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Matt
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Re: [Notebooks] Need a laptop for wow

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Hybrid SLI
Look into the new Dell Hybrid-SLI machines. I have a Studio XPS 13 that has an nVidia 9200M + 9400M. It can utilize the 9200M to save power but when you put it into high performance mode, utilize both the 9200M and 9400M in SLI to increase performance to 9500 levels. I bought a top of the line Studio XPS 13 (P9600 2.66GHz, 4Gb RAM, 320GB 7200 RPM, WLED screen, Hybrid SLI) for about $1200 after tax and shipping. Scores about 3400 in 3D Mark according to most review sites, if that's your thing.

BTW, very cool site dadkins See Profile! Going to add that to my list of useful tech links.


dadkins
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Aint it though?

Check this...
256MB dedicated VRAM with the ability to pull a bit more from system - if needed.
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Matt
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The 9400M has 256MB of dedicated memory too and the 9200M can use system RAM (hence why my system reports 3.7GB instead of the full 4.0GB).

That is a good comparison though as most people are reporting the "9500M G" is as fast as the 8400M GT, only a little lighter on power.

Here's a good site for mobile card benchmarks: »www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Gra···4.0.html

What sucks about Hybrid SLI is that you can't use the standard nVidia drivers. So my video card driver is ancient (by nVidia standards) -- it's the 17X series rather than the latest 18X series. Dell JUST released a new version May 9th too ... and it's still old as dirt.



dadkins
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Mine still shows the full 3GB of system, but vid card shows 1.5GB.

As Sony put it - "dynamically allocated".

I like it!

Thanks Matt!
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