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    Can my laptop adequately power an external LCD for gaming?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by schnieds, Jun 13, 2008.

  1. schnieds

    schnieds Notebook Guru

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    Hey,

    I have a Thinkpad T61p which I absolutely love. I want to get a workstation setup for it at home however as I write a lot of code and I would like to have a full size monitor & keyboard when I am at my desk.

    I am looking at purchasing a 22" LCD to plug my laptop into at my desk. However, I also game on my laptop occasionally and I want to make sure that my lappy can power a monitor that big and still deliver decent frame rates.

    I have a core 2 duo 2.2 GHz with 3GB of memory, so the specs are fine. My lappy has a NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M for the GPU, which runs games just fine (Lord of the Rings Online.) But can it handle powering an external monitor?

    Thanks for the advice.

    -schnieds
     
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    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    Size has absolutely no relevance to the performance of a graphics card. Only resolution of the screen matters.
     
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    Yes you will do fine. Does the T61p have DVI out? My T61 doesn't but I got the Advanced Dock, which has DVI. I will never go back to analog video.

    Greg.
     
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    schnieds, Jun 13, 2008
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