Fulqrum Publishing Home   |   Register   |   Today Posts   |   Members   |   UserCP   |   Calendar   |   Search   |   FAQ

Go Back   Official Fulqrum Publishing forum > Fulqrum Publishing > IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover
Reload this Page Vaio Z128 Laptop + External GTX580 = BIG Grin! ;)
Register FAQ Calendar Mark Forums Read

IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Latest instalment in the acclaimed IL-2 Sturmovik series from award-winning developer Maddox Games.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 10-04-2011, 03:00 AM
FS~Phat FS~Phat is offline
Approved Member
  
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 609
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by III/JG53_Don View Post
Whats the price of such a PCI-E Adapter?
$85 US.

Everything you need to know is here...
http://forum.notebookreview.com/gami...periences.html

WARNING its not a simple plug n play affair. You have to do a fair bit of driver hacking and bios hacking to get it to work for some systems, particularly for the Vaio Z because of it's gay Hybrid graphics and Sony's slack video driver support!

For those wondering what real world performance is like.

In Crysis 2 DX11 Ultra pak @ 1920x1080 I get min 24fps avg 35fps outdoors and 50FPS indoors. Compared with the GT330M struggling to do 20FPS on lowest settings @ 1600x900!

ClOD gets 50FPS compared to 3FPS with the GT330M.

18K Vantage compared to a desktop GTX580 @ 24k.
Last edited by FS~Phat; 10-04-2011 at 03:20 AM.
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 10-04-2011, 04:51 AM
FS~Phat FS~Phat is offline
Approved Member
  
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 609
Default
And just to put that into perspective, my built in so called dedicated GT330M does Vantage P1825 and 5fps vs 18900 and 55fps for the external GTX580.. Thats a 1000% (10x) increase in performance.
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 10-04-2011, 07:36 AM
klem's Avatar
klem klem is offline
Approved Member
  
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 1,653
Default
lol!

Insane

Very happy for you.
__________________
klem
56 Squadron RAF "Firebirds"
http://firebirds.2ndtaf.org.uk/



ASUS Sabertooth X58 /i7 950 @ 4GHz / 6Gb DDR3 1600 CAS8 / EVGA GTX570 GPU 1.28Gb superclocked / Crucial 128Gb SSD SATA III 6Gb/s, 355Mb-215Mb Read-Write / 850W PSU
Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium / Samsung 22" 226BW @ 1680 x 1050 / TrackIR4 with TrackIR5 software / Saitek X52 Pro & Rudders
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 10-04-2011, 08:42 AM
Vengeanze Vengeanze is offline
Approved Member
  
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Stockholm
Posts: 837
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by FS~Phat View Post
WARNING its not a simple plug n play affair.
Like we would afford to even think about such a system.

Btw I get about the same 3DMark score with my 2 700USD iMac.
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 10-05-2011, 02:27 AM
FS~Phat FS~Phat is offline
Approved Member
  
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 609
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vengeanze View Post
Like we would afford to even think about such a system.

Btw I get about the same 3DMark score with my 2 700USD iMac.
Hmmm I doubt you get anywhere near 19k with that setup.. Its nice though!

Look here.. 6970M Vantage P11k, Thats HALF my score of 18.9k. (incidentally I got 19.3k with a small CPU OC)

Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 10-05-2011, 05:34 AM
ChwyNiblet ChwyNiblet is offline
Registered Member
  
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 9
Default
Aren't those Vaio Z laptops $2k? I thought they already came with an external GPU/BluRay thingy.
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old 10-05-2011, 06:15 AM
FS~Phat FS~Phat is offline
Approved Member
  
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 609
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by ChwyNiblet View Post
Aren't those Vaio Z laptops $2k? I thought they already came with an external GPU/BluRay thingy.
$4k for a Vaio Z. I have a 2010 Vaio Z128, the new Vaio Z2 series have sony's version of a thunderbolt port. Though the external drive/GPU on the new Z2 is barely better than the old integrated GT330M. Such a waste of a great concept!
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old 10-05-2011, 05:42 AM
Vengeanze Vengeanze is offline
Approved Member
  
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Stockholm
Posts: 837
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by FS~Phat View Post
Hmmm I doubt you get anywhere near 19k with that setup.. Its nice though!

Look here.. 6970M Vantage P11k, Thats HALF my score of 18.9k. (incidentally I got 19.3k with a small CPU OC)
I was talking overall 3D score where your pic shows just below 14K and my iMac with a slightly OC:d vidcard gets just above.
Dunno score for GPU only.

Anyways, just a reflection.
Reply With Quote
Reply

« Previous Thread | Next Thread »
Thread Tools
Display Modes
Hybrid Mode Hybrid Mode

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 03:37 AM.


Contact Us - Fulqrum Publishing s.r.o. - Archive - Top
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright © 2007 Fulqrum Publishing. All rights reserved.