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    VGN-FE590 Good or Bad?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by MoldyBread, Mar 1, 2006.

  1. MoldyBread

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    I am just getting a computer that can get me around and I love all of sony's products...top notch.

    The only game I will really play on this is some RTS games (not really graphically intence ones) and world of warcraft.

    There are two things i am kind of worried about, first processor.

    The intel core duo, is that good at all? I know it just came out but is it going to last me a while?

    Also teh Geforce 7400 is that good?
     
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    hehe also on another VGN, the "NVIDIA GeForce™ Go 6400 with TurboCache™ supporting 128MB" Will that run wow well?

    Im talking the 40-man raid instances folks.
     
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    Hi the 7400 is the nvidia update of the 6400, It also has dedicated ram which will make it alot faster than a 6400 with turbo cache, the 7400 also has turbocache letting you have 256mb of ram. The yonah chip will be replaced by the merom in about 7 months, Theres alot of speculation wether the merom chip will work in a yonah laptop, They are pin compatiable but it would downclock the bus to 6**mhz rather than 800mhz that the merom runs at. Also you will need a bios upgrade fro, your manufacturer.
     
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    Thats interesting information, I will take that in mind.

    That is a good thing for intel to do as well becuase AMD has had a good upgrade thing going, BIOS + CPU.

    I would be cool with the Merom. I wonder is 64 bit would work though.
     
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    Also,

    In my desktop computer I have a Intel Pentium 4 3.0E processor. how does the Intel Core Duo Processor T2300 (1.66 GHz) compare to that?
     
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