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    Vostro 1400 w/ T5270: Sufficient for gaming?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Sockdude, Dec 17, 2007.

  1. Sockdude

    Sockdude Newbie

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    I just ordered my Vostro 1400 a few days ago (est ship date: 1/8/07 :/) and I'm sort of worried because although I have the 8400M GS and 2GB of RAM, I chose the T5270 1.4GHz processor and I'm not sure if that will make any kind of a dent performance-wise. It seems that everyone who has the 1400 has the T5470, and I just want to know if it makes that much of a difference.
     
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  2. BrassMonkey1010

    BrassMonkey1010 Notebook Geek

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    What kind of gaming? You wont be able to run Crysis, or COD4, but thats mostly due to the GPU. You can run most stuff from 04-05 ish
     
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    BrassMonkey is right. The CPU is sufficient for gaming, but your GPU might limit you.
     
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    Really the most graphics-intensive games I expect to be playing are CS:Source/the Orange Box games, which I'm sure the 1400 will be able to handle pretty easily. I'm just wondering if I will regret choosing the lesser processor and if the T5470 is really all that much better than the T5270.
     
    Sockdude, Dec 18, 2007
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