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    which setup will give me most performance

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by alfredo2001, Feb 1, 2007.

  1. alfredo2001

    alfredo2001 Notebook Enthusiast

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    which setup will give me most performance

    setup 1: amd turion MT-37, 2gig ram 333mhz + ATI Radeon Xpress 200
    setup 2: core duo L2400 1.5Ghz 1GB ram + Intel GMA 950

    doing...


    1. age of empires 3 (no lag)
    2. photoshop CS2
    3. maximum battery life (browsing, word, mp3s)
     
    alfredo2001, Feb 1, 2007
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  2. Jalf

    Jalf Comrade Santa

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    For 1 and 2, I'd go with the AMD setup. More RAM and a less crappy GPU can only help. (Note that lag means latency, and has nothing to do with the framerate in your games, or how fast your computer is.)
    For 3, hard to say, but I'd expect the Core Duo to win.
     
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    alynch75 Notebook Evangelist

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    Need more info ... Which laptops are you thinking of getting and what are the price ranges
     
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    moon angel Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    I'd agree, the x200m is a winner over the GMA950 by some way. That and the 2Gb ram will give the AMD setup a marked advantage in most uses.
     
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  5. Gator

    Gator Go Gators!

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    I know of this "lag" in AOE3 you are talking about alfredo2001, the bottleneck there is actually the CPU as it has to compute and calculate routes for each individual unit and corresponding unit actions. I believe there should be an option to reduce the route calculation overhead for units in the game---you'll just get dumber units that get lost easier. The game is single threaded so it will only run on one core, so you should look through some online benchmarks for the Turions vs. Core Duo on CPU intensive tasks.
     
    Gator, Feb 1, 2007
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