Thin and Light 11-14 notebooks gaming worth compendium

[Karamazovmm]

you should try focusing more on the vram, this is something that is severely limiting in your card since it uses DDR3, but that is nothing short of amazing

[avanish11]

For those of you on the fence, check out this apparently stable overclock of the 640M LE in the Sony S13 Premium:

Official 2012 Sony S Series Owners Thread

That's a c.90% overclock to around 650M levels!!!

Petrov.

That's incredible. How are temperatures/stability affected? How does it translate into gaming performance? As in, do games get 90% higher frame rates at the same settings, or is there a bottleneck somewhere?

[Amal77]

That's incredible. How are temperatures/stability affected? How does it translate into gaming performance? As in, do games get 90% higher frame rates at the same settings, or is there a bottleneck somewhere?

Stability remains, no issue whatsoever.

Temperatures definitely will increase. Increased around 4 to 6 celcius on stress test compared to stock. Nothing much to be worried about.

Gaming performance is about the same as the GT650M DDR3. Which definitely is not 90% higher than the stock GT640M LE. Roughly from 40% to 60% I guess, depending on the games you played.

[Baenwort]

Stability remains, no issue whatsoever.

Temperatures definitely will increase. Increased around 4 to 6 celcius on stress test compared to stock. Nothing much to be worried about.

Gaming performance is about the same as the GT650M DDR3. Which definitely is not 90% higher than the stock GT640M LE. Roughly from 40% to 60% I guess, depending on the games you played.

If you're willing to push the OC that much you can see some nice improvements with Kepler.

Prema reports the following with his Clevo w110er(GT 650 GDDR3 in 11.6 chasis)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3612QM Processor,CLEVO CO. W110ER score: P3253 3DMarks

That bench was 1280Mhz GPU / 1235Mhz vRAM with GPU voltage @ 1.15v (max possible volt/up from stock 1.10v).

GPU temp never exceeded 75c.

That is my cards absolute maximum stable before the driver crashes, but other cards go higher. HTWingNut can run his vRAM beyond 1250Mhz.

[pokiworms]

I'm running Skyrim 900p, no AA/AF at 60fps running through terrain and brush. Spec Ops: The Line runs at 50+fps at 900p w/ med. detail. Dead Island is a bit slower but still solid at 40-50+ fps. Diablo III is solid with vsync on with high quality at 900p.

Temperatures can reach up to 70-75*C, which I think is totally worth the tradeoff. Right now, I'm set on the idea that the S13P is the best performance for its size + best batterylife w/ the add on slice.

[REMF]

"Envy 4t - Already released, possible update to include ivy bridge, and a model with the AMD APU trinity is to be released"

Has there been any confirmation that there will in [fact] be a trinity version of the Envy 4?

[Karamazovmm]

it was announced in the launch of the SB models. even the spec sheet. but so far no news

[Irishtrekkie]

hmm was looking at the sony s13p and e14p,
i see some impressive overclocking on the 640 le in the 13 inch.

I am wondering how does the AMD Radeon HD 7670M compare with the 640 ?

[avanish11]

Stability remains, no issue whatsoever.

Temperatures definitely will increase. Increased around 4 to 6 celcius on stress test compared to stock. Nothing much to be worried about.

Gaming performance is about the same as the GT650M DDR3. Which definitely is not 90% higher than the stock GT640M LE. Roughly from 40% to 60% I guess, depending on the games you played.

Not bad at all. If the S13P were ~800-900, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. I can't really justify paying $1200 for it when I could get an HP dv4t with quad i7 and 650m for $800.

hmm was looking at the sony s13p and e14p,
i see some impressive overclocking on the 640 le in the 13 inch.

I am wondering how does the AMD Radeon HD 7670M compare with the 640 ?

If you overclock it, the 640m wins hands down. If you don't, they'll probably be about the same, with the 640 maybe having a slight edge in some games.

[Amal77]

Not bad at all. If the S13P were ~800-900, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. I can't really justify paying $1200 for it when I could get an HP dv4t with quad i7 and 650m for $800.

Well, you get a lightweight (1.67kg vs 2.2kg) laptop with a good resolution LCD (1600x900 vs 1366x768).

Both are in a different league.

HP DV4T should go against Lenovo Y480 with the GT650M.