What can Old Radeon X1300 Can Do?

Hi all, this is my first post..
I just purchased old (in IT world, last year tech is "old") used HP Compaq nc6400 with Core Duo T2400 1,83Ghz/1GB DDR2/Radeon X1300 HyperMem/80GB HD/And 2 years 3 month warranty left (This is the main reason i bought it)..

It seems that Radeon Mobility X1300 still not obsolete graphic card but i want to try it on modern games, anyone here have the same Radeon X1300 and play FPS games? Which one still good enough on minimum 800x600 res?? I`m too lazy to search all the post here, if there is already post about X1300 please leave a link. Thanks.

Btw, i have installed NHC personal..( www.pbus-167.com) when im playing games the cpu temp as high as 65 degree C, is it normal?

 

Well, I have a friend that ran BF2 at the lowest settings. He seems to be enjoying it too. BTW, that's not too old. I personally consider anything before pentium m as being old, anything after it is gold

 

A 65*C load temperature is fine for the CPU, very normal.

I agree, that computer is not that old, it is still up to par with today's notebooks. You can play games like WoW, Counter-Strike: Source just fine with an X1300.

 

thanks for the reply guys... i appreciate it...
My X1300 seems not too old but the performance above that X3100..
I just wondering if compared with old AGP Mobility like Radeon 9700 Mobile, what is the benchmark score was? Is there any charts for mobile GPU somewhere??

 

I'm using Vista and the only game I can't make playable on my laptop with an x1300 (128mb dedicated oc'd 430:425) is Ghost recon advanced warfighter because it is a terribly optimised game with very limited tweaking options.

Obviously no comparison to my desktop 8800 but every new game is playable on low setting, with some on medium.

3Dmark05 ca. 1660 (the 64mb version much lower)

I run Crysis at 800x600 with everthing on low except textures on medium and get 18-35 fps.

Bioshock about the same with everything except high detail shaders turned off (massive visual difference with the shaders).

COD4 runs really smoothly at 800x600 with a mixture mainly low and some medium settings.

Half life 2 ep.2 - 1024x768 almost everything on high.

Kane and Lynch - textures on high, everything else on low, 800x600 20-38 fps

So as you can see the little old x1300 can actually play modern games with acceptable frame rates although with mainly low settings. You're going to miss most of the special effects but they still look good at these settings. I wasn't going to bother trying Crysis with it, but thought why not and was vey pleasantly surprised.

I'm a little tired of people saying this chip and that chip can't run modern games, have these people never heard of lower resolutions and low settings, most modern games are very scalable.

 

My old mobility radeon 9700 got around 1200 in 3dmark05 and 3000 or a bit more in 3dmark03. For modern games it's around Geforce Go 7200-7300 level, for older games more like 7300 or slightly better. Still way better than an X3100 and decently better than an X1300.