Cheapest DX9C Laptop?

YoungBlood · 13 May 2008 at 14:31

Could somebody who knows a little about laptops point me in the direction of the cheapest DX9C Laptop.
I see many that say "supports DX9" does this mean it will also support DX9C?

I dont need it to be particualry good at it, I just need it to beable to launch DX9C games.

If someone could comeback with models or maybe even graphics card models to look out for then it will be much appreciated.

manic_man · 13 May 2008 at 15:56

Graphics solutions that do not support DX9c will in all fairness now be very difficult to find.

DX9 support for even the lowliest Intel integrated graphics chips is pretty much spot on.

ideally however if your looking to game, find something a little better, an 8600GS or better still 8800.

It all really depends how much you want to spend, what size chassis your looking for / brand etc.

More or less anything you buy will "support" DX9 games, in fact many will even support DX10, but whether they will be usable in any realworld terms is an entirely different matter

YoungBlood · 13 May 2008 at 16:21

Well after a lot of googling I think that the Lenovo 3000 N200 is the closest to what I want. @ £350 its at the top of my budget and has a GeForce Go 7300 TurboCache whilst not amazing it should do the job.

# Processor - Intel Core 2 Duo T5450 / 1.66 GHz ( Dual-Core )
# RAM - 1 GB (installed) / 3 GB (max) - DDR II SDRAM - 667 MHz - PC2-5300 ( 1 x 1 GB )
# Hard Drive - 160 GB - Serial ATA-150
# Operating System - Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
# Screen - 15.4" TFT 1280 x 800 ( WXGA ) - 24-bit (16.7 million colours) - VibrantView
# Optical Drive - DVD-Writer - integrated
# Graphics - NVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 TurboCache - 256 MB

I can't beat that spec for the £350 price tag yet, but im in no rush and will keep looking. They are also doing a free upgrade to 2 Gig ram.

I imagine any 8 series card is out of my budget, but I'll certainly take a look.

manic_man · 13 May 2008 at 18:11

Looks pretty good spec for the price, but I should just say the 7300 is genuinely dire and "Turbocache" means a good proportion of that 256MB comes directly from your RAM pool.

It all really depends what DX9c apps you intend to run. If its a few old flight sims or whatever then that spec should be great. If not then you really need to up your budget a bit i reckon.