my friends HP laptop with 512mb geforce go 7600

hey, i just wanna know how good this computer might be able to play extremely high demanding games, like crysis and bioshock. after updating his drivers of course, do you think he would be able to play those games good? or what bout other games like COD4 and UT3? cuz he brags about it so much that it can play nething no problem, and i know that my asus g1s-a1 can TOP his. here are his specs

(btw, this was a custom built one off of HP.com for around 3k)
HP dv9000 series
intel core 2 duo 2.0ghz
2gb ram
512mb nvidia geforce go 7600 (i believe with dd2 memory)
17'' widescreen with up to 1440x900 resolution
around 200gb HDD

i think thats the important specs, what do ya think he can run with that?

 

I'd say medium-high at 1280x800 res.

 

Crysis struggles at those settings on an 8600 GT. No way it will run that well on a 7600. 1024x768 at medium details, tops. Bioshock might be OK at 1280, though.

 

3k for that config? couldn't he just grab an ASUS G2S cheaper and faster?

 

The dv900 with geforce 7600 is pre santa rosa, so the g2s didn't exist, only the g2 with the x1700.

With a core duo 1.83 and a 256 geforce 7600(oc 539/420 core/mem), Crysis demo runs with these settings:
Shadows,volumetric effects,games effects, particles on low, the others on medium, using 1024x640 res.
The fps go as low as 15 when there is a lot of vegetation on screen. but usually stays at 20-24, which feels ok on crysis, more than 18 feels ok to me in this game(in need for speed most wanted and sega rally I need more than 30 to feel ok).
CoD 4 I also run at 1024x640 shadows and glow off,body count at small, the other settings in on or normal, with all three textures on extra. I got good framerates(20 at very rare situations and between 30-40 most of time, going up to 80 in some places).
Bioshock run at 800x600 in the medium settings with post processing off(played before overclock and the new patch, the demo ran better than this).

 

Vshade, my older nx9420 is specced exactly like yours, except the CPU ( t2300,1.5 gb ram, ati x1600=gef 7600) and bioshock ran somewhat better than in your case. Which is surprising. Crysis,all low and 1024 gives me about 20+ fps.

On my 5791,after updating to 169.25 , I get 35+ all med, 1024 an average