It seems the GX2 has skipped a generation, landing in the 9 series Geforce’s instead of the current 8 series. Imagine if you took two 8800’s fabricated on the 65nm design (think 8800GT) and slapped together on a beastly PCIeX card. What you get is a card that should be 30% faster then a 8800 Ultra, with the option of running in Quad SLI for even more speed (maybe even Hex SLI?). Should really have been called the 8800 GX2, but who really cares?
For more info, click over to the Engadget Blog.
Hot on the heals of the new of the Dell XPS SLi notebook, we have the news of the two new Toshiba X205 notebooks. There are 2 models on the table currently, with X205-SLI1 and X205-SLI3 both running dual Nvidia 8600M GT’s (a little less powerful then the 8700’s in the Dell).
As well as the dual video card goodness you also get a Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 (SLi1) to T7500 (SLi3), 2GB DDR2 RAM, 17-inch WXGA+ (SLi1) or WSXGA+ (SLi3), 240GB to 320GB, HD DVD-ROM/DVD SuperMulti, Bluetooth® V2.0 + EDR, wireless 802.11a/g/n and HDMI output port. All this can be your for between $US1999 and $US2499, making it cheaper then the Dell as well.
This is a definate desktop replacement, weighing in at a heavy 9.37 lbs. You won’t be carrying this guy very far, unless you are Heman. Unfortunately they still have that stupid numpad that makes the keyboard tiny. If you are still interested, then you can already order it from the Toshiba website.
For direct links to the notebooks, click here for the SL1 and here for the SL3.
Remember the heavy weight notebook we talked about a few days ago? The expensive but powerful Dell XPS M1730? Well you can now order it from the Dell website for a sweet starting price of $US2999.
For more info, click over to Dell silly.
Do you live in an apartment that is the size of jimmy the crickets matchbox home but feel that console gaming is repetitive and growing old? Well you need to get yourself an ultra mean desktop replacement notebook, like, lets say, the new Dell XPS M1730. It’s simply a beast with a 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900 processor (800MHz FSB and 4MB cache), 2GB 667MHz DDR2 memory (4GB for an additional $US375), 2 x 200GB 7200RPM disks, DVD burner (upgradeable for Blu-ray playback for an additional $US550), dual 512MB nVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT with nVIDIA SLI, AGEIA™ PhysX™ Physics Accelerator, 802.11a/g/n WiFi and a neat 17-inch WUXGA. All this for the tiny price of $US4,192. Wait a second that isn’t tiny at all! You could buy yourself a bigger apparent with that cash people! Other then the possible weight of around 3000Kg’s and the battery life of negative 2 hrs, it will at least be able to run Crysis at 1024×768 with everything on extreme (I hope). Not yet released but considering you can already buy it on the Dell Website, it shouldn’t be long now.
For more info, teleport over to the Engadget Website.