7900GTX on E1705

Bioshock doesn't seem to run well on my E1705, and thats a shame.

I know the GTX has 512mb of memory, twice than that of my GS.

I'm not familiar with the clock speeds, I'm looking them up.

But basically, I can get a GTX card for about $200. Do you guys think it'll be worth it just to hold me over until next year when they have something a little more ass kicking in a smaller laptop?

Do you guys think it's worth it? Also when the service guy had my laptop open a few weeks ago I noticed my card has two heat pipes. Isn't that a little out of the ordinary?

Basically, do you guys think it's worth it?

 

Get a 7950 GTX, and put it in

Here it is for 7950 GTX

 

Although I never did it with my 7900GS, there's a way you can flash the BIOS and achieve speeds right around the 7900GTX.

Search "Official 7900GS Overclocking Thread" on these forums, there's a huge thread about it. I'd say read over that before you spend any money just yet!

 

The GTX has twice the memory as the GS

According to another poster, confirmed on Wikipedia;

The NVIDIA 7900GTX
Technology: 09 micron
Transistor count: 278M
Core (MHz): 500
Vertex Shaders: 8
Pixel Shaders: 8
Memory Interface: 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth(SC/DC): 600MHz/1200MHz
Vertices/Sec(mill.): 1000
Pixel Fill Rate (# ROPs x clk): 8 billion/sec
Texture Fill Rate (# Pixel pipes x clk): 12 billion /sec
RAMDAC: 400Mhz

The NVIDIA 7950GTX
Technology: 09 micron
Transistor count: 278M
Core (MHz): 575
Vertex Shaders: 8
Pixel Shaders: 8
Memory Interface: 256-bit
Memory clock(data rate): 700MHz/1400MHz
Vertices/Sec(mill.): 1140
Pixel Fill Rate (# ROPs x clk): 9.2 billion/sec
Texture Fill Rate (# Pixel pipes x clk): 13.8 billion /sec
RAMDAC: 400Mhz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_NVIDIA_Graphics_Processing_Units#GeForce_Go_7_series <---- If you're interested in the article.

 

I went ahead and bought it.

I got the 7900GTX with 512mb GDDR3 ram for $200.

The 7950's start at like $350, and are as much as $500 sometimes. Not worth the extra money, when they're basically the same.


Now, I have a few questions. Do I need to flash a bios? Or does the card handle it's own bios? I'm not all too knowledgable about bios' but I know how to flash one and where to get them.

Does anyone know if the 7900GTX runs at 1v or 1.24v? I have my GS set to run at the 1.24v setting to get a little more performance out of it. :/

 

Bought, installed, runs great.

4600 in 3dmark06 without overclocking. I don't have the new power cable yet, so I haven't tried to overclock it.

It didn't get above 70 on 3dmark, peaked at 77 while I played Dark Messiah Of Might And Magic.

Going to try Bioshock when I wake up.