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    Which configuration is better?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by levhy, Jun 10, 2005.

  1. levhy

    levhy Notebook Enthusiast

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    Which configuration is better in order to play to the videogames as Half life 2,Rome tolal war,Lord of Ring:Battle for Middle Earth,....?

    Notebook 1: Pentium 4 3.4 Ghz,Ati Mobility Radeon X600 256MB, RAM 512MB

    Notebook 2: Sempron 3000+(socket 754),Ati Mobility Radeon X700 128MB,
    RAM 512MB

    Help me pls!
     
    levhy, Jun 10, 2005
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  2. robcope

    robcope Notebook Evangelist

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    That I did not know. I'm not that savy on the Sempron, but my understanding is it's close to what the Celeron is to the P4, but much better than the Celeron.

    Cope

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    Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
    John 15:13
    HP ZV6005us
    -AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz
    -2048MB 2700RAM
    -128MB ATI Mobility radeon X200m
    -80GB 4200RPM HDD
    -15.4" Widescreen w/ Brightview
    -DVD±RW W/DL support
    -XP Home
    -8-Cell Battery
     
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  3. robcope

    robcope Notebook Evangelist

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    As much as I prefer the AMD 64 processors, you'll play games better on the pentium because of the video card and the pentium 4 is better then the Sempron.

    Cope

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    Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
    John 15:13
    HP ZV6005us
    -AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz
    -2048MB 2700RAM
    -128MB ATI Mobility radeon X200m
    -80GB 4200RPM HDD
    -15.4" Widescreen w/ Brightview
    -DVD±RW W/DL support
    -XP Home
    -8-Cell Battery
     
    robcope, Jun 10, 2005
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  4. levhy

    levhy Notebook Enthusiast

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    But X700 128MB is better than X600 256MB!
     
    levhy, Jun 10, 2005
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    brianstretch Notebook Virtuoso

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    The Socket 754 Semprons are Athlon 64's with much less L2 cache and the 64-bit section removed. They're reasonably competitive with P4's and they annihilate the Celerons. While the Sempron 3000+ isn't going to keep up wtih a 3.4GHz P4, it's going to run a helluva lot cooler and as has been mentioned the X700 is a substantial improvement over the X600.

    Plus, if you're a lunatic like me, you could crack the thing open and swap in a proper Athlon 64 or Turion CPU at a later date [ :D].

    What notebook is this you're describing anyhow? I suspect it's one of the new Acer machines that aren't available here in America (sigh). AFAIK they only sell the lame shared memory GPU versions here (except for the Ferarri series, that we can get).
     
    brianstretch, Jun 10, 2005
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  6. AzN

    AzN Notebook Consultant

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    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by levhy
     
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    AzN, Jun 11, 2005
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  7. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I would say get Notebook #2(is it the acer Aspire 3000 series[ :p]). If the Sempron used is the 25W version. Its going to consume helluva lot less power then the Pentium 4(80W+)and the heat dissipated by the Sempron will be a lot less. The P4 is better performance wise but the gap is not too wide. But, then again the newer video games are more dependant on the performance on the graphics card than the processor. As Brian said if you are upto the challenge then replacing the Sempron with the A64 is not a big problem or you can check out the Athlon64 version with the X700 sold in Europe(Aspire 5000 series)

    [B)]They never bring those combinations across the pond & we all know the reason(Thanks Intel[ :(!] )

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    Compaq Presario R3340US AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 512MB, 80GB 5400rpm
    15.4" Brightview WXGA.
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  8. levhy

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    It's the Acer Aspire 3020 series :Sempron 3000+(socket 754,Fsb 800Mhz,25W version)and Ati mobility X700 128MB!I think that don't crack the thing open and swap in a Athlon 64 or Turion CPU(i'm not able to make it[ :p]) because i'm interested only to the videogames and i think that a more powerful processor don't improve the Ati X700 performance's!
    Do you not think so?
     
    levhy, Jun 11, 2005
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  9. brianstretch

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    The Sempron will do until there is better WinXP x64 support and more 64-bit games. Far Cry's 64-bit version is supposed to look a bit better. If you have the money for the Athlon 64 version of the notebook by all means get it, but if not, you're still better off with the Acer than the P4 notebook.
     
    brianstretch, Jun 11, 2005
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