Help to choice gaming laptop

[Fat Dragon]

There should be no reason you can't upgrade to the 680m as well - its size, power draw, and heating should be pretty similar to the 675m, since both are top-of-the-generation mobile cards and should both draw 100w of power. If Clevo's offering 7970m's and 675m's in the chassis there's zero reason they wouldn't offer 680m's when they're released, and they're not going to completely change the motherboard to accommodate that.

Considering the 675m is fine for now, though, you might to live with it for a year or two and then upgrade when the next major updates come with the next size reduction, probably with the 800m series.

tl;dr - It's all but 100% certain you'll be able to install a 680m in that computer, but is it really worth the expensive manual upgrade so soon?

[Karamazovmm]

yes you are probably going to be able to upgrade to the 680m. I would advise against that though.

the price for the 580m last year started at 800-1k for a single card. after a while it got to 700, and no it didnt went down from there, nor it will, they will just stop producing it, or they will just put a new name to it, like the 675m is. But its still expensive as that.

the 7970m is around 500 for the card alone, the 6970 started that way and got to 450, now you dont see them anymore.

Prices of mobile gpus dont fall that much, they just dont make those anymore, and used cards are also expensive, they retain value, quite highly

a 285m can be found for 400 used.

Sincerely while the upgrade is welcome, do it next year or the year after.

BUY WHAT YOU CAN NOW, the highest gpu possible, this is the most expensive worthwhile part that is in your notebook.

the cpu? a mere 10% of improvement for going to higher end model, not worth, and that aint for gaming, its for general tasks, basically you are not going to notice.

RAM? its dirty cheap, you have 4 slots for it, you can go crazy with 32gb of ram afterwards

SSD? the prices are dropping, will continue to

Screen? they are relatively cheap, cost around 100 or less

so yeah max the gpu and forget about everything else, this will make your money thank you a lot.

[Selwen]

Thanks again guys, you have been very helpful... but

I run into another problem, see i was thinking of buying from pro-star because the Clevo have free shipping to Canada, but then I saw this thread about a guy that order from that store or Xotic Pc(can't remember) and it stopped at customs since the retailer is in the US(I am from Ontario btw),are there any canadians that run into similar problem with the customs?

If so can you recommend any retailers here in Canada, i was checking web sites like bestbuy,tigerdirect, ncix etc and they don't have that many gaming laptops, the close that I got was a MSI G Series GT700 with a 670m more ram and hard drive for about 50$ more than the Clevo.The other ones are to expensive for me.

Canada doesn't seem to have retailers like xotic pc or pro-star, they are all from US...are there any that i dint find out yet?

[nissangtr786]

the only crazy person to suggest that is nissangt something, and he is way out his senses saying that. The 675m is easily 30% faster than the 660m.

the 660m is around the 570m in performance, a little less to be true.

the 660m overclocked can almost reach the 670m, but the 670m and 675m are both extremely good overclockers

I said that you have to be crazy to get a gtx 670m or 675m and a gtx 660m overclocked should perform similar to a 670m or 675m or be it maybe slightly worse at 1080p. Anyway whoever buys a 670m or 675m has got fooled by nvidia.

30% is not much considering it takes twice as much electricity to run the card. Plus the gtx660m will fit easily in a form factor and be easily cooled.

I personally am looking at getting a 7770m or 7870m or gt 650m. Also by the way 28nm kepler is better then 40nm fermi for notebooks everyday of the week. fermi 2.5 year old tech vs kepler latest tech.