Current Best Laptop Graphics?

[Invincible10001]

I'm looking to buy an Origin Eon 17S laptop with the 7970M Graphics card.
From some research, i've come up with the 7970M card being the best on right now on the market.

Can anyone make any suggestions.. to a custom built gaming laptop & the graphics card?

(I'm not entirely sure this is in the right sub-forum)

 

[nikola1970]

Yeah, that card is very impressive, and it's fastest chip around for laptops.
You won't make a mistake and won't regret if you buy it! It's a monster!

check this one:

http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np9150-clevo-p150em-p-4341.html?wconfigure=yes

 

[Invincible10001]

Yeah, that card is very impressive, and it's fastest chip around for laptops.
You won't make a mistake and won't regret if you buy it! It's a monster!

check this one:

http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np9150-clevo-p150em-p-4341.html?wconfigure=yes

Whoa, that looks sick.
Nice! Any word on the build quality of Sager & usability?

 

[nikola1970]

I do not own one, but from what i heared, and from what i see on other laptop forums, they have very good quality, and Sager laptops are on the top of game laptops recommendations. So there should not be a mistake with buying one

 

[mnewsham]

My current laptop is the Clevo P150HM (AKA Sager NP8150) Mine is Prostar branded but it is the same laptop as the Sager version, just a different supplier essentially. It is a tank, built quite sturdy. I have only had minor hard drive problems where the HDD would need to be re-seated after getting jostled around on a bus or something. Nothing major, no data lost or anything like that.

Depending on your budget you might be able to afford a dual GPU laptop, the alienware M18x can get up to 2 GTX 675M GPU's in SLI. This will beat pretty much any laptop out there, sadly the privilege of SLI GTX675's is reserved for those of us with $2,600 USD(or more depending on upgrades) to spare.

 

[Invincible10001]

From what I've read across forums, you're better off getting a better graphics card (a higher model one) rather than settling for a SLI configuration of a card that is of lower performance. (For gaming purposes, atleast)

So by that logic; it's better to go for a single 2GB 7970M instead of dual GTX 675M, or no?
I'm looking to future proof it for gaming for atleast another year.

What would you recommend, GTX 675M SLI or single 7970M?

 

[mnewsham]

From what I've read across forums, you're better off getting a better graphics card (a higher model one) rather than settling for a SLI configuration of a card that is of lower performance. (For gaming purposes, atleast)

So by that logic; it's better to go for a single 2GB 7970M instead of dual GTX 675M, or no?
I'm looking to future proof it for gaming for atleast another year.

What would you recommend, GTX 675M SLI or single 7970M?

It depends, it is hard to say as I haven't seen any benchmarks of the 675M let alone SLI 675M's.

 

[nikola1970]

Go with 7970M and you are fine.

This is comparison vs 675M:

Also check this:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-7970M.72675.0.html

 

[sgrinavi]

From what I've read across forums, you're better off getting a better graphics card (a higher model one) rather than settling for a SLI configuration of a card that is of lower performance. (For gaming purposes, atleast)

So by that logic; it's better to go for a single 2GB 7970M instead of dual GTX 675M, or no?
I'm looking to future proof it for gaming for atleast another year.

What would you recommend, GTX 675M SLI or single 7970M?

I think you are on the right track. The single card is heck of a lot cheaper & uses less power than the pair. You hear a lot of scuttlebutt with regard to AMD drivers being problematic, but they've worked fine for me over the years (as have the nvidia drivers)

The Clevo line is really well made in my experiences with it. I currently have a NP8130 and have tinkered around with a 17" model as well. Solid systems with tons of options - keep looking = There are a bunch of good clevo/sager retailers, check out the forums at NotebookReview dot com

 

[mnewsham]

If you really want THE best graphics, get the Dell Alienware M18x R2 select the base model, upgrade the GPU to DUAL HD7970M GPU's. That is gonna be the fastest thing you can get at the moment, will come in slightly under $2,600

 

[Gikaseixas]

Fastest mobile GPU at the moment is the 7970M and like mnewsham said, if you can get a laptop with 7970M CF, you'll own the fastest available.

 

[Lobot]

Sager is awesome! I just got my 9170 in. I went for the GTX 675m due to time constraints. So far I can play everything on ultra or high settings. Starcraft 2, rift, D3, WoT and portal 2 is all I have had time to play ATM.

I went straight to Sager to buy mine. I'll post full build when I get home.

17.3" Full HD LED-Backlit Display with Super Glossy Surface (1920 x 1080)

Nvidia GeForce GTX 675M GPU with 2GB GDDR5 Video Memory
3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3820QM Processor ( 8MB L3 Cache, 2.70GHz)
IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU
16GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 4 X 4GB
120GB Intel 520 Series SATA3 Solid State Disk Drive
750GB 7200rpm SATA with 8GB SSD Secondary Hybrid Hard Drive
Optical Drive Bay — Optical Drive or Hard Disk Drive in Optical Drive 8X DVD±R/RW/4X +DL Super-Multi Drive & Software
Bigfoot Networks Killer™ Wireless-N 1103 - 802.11A/B/G/N Wireless LAN Module

 

[sgrinavi]

Nice build, I've been eyeing a new Clevo myself, but have decided to wait for the 3960XM & GTX 680M to shake out.

 

[Lobot]

Thank you. I would have waited also but I needed the laptop now due to work obligations over seas. I won't be in country for much longer till the end of the year.