nvidia 1GB 9600GT with hyperthreading of 2 GB

just wondering if the nvidia 9600mGT 1 gig is any good for gaming? Sorry posted header wrong

 

Don't know where you're getting your info but what you just stated makes no sense. The 9600M GT is a midrange card, and since most 1GB versions are DDR2, I'd say it's decent. Really, anything above 512MB for this card (I dare even say 256MB) won't do anything for gaming. The 2GB you are referring to could be from accessing system memory, which is totally useless and even worse performing than the GPU memory. If you mean you only have system memory of 2GB, then you should probably upgrade to 3-4GB depending on your current configuration (ie. do you have 1x2GB stick or 2x1GB sticks).

 

system has 4 gig its a one gig card so is the 9600mgt 1 gig good for gaming ? lol looking at 10 laptops got all listed on one page got mixed up

 

Is this talking about the 9600M GT, or the 9600GT?

 

the M as this is a laptop site my bad forgot to put M in

 

Are there any newer laptops that you could have a look at? Do you have a budget and are looking at laptops for purchase?

There are plenty of GPUs which are in laptops which wouldn't be considered too expensive that are at least slightly better performing than this card.

It's not a bad card, but I would consider it slightly lower than midrange.

 

I have a 9600m GT gpu, but it's a GDDR3 card with 512Mb Vram.

The thing is that most mid-range gpu-s coming with 1GB of Vram are actually DDR2 types.
It means that your gpu would perform about 25% below my own because of the lower memory bandwidth.

Indeed, most mid-range mobile gpu's today coming with 512Mb of Vram are justifiable ... high end gpu's on the other hand can get away with 1GB.

The fact that the 9600m GT comes with 1 GB is nothing more than a marketing ploy to confuse customers into thinking that more Vram equals a more powerful card.

As I said, that gpu will perform by about 25% less in contrast to my own.
Not great (certainly not by todays standards), BUT it's usable.

 

so is it better than a nVidia 8800m GTS ?
im out of work right now but i have a killer xbox360 set-up that im trading for a laptop and i have a ton of offers i just want the best deal so i know my Cpu's just the the laptop video cards

 

8800m gts is quite a bit better than the 9600M GT.

A good site for specs and some benchmarks is:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-8800M-GTS.6934.0.html
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-9600M-GT.9449.0.html

 

But the 9600m uses 1/2 the wattage, and the 8xxx series GPU's have a high failure rate.

 

Oh.. I thought only 8400/8600 were affected.

 

correction the 8400m and the 8600m had the high failure rate do to the solider balls failing... they didn't mess up the 8700 and 8800m

 

well the 2 best sytem are
system one:
Cpu: T5450 @ ~1.7 Ghz Core2Duo
Video card: nVidia 8800m GTS 512DDR3 ram
3Gb RAM
250 gig hard drive
win7 ultimate

system 2:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T6500 / 2.1 GHz
video card: nvidia 1GB 9600GT
4 gig ram
Hard Drive 320 GB
win7 ultimate


just dont know what to get as the one with better gaming card has smaller cpu? will the smaller cpu bottleneck the graphics card on the 8800?

 

What are the rest of the laptops? (models if you can)

 

system one is a Gateway P6831-FX laptop
system two is a Acer Aspire 8730G laptop
these are the best 2 rest are junk

 

The problem here is that a 1.7 Ghz C2D is not enough for most new games and will bottleneck that 8800.

 

If I had to pick from those I would get the Gateway and upgrade the weak CPU . The stock CPU will hold back the 8800m gts in games http://forum.notebookreview.com/gateway-emachines/504306-t5550-vs-x9000-game-benchmarks.html.

What is your budget? You might be able to get something new.

 

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