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    geforce go 6150 on Presario 6211

    Discussion in 'HP' started by micraft, Jul 21, 2007.

  1. micraft

    micraft Newbie

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    I'm planning on buying a Pressario 6211 which has an AMD Turion X2 1.6Ghz processor, 512MB RAM upgrading to 1.5GB RAM, and 120GB SATA and geforce go 6150 with upto 128 shared memory.

    I'm not a hardcore gamer , but i like to play fps games like splinter cell. Will the new games like Chaos Theory, Prince of Persia Sands of time and charlie oscar delta- call of duty 3 work on the above configuration.

    The system is loaded with Vista, i'm planning on dual booting with XP to play games.

    The dealer also said that i can only add another 512MB RAM, because both the RAM slots should have similar type and size RAM. Is this true.
     
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    Will appreciate all the inputs.
     
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    You can replace the existing memory with two 1GB SODIMMs. I recommend Crucial DDR2-667.

    For gaming the graphics chip is the limiting factor. You really, really want a dedicated memory GPU for games. The GeForce 6150 is one of the best shared memory GPUs out there but it's still pretty limiting. You can get a GeForce 7200 GPU with the configure-to-order HP dv6000z on hp.com, that's still low-end but it's a big improvement over the 6150. CTO machines are quite a bit more expensive than retail models as a rule though. HP's selection of dedicated GPUs is pretty thin right now.
     
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