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    M55 video card.

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by Rahul, Feb 19, 2006.

  1. Rahul

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    Just wanted to say that I noticed that the Pentium M/Centrino models come with Intel's GMA 900 integrated graphics whereas the Celerons come with ATI Radeon X200Ms, quite better than Intel's offering even though the CPU is worse. Why can't they offer the X200M in the Pentium M models at least!? :mad:
    Maybe its a way to give compensation to the Celeron owners or something.
     
    Rahul, Feb 19, 2006
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    You're probably right about the compensation thing, but I'm just poking around in the dark, so I may be wrong. Toshiba does offer the X600SE in the customizable M50, so maybe it's trying to make up for that to Celeron buyers.
     
    xAMDvsIntelx, Feb 20, 2006
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    Yeah the X600SE isn't too bad of a card really either. I'm working on my review of my M60 which has a X600SE in it, and I have overclocked it by a good amount and got 1955 on 3DMark05, which is quite and improvement over the stock 1460 marks (34%) :), but why pair it with a crappy Celeron? YYY?!
     
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    To be honest, Celerons can actually make pretty decent gaming machines if hooked up with a fast hard drive, plenty of ram and a good GPU. Its quite possible really if not a bit difficult and tricky.
     
    Rahul, Feb 20, 2006
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    I'd still say the Celeron would be a stretch for gaming in notebooks. Maybe in desktops they'd be better, but I'd still take a P4 over a Celeron in a desktop and a Sempron/Turion/PM in a notebook.
     
    xAMDvsIntelx, Feb 21, 2006
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    Yeah, you're right, I totally agree with you.
     
    Rahul, Feb 22, 2006
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