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    Toshiba's gotta be on crack..

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by cy007, Jan 31, 2006.

  1. cy007

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    cy007, Jan 31, 2006
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    I'm not too familiar with Canadian Toshibas but looks like an error to me - Canadian Toshibas are usually powered by good GPUs.
     
    xAMDvsIntelx, Jan 31, 2006
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    Nope it's not an error (unfortunately)...the Future Shop flyer today confirmed this news.
     
    notebookn00b, Feb 10, 2006
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    Pretty sad - Toshiba's Canadian notebooks are usually have pretty good GPUs. However, this looks like one of their lower-end 17" models.
     
    xAMDvsIntelx, Feb 11, 2006
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    isnt 7300 > 6600??
     
    BiG_B, Feb 12, 2006
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    nope, the 7300 is meant as a replacement for the 6200. it has the same number of pixel pipeline and vertex shaders, even the same 64-bit memory bus. its just a newer core and is clocked faster
     
    zoomy942, Feb 12, 2006
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    so then is the 6600 still a decent card
     
    BiG_B, Feb 12, 2006
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    The 6600 Go is a decent GPU - it offers excellent compatability with games due to its support of Direct X 9.0c. It should take you into the Vista era quite easily (or at least at first) :)
     
    xAMDvsIntelx, Feb 12, 2006
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    yeah. the 6600 will get the job done. that and the x700 are the best way to get a decent gpu and not have a 50 lbs notebook to lug around. the 6200 wont get it done, for most people, and the 7300 will still be an underdog against the 6600 and x700
     
    zoomy942, Feb 12, 2006
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    The 6200 isn't too bad - it's still supported for the AEROglass eye-candy in Vista. True, it isn't very powerful, but it'll get the job done and can play most all games available on the market today.
     
    xAMDvsIntelx, Feb 12, 2006
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    i have been trying to find out how it would play guild wars and COD2, but i havent been able to find out.
     
    zoomy942, Feb 12, 2006
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    It should be similar to that of the ATI X200M GPU. I would suspect it would play the games you mentioned at low/med. settings depending upon how much RAM the notebook has.
     
    xAMDvsIntelx, Feb 12, 2006
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    thanks for the info. thats settles it for me, im gonna spring for the 6600 instead of the 6200. :)
     
    zoomy942, Feb 12, 2006
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    so just to confirm, the 6600 go will still be better than the 7300 go? how about compared to x1400?
     
    misfiringsystem, Feb 22, 2006
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