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    Celeron processor questions

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Isend2C, Nov 23, 2008.

  1. Isend2C

    Isend2C Notebook Deity

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    I'm trying to find a laptop for my firend, the most demanding game it will play is Age of Empires 3 from 2006. I was wondering if the Dell Vosotro A860 would suffice for him. It has a 2.13 GHz Celeron, GMA X3100+ and I'd upgrade it to 3GB 800 MHz RAM.

    My main thing is if a celeron will be able to play these games... Most of use here are using Core 2 Duos, so the celeron is mighty weak compared to those. I know that technically the X3100 can play AOE3, but I'm wondering just how bad it would be (he used to playing it on lowest settings) His last ocmputer has the Nvidia 7000M, so anything more would be great. He doesn't really have a price limit, just doesn't want to spend what he doesn't need to. Should I fill out a FAQ thing for the criteria?

    Thanks
     
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  2. Andy

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    During explosions (canons and stuff, people/bricks flying around) and sometimes near the water, you'll notice massive fps drops. I did, with an OCed Celeron to 2.4GHz (FSB: 800MHz).

    It basically loses in Physics realism and calculations. Better to go for a Pentium Dual-Core, and a low-end GPU if possible.

    At least you'll have EIST with a PDC.
     
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    The 800mhz ram will be worthless. It will only run at 667. And if you are running integrated graphics it uses the processor a lot more for graphics intensive tasks.
     
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  4. Isend2C

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    Dell gives it 800 MHz RAM standard, so it should work... What Andy listed there is always in AOE3, there will always be water or people and such... lol... OKay I'll advise against a Celeron.

    Thanks Folks :)
     
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    The game runs smooth (on land) otherwise, with people walking about and stuff, but during shipping, and shooting people with canons, it gets buggy and annoying, the reason why I went back to AOE II.

    (Mine's GMA 950, but there isn't a huge diff between 950 and X3100 performance anyway :p)
     
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    YOU could play AOE3 with GMA 950!?!?!? I loaded it on 3 of my firends computers to play LAN with them and it wouldn't even load on two of them, the first one it was... unplayable, but not because of FPS, it was shooting lines all over the place...

    AOE2 is a good game though :) Rise of Nations is great too, my netbook plays it like a BEAST!
     
    Isend2C, Nov 23, 2008
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