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    9800M GS & Left 4 Dead - expected performance?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by passive101, Mar 9, 2009.

  1. passive101

    passive101 Notebook Deity

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    My new lappy is coming soon.

    What type of performance can I expect with the following specs?

    2.2ghz c2d
    4 GB RAM
    512MB 9800M GS
     
    passive101, Mar 9, 2009
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  2. Hualsay

    Hualsay Notebook Evangelist

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    You'll run everything on high(maybe a medium or two), it will run very well. You have nothing to worry about. :D And Congrats .
     
    Hualsay, Mar 9, 2009
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  3. passive101

    passive101 Notebook Deity

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    That is awesome to hear! It's been a while since I had a rig that could play anything more then HL2 in 800x600. I have a new 22" monitor waiting for it and everything.
     
    passive101, Mar 9, 2009
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  4. Hualsay

    Hualsay Notebook Evangelist

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    Yaa! Good Luck! I'll play with ya Some L4D When you get it. Whats your steam ID? Or like a link to your community page. :p . L4D Is an awesome game, your gonna love it.
     
    Hualsay, Mar 9, 2009
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    A better question would be do you buy left or dead or wait for resident evil 5 on the 13th.

    your system will run both games like butter
     
    AppleUsr, Mar 9, 2009
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    Buying an Asus G50VT huh? :) Congrats. You'll run it perfectly fine at high settings and maxed resolution by my judgement.
    Almost have the same system but I've got a GTS which is only SLIGHTLY better and I max everything out at 1920x1200 resolution and have perfectly fine FPS, you'll be able to do the same at the G50VT's max resolution since it isn't as high :)

    Seriously doubt RE5 is going to be released on PC on the 13th :p
     
    SemiGamer, Mar 9, 2009
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  7. haniunited

    haniunited Notebook Consultant

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    whats the NAME of the processor, not the ghz
     
    haniunited, Mar 9, 2009
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  8. zakazak

    zakazak www.whymacsucks.com

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    i got asus g50vt-a1

    runs everything on high without any probs.. this game is a peanut :p

    and i didn´t even use turbomode @cpu and didn´t had gfx overclocked at that time i palyed it
     
    zakazak, Mar 9, 2009
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    Presumably he is referring to the 2.26GHz P8400 Core 2 Duo w/ 3MB L2 cache.

    I have the X1, and Left 4 Dead ran super-smooth on high everything (except maybe AA, I forget). Valve is great at making their games run efficiently.
     
    CA36GTP, Mar 9, 2009
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  10. rot112

    rot112 El Rompe ToTo

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    Just max it out. I do with my 880m GTS which is a lowe clocked version of your GPU.
     
    rot112, Mar 9, 2009
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  11. spradhan01

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    My friend got it runing in all medium on Inspiron 1420 with Geforce 8400m gs 128mb. So I gues ur card is more than enough.
     
    spradhan01, Mar 9, 2009
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    I've got the G50VT-X1 and Left 4 dead runs great with everything completely maxed.
     
    mrsamsa, Mar 9, 2009
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  13. passive101

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    What is turbo mode?
     
    passive101, Mar 9, 2009
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    I play at 1680x1050 all high with 2x AA.

    You'll be fine... lol.
     
    Yoyoman, Mar 9, 2009
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  15. MAG

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    I think you have more power than what L4D needs. You should be able to run it on all high. Don't worry about that :D
     
    MAG, Mar 9, 2009
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