actually its more of the first reason. layman dun want/need to overclock. so they must know the base performance of the card.

lol tht is my plan.....

XPS M1730 | Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 | 3GB 800 | Nvida Geforce 8700M GT SLi |  Windows 7 Pro | 1280 x 1024
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Guess M'sia really needs to revise its approach on the importance of english language. It is really sad to see the sentence above poping out in forums where youngsters nowaday can't even type a proper full sentence.

The AW GTX 260M seem to be much faster compare to Asus G51 . One running at 1920x1080 and another at 1280x 720 , but yet AW score higher. Could the benefit come from i7 720QM or slightly higher clock GTX 260?

bcoz i7 not good for gaming ...
the CPU score for i7 is lower than the core 2 quad ^.^
since i7 just min clock with 1.6-1.8 GHz hardly to prawn those ghz higher than it ! do you think in 3Dmark06 i7 will HT to one core only ??
a new processor always performance low ...
core 2 duo bcome core 2 quad ^.^
i7 Ht bcome what later ?? ...

i5 is basically the same as i7, also a Clarksfield, juz that HTT has been disabled...

main difference with a C2Q would be new architecture (with SSE4.2 as well), shared L3 cache, and integrated memory controller...

Here I am again.......

Just wanna know if this graphic card can support games like Left 4 Dead 2 and COD Modern Warfare 2???

1GB GDDR3 GTX 285M Nvidia GeForce; MXM 3.0 Type B; N11E-GTX1; 40nm; ETA: Jan 2010

1GB GDDR3 GTX 380M Nvidia GeForce; MXM 3.0 Type B; N11E-GTX; 40nm; ETA: Fab 2010 

1GB GDDR3 GTS 360M Nvidia GeForce; MXM 3.0 Type B; N11E-GS1; 40nm; ETA: Feb 2010

1GB GDDR5 ATi HD5870 Radeon Mobility; Broadway XT; DirectX 11; MXM 3.0 Type B; 16x PCIe(around 800+-CAD)

this is what i get from my from my friend who leave at Canada

ya planning to get a GTX260M Sli for my another M17x
u wanna buy? im thinking of buying 2 5870 for cross fire too, but what i know from Dell Engineer, they they might not do a bios revision for a new GC.
But somehow they are going to have a new model for M17x with Core i7. this doesnt sounds good. Even 5870 witht MXM3.0B is matched with Ccurrently M17x, but bios is not compactible to the GC. anyway, when it is available for M17x, i sure will grab for upgrade.

but at least the arrandale are higher clocked. So it wont be bottlenecks to other parts

processor can lah,
gpu I doubt yours can

since long time can change already, except the one using SU, SP series, those are soldered to the mobo.
open the case, unlock the socket and exchange the processor, then lock it back~

as for gpu, 99% notebook in market can't change, except those using mxm slot then can change, even that need to check bios compatibility and etc...

well, the point is cpu and gpu part can be expensive and expecially here, hard to find it~

1 more point, upgrade ur processor and gpu might void ur warranty ^^

Alienware M17x | Intel Core 2 Duo T9800 2.93GHz | 8GB DDR3 1333MHz | Nvidia GeForce GTX280M SLi 2x1GB DDR-3| 195.62 | Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit | 1280x720

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