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    What on earth is an ATI *RADIO* 2600 HD??? Should I buy it??

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Sherman90, Oct 27, 2007.

  1. Sherman90

    Sherman90 Notebook Consultant

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    I'm looking to replace my cranky ol' business Dell with a laptop more suited to gaming...

    My budget's restricted, but I did manage to find this Toshiba for about $1100 new. I know the ATI 2600 HD is considered a reasonable GPU, but this one apparently comes with an ATI "Radio" HD 2600...I'm wondering what the heck that is...is it as good/worse than the ATI HD 2600?

    I'm also consider [URL="http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10093867&catid=']this [/URL]HP, which is loaded with an 8600M GS. Again, another fair GPU, certainly better than none at all.

    Could anybody please advise on the 'radio" issue, and, if possible, recommend one or the other laptop??? Thanks guys :)
     
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    Im pretty sure they are the same thing

    its meant to be ATI Radeon but they must have messed it up

    Radeon is just another name ATI goes buy
     
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    A typo for Radion probably. Im sure its a 2600HD.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Oct 27, 2007
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    Sherman90 Notebook Consultant

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    After some more research, I think you guys are right.

    Are there any performance differences between the ATI Mobility series and the regular ATI GPUs? Because I think that Toshiba laptop obviously has the Mobility Radeon 2600HD in it...
     
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    Mobility means for laptops (for ATI)

    All ATI cards in laptops are ATI Mobility....something. So say ATI 9600 is the desktop, if its in laptops it will be ATI Mobility 9600.

    Nvidia has the same thing, before laptop graphic cards were denoted by a Go , like go 7900, but now they have changed it to M, so 8600M GT
     
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    It most definitely has a mobility version if it was the desktop version it would literately be a box for the bottom half of the notebook, it would look like a desktop case with a screen attached to it.
     
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    lol or like that Dell XPS M2010....how on earth is thing classified as a laptop ??
     
    blackbird, Oct 27, 2007
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    Definately just a typo, yeah.

    From what I herd of the HD2600, it seems to be faster than the 8600GS, in mobile cases atleast. Abiet, it still suffers from AA, but eh, meh.

    I seem to recall a good HD2600m DDR3, placing around the same as a 8600gt 256mb DDR2... was it? One of the odd extreamly lower end of the 8600gt... Which would put it a nice middle-man between the 8600gt and gs, abiet its the compeditors product.

    Have you considered say, this? http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np2090-custom-laptop-built-compal-ifl90-p-1876.html
    or http://www.xoticpc.com/force-3297-built-compal-ifl90-p-1983.html
    Same system, just slightly price-different config. And quite resonably priced, with a 8600gt in it, and good warentee. And right in your price/spec range.
     
    RogueThunder, Oct 27, 2007
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