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    Dell 6000 specs - how well will it play Rise of Nations 3 and Black & White 2

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by donnapg, Jan 11, 2006.

  1. donnapg

    donnapg Notebook Enthusiast

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    Your thoughts and advise woud be greatly appreciated. My son primarily plays those games.

    Will this be sufficient?

    Thanks

    Module Description Show Details
    Inspiron 6000 Intel® Pentium® M Processor 760 (2GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB)
    Operating System (Office software not included) Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
    Display 15.4 inch WXGA LCD Panel
    Memory 1GB DDR SDRAM 2 Dimms
    Video Card 128MB DDR ATI's MOBILITY™ RADEON X300 PCI Express x16 Graphics
    Hard Drive 60GB 5400rpm Hard Drive
    Network Card Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem
    Adobe Software Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 6.0
    Combo/DVD+RW Drives FREE! 8x CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW)
    Wireless Networking Card Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200 Internal Wireless (802.11 b/g, 54Mbps
     
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  2. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    The Radeon X300 is a pretty low end card for 3D applications. . have you already bought the notebook? I would go for something a little faster.

    Check out the Compaq V4000t with the 128MB X700. It will be under $1,000 with a Pentium M and X700, and from the looks of your configuration, your budget seems to be fairly high. I'm sure you could get a nicely spec'd out V4000t for that. ;)

    The X700 is about 3-3.5x faster than the X300.
     
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