*HP dv6t & dv7t (70XX / 71XX series) IVY BRIDGE Owners Lounge*

[ssri]

Don't regret it later, spend the extra $50. It's a good investment, even if it's not used, you'll always have bragging rights. My Laptop has 2GB of GDDR5 memory..yeeaaah son!

Probably better for resale value also if you decide to sell later on.

$50 for e-peen? Or for a chance to confuse some poor peon down the road? Way to get your money's worth for a piece of equipment.

[ForeverZen]

$50 for e-peen? Or for a chance to confuse some poor peon down the road? Way to get your money's worth for a piece of equipment.

It's not for e-peen. The graph he showed shows battlefield having 15 fps on high. I don't know about any of you but 15fps is unplayable. Do yourself a favor and spend the extra 50 bucks. Theres no reason to have a laptop that costs almost as much as an alienware having a gimped gpu because you listened to some idiot telling you 1gb of ddr5 is enough.

[xAnimal]

Bah my delivery date is now the 11th meaning I probably won't get it until next Monday. Boooo

Same........
I got all excited when I saw that I would get mine on the 10th, but mine missed the plane, so now it's the 11th....

The 11th is Friday btw

[Tonyn84]

Ok, since people seem to be back on the 2gb vs 1gb vram debate, AnandTech - Bench - GPU11 and AnandTech - Bench - GPU11 Two pairs of desktop cards, only differences are vram. Yes there is a slight improvement with more but I'm not seeing any with a big enough difference to make something unplayable. Personally, I stuck with the 1gb card and put the $ toward an ssd that I'll drop in myself. Really when it comes down to it, if I wanted better fps, I wouldn't be looking at a laptop with only the 650m.

[wraith64]

So, reiterate a question that has been asked before: While it can be assumed that these laptops use Optimus, it hasn't been confirmed, correct?

[ForeverZen]

Ok, since people seem to be back on the 2gb vs 1gb vram debate, AnandTech - Bench - GPU11 and AnandTech - Bench - GPU11 Two pairs of desktop cards, only differences are vram. Yes there is a slight improvement with more but I'm not seeing any with a big enough difference to make something unplayable. Personally, I stuck with the 1gb card and put the $ toward an ssd that I'll drop in myself. Really when it comes down to it, if I wanted better fps, I wouldn't be looking at a laptop with only the 650m.

The difference between 15fps and 25fps is life or death in games. The word playable gets skewed quite a bit online and given the fact that most newer games would be in the unplayable fps range with this card at 1gb of DDR5. I forsee alot of buyers remorse from people who decided to get cheap on graphics after spending 1200$ on these laptops.

[ForeverZen]

So, reiterate a question that has been asked before: While it can be assumed that these laptops use Optimus, it hasn't been confirmed, correct?

It hasn't been confirmed but I doubt Nvidia would let a laptop be manufactured that didn't use it. You can always call Nvidia and ask them if it's keeping you up at night.

[sigh]

Probably better for resale value also if you decide to sell later on.

If not value, it'll make it easier to sell it by broadaning the buyer spectrum to not only gamers but people who use the extra gb for other programs.

And I just had a thought, how cool is it that our laptops are all from the same place, but going all over the US. They are meeting each other when most of us probably won't. /needs to stop being amaized by random things.

[Tonyn84]

The difference between 15fps and 25fps is life or death in games.

To me, both of those numbers are unplayable. If I really planned on playing intensive games I honestly wouldn't be looking at this laptop since the 650m is really a mid-range card.

I'm not saying the extra vram isn't worth it, I'm just saying for me, it didn't make enough of a difference to justify upgrading it vs going to a different laptop/gfx card entirely.

[ForeverZen]

To me, both of those numbers are unplayable. If I really planned on playing intensive games I honestly wouldn't be looking at this laptop since the 650m is really a mid-range card.

I'm not saying the extra vram isn't worth it, I'm just saying for me, it didn't make enough of a difference to justify upgrading it vs going to a different laptop/gfx card entirely.

Mid-range is the word to remember. My current dv7 has a A6-3400m and I can play any game with about 50fps on low or medium. Skyrim plays well on medium but is unplayable on high. This 650m should eat skyrim alive but with 1gb of ddr5 I assume i'd be in the same boat as I am now with my 6520g with 4gb of shared memory.