which laptop for gaming.
07 August 2006, 11:02 AM
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which laptop for gaming.
This one
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Widescreen-1-7...QQcmdZViewItem
or this one
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/17-WideScreen-...QQcmdZViewItem
Do I go with a gig of ram with 128mb ati raedon card, or 512mb of ram with 256mb geforce card???
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Widescreen-1-7...QQcmdZViewItem
or this one
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/17-WideScreen-...QQcmdZViewItem
Do I go with a gig of ram with 128mb ati raedon card, or 512mb of ram with 256mb geforce card???
07 August 2006, 11:17 AM
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For gaming...Neither, unless you play an old copy of sensile soccer in your spare time. Current games will laugh at 512mb of ram, a 60gig hard drive will be filled in no time at all and a 128mb raedon is very outdated now.
My advice, if its for gaming/mp3 etc, you'd want a minimum 100gig HD, 256mb geforce (7800gt/gtx/7900) and 2 gig of ram (cheap but machine must support it). Theres plenty of Dell XPS machines floating about ebay that meet this spec that can be had for £8-900. Well worth the extra pennies and will last you a couple more years. Or if the budget streches, check out www.rockdirect.co.uk. Awsome machines, good value, excellent support/customer service and have theyre own forum.
If you go for something like an Xtreme64 (dual core amd, 7800gtx, twin HD, 17" screen, dvd writer, basically loaded to the max)....you can upgrade everything apart from the motherboard and makes it pretty much futureproof. And all their machines come with a free 3 year extendable warranty.
My advice, if its for gaming/mp3 etc, you'd want a minimum 100gig HD, 256mb geforce (7800gt/gtx/7900) and 2 gig of ram (cheap but machine must support it). Theres plenty of Dell XPS machines floating about ebay that meet this spec that can be had for £8-900. Well worth the extra pennies and will last you a couple more years. Or if the budget streches, check out www.rockdirect.co.uk. Awsome machines, good value, excellent support/customer service and have theyre own forum.
If you go for something like an Xtreme64 (dual core amd, 7800gtx, twin HD, 17" screen, dvd writer, basically loaded to the max)....you can upgrade everything apart from the motherboard and makes it pretty much futureproof. And all their machines come with a free 3 year extendable warranty.
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hard disk space is not a problem 100gb is a bit overkill for gaming 60 - 80 gb should suffice, 1gb of ram is enough aswell 2 gb is definatly overkill, 128mb of graphics ram is enough unless you play css or quake etc, if so get a laptop with at least 256mb graphics card
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Originally Posted by doug2507
For gaming...Neither, unless you play an old copy of sensile soccer in your spare time. Current games will laugh at 512mb of ram, a 60gig hard drive will be filled in no time at all and a 128mb raedon is very outdated now.
My advice, if its for gaming/mp3 etc, you'd want a minimum 100gig HD, 256mb geforce (7800gt/gtx/7900) and 2 gig of ram (cheap but machine must support it). Theres plenty of Dell XPS machines floating about ebay that meet this spec that can be had for £8-900. Well worth the extra pennies and will last you a couple more years. Or if the budget streches, check out www.rockdirect.co.uk. Awsome machines, good value, excellent support/customer service and have theyre own forum.
If you go for something like an Xtreme64 (dual core amd, 7800gtx, twin HD, 17" screen, dvd writer, basically loaded to the max)....you can upgrade everything apart from the motherboard and makes it pretty much futureproof. And all their machines come with a free 3 month extendable warranty.
My advice, if its for gaming/mp3 etc, you'd want a minimum 100gig HD, 256mb geforce (7800gt/gtx/7900) and 2 gig of ram (cheap but machine must support it). Theres plenty of Dell XPS machines floating about ebay that meet this spec that can be had for £8-900. Well worth the extra pennies and will last you a couple more years. Or if the budget streches, check out www.rockdirect.co.uk. Awsome machines, good value, excellent support/customer service and have theyre own forum.
If you go for something like an Xtreme64 (dual core amd, 7800gtx, twin HD, 17" screen, dvd writer, basically loaded to the max)....you can upgrade everything apart from the motherboard and makes it pretty much futureproof. And all their machines come with a free 3 month extendable warranty.
How come my 5 year old amd 1800xp desktop with 768mb ram and 128 ati graphics can run doom 3 no problem.
I think for £600, these are the best laptops for the money.
I won't be playing super duper games like quake 4, but I know a friend running a similar spec laptop (geforce 256mb), and he says that it plays ALL new games on a decent graphics mode.
Plus, i'm thinking that if I do go for the geforce laptop, I can always upgrade the ram at a later date.
I know of a similar laptop in PCWorld, that is double the price!
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Well the geforce go 6800 seems to be a popular card in high end laptops, with every review that I can find, giving it 8/10+.
It can play doom3 and all the latest games no problem.
Think i'll go for that one and upgrade the ram for around £30 later on.
It can play doom3 and all the latest games no problem.
Think i'll go for that one and upgrade the ram for around £30 later on.
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Well, I received my Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M3438G the other day, and I am very impressed!
It plays Doom 3 superbly on the 800x600 High detail setting. I even wacked it up to 1024x768 Ultra mode, and although it was a bit jerky at times, the detail was out of this world!
And i'm only running 512mb of ram. ( another 1gb of ddr2 4200 should be with me by mid nxt week )
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...Photo-0454.jpg
It plays Doom 3 superbly on the 800x600 High detail setting. I even wacked it up to 1024x768 Ultra mode, and although it was a bit jerky at times, the detail was out of this world!
And i'm only running 512mb of ram. ( another 1gb of ddr2 4200 should be with me by mid nxt week )
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...Photo-0454.jpg
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