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Alienware M17x Spotted With Sandy Bridge

Alienware laptops sporting Intel's Sandy Bridge processors were caught on film teasing 3DMark06.
Last week Engadget stumbled across images over on the Notebook Review forums revealing unreleased Alienware M17x notebooks running Intel's next-gen Sandy Bridge processors. Appearing just one month ahead of Intel's official release.

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Projekt7tuning5634d ago

My Toshiba X305 Just had it's video card fry. I doubt overclocking helped it in the long round. lol. But Nvidia did have a bad run of discrete laptop cards cooking themselves. I guess I was just lucky enough to get a bad one. But again it could have been the long term effects of overclocking. What I find interesting is that the new Intel integrated HD graphics, scored close to 16,000 in 3dmark 06. That is damn impressive for Intel integrated video. By comparison the Nvidia GeForce GTX 460M GPU with a faster Sandy Bridge Chip 2.3Ghz vs 2Ghz, only scored 16,957. I'm pretty impressed with Intel's new HD video. They have always been crap. I can't wait for more in-depth reviews. The ATI setup with Sandy Bridge is the way to go, but I wouldn't throw the i7-2630QM model using Intel's integrated HD graphics out of bed. lol.

Letros5634d ago

Man that is hard to believe about the intel integrated, would be amazing if its not a typo.

Projekt7tuning5634d ago

That's what I'm saying. That is faster than my x305 with my Nvidia card. The new MacBook Pro's should benefit quite nicely from this as-well. I think Sony and MS might take a serious look at this for their next round of systems. The second Gen of these chips should be very good. They work very similar to the possessor. They both have the ability to overclock themselves under turbo mode. Nvidia has had a lot of problems developing for Intels new chips and chip sets, but it seems that AMD is not have much trouble. Maybe because the new AMD architecture is very similar to Sandy Bridge. I'm pretty stoked about the changes happening to the PC. If you can buy a PC with this powerful of an integrated video card, PC games will start to advance even more. Seeing as how the lowest common denominator will have this chip in the future, Game developers will really be able to start pushing up the graphics.
Just my opinion.

imvix5633d ago

I just dont see how Sony or MS would want to adobt the X86 architecture for one they would lose all backward compatibility with all their current games (not like they care anyway since they would rather sell the same games as FULL HD remakes next gen).

However going for Sandybridge or Fusion would mean their hardware might be easily emulated on PC. They certainly wont like all their exclusives running on PC at higher resolutions are AA.

FanboyPunisher5633d ago (Edited 5633d ago )

I7's are still the highend product of intel, S.B is more i3/i5 replacement, the i7 is about 4-6% better than intels sandy bridge even when its at much higher clock rates (2.6 i7 vs 3.0+ S.B).

Own a real i7? You're set for a few more years.

I7 BABY!

imvix5633d ago

Agreed I7 can easily be overclocked close to the 4ghz mark with a good after market heat sink at those speeds at higher resolutions its the GPU thats the bottleneck not the CPU hence going for a faster CPU wont result in anything.

Infact recent benchmarks from tomshardware suggest even an I7 running at 2.4ghz is enough to max out a GTX 480 @ 1080p with decent AA.

Hence yea anyone with a I7 today might as well ignore Sandybridge.

Projekt7tuning5633d ago (Edited 5633d ago )

I think a lot of people are missing the point of the story.
It has nothing to do with being a better chip than my/your i7 1366. Its about mid-range laptops and towers being able to run modern games, at a good clip and screen rez.
They will be the new lowest common denominator. Which is good for all us with higher end systems. Games will start making better use of our systems, since the average Joe will have this new chip set.
@ imvix
Even an i3 can be overclocked to 4Ghz, Tomshardware just did it for this month's $1000 gaming system build.
Also Imvix, remember the 360 development systems were simply modded Apple power macs running the power pc chip. They were even in the Apple case still. Same chip that's in the PS3 too. IBM's Power PC. Read the book by David Shippy, the guy who designed both chips for MS and Sony, about just how similar the two really are. To the point that he had to hide what he was working on from both companies, and pretend they were coming up with 100% original ideas on their own. Its a very good read.
The first Xbox was an x86 chip.(So I don't see why that would matter.) There is no reason why Intel couldn't get the nod this time around to develop for both systems. That was originally the plan for the Larrabee GPGPU. They were in bid to supply the chips for both Sony and MS for the next round of systems till Larrabee failed. But it is in a sense back now.

tacosRcool5633d ago

Too bad Alienware is overpriced...

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.

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Jin_Sakai18d ago (Edited 18d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio18d ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing18d ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster9218d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit18d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing18d ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster9218d ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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Report: Injustice 3 in Development at NetherRealm Studios

Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.

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Spiders Studio, Developers of GreedFall: The Dying World, Announce Liquidation of the Company

Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.

What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.

We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.

If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."