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    Brand new amd 7000m and nvidia 600m on M15x!?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by elflegolas, Nov 23, 2011.

  1. elflegolas

    elflegolas Notebook Consultant

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    <img> http://www.cbbimg.com/out.php/i101810_gtx600m1.JPG
    check this out guys,the TGP of the top models is still 100W!
    so which means if the port still remain MXM 3.0b
    we will be able to put this into our M15X for sure!
    getting excited to get one coz the 6990m is not strong enough for me :p
     
    elflegolas, Nov 23, 2011
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    The main hurdle will be BIOS support. Personally, I doubt they'll work, but I hope someone tries. ;)
     
    JohnnyFlash, Nov 23, 2011
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    elflegolas Notebook Consultant

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    i tot bios's problem only related to fan issues isnt it？
     
    elflegolas, Nov 23, 2011
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  4. JohnnyFlash

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    No, the system BIOS needs to recognize the card. Try running a 460m on the original M15x BIOS and you get a black screen.
     
    JohnnyFlash, Nov 23, 2011
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    No real surprise here, it has already been announced that the new shrink of the transistor size will result in much more performance per watt, i.e. if you have a 50W TDP card it could still outperfrom a 6990m.

    Whether it will work is a different question... remember, not all cards work as well as the 69XXm in our system.
     
    svl7, Nov 23, 2011
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  6. widezu69

    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    Holy moly 21k on a single card!
     
    widezu69, Nov 23, 2011
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  7. JohnnyFlash

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    That's pretty impressive for sure. I'm hoping more for nvidia support than AMD at this point, I could really use CUDA. Still waiting for someone to test the 580m as well.
     
    JohnnyFlash, Nov 23, 2011
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    OpenCL is all you need... and AMD cards are pretty good at this stuff. Or which CUDA-only specialized software do you use and for what purpose?
     
    svl7, Nov 23, 2011
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    interesting stuff, i would love to mod this thing after the warranty goes out.
     
    ettehbrute, Nov 23, 2011
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  10. bigtonyman

    bigtonyman Desktop Powa!!!

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    Technology moves to fast, Makes me feel like my 460m is obselete :eek:
     
    bigtonyman, Nov 23, 2011
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  11. JohnnyFlash

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    Adobe. :(

    Nvidia pays them too much to move from CUDA to OpenCL.
     
    JohnnyFlash, Nov 23, 2011
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    Well, photoshop definitely supports at least OpenGL, never had issues so far with my card.
    No idea about actual OpenCL... tbh I hate Nvidia for pushing its Cuda stuff instead of going OpenCL.
     
    svl7, Nov 23, 2011
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    It does use OpenGL as well for sampling and output. Plugins can use CUDA to actually do the image processing. Time goes from a couple minutes on the CPU to 20-30 seconds.
     
    JohnnyFlash, Nov 23, 2011
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    Ah, yes... I forgot... all the plugins which are CUDA optimized. I just don't like it when I need to choose a certain brand of hardware just because of a piece of software.
     
    svl7, Nov 24, 2011
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    well nvidia is making lots of $$ because of CUDA, so I don't think its gonna change anytime soon :(
     
    bigtonyman, Nov 24, 2011
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    Woah dude.. Thats.. Unbelievable.. 21k on GPU
     
    saadleo, Nov 24, 2011
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    That's probably going to turn into 30K on NBR :cool:
     
    katalin_2003, Nov 25, 2011
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    wonder what you could get with two of those beasts :eek:
     
    bigtonyman, Nov 25, 2011
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    Not only a huge performance and high scores but probably the ability to divide by zero :D
     
    katalin_2003, Nov 25, 2011
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    lol i'm not sure how to take the last part of your statement. as something awesome or constant BSOD and driver crashes

    lol
     
    xeroxide, Nov 25, 2011
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    As something awesome of course.
     
    katalin_2003, Nov 25, 2011
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    This is definitely impressive. I can't wait to hear if someone gets this working.

    Zachary Wickliffe
     
    Zswickliffe, Nov 26, 2011
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    hope it works
     
    grandie, Nov 27, 2011
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