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    What card these days..

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by chunkfro, Aug 2, 2008.

  1. chunkfro

    chunkfro Newbie

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    I bought my laptop about four years ago and it has a Radeon 9700 mobility (MR 9700) 128mb graphics card, Pentium-M 2.0GHz processor with 1 GB RAM.

    When I bought it then there were like 2 main options, either the Radeon 128mb or Geforce 128mb option, at least as far as I can remember. These days it seems like there are a million different video cards, and I have no idea how the card I have compares to integrated graphics cards out today, or any dedicated graphics cards that are now available -- and I'm not sure how to go about comparing them since this card is four years old.

    I'm hoping someone can enlighten me as to how much I would have to pay for a laptop that would have a significant performance increase over this one -- I do play games such CS:S, Lineage II and WoW. This computer runs most of them pretty well, but on medium settings at best.

    I guess I'm wondering how today's medium priced gaming cards today compare to this card, which was pretty much the best then.

    Any info would be appreciated!

    Thanks
     
    chunkfro, Aug 2, 2008
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  2. Nirvana

    Nirvana Notebook Prophet

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    what's your budget? I would like to recommend you one of the best gaming laptop - gateway p-6860fx, for $1099 at bestbuy. the card it has is almost 30 times faster than your MR 9700, no I am serious.
     
    Nirvana, Aug 2, 2008
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    plasma. herpyderpy

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    plasma., Aug 2, 2008
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  4. dtwn

    dtwn C'thulhu fhtagn

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    Is it still available at that dress?


    Edit: Price.

    I'll just leave the original reply there for posterity. :D :D :D
     
    dtwn, Aug 2, 2008
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    xxERIKxx Notebook Deity

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    is it still on sale at best buy stores? none of my local stores have it.
     
    xxERIKxx, Aug 2, 2008
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    chunkfro Newbie

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    I haven't decided my budget yet, I was mostly wondering how good the integrated graphics cards are these days, everyone still talks about how bad they are, but I figured they had to have improved over the last four years, haha.

    If I could spend no more than $800 new or used on a laptop that would show significant improvement over what I have now, let me know of some specs I should be looking for... if that's not possible I might have to wait a while :p
     
    chunkfro, Aug 3, 2008
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