go for 980m sli or wait for 10xxm?

[batmanpreet23]

Guys, I'm interested in buying a gaming rig (a laptop for portability)
I'm leaning towards a 980m sli preferably sager np9377s.
It might be almost an year till which I wait for to buy maybe more so my question is should I stay stuck to 980m sli or wait for 2 years until nvidia comes up with 1000m series. I read somewhere series is due for 2016 and im not sure I would wait that long.

 

[planesman22]

I am running a single 980m and everything works happily at 60 fps. By the time something hammers it down to 30fps, it would've probably been 2-3 years. A dual 980m is nothing but overkill if you have the stomach for it.

Hint: My NP8652 lowers the clockrate since my battery simply cannot provide enough wattage for the 980m(The CPU fans also roars). God knows how heavy a np9377's battery will be to support two 980ms at full power, if it can at all. I would aim for something more practical, like Sager's New Single 980m Models (np9752-s)with their nice parallel fan design. Rather than something insane and barely beneficial when you are on the go.

Now if you are talking 4k, that's a different story xD

 

[batmanpreet23]

Well 2-3 years is isn't going to work for me. I need something which can manage maxed out gaming for atleast 5 (Sounds horrible, that's right)

 

[planesman22]

I would estimate a dual 980m will do at least 30fps at maximum 5 years down the road. It is simply the best laptop setup known to man. However, this prediction is less accurate than a bad weather forecast. Ask this question a month before you are actually going to buy it. 😉

 

[batmanpreet23]

Couldn't agree more. By the way when is 1000m series expected to arrive? Feels like mid-late 2016 to me. NvidIa is confidemtly boasting of some sort of revolutionary techno in pascal architecture.

 

[planesman22]

They are due around 2016 so Q3 2016 wouldn't be a bad call. The Pascal architecture is revolutionary because it no longer uses PCI-Express but a faster connection known as NVLink. That is only noticeable if the GPU/CPU is fast enough to utilize it. But I wouldn't blame you if you want a slice of Pascal.

 

[batmanpreet23]

Q3'16 is too long to wait for me. I guess that sums up 980m sli as the notebook king for about 2 years I will just wait for sager, msi or origin to come up with a notebook holding 980m sli and welcoming of a 5th gen i7 which shouldn't take too long I guess.