Amunamiak

It's certainly possible, but my guess is it will not happen before February or March 2013.

Btw., I wonder if it is possible to unlock all 1536 cores on a 680M using a BIOS flash?

Just get the Logitech G35, if it's not too expensive for you. Apparently even some audiophile websites reviewed it somewhat favorably - it's really that great.

I have been using it for a few months by now, and am quite satisfied. Nevertheless, as you seem to already have a good headset, I am not sure if it's really worth the upgrade just to have fewer cables (the Logitech uses USB), and having less of a hassle adjusting Surround options (it just works).

Hi!

I used to have a nice Core 2 Notebook with a Geforce 8600M, and I was able to "overclock" the display refresh rate in the driver, up to 120 Hz with no problems. Then, until recently I had Core i7 Notebook with a Geforce 460M, I was able to set the display refresh rate up to 100 Hz without any problems. I did this by creating new custom resolutions with manually defined refresh rates.

Now, I have a new notebook with an Ivy Bridge CPU, and a Geforce 680M, but the custom resolution option in the Nvidia control panel appears to have disappeared... my guess is that this is related to Optimus, or the iGPU of the Ivy bridge, but I don't really know.

Does anyone know a way to overwrite the default refresh rate anyway? I really liked the tweaked high refresh rates in my previous notebooks, and since the 680M and the Ivy bridge 3740 should easily be able to do more than 60fps in several games, it would be an even more useful "hack" than before!

I used to have a Zowie mouse which came with my Benq 120 Hz monitor, but it seems to have disappeared a few weeks ago... I guess I have to buy a new one, probably one from Logitech, although I will consider Razer as well.

Personally, I think any mouse with high refresh rate and low friction is good enough. Sure, gimmicks like adjustable sensitivity on the fly, more than 5 buttons and 3000+ DPI are not completely useless, but not really important either.

I wonder what took AMD so long to create this driver? 20% seems like a lot, so there must have been a serious error...

Then again, if you look at the history of GPUs, AMD GPUs have always pulled ahead of equivalent Nvidia GPUs over time (with the exception of the x800 probably). Wasn't there a driver which improved the performance of the X1800 by ~72% in several OpenGL games?

This 324 number sounds familiar to me... it seems that there is some kind of protection built in the GPU (or BIOS?), so that there is an automatic underclocking, if temperatures get too high or something like that.

Split decision...

1.: Overall, Nvidia wins, but not by much... both hardware vendors managed to cause bad system problems in the past, but in the last 1-2 years, I do not recall any significant problems

2.: Nvidia. Physx is irrelevant, and so is 3D, but CUDA is very nice. Also, Nvidia has better custom resolution options, which is very important to me (unfortunately not on my new notebook).

3.: Small win for AMD - I have not run into any major problems with any GPUs in games recently, but AMD seems to work better on older games

4.: Draw. Had some overheating problems with both in the past, but right now, both are working without a problem.

5.: Win for AMD

For my job, I need CUDA, so I need Nvidia. Otherwise, I would choose AMD.

Overall, unless you need a notebook really urgently, I would wait a few more months, as there is a good chance you might get one with a 4k display... Apparently, Intel will showcase some of those notebooks in mid January 2013 in Beijing!

I also think it is unlikely that there is going to be a 680MX in a regular notebook any time soon. A 680M already needs 100W, so in order to fit a 680MX in 100W, the 28nm process needs to improve some more, which will probably take more time.