dell xps 1530 good for gaming?

I really only play world of warcraft on my laptop. Is it more than good enough to handle the game? barely enough? or what? I started playing it and i keep hearing clicking sounds from the hard drive or fan or somthing..

 

Depends which graphics card you got... even the lowest x3100 can handle it without a hitch.

 

Oh MY GOD!

Dell XPS 1530 with dedicated 256 video card
Is like waaaay good for gaming
It is like a dream machine come true
Light, thin and performs out of this world for its size
Doesn't it pull 4200 on benchmark tests?

I bought a Dell 1420 back in August with 128mb video card
It handles almost every game that I play without a problem
So Dell XPS 1530 with dedicated graphics will handle everything now and 3 years ahead as well.

 

O yeah, without a doubt it should play WoW without a problem. WoW doesn't have particularly harsh requirements to begin with, not to mention the M1530 is excellent at games in general. But I would agree, if you want to future proof it, go with the 8600M GT.

 

WoW is not a really graphic intensive game. The 1530 will play it with ease. The 8600GT is pretty decent but don't expect to max out certain games and have smooth play. I've been testing out a few games on maxed setting and it struggles sometimes. If I put the settings down to medium, I get pretty good performance out of it consistently. Granted, I have a higher res screen which puts a little extra strain. I didn't get this system for hardcore gaming, that's what my desktop is for but it does a great job compared to other systems in its class with gaming.

BTW, the clicking noises may just be nomal hard drive noises, some click, some chirp. It just depends.

 

Yes, It will do the job.. for that much of Money it's by far the best machine out there..

 

If you have the 8600m GT, then you can run WOW at any settings to problem, and most other games for that matter, with no problem.

 

Wow, not true at all.

 

I don't see why it couldn't. It probably won't run them on high, but it shouldn't have any problems with low-medium settings for the next 3 years.

 

It doesn't handle everythng now, it certainly won't do so in a few years. Yes, I suppose you could run most things at low settings, is that really an accomplishment?

It's a very solid laptop, that can play games pretty well. It is not a three year gaming machine.

 

Depends how you view the laptop. I know that I have a nice desktop machine for gaming that I upgrade every 6-8 months or so, and will only game on the laptop if I'm going on vacation or to a friend's house. In that situation playing on low or medium is perfectly acceptable.

Not everyone has to play games with the settings maxed out. Some people (myself included) would be fine playing on low settings as a tradeoff for the mobility. Out of the games that I've tried on it so far (which I will admit isn't much) Crysis is the only one that had trouble running on high. I think it could be playable on high (not shadows) with some significant tweaking and maybe a reasonable overclock.

 

One word: Crysis.

 

it can handle crysis. Just not at maximum settings. But it can do medium

 

Yeah, but if you can only play Crysis at medium settings now, then you can probably only play the next killer game in 2008 at low settings, and then you can't go any lower and you can't play "everything" anymore.

 

Not every game is a Crysis. Most developers will make their engine efficient enough so that it can be run on older hardware as it gives them a bigger audience of possible buyers. Crysis for whatever reason breaks this mold since it takes a Tri-SLI setup to even run it at the highest settings. It could perhaps be a prediction of the kinds of requirements for games in 2-3 years, but it's note like just because Crysis came out all of a sudden game requirements are going to shoot up.

 

Crysis has ****ty engine optimisation, shows how bothered the development team really was at delivering a quality product for the masses ::not::

 

It's likely that a game with hardware requirements as steep as Crysis won't appear for a long time. Possibly over a year. Then again, I could be wrong, but as zipx2k5 pointed out, most developers are looking to have a wide consumer base, and having ridiculously high system requirements eliminates a lot of people. So, you should be able to play games 3 years from now, but as stated, just not on highest settings. The 8600m GT DDR3 card is quite powerful.

 

If you are wondering about CS:S or DOD:S or anything half life..


1200x800 at all high settings will give you about 170.5 FPS