Which Notebook?

[jessethe2nd]

AMD Turion 64 with dual Geforce 7900 GTX
or
AMD FX-60 with one Gefore 7900 GTX

Both cost about the same and are configured with the exact same components with the exception of the CPU and VID card('s)

[MottZilla]

If you plan on gaming, I'd go for the dual GeForce. Graphics power is more likely to be your problem than cpu processing power. If you aren't really gaming much, the AMD FX might be a better choice, maybe. Personally I'd get the dual geforces if you wanna do gaming.

[Daarkseid]

I don't think it matters.

Just flip a coin.

[goKi]

What's the speed on the Turion? As long as it's not too low, i'd go it over the FX.

[jessethe2nd]

It's the turion ML-44 runing at 2.43ghz with 1mb L2 Don't remember the bus speed but I know it was pretty high.

[goKi]

I'd take the Turion.

[biggiy05]

Seconded on the Turion.

It's really not worth the extra money for the FX-60.

When you do get your laptop I would highly reccomend you get a notebook cooler for it. That thing is going to be like the sun on your crotch. That and it's good for the notebook.

[jessethe2nd]

Found a solution to my dilema. Found a configuration that will cost me about 300 dollars more but give me way more power...
AMD 64 FX-60 with an Nvidia Quadro 5500 4 gpu's 512 Megs of GDDR3 a core clock of 690 mhz and a 256 bit interface. Checked out the bench mark tests on the turion and the FX-60 the fx-60 has a performance increase of about 140% over the turion as far as gaming and since it's dual core and the turion is not it will obviously allow more efficient multi-tasking.........

The heat givin off by it does pose a problem... and liquid cooling is not a practical solution for notebooks. Will have to w8 and see how much heat it puts off.

[biggiy05]

Found a solution to my dilema. Found a configuration that will cost me about 300 dollars more but give me way more power...
AMD 64 FX-60 with an Nvidia Quadro 5500 4 gpu's 512 Megs of GDDR3 a core clock of 690 mhz and a 256 bit interface. Checked out the bench mark tests on the turion and the FX-60 the fx-60 has a performance increase of about 140% over the turion as far as gaming and since it's dual core and the turion is not it will obviously allow more efficient multi-tasking.........

The heat givin off by it does pose a problem... and liquid cooling is not a practical solution for notebooks. Will have to w8 and see how much heat it puts off.

SLI is nice and if you can afford to buy both cards at once it's even better but quad SLI seems rather pointless, more for bragging rights than anything I think. You can buy two 7900GTX's and run them in SLI and it would be cheaper than a single 7950 GX2. But I am talking about a desktop system not a laptop so I am going off topic.

It's a laptop so it's going to put out alot of heat. When you shove a whole computer in something that is only a few inches thick the heat is going to build up and it doesn't have many places to go.

[War Lord]

Yeah, you definitely need a laptop that powerful.
Why not take that load of cash, and spend it smarter.
You could get a killer desktop and still get a laptop for mobile stuff for the price of that one laptop.
Laptops are made to be nice mobile solutions, not desktop replacements.
Unfotunately, people keep asking for more in a laptop, so they keep giving.

Just seems like a waste of money with how expensive notebooks get.

[jessethe2nd]

The problem is I have 5000 dollars to spend and there is no way I'm going to be able to get a desktop and a laptop with as much power as that laptop. sure I could get a desktop with more power for the same price but I am in need of a mobile platform.