Can the Intel® Graphics Accelerator 900 Handle World of Warcraft?

I would like some insight from anyone that has tried to play WoW on their laptop with the standard Intel® Media Graphics Accelerator 900 card. This would help me out extremely on which notebook I will buy.


TIA

Few notebooks that i'm lookin at..

Toshiba Satellite® Notebook PC (M55-S3315)

HP Pavilion Notebook PC (DV1439US)

HP Pavilion ze2000z Notebook PC

HP Pavilion dv1000 Notebook PC

 

I have the dv1000 and it can play WoW after making some adjustments. I have to put all the video settings on low and play in the lowest resolution (800 x 600 i believe) and put it in windowed mode. After all that It runs smooth. I haven't been in any cities with tons of people yet though ( i just started .. currently have a lvl 10 mage ). My specs : 1.86 ghz, 512 mb ram, 80 gb 5400 rpm hdd. I never intended to game on this notebook anyway since I have an i9300 but I was surprised it ran WoW at all. I will try to run it in full screen mode and see how it plays later...

 

What's your budget?

I would definitely avoid the GMA900 if you plan to do any sort of 3D.

 

i would like to spend around 1100-1300, but my budget is 1500

 

I'd definitely check out the Compaq V4000t with the 128MB X700. The X700 is four times as powerful as the X200M. You'll be able to play WoW at the highest settings.

It starts at $849 on www.HPShopping.com. I recommend getting the 5400RPM hard drive for best performance. By upgrading the memory aftermarket, you can save yourself some money.

Cheers

 

I would say go with somthing better then the INtel GMA 900. Go with an HP with a X600. For around $1000-$1300 you can get quite a nice config. Look at the dv4000 . Also, you should fill out the FAQ, so we know what size screen you want, and other features you want in your new notebok.

 

are any of those available in 14"?

 

no there 15.4" go to www.hp.com and look through the notebooks.

 

is the gma 900 that much better than the regular one?

 

how about the dv1000t

Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo processor T2400 (1.83 GHz)

 

how about the Sony VAIO BX Series

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2515

 

dont worry about the processor, just get a laptop that has decent graphics.

for your budget i'd recommend getting a laptop with a radeon x600 or x700 with 128mb Minimum

 

The laptop I got in my signature was about $1200 (I upgraded the HDD myself).

It should play WoW at near highest settings with no problems.

 

Sony vaio tx2?
will it run Wow?

1024mb @ 1,2ghz

 

Doubt it would offer satisfactory performance.

That is a very small laptop . . do you know what you are looking for?

 

I recently purchased an MSI 1029 from Cyber Power, I took there Xplorer X64 9800 model and tuned some of the setting down and it was cheaper than changing the 9700 to be more powerful, go figure.

Anyway I spent a total of $1245 on the machine, and it runs WoW beautifully. I get upwards of 35 fps in orgrimarr all the time, and even the most frantic AV battles come through smooth as silk. Make sure you get the 1 gig of ram though, my desktop only has 512 and has a lot of problems keeping up.

 

does it have the intel 900?

 

The general consensus is that the GMA 900 does not perform adequately for gaming; if games are important for you, you should not get a computer that uses it.

Howie

 

No.

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2617

 

No, it has an ATI x700 with 128 Mgb of dedicaed video ram.

[Edit]
Heh, didn't see the link chazman put up, hurray for redundancy.

 

well, im really looking for something small with a 14" screen and i cant seem to find any that has a decent graphics card.I will only be playing 1 game on this and if i can do it with little or no problems, i would like to

 

how about the hp ze2000z?

AMD Turion(TM) 64 ML-37 (2.0GHz/1MB L2 Cache)
Display 15.0" TFT XGA BrightView (1024x768)
Graphics Card ATI RADEON(R) XPRESS 200M
Memory 1.0GB DDR SDRAM (2x512MB)
Hard Drive 60 GB 4200 RPM Hard Drive
54g(TM) 802.11b/g WLAN w/ 125HSM/SpeedBooster(TM)

(is this a wireless card?)

 

14" notebooks:

Compal EFL-30 - 64MB Go6400

MSI-1022 - 64MB Nvidia (either a Go6200 or Go6400, can't remember which)

 

The shared memory would lead me to believe that it would not run WoW, especially since that game eats RAM like I eat pringles.

 

You can try the HP dv5000z as an alternative to the ze2000z, but I would check out the Compaq V4000t if you are going to go with a 15.4".

 

What do u mean by shared memory

 

As in, the video card does not have its own memory. Therefore, it must share it with the system.

 

So if the card has 128 megs of shared video memory it takes 128 megs of RAM from the system memory, decreasing your system memory by 128 megs. Also, since the memry has to be accessed over the BUS, its going to be slower than dedicated memory.

 

It would run it just not good.

 

If a GPU uses only shared memory, it will not be a great performer.

There is no replacement for dedicated memory. You should have a dedicated card if you are going to play games.

 

From my experience, even a notebookwith a dedicated 64 MB card can still have some performance issues with WoW. I have a Dell 600M that I'm going to be replacing to get better performance.

I can play WoW at fairly low settings, but even then it's still somewhat slow. Integrated graphics may have improved but I wouldn't touch em yet...