thinkpad for gaming

I want to get a thinkpad for the quality but was looking around lenovo's site and they don't seem to offer high end gaming graphics cards. Am I blind or searching in vain?

 

Thinkpads don't offer high end gaming cards because they're business laptops, as well as other business laptops such as the Dell Latitudes and HP Compaq Business line.

 

My current T61 is working fine, but Im thinking of upgrading my graphic cards. Is there any other graphics cards that are compatible for T61 ? Thank you!

 

The FX 570 is probably comparable to the 8700M.

 

Well, probably not. The Quadro FX1600m is probably comparable to the 8700GT, and the FX570m is probably comparable to the 8600GT, albeit with engineering drivers and probably lower clock speeds. However it should still be quite acceptable for gaming, especially if you get modded drivers and / or overclock the card.

 

You can't update graphics cards on 99% of laptops (including the T61). The other 1%... those cards are not usually available to the general public.

Google your question.

 

You can get the Advanced Dock and get an external graphics card. That would give you performance around a desktop 7600GT, so it might be worth it.

 

The advanced dock has pci-e, but it's only a 1x slot, so it's not really meant for speed.

the Quadro NVS 140M is equivalent to the Go 8400M GS, which is OK for games (heck, it's good enough for some HPs and DELL XPSs). The T61P's 570M should indeed be equivalent to either an 8600M GS or an 8600M GT, both of which are pretty much the best you can get right now, without going to the desktop replacement market.

 

If you want a business class notebook that can game, something like the HP 8510p might be a better option.

 

t61p is fine for gaming, i mean it can play almost every game albeit not in the highest quality or highest settings

 

Some 8600M GT results are starting to come out on the Dell forums, 570M should be similar: ~ 3100 for 3DMark06

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=140915