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    Graphics Cards

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by KingSeth, Mar 8, 2011.

  1. KingSeth

    KingSeth Notebook Enthusiast

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    which one of these 3 graphics card do u reccomend (not to worried on price) but please choose out of these 3 i cant do any self modifying. :( 1024 MB ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5850
    1GB GDDR3 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 260M
    1.5GB GDDR5 65W NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460M
     
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  2. inap

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    um what are your uses? work/play?
    definetly 460m or 5850.
     
    inap, Mar 8, 2011
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  3. KingSeth

    KingSeth Notebook Enthusiast

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    ummm, work, play, web browsing, mixing music, photoshop the whole 9 i guess :p
     
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    5850 and 460m both perform about the same at stock levels. but 460m has cuda and phsyx which help with work related stuff like photoshop and etc.

    5850 is capable of very high oc, which makes it edge out in the gaming category.

    you really can't go wrong with either.
     
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  5. KingSeth

    KingSeth Notebook Enthusiast

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    ight thankx bro :p
     
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    kaizenmx Notebook Consultant

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    I would personally go with 5850, since if overclocked it can perform about as same power as 5870 card...
     
    kaizenmx, Mar 9, 2011
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    Definately 5850. Some utility software tools have started utilizing the new ATI Stream feature which is somewhat like CUDA.
     
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    Most of the guys here own the 5850,including me,i say if you use drivers from AMD & do OCing,the difference is significant without needing to benchmark.I have a weird problem though,sometimes when watching avi files using windows media player,system will hang & driver stopped responding.This never happened with my previously installed 260m.
     
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    That sounds like a driver issue Shinobi?
     
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    If price is no issue i believe the GTX 460m has better dx11 performance than the 5850m. and it should run cooler,
    I'm no pro so i could be wrong, the 2 cards have been discussed hear http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m15x/529180-460m-vs-5850-better-4.html
    I think i comes down to do you prefer Nvidia or ATI personally I'd get the 5850m put the extra money into another upgrade option...Unless your super rich and have maxed the whole thing out anyway ^^
     
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  11. KingSeth

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    nah im not super rich, thankx for all the info guys i'll really take this into consideration. :)
     
    KingSeth, Mar 9, 2011
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