solderless swappable switches), g600, moutned mic and other stuff. 

Laptop docking area- 2 1440p korean monitors mounted, one AHVA matte, one samsung PLS gloss (very annoying, yes). Trashy Razer blackwidow chroma...I mean like the J key doesn't click anymore. I got a model M i use on it to, but its time for a new keyboard. Some edgy Utechsmart mouse similar to g600. Hooked to laptop dock for both of my dell precision laptops. (not only docking area)

Shelf- i7-2600 non-k (has vt-d), 380t, some ASUS sandy itx board, intel quad nic. Currently hosts shared files, setting up as pfsense box in VM. Also acts as spare gaming PC with a 580 or whatever someone brings. Hooked into laptop dock area via usb switch

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Faith in notebook gaming restored

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Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A-DS3P | GPU: EVGA GTX 960 SSC | SSD: 250GB Samsung 850 EVO

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I am very interested in that Gigabyte x7 Pro....  few thoughts and questions however, which I'm going to quote from another user which posted from another forum - but mirrors my thoughts...

 

design uses 3 heat pipes now instead of 2 and CPU is on both heatsinks icon7.gif

I am totally stocked for a broadwell refresh.... the lack of a removable batter is what hurts the most.  Is it at least easily replaced? My batteries eat crap after a year of hard use :/


Also i saw optimise doesn't work on SLI i guess. Is that still true? If you disable SLI does optimise work? Have you heard them adding a hardware mux or whatever?

 

quoted from...http://forum.notebookreview.com/gigabyte/762958-new-aorus-x7-pro-dual-970m-sli-still-0-9-inches-thin-2.html#post9802187

 

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Im actually thinking of getting the Aorus X7 Pro since it perform well but i have seen that alienware can manufacture a laptop with dual GTX 980m in sli for about 3200 so 700$ more, would the 700$ extra be Worth it to pass from 6gb to 16gb of video ram? i mean that laptop would prolly be good for a good 5 year.

 

Also does anyone know who else would manufacture laptop with Dual video card of about the same grade?

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Im actually thinking of getting the Aorus X7 Pro since it perform well but i have seen that alienware can manufacture a laptop with dual GTX 980m in sli for about 3200 so 700$ more, would the 700$ extra be Worth it to pass from 6gb to 16gb of video ram? i mean that laptop would prolly be good for a good 5 year.

 

Also does anyone know who else would manufacture laptop with Dual video card of about the same grade?

 

VRAM doesn't stack, it would still be 6GB total since the buffer is being filled at the same time on both cards. 

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Ok so basically all you get from dual video card is the process time the additional v ram is useless?

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Ok so basically all you get from dual video card is the process time the additional v ram is useless?

Not at all. Basically each card renders the same thing, and alternate frames, or draw half of the screen. The second card couldn't render anything without the same vram contents. It would be very hard for the second card to access the first one's vram  or vise-versa without delay. Plus they do render slightly different things. 

muh specs 

Gaming and HTPC (reparations)- ASUS 1080, MSI X99A SLI Plus, 5820k- 4.5GHz @ 1.25v, asetek based 360mm AIO, RM 1000x, 16GB memory, 750D with front USB 2.0 replaced with 3.0  ports, 2 250GB 850 EVOs in Raid 0 (why not, only has games on it), some hard drives

Screens- Acer preditor XB241H (1080p, 144Hz Gsync), LG 1080p ultrawide, (all mounted) directly wired to TV in other room

Stuff- k70 with reds, steel series rival, g13, full desk covering mouse mat

All parts black

Workstation(desk)- 3770k, 970 reference, 16GB of some crucial memory, a motherboard of some kind I don't remember, Micomsoft SC-512N1-L/DVI, CM Storm Trooper (It's got a handle, can you handle that?), 240mm Asetek based AIO, Crucial M550 256GB (upgrade soon), some hard drives, disc drives, and hot swap bays

Screens- 3  ASUS VN248H-P IPS 1080p screens mounted on a stand, some old tv on the wall above it. 

Stuff- Epicgear defiant (solderless swappable switches), g600, moutned mic and other stuff. 

Laptop docking area- 2 1440p korean monitors mounted, one AHVA matte, one samsung PLS gloss (very annoying, yes). Trashy Razer blackwidow chroma...I mean like the J key doesn't click anymore. I got a model M i use on it to, but its time for a new keyboard. Some edgy Utechsmart mouse similar to g600. Hooked to laptop dock for both of my dell precision laptops. (not only docking area)

Shelf- i7-2600 non-k (has vt-d), 380t, some ASUS sandy itx board, intel quad nic. Currently hosts shared files, setting up as pfsense box in VM. Also acts as spare gaming PC with a 580 or whatever someone brings. Hooked into laptop dock area via usb switch

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