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Message started by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 12.10.06 at 23:29:12

Title: nVidia GeForce Go 7950GTX, Laptop Sickness
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 12.10.06 at 23:29:12
well while Iwas surf'n around I came across this article @ Hot Hardware :)
http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx

It's about the sickest Mobile Graphics accelerator you could think about if' it's all about pure speed :)

Nvidia's GeForce Go 7950GTX :)

here some sweet specs of it :)

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX Specifications:

Flagship Performance Crammed Into a Notebook
NVIDIA CineFX 4.0 Shading Architecture

Vertex Shaders:

Support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Vertex Shader 3.0
Displacement mapping
Geometry instancing
Infinite length vertex programs

Pixel Shaders:
Support for DirectX 9.0 Pixel Shader 3.0
Full pixel branching support
Support for Multiple Render Targets (MRTs)
Infinite length pixel programs

Next-Generation Texture Engine:
Accelerated texture access
Up to 16 textures per rendering pass
Support for 16-bit floating point format and 32-bit floating point format
Support for non-power of two textures
Support for sRGB texture format for gamma textures DirectX and S3TC texture compression
Full 128-bit studio-quality floating point precision through the entire rendering pipeline with native hardware support for 32bpp, 64bpp, and 128bpp rendering modes

API Support:

.Complete DirectX support, including the latest version of Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0
.Full OpenGL support, including OpenGL 2.0

64-Bit Texture Filtering and Blending:

.Delivers true high dynamic range (HDR) lighting support
.Full floating point support throughout entire pipeline
.Floating point filtering improves the quality of images in motion .Floating point texturing drives new levels of clarity and image detail .Floating point frame buffer blending gives detail to special effects like motion blur and explosions

NVIDIA Intellisample 4.0 Technology:

.Advanced 16x anisotropic filtering (with up to 128 Taps)
.Blistering- fast antialiasing and compression performance .Gamma-adjusted rotated-grid antialiasing removes jagged edges for incredible image quality
.Transparent multisampling and transparent supersampling modes boost antialiasing quality to new levels
.Support for normal map compression
.Support for advanced lossless compression algorithms for color, texture, and z-data at even higher resolutions and frame rates
.Fast z-clear

NVIDIA UltraShadow II Technology:

.Designed to enhance the performance of shadow-intensive games

NVIDIA Digital Vibrance Control (DVC) 3.0 Technology:

.DVC color controls
.DVC image sharpening controls

Advanced Display Functionality:

. Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for display resolutions up to and including 2048x1536 at 85Hz
.Full NVIDIA nView multi-display technology capability

NVIDIA PureVideo Technology:

.Dedicated on-chip video processor
.High-definition H.264, MPEG2 and WMV9 decode acceleration
.Advanced spatial-temporal de-interlacing
.Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
.High-quality video scaling
.Video color correction
.Microsoft Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) supports multiple video windows with full video quality and features in each window


Composited Desktop Hardware Engine:

. Video post-processing
.Real-time desktop compositing
.Accelerated antialiased text rendering
.Pixel shader-driven special effects and animation

Advanced Engineering:

.Designed for PCI Express x16
.Designed for high-speed GDDR3 memory
.Designed around MXM constraints
.Same Thermal, Power, and Space constraints as GeForce Go 7900 GTX

Operating Systems:

.Microsoft Vista
.Windows XP/Windows XP 64
.Windows ME
.Windows 2000
.Linux
.Macintosh OS X



The GeForce Go 7950 GTX:
Exposed


The GeForce Go 7950 GTX:
Rear-View


The GeForce Go 7950 GTX: MXM Module:


But yes it's something nice from the Green camp, though it still lacks Combined FSAA & HDR support, so waiting for a G80 is very worthwhile it, but if FSAA ain't such of importance and HDR with pure speed is it's the best to get for the Laptop Gamers market :)

otherwise there is ATi's M56 Mobillity Radeon X1800XT :)

Title: Re: nVidia GeForce Go 7950GTX, Laptop Sickness
Post by Voodoo_Freak on 13.10.06 at 17:44:36
I don't want to start a discussion about the sense of high end notebook graphics...but I think a notebook is something to WORK, not to GAME.  
Mobility is the second reason for the nonsense of such a chip...how long can you use this Notebook without electricity connection? 1,5 h? Uh...very long.

I have to agree that it's still an impressive piece of hardware..

Title: Re: nVidia GeForce Go 7950GTX, Laptop Sickness
Post by gamma742 on 13.10.06 at 19:02:03
I wonder how they are able to keep these high end graphics chips cool in a notebook.

Title: Re: nVidia GeForce Go 7950GTX, Laptop Sickness
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 13.10.06 at 19:38:03
@ Jandarsun:

I meant:
@ Voodoo Freak:

hey I think it's the perfect outcome, since many people have bad backs and a limited with transport to go to thier local computer clubs or Lan Parties that is where these laptops come in ;)

And to be honest I am one of those people, so please take note there. think before you say something like that since there are more people I know that have the same problem, I am not alloud to drive a car because I see things that aren't there and also have a bad back, not allout to pickup heavy stuff so therefore my Dell Inspiron 9100 Xtreme with ATI M18 Mobillity Radeon 9800 was my outcome, now I can enjoy with my other friends, at my computerclub and other lanparties.

So It's only good that these things comealong for people that have problesm carrying things, and have other problems, so the Gamers Laptop deserves it's place.


Since I'm 100% disapproved a laptop is made to GAME and NOT WORK >:( ::)

Title: Re: nVidia GeForce Go 7950GTX, Laptop Sickness
Post by Voodoo_Freak on 14.10.06 at 11:07:35
Yeah, i understand your point...but you have to think in general...a Notebook equipped with a X700 is enough i believe..true high end chips are basically senseless. You are not allowed to carry heavy things?
A notebook with a Core 2 Duo, 2GB Ram, 250GB HDD and Geforce 7950GTX is heavy.

Gaming is very nice but notebooks are not designed for stuff like this.
And, as gamma mentioned, how they keep things like this monster cool? I wonder how long these notebooks are fully functional.

btw: I'm not jandarsun8 ;)

Title: Re: nVidia GeForce Go 7950GTX, Laptop Sickness
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 14.10.06 at 14:07:45
well I am planning to get me a notebook with such hardware since it's my best option to keep on lanning, but then with an ATi M56 Mobillity Radeon X1800XT ofcourse, why that one?
Well because of the better image quallity with FSAA + HDR Combination 8).

The MR9800 that I have now is still powerfull enough for the job.

ATi M18 Mobillity Radeon 9800 Specs:

ATi R420 VPU:
8 Pixel Pipes
8 Pixel Shader Processors
8 Rops
4 Vertexshader Processors
110 Million Transistors
Based on X8.xx technology
3Dc Texture compression.
256MB 256Bit GDDR2 2.5ns Memory Interface
based for DirectX 9.0b and OpenGL 2.0+

FSAA x 2, x4 x6
AF x2, x4, x8, x16
High Quallity FSAA & AF
Smooth Vision2.0
ShaderModel 2.0b

Anyways it was the best you could get one and half years ago :) and it's still go'n well, only some games create alittle lag on it, but with a 100GB 4200rpm Hitachi Deskstar HDD it's rather obvious, all I have to do is upgrade that to a 7200 rpm 2'5" HDD and I get a nice 70% more performance qua HDD loading maps and so on.
the CPU is an Intel Pentium4-E HT 3400Mhz with 1MB L2, and a 800Mhz FSB, that one has all the tech specs I need it for. SSE, SSE2, SSE3 and MMX+.

The 15,4 WUXGA Screen also fullfill it's deeds, it can do a max reso of 1920 x 1200 x32 very nice in Call of Duty2 in DX7 mode :) it's a 16:10 aspect ratio screen, this laptop also supports HDTV format films :) so it's not too shabby.

But anyways High End gaming on notebooks is easy and alot more comfortable too, they are small, but as yoda says:

Size Matters Not!, it's all between the ears and mind. ;)
PC.3

YODA


Dell Inspiron 9100 X-treme'
Intel Pentium4 HT 3400Mhz Prescott  LGA478 1MB L2 800Mhz FSB  ;D
Intel i864PE Dual Channel DDR 400 mobo + 7.1 onboard AC97's sound card, Giga Lan Bios 1.0
2x 512MB PC-3200 DDR 400 Infineon in Dual DDR mode
ATi M18 Mobillity Radeon 9800 AGP 256MB 256Bit GDDRII 2.5ns :8)
Onboard Intel Sound card AC'97 compliant

The Dell Inspiron 9100 X-treme in a closed position:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/7632-2/DSC00531.jpg

The Dell Inspiron 9100 X-treme in an opened position
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/7635-2/DSC00530.jpg

The Dell Inspiron 9100 X-treme enabled Radeon 8500 Screensaver on MR9800 :) FSAA x6T3 & AF x16 @ 1280 x 800 x 32:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/14213-2/Yoda+The+Dell+Inspiron+9100+Xtreme_.JPG



The cooling is being done with a 100% Copper Heatpipe cooling setup, with 2 fans in the front and 4 is the rear, creating a nice airflow in my Dell Inspiron 9100 X-treme, and really it never crashes, it NEVER does :)

Played FS 2004 for like a realtime flight from Schiphol, The The Netherlands to Guanzhou , China with a Lufthansa B747-412 aka B744 in a time of 10 hours and 12 minutes :) and all smoothly on this notebook no problems as well, also exellent for lans, it just one planet 21 rucksack I have it in with it's adapter, a mouse and the games that need to be played, all I do is place the Laptop on the table, open it up, connect it's Power adapter, a 150 watter, get my Joustick out of my scooter's Buddyseat, plug that one on, plug on my mouse and I'm done, then I still see others carrying heavy stuff like PC cases, Monitor's, TFT's Bags with speakers, keaboards and games, while I'm allready mak'n a server, droooool  ::)

Title: Re: nVidia GeForce Go 7950GTX, Laptop Sickness
Post by jandarsun8 on 26.12.06 at 19:37:20

Quote:
@ Jandarsun:

hey I think it's the perfect outcome, since many people have bad backs and a limited with transport to go to thier local computer clubs or Lan Parties that is where these laptops come in  


Um, just was looking over this post when I seen my name on here with nothing behind it. Did I post something and it go deleted? Just was wondering cuz I generally try not to cause problems, just thought it was odd, that's all.

Title: Re: nVidia GeForce Go 7950GTX, Laptop Sickness
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 26.12.06 at 20:03:36

wrote on 26.12.06 at 19:37:20:
Um, just was looking over this post when I seen my name on here with nothing behind it. Did I post something and it go deleted? Just was wondering cuz I generally try not to cause problems, just thought it was odd, that's all.


heh that was my fault , I wrote the wrong name, oh well this is a very old topic, doesn't matter now hehe, I aimed at Voodoo Freak instead, sorry for the inconvenience hehe :)

BTW Can't wait for a mobile R600 :D ;D ;D

Title: Re: nVidia GeForce Go 7950GTX, Laptop Sickness
Post by jandarsun8 on 26.12.06 at 22:13:17
LOL, no prob man.  :)   Just was confused.

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