anyone building specifically for diablo3?

[micahmatthew]

I'd get the P151EM with 670m if you want something that is cheap-ish and will max out Diablo. I played the beta with my GTX 560m last month on my P151HM and it maxed the game out completely with a i7 2670, 8GB RAM. So the GTX 660m will be great for it if you wait for that, it will run cooler; be more power efficient; have optimus and cost less than the GTX 560m. Right now though you can a P151EM with GTX 670m [15-25% over the GTX 560m], with a nice 750GB hybrid drive and i7 2670, and 8 GB RAM, for right about $1280 without OS and with the Cash discount.

Actually according to notebookchecks benchmarks it could be as much as 36% more powerful than the GTX 560m, when it comes to DX11 games such as BF3.

The GTX 670m should also be able to just about max out BF3 if you are interested in that; my 560m would play on High settings at 1080p and run at 28 fps min, avg fps about 35-38. So the 20% or so boost with the GTX 670m should play it on Ultra with 30-40 fps, or at least run High at 40-50 FPS maybe higher. It says that on high its average FPS is 45 [about a 25% boost over 560m]. Also it says you can run Skyrim on ultra with 33 FPS avg on 1080p, if you dropped to 900p ultra I'm sure you'd get at least 40fps average.

[jrwingate6]

Does anyone know if Ultra Books equipped with Ivy Bridge will be able to run Diablo 3 on high settings?

[kinki]

I'd get the P151EM with 670m if you want something that is cheap-ish and will max out Diablo. I played the beta with my GTX 560m last month on my P151HM and it maxed the game out completely with a i7 2670, 8GB RAM. So the GTX 660m will be great for it if you wait for that, it will run cooler; be more power efficient; have optimus and cost less than the GTX 560m. Right now though you can a P151EM with GTX 670m [15-25% over the GTX 560m], with a nice 750GB hybrid drive and i7 2670, and 8 GB RAM, for right about $1280 without OS and with the Cash discount.

Actually according to notebookchecks benchmarks it could be as much as 36% more powerful than the GTX 560m, when it comes to DX11 games such as BF3.

The GTX 670m should also be able to just about max out BF3 if you are interested in that; my 560m would play on High settings at 1080p and run at 28 fps min, avg fps about 35-38. So the 20% or so boost with the GTX 670m should play it on Ultra with 30-40 fps, or at least run High at 40-50 FPS maybe higher. It says that on high its average FPS is 45 [about a 25% boost over 560m]. Also it says you can run Skyrim on ultra with 33 FPS avg on 1080p, if you dropped to 900p ultra I'm sure you'd get at least 40fps average.

As far as i know the 660M and the 550M are basically the same chip, but one is clocked slightly higher as to give the appearance of a different, better card. Also the 560M you were running is no doubt GDDR3, where the 650M's are GDDR5. I would expect wuite a bit of difference between the 560M and the 650M.

[ratcherd]

Does anyone know if Ultra Books equipped with Ivy Bridge will be able to run Diablo 3 on high settings?

ive read that the intel integrated graphis (3000) can run diablo3 on low settings... so even if your ultrabook has no discrete gpu, it should at least PLAY the game.

[KernalPanic]

As far as i know the 660M and the 550M are basically the same chip, but one is clocked slightly higher as to give the appearance of a different, better card. Also the 560M you were running is no doubt GDDR3, where the 650M's are GDDR5. I would expect wuite a bit of difference between the 560M and the 650M.

You are confused.

All 560m's ship with GDDR5.

The 650m and 660m are indeed the same chip with the 660m likely being binned better and with the 650m being nerfed in one of two ways.

650m have multiple configs, all of which make them lesser than the 660m
-One has lower clock rates with GDDR5
-One has higher clock rates with DDR3

The most likely performance order is:
660m>650m(GDDR5)>560m>650m(DDR3)>460m

All of these gpus shoud be MORE than enough for D3.

[jrwingate6]

ive read that the intel integrated graphis (3000) can run diablo3 on low settings... so even if your ultrabook has no discrete gpu, it should at least PLAY the game.

So, if the current Intel 3000 graphics can run it on low settings then the Ivy Bridge Ultrabooks that have the GPU performance of the GT 540 will probably be able to run it on high. Am I right?

[Hassl3]

Im not building one for it but I'm building one that is able to play it. Right now, would die if I played it.

[Vaath]

Blizzard send out 275,000 keys. I still didn't get one

[mjsk]

you joking?? definitely it will be enough, no worries! :) (serious btw, d3 is crazy well optimized right now, intel HD3000 should be able to play on low settings)

I was playing on medium settings on my HP 2760p (see sig. below) during the beta. I had them on high at times too. Can't remember for sure, but I think I usually left it on the medium setting. It performed better than my M1730 at times, but the M1730 can barely run anything well anymore.

[Lieto]

unfortunately i got a dell vostro back then... forget graphics specs at the moment but it can't even run WOW at full settings.

thats not really a sign of anything
wow is ultra demanding on highest

in fact i dont think i could get above 40fps periodically dropping lover on "high" (not ultra) in raiding environment, so i was playing mostly on medium with my mbp pro 2011 (see sig). But without shadows and sunshafts it worked.