Question about GeForce 7400 and 6800

Hello

1- What's the difference between GeForce 6800 and Geforce 7400 dedicated? How much better is one of the them to the other?

2- Does GeForce 7400 shared 256 or 128 works perfect with Battlefield 2120?

3- What is the best gaming laptop with screen 13" ?

THank you.

 

1) The 6800 beats the crap out of a 7400, but you should look at the whole picture
2) Beats me.
3) Beats me.

 

1. 6800 Go is much better then the 7400 Go. 6800Go can have a 3dmark05 score of 3600-3800 while the 7400Go stucks at 2000-2200.
2. The 7400Go will play BF2142 but not at highest settings. I play BF2 at medium settings with 2x AA and 35 FPS max and 20 FPS min. The X700 is more powerfull then the 7400Go, so it will play at 1024*768 but low-medium settings.
3. The best 13" gaming laptop is a Sony Vaio SZ but Core 2 Duo, 2 GB of RAM and a 7400Go. You can also get a Dell 12" XPS with the same setting for a much better price.

Charlie

 

So 7400 is not future proof? I wanted to buy a good gaming laptop but small one because I'll carry it all the time on college.

Thank you all

 

The Go 7400 in a "thin and light" notebook is as future proof as a card could be, no more, no less... just fine for gaming...

I suppose that you can walk around and who knows you can find some stickies for reading...

Otherwise, I'm not sure whether things like "future proof" exist at all.

 

If I get GeForce 7400 and Dual COre duo and 2GB RAM is it gonna run smoothly with Vista?
I read about Vista recommandation, but some people says 7400 is slow on games, especially new ones. But no idea about Vista.

 

Vista will run great with that setup. You dont have to worry about that. As for people saying that the card runs slow with new games, you cant play them at full specs. Just turn them down a bit and the games run great. I can top out HL2/EP1 with my 7400, BF2142 is med-high settings, Oblivion is med-low settins, but still looks great. The card can game, but dont buy it expecting to be able to top everything out.

 

my favourite question... (such an irony) anyway

No problems with Vista. People have their opinions...
The Go 7400 is a mid-range card so compared to a high-end card is slower but it's still good for gaming at comfortable settings (low/mid but not max).

 

Consider a 14" laptop. It's smaller than the big 15.4" ones and still pretty easy to take to class, but many of them (like mine, or the Acer A8js/a8jp,w3j, etc.) come with a x1600/7600 or faster card, which will game much better than the 7400's.

 

that is exaggerated imo...

i had a dell e1505 with core 2 duo 2ghz, x1400 (with 128vram), 1280x800 res, and 2gb 533mhz ram and i couldn't play bf 2142 without very noticable lag at med-high (considering fps needs around 40-60 fps range, i had 38-45 at med settings). oblivion at med-low for me produced 20 fps outdoors and 30+ indoors, and thats when i had 128mb vram

and hl2 ep1, when maxed out with high detail, trilinear filtering, simple water reflections and 2x AA (4x aa gave me even crappier results) i got into the 21-29 fps range, which for a fast paced fps is pretty bad...

i understand the turbocache is much better then the hypermemory, but its no replacement for dedicated vram, which the 7400 in the xps 1210 only has 64mb of...


so how is it possible, with the exception that you had a better processor (and i'm assuming you're gaming on 1280x800), that you can turn up more settings on a vid card that only has 64mb vram and when mine was OCed to get 2339 3dmark05 and had 128mb vram...

 

You could get an Asus A8JM, with a 14.1 inch screen, and a very good GPU.

 

And Hmmmmmmmmmmm, you would be surprised how good turbocache is. I can get HL2 at 1280x800, 4XAF, All high settings, no HDR, and always get above 30 FPS. Pretty dam good if you ask me.

 

i think hl2 ep1 is a little more gpu intensive then hl2...

but then again i think i will take your word with a grain of salt as the reports of your magical laptop is prodigious

ie.

in this thread http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=1618790


as i said, as good as turbo cache is, dedicated vram is still much better


EDIT: oh yea, i forgot to add that my old dell 1505 core 2 duo 2ghz, 2 gb 533mhz ram, x1400 OCed to get 2339 in 3dmark05, couldn't handle hl2 ep1 at all maxed out with 4x aa and get it to run at 30+fps...

 

hl2 ep1 runs on even lower machines than the orignal half life 2.

Its one last great adventure for old machines.


my machine runs it all maxed out at over 100 fps. Its really the best coded game ever made.

 

The problem is they don't sell A8Jm/s where I live. And if I order by the internet and something happened to the laptop there is no where to fix it.

Hmmm, I hate it when there is no new laptops on my home country.

 

The Sony C series isn't a bad notebook option. It has the Geforce 7400. I just saw it today in person. Quite a nice notebook. But as others have posted, the 6800 is quite a bit more powerful, around 2x. I have a 6800 in my desktop and it does quite well. Stock it does 3800 in 3dmark05, overclocked I have hit 5k.