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    This good for gaming

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by quadfatherr, Jul 23, 2006.

  1. quadfatherr

    quadfatherr Newbie

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    Before I order my laptop, I want to make sure this hardware is good enough for gaming:

    Intel® Core™ Duo Proc T2500 (2GHz/667MHz/2 X 1MB L2 Cache)
    256MB NVIDIA® GeForce™Go 7300 TurboCache

    If you can help me, I will appreciate it!
     
    quadfatherr, Jul 23, 2006
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  2. yuio

    yuio NBR Assistive Tec. Tec.

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    the only thing that is not all most state of the art is the gpu but is tell a faily good laptop
     
    yuio, Jul 23, 2006
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  3. coriolis

    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Depends what games. The 7300 is quite a low end card
     
    coriolis, Jul 23, 2006
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  4. gethin

    gethin Notebook Evangelist

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    If its anything newer than say doom 3, then ur GPU wont be very good.
     
    gethin, Jul 23, 2006
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  5. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    Charles P. Jefferies, Jul 23, 2006
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    maomanmaman Notebook Consultant

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    Aw. You should have picked the X1400. The 7300 runs worse than a X1300.
    Atleast it'll help you on the games based on the quake engine.
     
    maomanmaman, Jul 23, 2006
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    _radditz_ Fallen to the Sith...

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    Why is it better for the quake engine?
     
    _radditz_, Jul 23, 2006
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  8. gethin

    gethin Notebook Evangelist

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    the Nvidia cards are optimised to run the Doom 3 engine, and quake utilises the doom 3 engine. so the 7300 should be able to play quake 4
     
    gethin, Jul 23, 2006
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    lowlymarine Notebook Deity

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    More correctly, nVidia cards are optimized for OpenGL, which the Doom 3 engine is coincidentally based on, while ATi cards are slightly better with Direct3D. The 7300 Turbocache is also better than the x1300 Hypermemeory in almost all cases, due to the superiority of Turbocahce compared to Hypermemory and the similarity of the cores - but the x1400 is better than the 7300 for all purposes but heavily OpenGL work.
     
    lowlymarine, Jul 23, 2006
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