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FIRST REVIEW Of Laptop With nVidia 8800M GTX

trustedreviews.com — Finally, a mobile graphics card that can actually play decent games! TrustedReviews has reviewed a Clevo made Rock notebook, which is powered by an 8800M GTX - the new mobile graphics card from nVidia which is based on the 8800 GT. They've tested it on Crysis and a number of other games and results are pretty good, shame about the price though!

Who dugg this? Made popular Nov 23, 2007

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  • dsmx, on 11/23/2007, -2/+60There is no card in existence that finds crysis easy to run
  • getoffmybridge, on 05/05/2009, -0/+32Damn laptop is better than my desktop.
  • Dreamscar, on 11/23/2007, -3/+27Curse my laptop and its GeForce 8600M GT and being slightly inferior for $1200 less!
  • chingy1788, on 11/23/2007, -2/+24Wow it has a serial port!
  • sputza, on 11/23/2007, -17/+35Thank god you put "FIRST REVIEW" in all caps. I don't think I would have see this article without the caps. Idiot.
  • crossmr, on 11/23/2007, -1/+15"Finally, a mobile graphics card that can actually play decent games!" Yes because any game previous to crysis has been complete and utter *****.
    In fact its amazing this whole "gaming thing" actually caught on

    My m1710 with a 7900GTX in it can play plenty of "decent" games.
  • RushinG, on 11/23/2007, -2/+15Still struggles playing Crysis :(
  • marktastic, on 11/23/2007, -1/+14See where he says "non-top-of-the-line" ?
  • nakile, on 11/23/2007, -0/+9Hate to know the battery life on that thing!
  • ArrakisDune, on 11/23/2007, -1/+8You're lucky to get a 50% increase by going SLi, so no, it still wouldn't be very good with everything on highest and a decent resolution. In the same way that Farcry was, Crysis won't really shine for a couple of generations of graphics cards (not that it doesn't look amazing as it is).
    As for the CPU - most games are not CPU bound, more so with a dual/quad core. And the RAM? 32gigs? Simply not needed yet.
  • ronaldmonster, on 11/23/2007, -0/+6Who isn't? I thought my 7900's in Sli could at least run it on medium. LOL boy was I wrong.
  • ThatGeek, on 11/23/2007, -4/+9why do people not realize that a game doesnt need amazing graphics to be fun? I think of games as an escape from the toil of life. So that for 15 or 20 minutes I can escape the ***** that happens. I dont need a game that can render graphics so well that it reminds me of real life. One of my favorite games ever is SSBM. Standard gamecube graphics, but it is still an amazing game.
  • Dylson, on 11/23/2007, -2/+720 minutes.
  • ronaldmonster, on 11/23/2007, -2/+7I love bull ***** sometimes ;D
  • compgeek, on 11/23/2007, -0/+4looks like an amazing laptop and yea I'll agree with dsmx as of right now doesn't matter what card you have Crysis is not an easy game to run so I salute the fact it's even running on a laptop period
  • pixelate, on 11/23/2007, -0/+4It is in fact a serial port. VGA (D-sub) ports have three rows of pins, not two.

    Their site confirms this anyway, scroll to the bottom and find the "Ports" tab -- http://www.rockdirect.com/viewNotebook.php?pName=X ...
  • chingy1788, on 11/23/2007, -0/+4A search through the article with firefox's find utility looking for VGA gave no results
    apparently serial didn't come up with anything either

    but i never see VGA ports like that with the pins sticking out, I see serial ports like that with the pins sticking out
  • getoffmybridge, on 05/05/2009, -0/+4I think when you buy a laptop like that, battery life is a little lower on the priority list. No "hardcore" gamer would try to play off the battery for too long anyway. Dim screen + potential lower cpu/gpu clock = laptop plugged in for gaming.
  • inactive, on 11/23/2007, -1/+5The better the graphics, the more easily you can be immersed in the game world.
  • betterth, on 11/23/2007, -6/+9Not really, even my non-top-of-the-line 8800GTS runs Crysis at 1680x1050 on all high settings with a solid FPS and no unplayable drops.
  • WoollyMittens, on 11/23/2007, -1/+4COD4 works just fine on high settings and 1024x768 in my macbook pro. Crysis apparently is a game that alienates 95% of the gamers.
  • pixelate, on 11/23/2007, -0/+3Bah, Digg screwed up my link.
  • urbanclock, on 12/08/2008, -3/+6Directx 10 is better than 9 though.
  • shawnanigans, on 11/23/2007, -0/+3What's even worse is he says that the GTX version is top-of-the-line, then follows it by saying that the Ultra is just ridiculously expensive. The top-of-the-line is the top of the line and it's ridiculously expensive because in a vertical line where the highest represented the best, it is the top of that line.
  • EmperorAwesome, on 11/23/2007, -0/+3Meh, I guess it depends on what you consider unplayable. I scaled back with an 8800 GTX to get it to the point I felt it was smooth enough independent of what's happening on screen.
  • brokn1, on 11/23/2007, -2/+4It will probably play directx 10 games better than xp would.
  • chingy1788, on 11/23/2007, -1/+3if its anything like that SLI Toshiba laptop, you have to plug it into enable both GPUs
  • dijital, on 11/23/2007, -2/+4I guess you can call it 'merely ok' but I've been playing Gears of War, UT3 and Call of Duty 4 on my MBP and they all play damn well.
  • encognito, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1Wow, impressive gaming notebook but those prices are crazy high! Lowest price is $3167.88. I can buy a Vista Core 2 Duo notebook with 2GB of RAM with an x3100 and a 160GB HDD for work stuff for about a grand from HP and build a desktop PC for gaming for $1500.00 that would blow that notebook away.
  • nakile, on 11/24/2007, -0/+1Just to be hit with a loading screen that instantly bounces you back to reality.

    I don't know about you, but I always find myself being more immersed in Nintendo's games more than anything else because of the lack of a loading screen.
  • chingy1788, on 11/23/2007, -4/+5Yeah thats true, my comp ran UT3 on low settings it was laggy, now it back with xp it can run it on low at decent speeds

    oh, and lets not go into why Linux is better, because for gaming it just ain't
  • BugMeNot2, on 11/24/2007, -0/+1Huh? My single 7900GT runs Crysis on medium with some high settings (high textures and water) perfectly fine (around 25 to 60 FPS) at 1024x768.
  • Hase0, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1but can it play doom?
  • TransmitThis, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1Last time I bought a Rock Laptop it went back for repair many many times,
    Hinges had a habit of falling to bits. (since refunded and purchased a Desktop - that can run Cyrsis)

    Good luck on that Rock, but I bet the heat and noise that makes will be totally unreasonable
  • fatadamblog, on 11/23/2007, -1/+2Good luck using that laptop without hooking it up to power
  • Gigabutt, on 11/23/2007, -1/+2yea but what's the battery life? anyone have a laptop with the 8700M for comparison? i dont think the article mentioned anything.
  • AROZ, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1That's what they said about the Dells with 6800 Ultras when they came out, but they had an hour and a half of battery life.
  • Tishiablo, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1Uhm, no. Vista is the same speed as XP.
  • inactive, on 11/23/2007, -1/+1why would you even.....
  • cococooky, on 11/23/2007, -1/+1What ronaldmonster said. Even 8800 ultras in sli on a motherboard with a QX6800 CPU, will still freeze up when on ultra high settings occasionally - according to PC power play (Aussie games mag)
  • TheGuruStud, on 11/23/2007, -1/+1Far Cry ran great on my 6800 gt (oced a lil) and looked even better with the 64 bit patch.
  • chingy1788, on 11/23/2007, -2/+2i thought there is DX10 for XP developed/hacked by some third party
  • inactive, on 11/23/2007, -4/+4Much more than slightly.

    "In the video we did a Crysis speed benchmark test. This was run using the full version of the game, at a resolution of 1280×800 with all details set to High. The results were an average of 32 FPS (frames per second) for the 8800 and 10 FPS for the 8600 - showing it to be three times as fast as the previous card in this particular scenario. "

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=1 ...
  • WoollyMittens, on 11/23/2007, -1/+1Why would that be a problem? Most people use laptops as desktop replacements they can lug around to a friend's house for a little LAN-party.
  • inactive, on 11/23/2007, -1/+1I must have a magic computer but my athlon 3500+ 1gb DDR memory and radeon X800 no not X1800, X800 play crysis on all medium 1024 X 768 at 30 FPS.
  • EntangledPhysx, on 11/23/2007, -1/+1I THink that would do it! ;)
  • Tomson74, on 11/23/2007, -1/+1Wow, I guess mine doesn't handle it as well lol, and I have a Gforce 7950GT playing at 1680x1050 all set to high, but I don't have Vista installed. Maybe, just MAYBE that would be it.
  • zdiggler, on 11/23/2007, -2/+1I use Serial in a lot of applications, carrying around USB to Serial adapter means one more thing I can forget.
    Serial on Lap = Good and useful.
    VGA on laptop is more useful in DVI or HDMI on laptop, you can hook it up to damn near any monitor you find laying around even ones from early 1990's or projector.

    Only highend Commercial grade notebooks come with real serial port now.
  • WoollyMittens, on 11/23/2007, -4/+4Better quality graphics maybe. Better speed.... uhm no. Vista is significantly slower by definition.
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