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    NVS 3100M card - is it any good?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by solarscott, Jul 17, 2010.

  1. solarscott

    solarscott Notebook Guru

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    Hi all,

    I am looking at buying a Lenovo T510 and it comes with the NVS 3100M GPU. I am wondering how good the card is...will I be able to play new games? on med settings? IS it fine for watching movies, and outputting video to a television monitor? Is it fine for everyday things? Is it ok for general CAD (not big files)..

    Maybe a better question is what can it NOT do?

    Sorry if these are mundane questions, but I am new to notebooks and GPU's?

    Thanks for the help
     
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  2. scadsfkasfddsk

    scadsfkasfddsk Notebook Evangelist

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    From memory it is a professional version of the 210 and/or 310. It will be older games decently but will struggle with the newer stuff even on low.
     
    scadsfkasfddsk, Jul 17, 2010
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    sepulture Notebook Enthusiast

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    I don't know about new games, but I've tried these:

    -Half-life 2 (demo) and Day of Defeat: Source: Both run very smooth without any sign of struggle at 1600x900. In Half-life, I have everything set to high and 2x anti-aliasing.

    -Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare (demo): Just briefly tried it, but it appears to run fine on 1600x900 with texture details set to Normal and no anti-aliasing. Frame rate might be lower than what hard core gamers would prefer, I don't know. Looked fine to me though.

    I'll try a game for you if you want, as long as there's a free demo available for it.

    I have a Latitude E6510 with i7 620m and NVS 3100M.
     
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  4. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    H.A.L. 9000, Jul 17, 2010
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