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    More performant display choice?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by ThatSteveGuy, Dec 7, 2008.

  1. ThatSteveGuy

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    Which of these would perform better on GPU intensive games?

    NP5797 w/ P9500 2.53Ghz CPU and nVidia GeForce 9800M GTX 1GB GPU at 1920 x 1200

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    NP8660 w/ P9500 2.53Ghz CPU and nVidia GeForce 9800M GTS 512MB GPU at 1680 x 1050

    ???
     
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    The NP5797
     
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    even with all those extra pixels it's pushing?
     
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    you can set it to a lower resolution.
     
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    My experience is that setting a notebook to something other than it's native resolution doesn't look that good. I know that head to head the 9800M GTX is the better card, I was just wondering how the combination of the 9800M GTX + 1920 x 1200 stacks up against the 9800M GTS + 1680 x 1050 resolution
     
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