TIL AORUS/Gigabyte Sells Laptops With SLI

"Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura" (sundowne36) 06/04/2015 at 18:13 • Filed to: As if one GPU wasn't good enough

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!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! I think I should have saved up monies before getting the Y50 out of performance alone.

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Supposedly (and depending on the model), you actually get 2 GPUs compared to regular high-end laptops with one GTX970M/980M (though I doubt it’ll help much) and you also have an option to have up to THREE mSATA SSDs in Raid 0 (cringe) on top of a 1TB drive. More and more details in the link, but I might replace the Lenovo soon.

bob and john > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 06/04/2015 at 18:21

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‘gaming laptop’

aint that an oxymoron and yes, i used to have one or two. Moved onto a desktop and its been waayyy better

spanfucker retire bitch > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 06/04/2015 at 18:22

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Clevo and Compal used to literally make “notebooks” that had desktop grade CPUs and SLI’d GPUs in them.

They were notebooks in only the most fundamental of ways, in that they could be operated without being plugged into the wall and they had a screen attached to the keyboard. But their battery lifetimes were more equivalent to having a UPS than a truly portable notebook.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 06/04/2015 at 18:25

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My laptop plays Galaga, what more could I possibly need?

Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 06/04/2015 at 18:27

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How about those with Sims/GTA?

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 06/04/2015 at 18:30

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It wont play those, but Galaga is amazing so I’m cool with it.

GhostZ > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 06/04/2015 at 18:46

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Ah, the S65 AMG of laptops. Gotcha.

GhostZ > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 06/04/2015 at 18:46

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Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > GhostZ 06/04/2015 at 18:47

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He thought we wouldn’t notice but we did.

GhostZ > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 06/04/2015 at 18:47

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Also, this seems like just gross excess compared to having the Y50 + a decent desktop. Do people really do hard core gaming on the fly?

GhostZ > bob and john 06/04/2015 at 18:50

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I actually wonder if it would be easier to use a remote desktop client on a laptop and have your PC do all the hard work, than it would be to run a dual GPU laptop...

Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > GhostZ 06/04/2015 at 18:55

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Sadly, for me, I need to. I’m never at home more to enjoy my desktop. :c

And my desktop is in pieces.

GhostZ > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 06/04/2015 at 18:58

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Oh man, I feel you there.

I wonder if it would be cheaper and easier to run a remote desktop client and stream your desktop to your laptop than it would be to have a $2.5k gaming laptop.

Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > GhostZ 06/04/2015 at 19:09

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I’m tempted to try that out, as soon as I can get the desktop up and running. Most of the time, I’m basically diverting most, if not all of the workload to my Y50.

TheOnelectronic > GhostZ 06/04/2015 at 22:48

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I’ve used those a few times, and I feel like the response times and image quality aren’t nearly good enough. Maybe some of the specialized services are better, though.