nVidia® GeForce? Go 8400M G

I'm thinking of buying a laptop and I'd want to use it for a bit of gaming and I'm thinking especially of The Sims 2 ep Bon Voyage. The laptop I'm thinking of buying has a 2,2 GHz AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Mobile TL-64 processor, 2 GB internal memory and Vista so that should work. I'm not sure about the graphics card though. It's a nVidia® GeForce™ Go 8400M G with 128MB DDR2 dedicated graphic memory. Would that run The sims 2 Bon Voyage fairly well?

 

Sure 8400m can run call of duty 4 in a decent way...on new pc's sims 2 is very light and will run very good...also the 8400 it's the best medium video card but don't expect to play some intensive games at high resolution with full effects...

 

Ok, sounds good. Thanks a lot!

 

8400MG is very poor. Not very good for Call of Duty 4 at all apart from low settings. Sims 2 would run fine.

I don't think metaldeath knows what he's talking about, the 8400M-G is nowhere near 'best medium card' and as for this:

don't expect to play some new games at even lowest settings or res more like.

The 8400M-G is a low end part and cannot run some newer games, like Airborne or Bioshock, at all without experiencing choppiness at lowest res/settings.

 

No, 8400M G's not a very good card. 8400M GS is a lot better than its G counterpart - plus you won't be able to play new games at decent settings with both of these cards. Maybe at low resolution and settings you'll manage 20 FPS in 06/07 games.

 

I agree and think that your better of getting a laptop with the 8400 GS rather than just the 8400 G. Get the Dell Vostro 1400/1500 as it can have a 8400 GS.

 

Ok havok i was wrong...it's the best mid-low card...but the point is "is good for sims 2?"and answer is yes cause a friend of mine has that video card and plays sims 2 at full detail and call of duty at 800x600 mid-low details
Is a card for casual gamers not for geek like you sure...
Correcting my statement :best medium dx10 video card is x2500...

 

always nice to see people who correct their own mistakes with insults towards others.

 

Yes, it might be the best entry level card currently available, depending on how you classify the HD2400. Also, please don't insult those who are just trying to provide factual information.

And for the record, the X2500 is not even DX10, it's a rebranded x1700. The best mid-level DX10 chip would probably be the HD2400XT.

 

What about if you over clock the 8400M GS? Would it have any problems running most games on medium-low detail? I am not a hard core gamer by any means. I will be primarily using my laptop (Vostro 1400) for college.

 

The 8400GS is much better then the 8400G, but still fairly weak. It depends entirely on what you want to play though - it'd stall somewhat on the latest games, such as Bioshock and Airborne, but would be still playable at lowish settings and low resolution and would sail through most older games in the line of Half Life 2, Far Cry, etc. I have the 8600Gt but occasionally wish I'd gone for the 8400GS and the 14.1 1400 for college as well....I only really play older games mostly, like Dawn of War particularly, which runs max on an 8400GS no problems...

 

Well i am pretty happy with the 8400M GS. Quite surprised with the shader performance with this chip in a small 1.8 kg 13.3 inch laptop and seems to overclock quite well too. Running at 8400M GT (450/900/700) speeds without any problems. Unfortuantly the raw pixel/fill rate seems to be only a little better than the Nvidia 7400 Go and with some of the new games i sometimes wonder if i should have gone with a bigger laptop with a 8600M GT. The 8400M G with only half of the shaders of the 8400M GS would probably fall over on most new games.