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[AvengingAngel]

Don't you love us British ^^

When I ever get round to turning it off, I might have a crack at checking for the possibility of a second HDD. Not promising anything though.

[vinceboiii]

No reviews on this bad boy yet?

[cutterjohn]

I wonder if Frosty gave anyone their money back yet...

[Kevin]

I'm going to hazard a guess that the max clocks of the GPU in this notebook are locked because of the CPU overclocking utiity. It's comparable to using SetFSB for your CPU and trying to overclock the GPU at the same time. So maybe something was done to ensure that the front side bus can't be overloaded if the clocks of the GPU are raised above stock frequencies.

I'll bet that an aftermarket 4850 will be much more overclockable than the one in the MSI. Thoughts?

[terminus123]

I totally agree. Hence my point that at this pricepoint, the Mobility 4850 eats the 9800M GTX price/performance wise.

But to call the Mobility 4850 better than the 9800M may be premature.

well only the GTX version. I would like a 100% fair comparison once some real drivers for the Mobility 4800 series come out.

[terminus123]

anyone with Crysis or Crysis Warhead, how much FPS do you get on it with these settings?

1280x800
DirectX10
Texture: High
Objects: High
Shadows: High (maybe very high)
Physics: High
Shaders: Very High
Volumetric Effects: High
Game Effects: High (maybe very high)
Post Processing: Very High
Particles: High
Water Quality: Very High

[Krebante]

How were you guys able to overclock the card? Every time I try to change the clock speed it automatically returns to the previous one after a few seconds.

[skynetwork]

on the msi website it says 3.2kg weigth incl. battery but on several pricecomparionpages i see 3.8kg w/ battery...

what is right now?

[johnksss]

i can bench pretty much any program with a benchmark tool. so when faisalhero is ready, we can all get right down to it. i have been working with him to get him up to speed with this stuff. of course we all want to know the real question...where does the 4850 sit.., so in the next few days, hopefully we will all see some concrete evidence as to it's performance.

i just ran this dtwn83 with one core to prove that it doesn't matter how many cores one uses to bench vantage mark.


side note:
people are killing me with this benchmark stuff doesn't matter. if it didn't matter, then they wouldn't bother investing money or time or even bothering putting it into games. give it a rest already. it's here to stay and gaining speed each year...

1 core only / 1 9800m gtx

2 cores only
12,066
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=9906962

[dtwn]

i just ran this dtwn83 with one core to prove that it doesn't matter how many cores one uses to bench vantage mark.

Eh, wait, why me?

I might actually think of picking up the GT 725, except ATI's support for drivers still leaves me hesitant. Plus, I'm not even gaming much. 45 mins of L4D left me nauseous.