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    Is the following notebook good enough for playing games?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by waterkris, Jul 15, 2006.

  1. waterkris

    waterkris Newbie

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    Is the following notebook good enough for playing most of the new games at least at medium details?

    • CPU
    Intel Celeron M 380 1.6GHz, 400MHz, 1MB L2
    • Memory
    DDR2 533 2x512MB
    • VGA
    Nvidia Go7400, 128MB VRAM
    • HDD
    60GB IDE 5400rpm
     
    waterkris, Jul 15, 2006
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  2. Tiger-Heli

    Tiger-Heli Notebook Evangelist

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    Graphics card is mid-range.

    Generally, the Celeron is not a gaming computer. From another thread, the current processor landscape looks like this:

    Basically it goes like this:
    Celeron - sluggish, okay if all you want to do is web-surf and E-mail.
    Sempron - AMD competitor to Celeron - slightly better.
    Pentium M or Turion 64 - Single core processors - Turion is 64-bit which is useful for Vista if you wanted to upgrade to it - decent performance, but not the fastest.
    Core Duo or Turion 64 X-2 - Core Duo is dual core 32-bit. Turion 64 X-2 is new dual core 64-bit. Turion X-2 has only been out for about a month. Early reviews tend to favor the Core Duo.
    Merom - Not released yet - 64-bit sucessor to Core Duo. Expected to be a pin-compatible upgrade to Core Duo, but unconfirmed.

    I would recommend at least a Turion if you plan on doing any kind of gaming.
     
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  3. m394byt3

    m394byt3 Notebook Evangelist

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    I agree, I will stay away from Celeron. I have AMD Turion processor and Geforce 7300 256MB Turbocache, more than satisfied.

    What laptop are you looking at to buy? I can suggest Asus, I have one (specs in signature) and when I only had 1GB DDR2 RAM, I play games like FEAR and NFS Most Wanted on Med-High quality. Really budget laptop meaning good price for good specs. Click here to check out some just to give you an idea. Asus also have 2 year warranty on all laptops.

    The price of my laptop is currently selling for £702.47 Inc. VAT
     
    m394byt3, Jul 15, 2006
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