NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100 for gaming?

hi,i am buying a new laptop today for my son and the graphics card in is the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100,and it has 2gb of ram. could somebody possibly tell me if this is ok for gaming,and especially for the game city of heroes/villains? much appreciated if someone could help me out,thank you

 

No. I'm not a gamer, but I can tell you that a integrated card is not good for gaming.

O4

 

DO NOT BUY THAT LAPTOP FOR GAMING!!! Get a dell vostro with 8600m gt or 7950gtx. As far as the go 6100 is concerned, you won't be able to play any pc game made after 1993 with that thing.

 

In other words get some thing with a dedicated video card in it.

 

That's a bit of an exaggeration. Most source based games like Team Fortress 2 and Counterstrike should work well with that card. Just don't play any games released after 2004/2005, that includes City of Heroes.

 

thanks for the replies,can any of you recommend a laptop that will play this game,within the £500 pound range? stuck on a short budget you see and its for a birthday present. as long as it can play the game city of heroes then hes happy lol

 

that card sucks dont bother find a better laptop

 

brian try vostro 1500. From the dell.co.uk website you can get a good one for adounr £500

 

thanks alkaeda,ill have a look at that one now

 

I have played City of Heroes on various systems and the 6100 won't handle it very well. I'd recommend a low level dedicated video card like an ATi X2300 or Nvidia 8400M G/GS. That should run it very well.

 

I have the geforce 6150, and dude, you dont want anything lower, this card is for very light gaming, nothing special

think like playing games that came out in 04 or earlier, and only on the most min settings, nothing past 800*600, i can run halflife 2 pretty nice on those settings (low res, high everything else), but it doesnt really look good

if you want a gaming laptop, get a gaming laptop, dont get anything below teh *600's, so either get a 6600, 7600, or a 8600, and the 8600 is your best bet for mobility and gaming right now

 

It's a horrible integrated GPU.. but not much slower than a X3100 honestly. I ended up taking back a notebook with the Geforce 6100 because it was that bad.. I'd rather opt for a GMA950/X3100 if I were you. Although the way drivers are looking right now, the GMA950 currently performs better in most scenarios versus the X3100.

Jay

 

no way GMA950 is gay, my friends toshiba has it, it cant even run Sands of Time. and needforspeed most wanted looked so ugh..

Nvidia6100 is the lowest you can go for todays standards.

 

hi,thanks for the help everyone,ive just seen another one with nvidia geforce 7000m graphic card,how would that cope with city of villains then? sorry for asking so many questions,im a bit of a novice at this you see lol. thanks again

 

I dont think you understood anything that was just posted, the 7000m might just be worse, the gpus are in series, 6 series, 7 series, and 8 series, look at the hundred digits to see how good the card is

simply put, 6600>7000 because it is higher up in the series

Lastly, newer cards are simply better bcos newer technology in them, 8600>7600

these are simple comparisons, please take this as a general statement, and DO NO BUY A 7000m!

*please refer to this thread

 

As recomended before, go with a Vostro 1500 the 6100 won't play anything past 2004 @ playable settings or worse......they may not run @ all.

 

I'd recommend the Vostro 1500 as well.

On a side note, since when did this site become so much like notebookforums? Honestly, there are more terrible arguments in this thread than I've seen on NBR in a long time...

 

New members with high post counts...?

Brian, as it's been stated before, 6100 isn't ideal for gaming. Even if you saw a 7100 it's still terrible in performance for newer games. When you compare nVidia graphics cards look for the 2nd number after the first, e.g., 6 600 performs better than 7 150 GPU; the second number indicates better performance cards, not the first.

Good luck buying a notebook for your son!

 

yes its i as a matter fact it no problems
how ever i wouldnt recommend dell if ur looking 4 game go with this laptop
Compaq Presario F756NR its around 550.00 and its rivels dell and alienware notebook that have the same cpus and graphics take it from me ive been playing pc games since wolfenstein 3d
here some of the spec 4 the compaq
Graphics Description: Integrated Graphics
GPU/VPU: NVIDIA GeForce 7000M
Video Memory: Up to 335MB
Processor Class: Turion™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-58
Processor Speed: 1.9Ghz
Processor FSB: up to 1600MHz
Processor Cache: 2 x 512KB L2
Additional Technologies: HyperTransport™ Technology
come standerd with 2 gb ram
and a 160GB harddrive most other computer with sam specs go 4 at least $1,000

 

Doomguy, with that setup, you are probably still playing ONLY Wolfenstein 3D.

But yes, Brian, the 7150/6150/7000/6100 are all not the best bet for gaming. I know HP offers some models with the 8400GS for around $900USD. This isn't the best and fastest GPU, but it's still loads better that the Integrated GPU's.

And please, Doomguy, it is EXTREMELY misinforming when you come on a board where we are trying to help, and brag about your "gaming system". How would you feel when he purchased that computer for his son, and, like we said, it won't run. Not well spent money, right?

 

haha... u gotta keep quiet when u dont kno the facts.


go 6100 easily runs Counterstrike Source @ 40 - 50 fps at Full.

it can play games till year 2005.

and 2006 games also..

problem comes in 2007 games which are new gen and High definition.

So for the game u mentioned.. the card is NOT good.



Discussion over i guess.