Someone asked me for recommendations on a new laptop. Last time I got into laptops the best you could get was 4 or 8 meg Trident graphics, we all know how good those are for gaming. What I'm wondering is, are the current lineup of GPU-4-laptop chips good enough to play modern games on? I could go to ATI and Nvidia's sites and just read their own reports but I get the feeling they would have a personal bias in what they tell the consumer. So what do you all say?
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Gaming on laptop
- Thread starter Hyundai
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You probably will be looking at 17" inch notebook. Now that sized laptop come with good gfx and in many situations are better in gaming than desktops. I think the highest laptop card right now is 7800gtx. Check out dell e1705 with 7900gs and look for reviews. There are other laptops as well that fully capable gaming machines.
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7900 is out for laptops. Smokin'!
See my sig. I use mine for gaming. Main issue for me is the 533fsb/laptop chipset. That's the bottleneck, not the video card
. There aren't many, if any, smaller laptops built for gaming. 17" is the standard laptop size.
See my sig. I use mine for gaming. Main issue for me is the 533fsb/laptop chipset. That's the bottleneck, not the video card
. There aren't many, if any, smaller laptops built for gaming. 17" is the standard laptop size.The NVidia GeForce Go 7950GTX 512 meg card is the best out there right now. Just put it in... now surfing around figuring out how to overclock the beast... here's the 3DMark06 I'll be starting with.Pinky said:7900 is out for laptops. Smokin'!
See my sig. I use mine for gaming. Main issue for me is the 533fsb/laptop chipset. That's the bottleneck, not the video card
I play WoW, BF2, BF2142, and FearCombat on it. 17" screen is great.
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That's about what I get with desktop, maybe I should start thinking about getting one.Mightyaa said:The NVidia GeForce Go 7950GTX 512 meg card is the best out there right now. Just put it in... now surfing around figuring out how to overclock the beast... here's the 3DMark06 I'll be starting with.
I play WoW, BF2, BF2142, and FearCombat on it. 17" screen is great.
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Mightyaa said:The NVidia GeForce Go 7950GTX 512 meg card is the best out there right now. Just put it in... now surfing around figuring out how to overclock the beast... here's the 3DMark06 I'll be starting with.
I play WoW, BF2, BF2142, and FearCombat on it. 17" screen is great.
Where'd ya pick up the 7950 and how much?
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Wow...amazing!
Tell that dude I'll trade him my Go7900GS +$100 for a 7950
Tell that dude I'll trade him my Go7900GS +$100 for a 7950
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imagine how I feel. radeon 7500mozzlo said:
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maybe, but you do know alienware is owned by dell right? (before someone makes a wtflol comment, I dont mean alieanware got headshoted by dell and got pwned.)phantasm said:
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freakdiablo said:
Yea i know Dell owns Alienware nowadays. None the less i hope the XPS is better than the Alienware. As for me, i'll never buy another alienware machine for gaming or anything. I'll get a Dell laptop for the wife for her PhD, as for me i build all my desktops anyway. I have no use for laptop anymore.
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ozzlo said:
Haha, yea same thing here, but I know that when i'm on the road, the newer videocards will eat up the battery, and besides, the 6800 suits my needs, its faster than my desktop and thats all that matters.
Ashes to Ashes...Hyundai said:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html
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The Intel GMA950 couldn't play with the big boys from 5 years back. The GMA900 in my laptop got worse 3DMark01 scores than the Geforce 2 Pro I owned in 2001. Considering my laptop currently has a PM 1.6 with 512 DDR compared to the PIII600 with 128mb ram I was running back then, thats pretty sad.
