Rate my Lappy out of 10 please

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670
4GB RAM
500GB HDD
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.26GHZ (Turbo Boost 2.7) Proccessor
15.4 Inch Screen

Rating out of 10 for gaming?

 

Personally, about a 7 at most But I'm no expert so meh.

 

Among laptops, I'd say 6 or 7. That's a mainstream level card.

If you also consider desktops... well let's not be suicidal shall we?

 

6-7 for a laptop. 3 in general.

 

4670? Core 2 Duo?

Among mainstream laptops (i.e. the cheaper ones at Best Buy and Walmart) you are at about a 7 considering most newer laptops have i5/i7 CPU's but generally weaker GPUs...compared to gaming laptops Id say more along a 3 compared to the best of the best out there with SLI and Xfire...like, comparing your laptop to mine (Asus W90) your laptop would kill itself before it could even reach 25% of the power mine has...gaming wise that is.

 

That's BS sorry. 25%? Your proccessor is barely more powerful than mine, your GFX Card is a class one, mine is a class 2, ok, but that's not 25%. You have 2GB more RAM than I do, so what? Majority of games nowadays don't use close to that amount.
And besides, that Asus is hideous

 

I have a Q9100 ES Quad Core @ 3ghz per core and 3MB of L2 cache PER core...you have 3MB shared cache for both cores...so Im more than faster there (by more than double). I have TWO 4870's...and look at the specs for you 4670...320 pipelines and a 128-bit bus vs. my 1600 pipelines (for both cards) and 256-bit bus...not to mention whether or not you 4670 is GDDR3/DDR3/DDR2 RAM...so YES you are 25% of my graphics power...if not lower than that. Add to that fact that I also have a SSD. Not to mention that my laptop is in the mid-range of high-end gaming notebooks...you have to consider the ones that use desktop CPU's (i7 quad/hex cores) and the laptops that have Crossfired 5870's or SLI GTX480's...

So compared to MY laptop you really are about 25% there...so you are 3.

 

It's almost as if this thread was created just so that once someone bashes your laptop you could throw a fit like this.
Also, what's the point of having other forum users rating your laptop between 1-10? You've got Windows experience thingy for that. You have numerous sources (google) and benchmark tools in order to check out how bad/good your laptop is.
And if you want to know how good it is for gaming, play a game.

 

Core 2 Duo with Turbo Boost?

 

Well just remember that I never asked anyone to come in and tell me how much more powerful their laptop is as opposed to mine, so you really have no point in saying all this. I asked for people to rate my laptop, and that's what is supposed to happen. I am really not interested in how good your laptop is, because my current laptop lives up to my expectations: it can run anything I want, on any settings I want, end of story :|

 

OP ur laptop is really like 10% of Android's ones so stop it... ur just trolling by opening this thread and whinning..

 

@ Resistance_Kid:

You might want to clean up your post before mods take a peek. That kind of attitude and hiding swear words like that is enough to get you banned. Consider this a friendly reminder from a long time NBR member.

 

<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/E2g3YSDpPy4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/E2g3YSDpPy4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width='480' height="385"></embed></object>

 

LOL 10 Chars

 

I get angry when people go off topic
But thanks

 

My friend also asked me to post his specs and ask for a rating:
NVIDIA® GeForce® 360M 1GB
6GB DDR3
Intel® Core™ i7-720QM Processor 1.6GHZ Turbo Boost 2.8
18.4 Inch Screen.

 

I'm rating both laptop with a 1 and an E for effort for making this thread!

 

The original system is similar to my Vostro 1500 with 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo and 8600m GT. It ran Bioshock very well, and heck, I even played Crysis the first time through on it. I had to finish the game on my desktop though because the end level was so crazy it would become a slide show.

edit: I agree with Kevin_Jack2.0 below. Rating = 4. It's a three year old technology, it just won't be able to keep up with newer games. If you're ok with older games it's not a problem. Will probably manage Source games decently.

 

Gaming-wise, I'll give you a 4.

Using the full scale, 4 = below average

 

If you aren't interested in comparing your laptop to other laptops, then why did you start a thread asking for a "rating" that implies a comparison for how well your laptop performs to other laptops out there?

As other people said, your laptop is about a 7/10. If you're happy with that, then fine... end of thread ( which it won't be - I bet you will troll in a reply). If you're not happy with that... well, sometimes the truth hurts, kid.

 

Just something I though I should say. So far I have maxed everything I have played(with trubo-boost that is), which includes Crysis, Bad Company 2, COD MW2 and the Mass Effect 2 demo.
Could you rate my friends laptop please?

 

Oh, your "friend"... I see. You can tell your "friend" that I think the laptop (which, BTW, you just looked up a Toshiba Qosmio X505 and copied/pasted the specs) isn't practical. 6 out of 10.

It's too heavy (10lbs w/o power adapter, 12lbs w/power), and has average battery life (2.5 hours non-gaming). It has a nice graphics card, but gets its butt kicked with the high-resolution display (1920x1080).

It also doesn't have an SSD, which would go a long way in the usability of this machine. Unless, of course, you will now tell me that your "friend" did put an SSD in here, and spent $1700 on a machine that is so large that it will never get moved. You can tell your "friend" that the $1400-$1700 would have been better spent on a decent mid-to-high-end desktop gaming computer.

 

Turbo boost on a Core 2 Duo... As HTWingNut correctly called out, whatever credibility you had left died right there.

 

do you want me to do, take a picture and send it to you? Jesus Christ.

 

As a matter of fact, my friend refused to tell me the name of his laptop, and just posted the specs and told me to post them here and ask for the rating.
I don't waste my time with people like you who play sarcastic with someone asking a question.

 

"Intel Turbo Boost is a technology implemented by Intel in certain versions of their Nehalem-based CPUs, including Core i5 and Core i7"

Maybe you have an MSI which can overclock the CPU but it aint turbo boost you are just confusing things ..... anyone with lack of knowledge of such things may fall in the same mistake I think

 

Yeah sorry dude. There is no single GPU laptop that can match his W90. Even my G73jh with the latest of hardware offerings for laptops is no match for his W90 in DX10/DX9 gaming. That W90 is a beast only beaten by Alienware's CF HD5870M. His processor absolutely swamps yours, and would say it's better than mine. But his probably uses way more power and more heat than my i7 720QM. But for overal beast power, his CPU is amazing.

 

Well it's either Turbo Drive or Turbo Boost:
MSI Global ? Computer, Laptop, Notebook, Desktop, Mainboard, Graphics and more
All i know is that it O'ced my laptop to 2.7GHZ.

 

Thanks for explaining

 

Yar you don't have Turbo Boost. Turbo Boost is a new implementation which AMD btw has a variation of also. What it does it automatically scales your CPU depending on use. If you are using application better with 1 core, then it will use 1 core @ 2.8 ghz. If its for 8 threads, then 4 cores @ 1.6 ghz. It's dynamic for both speed and number of cores used.

Rating out of 10?

10 = Alienware i7 + CF HD5870M
9 = Alienware CF 4870M / Asus W90
8 = Any i7 + HD5870M capable of overclock (800/1100-1200) / i7 GTX 480M

So going by that, I'd say 4-5 is good guess, I'd go with that.

Your friends unit?

I'd give it a 2 for the reasons Kent said. Overpriced, practicality of it and just bad design/choices by Toshiba. There are other better options for less like the MSI GX740.

 

. I can't find the article right now, but I know at some point Intel was considering releasing some software that would allow core 2 duo/quad processors to bin up their multipliers by 1-2 points when 1 or 2 cores were in use.

 

That was my point all along ... & as a piece of advice if you are happy with ur laptop & it is doing what you need from it .... there is no point of rating it cuz people got diff approaches even for gaming for example some people just love the full HD resolution while gaming while others do well with the lower resolutions and each require a certain level of hardware

 

What about my friends laptop?
He gave me the model and page for it:
Qosmio X505-Q880 Laptop
He also said that the processor has 4 cores and a clock speed of 1.6GHZ overclock able to 2.8 and with a 64GB SSD.

 

/10char___

 

I'm gonna ignore you and your sarcasm, as you should be able to see, I wasn't talking to you.
Edit: And by the way, unless you have trouble reading, you should see that the website clearly states that the computer has a 64GB SSD, and my friend did not just put it in.

 

Notebookcheck: Review Toshiba Qosmio X500-121 Notebook

check that out and im sure you wont find anything more comprehensive on that laptop .... but don't take everything they say for granted though

as for my opinion I had an experience with a Qosmio X305 before & I didn't really like it ... the weight, noise and heat were annoying ... but it had quite a superb speakers if memory serves me well ... also I need to mention that the motherboard on that thing failed after 1.5 years of usage due to heat

but still thats a diff. model, quite an older one

 

what's up with everyone's hostility against this dude, and why do u have to "quote" when he says friend? is that something hard to believe and ur bashing him about it?

laptop tech. changes quite often, it wasn't a long time ago when i bought my laptop and it was one of the best for performance in the 15" category. now this laptop is like 6ish/10 but i dont care cuz i can still run a lot of games @ 1080p near maxed, maybe i just turn down the AA and it runs fine. ur laptop also does well considering you probably dont have a higher resolution (i'm guessing u have something like WXGA+) so the 4670 can run things pretty smooth and a C2D 2.7GHz is pretty decent, not all games are quad core reliant...just be happy with what you got, dont need to care about what other people have or you'll always be mad cuz somewhere, there is always something better than you..

and to rate ur friend's laptop, i wouldn't go as far as to rate it a 2/10...yes that laptop isn't the best out and im not a fan of it but PERFORMANCE wise it should be pretty dam solid, the components in it aren't pushover crappy stuff that you'd find in your standard Best Buy/Walmart laptops. SSD, i7-720, GDDR5 1gb 360m..sounds pretty good to me lol

edit: sad to see that the GDDR5 GTS 360M is a downgrade to the GTX 260M, they could've at least made it as powerful for a previous gen. card. but my point still stands, that laptop is decent, i'd say a 5/10 at least.

 

Your laptop is quite okay for gaming 7/10, pretty much like mine i guess. I run many great games on high settings/1920x1080. For example Batman Arkham Asylum, Fallout 3, Prototype and FUEL.

Those are all the new graphic demanding games i tried so far.

Would be fun if u could take a 3dmark vantage test at 1280x1024 (standard res)

 

Thanks for your reply
At last finally someone who respects my question and answers without sarcasm.

 

i like your hair, satyrion.

and to the OP: it really depends on what you want out of your notebook. i would rate it a 5/10 for gaming, and perhaps a 7/10 for overall usage.

core 2 duos are still excellent for all purpose usage. however, you shouldn't troll people who think your notebook sucks.

 

Ya to the op around a 6-5 is my rating , your GPU and CPU are old news, med to low settings I cant see you running, I can see you running many things on full.

Whats the reason for asking for a rating??? You justifying a purchase?? Or just seeing were yours fits into the cluster?

 

I am an professional trained Ninja

 

Technically he's trolling me when they are pushing it in my face, especially when he says more than I ask of him, and continues to say:
You're laptop is horrible
My laptop is awesome

 

The second one
And you're right, I max most of the things I play(apart from Metro 2033 of course).

 

yeah but, the person merely said in comparison to high end laptops, your laptop ranks low. then you got a bit offended, and had a small fit. and then now you're here to just blow off people and tell them their opinions are useless, unless they rate your laptop semi in your favor.

*NOTE*

you did edit this rant...

if your laptop lives to your expectations, why are you having people rate it? you know there are many here who spend thousands of dollars on a high performance notebook? when you rate something, you have to compare it to something else; that's why we rate things. if you didn't want to hear that your notebook doesn't compare well to a high end gaming notebook, then don't make threads like this in the gaming section.

if you want to know where your notebook ranks among others, run benchmarks. Futuremark ranks your scores with similar and average users out there - you can better gauge how well your notebook is compared to today's computers, though, desktops will skew the results a bit.

 

I guess you are right :|
I admit that I over reacted a lot, but I have my reasons for asking about a rating for this laptop.

 

I'm just calling out what I smell as BS.

There are many things about his previous posts regarding his own laptop, and even his reactions to other peoples' posts, that don't add up. I won't go into them, unless someone wants me to.

 

I Do!!!! lol I have been very entertained by this thread, bring it on Kent.

 

So you think that I'm lying? Do you want me to send you the whole steam conversation I had? Or do you want to ask god if I am telling the truth? What are you not satisfied with? My friend asked me to do him a favor and ask you people for a score on his laptop? Is that really so hard? Do you really have to go and say that I am lying?

And yes, I would like you to go into things that don't add up, I'll answer you'r suspicions.

 

I'd rate your laptop 4 and your friend's a 5 on a scale of 10, based purely on performance of a gaming laptop.

With a 4670, depending on your laptop's resolution, might not be able to handle more recent games on high, but would play perfectly well on medium for the most part, I guess. Your CPU's a P8400, quite sub-par actually, however, unless it's an RTS, I don't think you'll be CPU-bound.

Your friend has a much better GPU in his laptop. A GDDR 5 GTS 360m is more or less on par with a 9800m GT. However, judging by its price, I can hardly say it's a bang for buck deal. 1920*1200 might be too high a resolution for the card to go all high on every game, even 1680*1050 is pushing it.