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    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by camf1217, Jul 26, 2006.

  1. camf1217

    camf1217 Notebook Consultant

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    ok i am looking at the e1505 from dell and was wondering what the best pc games are and will the 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce™Go 7300 TurboCache offered with it be able to handle games with resonably high settings...also what is turbochache and is that good... thanks
     
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    ttupa Tech Elitist NBR Reviewer

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    Well, you may get more replies in the gaming section.... but

    I don't believe the 7300 is very high end right now. It should play most games on Medium settings, but if you're looking for higher settings I would look elsewhere. That's just a shot, I haven't actually tested it.

    Turbocache is when your dedicated graphics card borrows a certain amount of system RAM and allocates it to video purposes. This is in addition to your already present on-board graphics RAM. Say you have a 128mb card with "hypermemory" or "turbocache". If that's the case your card may be able to use a total of 256mb of RAM for video purposes.
     
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    you can play games like UT 2004 quite well, BF vietnam as well, not many newer games, as a general rule the 7400 can play every game but the newest ones are at low, the 7300 cant play a lot of the newst games at an acceptable frame rate, but older games will run perfectly fine on it
     
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    I don't think it has the power to handle today games, you'll do better with a x1400 and if I don't remeber worng it's even cheaper.
     
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    camf1217 Notebook Consultant

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    what graphics card would i need to run current and maybe future games on high setttings... is there a chart or something that i can look at or something that can help me understand graphics cards...
     
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    Check in the "Gaming software and graphics cards" forum. You'll find more help there.
     
    ttupa, Jul 26, 2006
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