Compare TWO graphics cards (along with other specs)

Please help me choose between two graphics cards and write your opinion on which SPEC is better

It's two laptops, each having diff. graph.cards: (i skipped unecessary components)

1: ACER
Windows Vista™ Home Premium, Intel® Core™2 Duo processor T5500 (2 MB L2 cache, 1.66 GHz, 667 MHz FSB), 15.4" WXGA high-brightness (200-nit) Acer CrystalBrite™ TFT LCD - 16 ms,
NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 7600 SE with 128/256 of external GDDR2 VRAM,
2048MB (2*1024) of DDR2 533/667 MHz memory
PRICE: roughly 800 UK pounds

2: DELL
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7200 (2.0 GHz, 4 MB L2 cache, 667 MHz FSB)
Genuine Windows Vista™ Business - English
17" UltraSharp™ Wide Screen WUXGA (1920x1200) TFT Display with TrueLife™
1024MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM
256MB DDR3 nVidia® GeForce™ Go 7900 graphics card
(it doesn't exactly say which type of 9300 it is)
PRICE: roughly 950 UK pounds

Would I be able to cover that lack of RAM in Dell by using VISTA Ready Boost 2 or 4GB USB Flash Memory stick?

PLEASE... your opinions..
P.S.>I wanna play Halo2 and future games too.

 

If you want to play games later, and have better graphics, I'd get the Dell. ReadyBoost (and the like) is NOT going to help you much, so you'll want to upgrade the RAM later...but you CAN upgrade the RAM. Graphics cards cannot be upgraded 99% of the time, and that 7600 SE isn't going to perform nearly as well as the 7900GS.

 

7900 gs pwns the 7600 in every way possible

 

That is correct.

 

I agree. Keep in mind, the 7600 SE in the Acer is about 10 - 20% slower than a regular go7600.

 

Thanx CeeNote and everybody.
BTW.. I have exactly the same Dell Inspiron 6400 as you, but 1GB RAM (I paid 620 UK pounds) about month and half ago. But I found a buyer and now I'd like to go 17" with nVIDIA 7900 or 7600.

Can anybody say how much better will 7600SE or 7900GS perform in compare with Ati X1400? (proveded there would be 2GB instead of actual 1GB now)
Any numbers?

 

its like comparing a civic to a Ferrari, no challenge, the 7900gs is an amazing notebook gpu and he 7600se is a sub par gpu for mild gaming. Its the difference between med-high settings to high-ultrahigh in games. I had a 7600 in my old toshiba before it died and it ran everything beautifully, so keep that in mind too!! Also gpu is most important, things like hardrive, ram, and cpu and be later upgraded, where as gpu is not possible to upgrade.

 

Also worth noting is that the 7900GS has barely higher power consumption than the 7600, so it won't kill your battery life much faster. I'm using mujtaba's great post here. Actually, on closer inspection the amount of power each card's cooler is required to dissipate is the figure there, so not EXACTLY the precise power consumption. However it should be a decent enough indirect measure of the actual power usage.

IMO, the 7900GS looks like it gives the best bang for the least power. I'm very much hoping to get one soon.

And the ATI x1400 can be broadly compared to the Go 7400, so the next step behind the 7600.

 

Thanx all for your posts. You couldn't say it better.

Maybe one more insignificant question:
Do you think having motherboard's FSB and RAM ticking on 667MHz makes a lot of difference in compare with 533Mhz?
Any tests done about it? ..or your personal exp?

 

If you're going to get an earlier laptop with non-Santa Rosa processors, there shouldn't be much difference between the 667 Mhz and 533 Mhz RAM, because the extra CAS latency on the 667 Mhz RAM cancels out the added speed boost provided by the increased bandwidth.

Based on your two machines above, they're both non-Santa Rosa machines, because they have either the T5500 or T7200, both of which are Merom processors that were released last summer.