7600 future proof?

I'm about to buy the hel-80 from ibuypower.com and am wondering if the 7600 can will run smoothly future games like bf2142, spore, crysis, company of heroes at good settings. all help is appreciated, thx

 

There's no way to tell with games that aren't even out yet.

In my honest opinion the Go 7600 is a very powerful notebook part, but if you need to be secure in how future proof your machine will be, look into a notebook with a Go 7800 or 7900. Unfortunately, though, those don't show up in anything smaller than a 17", so weigh your decision carefully.

For what it's worth, though, my Go 7600 runs all my games juuuuust fine.

 

Notebooks still fail at cutting edge gaming, future proofing is not even in the vocabulary.

 

depends on what you count as future proof. A 7600 will be able to run any game released in the next 2 or so years, but as the time increases, the quality of your graphics are really going to decrease rather rapidly, starting at high settings, then medium, then low, etc.

I'd say generallys speaking its future proof enough for a casual laptop gamer.

 

Well I don't see how the actual level of graphics will ever decrease but I can see the 7600 not being able to keep up with newer engines and features

 

According to the people at laptopvideo2go, a Geforce Go 7600 is roughly equivalent to a fast (ie overclocked) desktop Geforce 7300 GT. Personally I wouldn't consider that to be future proof. The 7600 in my dv8000t does run everything I want, except I can't use ultra quality in doom 3 with good framerates, whereas in my E1705 with the 7900GS I can.

 

Unfortunately with laptop technology there is no such thing as future-proof. The go 7600 is a great GPU today though. And it is an excellent choice that should keep you in games for a couple of years with decent performance.

That is the part that is hard to gauge as far as how future-proof any particular GPU is concerned. If you want a system that can keep up with all the new developments, the best way is to go with a desktop.

 

Then again, with DX10 coming out soon it can be argued that even the latest and greatest DX9 cards today are not futureproof either.. Obviously even when DX10 does get here there will still be a lot of games with legacy support for DX9 hardware but who knows how long that will last.

 

Obviously, I meant as time goes on he'll find himself having to turn more and more effects down and eventually off...

 

BF2142 runs on the SAME ENGINE as BF2 with some minor tweaks.

So if the 7600 and X1600 can max out BF2 now with 2gigs of RAM, they should be able to handle BF2142 with near-max settings aswell.