Best Gaming Laptop for now ASAP

[ufoidentifier]

Hi, Im looking into buying a fast gaming laptop, I was first going to get MALIBAL Nine Series which would cost me about $6500... but then I found EUROCOM D900C PHANTOM X - exactly same specs as malibal, but its around $5500.

Specs: 17" 19x..; Q6700 2.66ghz; 1G 8700M Sli; 2G 800mhz RAM; etc...

My questions:

1. I got a choice between Q6700 2.66Ghz, c2d X6800 2.93Ghz and X7800 2.6Ghz - Which one would be better for games, etc... ?

2. Which builder is better? The Malibal or the Eurocom?

3. Is it wise getting it right now? - since I've heard that quad lappys should be released officially Q1 2008.

I really need some info from you guys asap, as its getting pointless prolonging the order coz its Aug 17 allready.

Thanks in advance.

[Evilsizer]

well imma ask for links since the Q6700 and X6800 are desktop cpus and no lappy i know of can use those. the X7800 is a mobile cpu
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/538/1/

[ufoidentifier]

Yes sorry, here you go:

http://www.malibal.com/products/laptops/series9.shtml (6500)

http://eurocom.com/ (5500)$

[ufoidentifier]

Specs Im interested in:

either Q6700 2.66Ghz, X6800 2.93Ghz or X7800 2.6ghz - (which ones better?)
17" 19x.. . / 8700M Sli 1G / 2x 1G 800mhz Ram / 2x 200G 7200 HDD raid 0 / ...
comes up to ~ 5.5K from Eurocom.

[Evilsizer]

hmmm ok so there is a lappy that can use desktop cpus. how ever though the desktop parts put out twice as much heat. IMO i would stick with a x7800 since the TDP is lower or just got with a T7700. battier life is going to be so much shorter with a desktop cpu in a lappy.

*edit*
given the TDP of X7800 vs X6800, the X7800 is the better choice. if you playing DX9 game would be better off tring to get 7900go's in sli over the 8700m. as if im right the 8700m is gonna be like the 8600gt which is not good for dx9 vs the 7600's.

[ufoidentifier]

Thx for replying, Im not bothered with battery life since you can have a few batteries... Not concerned with the heat issues because theres warranty...
All im interested in is pure raw 3D application performance, so which one do you think will win(Q2.6 / 2.9 / x7800 2.6)? I tried to google some benchmarks for those cpus, but couldn't find any, so now looking for some help from forums.

Any input is more than welcome, thx.

[Evilsizer]

well with the games we have now is just cpu speed like always, so the x6800. now down the road more cores will help but dunno how much. i would still go faster dual core though thats just me. by the time games take full use of quads there will be better faster quads.

[ufoidentifier]

What about 8mb L2 cache for a quad instead of 4mb for dual core, will that help speeds, or its mostly for multitasking?

[Evilsizer]

well the quad it 2 seperate dies with 8mb's, it is just 4mb's per each set of cores. these quads are not all on one die, the L2 Cache is not going to affect gaming that much. once a Core 2 cpu get 2mbs that more then enough, once you get to 4mb's for a dual core your talking maybe 8% at most gain.

[Daleon]

Well the Asus C90 has been letting you build using a desktop C2D for a while. It will auto-overclock a E6700 to around 3ghz also. Reviews on heat and battery life have been suprisingly good also.

I'd get the Q6700 myself. Getting a quadcore laptop before most people would just be to nice. Huge bragging rights. Performance is going to be just as sick, even more once games and apps use quadcores more. Which is only a cpl months away for Crysis. Your also still going to be gpu limited no matter which of those cpus you get.

No reason not to get SLI 8700M GT 512's either. Sure 7950's SLI would be a little faster. But the 3dmark06 scores are actually pretty close. Someone with one of the Acer 9250G's that has the 8700M GT 256 got his OC'd enough to hit over 6k in 3Dmark06. As new drivers come out and performance in Vista improves you will want the newer cards.

[JamesXP]

I'd hate a quad+sli laptop the heat would be untolorable.

[splat]

i'd still do dual core for gaming, don't bother with quad yet.