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    The Z and gaming?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Koshinn, Oct 6, 2008.

  1. Koshinn

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    How does it perform? Has anyone run benchmarks with the 9300 GS?
     
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    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    It performs on par with an 8400M GS, which is similar in performance to a desktop 6600GS. Real world you will be able to play COD4 low-medium settings and 1280x800 at 60-100 FPS, TF2 on lowest settings at 1280x800 at 30-60 FPS
    Hope that helps.
     
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    DanyBui81, Oct 6, 2008
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  4. Koshinn

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    So it looks like you can play Source games at high settings with smooth FPS?
     
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    yah its smooth
     
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    I have to ask - have you tried Crysis?
     
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    nope don't have the game I dunno that game is pretty graphically intensive it might handle it at the lowest settings with everything disable
     
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    What about 3dmark06?
     
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    i doubt it will even play crysis
     
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    It will run Crysis.

    The Asus N10 with the same Nvidia graphics card and far weaker Intel Atom processor ran it in a review, of course at a very low resolution and settings, far from what its intended to be played as.

    So stick to low settings and you'll be fine, it'll look a lot like Far Cry also from Crytek back in 2004.
     
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    So.. 3DMark06? Anyone run it?
     
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    really? so is it possible to get a decent fps ? > 30?
     
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    probably not >30 fps...
    on my SR with hd3470 (which is a little bit more powerful that the 9300m gs, but they are about the same)
    i get 20fps average when i have everything on low
    but 20fps is very playable in crysis
     
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    Tony, Oct 7, 2008
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