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    Kind of worried...

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by cconant1833, Nov 25, 2007.

  1. cconant1833

    cconant1833 Notebook Consultant

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    I just bought a dell inspiron 1520 notebook.

    The specs :

    Intel® Pentium® Dual Core T2310 (1.46GHz/533Mhz FSB/1MB cache)
    1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz
    128MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8400M GS
    1 80GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
    It also has Vista home edition


    Now, I planned on playing the Sims 2 on this. I just now was looking around the internet and found the specs for Sims 2. My laptop doesn't quite match up with them and I'm worried I won't be able to play it. I spent 100 for the graphic card upgrade and I'm not even sure if its good enough. I'm not sure if I'm worrying too much or if I really did mess up and should have upgraded more components. Any advice is appreciated.


    I ordered this on Friday and it is still in production.

    Thanks
     
    cconant1833, Nov 25, 2007
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    H3rmaN Notebook Evangelist

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    You should be able to run it, but can you just post the required specs here so we can have a look.
     
    H3rmaN, Nov 25, 2007
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    The Sims 2 will run perfectly fine on that rig... Ran perfect on my aged desktop before the rebuild...
     
    frazell, Nov 25, 2007
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    cconant1833 Notebook Consultant

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    Well I have all the expansions for my desktop and the requirements for the most recent is:

    SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

    * 1.3 Ghz processor (2.0 for Vista)
    * 512 MB RAM (1GB for Vista)
    * Windows(R) Vista, Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 98 or Windows 2000 Operating System.
    * 8x or faster CD/DVD drive
    * At least 1.5 GB of additional hard drive space (5.0 GB total is required if installing both The Sims 2 and The Sims 2 Bon Voyage Expansion Pack at the same time.)
    * A T&L-capable video card with at least 32 MB of video RAM.
    NVIDIA GeForce series GeForce2 GTS and better (GeForce 6200 or greater required for Vista)


    And for the laptop friendly version [life stories] the requirements are:
    * OS: Windows XP
    * CPU: 1.4 GHz (1.8 GHz laptop) or faster
    * RAM: 256 MB (512 MB for laptop) or more
    * Disc Drive: 8x or faster DVD-ROM drive
    * Hard Drive: 2.7 GB or more free space
    * Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible
    * Video: DirectX 9.0c compatible*


    Thanks again
     
    cconant1833, Nov 25, 2007
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  5. frazell

    frazell Notebook Deity

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    Should be more than fine...

    Rem. the CPU stuff is usually stated at Single Core speeds... Just take your Dual Core speeds an times it by 2 to reach a safe ballpark figure to compare it to a single core (technically there are some issues that will prevent you from gaining 100% SMP performance, but that's not too important in general usage).
     
    frazell, Nov 25, 2007
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    cconant1833 Notebook Consultant

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    Oh, wow, I hadn't realized that. Thank youu :) haha
     
    cconant1833, Nov 25, 2007
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