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I know this subject might have been covered many times however I just want to be 100% certain before I go ahead and make a purchase.
I am looking for a laptop that will be used by most of my family and naturally I want value for money. With that in mind I have my eye on models that sport the Pentium M 725 and Intel 915 chipset with a view to doing the wire mod to run at 533FSB.
The two models in question I have narrowed down to are the Dell Inspiron 6000 series and the Acer 3210 series.
In case anyone is wondering why I have narrowed it down to these two, it is based on perceived value. Both are the equivalent of under USD850 here in Malaysia and provide dual layer dvd burners and half a gig of memory as free upgrades.
Firstly I notice both models state that the DDR2 used is DDR400 so does that pose a problem running at 533Mhz FSB - or is the memory automatically downclocked to 400 via the use of dividers. (Apologies I am primarily an AMD man so not up to speed on Intel workings!).
Secondly if a divider is used are there any performance issues?
Thirdly both use Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 and I am just wondering how this compares to mobility graphics cards? There will be some gaming done on it but nothing that is too graphics intensive.
Thanks for any feedback from you guys ITK.
I am looking for a laptop that will be used by most of my family and naturally I want value for money. With that in mind I have my eye on models that sport the Pentium M 725 and Intel 915 chipset with a view to doing the wire mod to run at 533FSB.
The two models in question I have narrowed down to are the Dell Inspiron 6000 series and the Acer 3210 series.
In case anyone is wondering why I have narrowed it down to these two, it is based on perceived value. Both are the equivalent of under USD850 here in Malaysia and provide dual layer dvd burners and half a gig of memory as free upgrades.
Firstly I notice both models state that the DDR2 used is DDR400 so does that pose a problem running at 533Mhz FSB - or is the memory automatically downclocked to 400 via the use of dividers. (Apologies I am primarily an AMD man so not up to speed on Intel workings!).
Secondly if a divider is used are there any performance issues?
Thirdly both use Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 and I am just wondering how this compares to mobility graphics cards? There will be some gaming done on it but nothing that is too graphics intensive.
Thanks for any feedback from you guys ITK.