Dell Vostro 1500

BASE Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7250 (2.00 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 2 MB L2-cache) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista™ Business - English edit
LCD 15.4" UltraSharp™ Widescreen WSXGA+ (1680x1050) TFT Display with TrueLife™ edit
INTEGRATED WEBCAM Matte Jet Black without Camera edit
MEMORY 3072MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (1x1024 + 1x2048 MB) edit
HARD DRIVE 250GB (5400rpm) SATA Hard Drive edit
GRAPHICS CARD Integrated Intel® Graphic Media Accelerator X3100 edit
OPTICAL DRIVE Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive edit
PRIMARY BATTERY Primary 6-cell Lithium-Ion Battery (56 WHr)

thats the spec I'm just about to order anything I should change?

cheers
 
its for my dad, he's always had our old vaios and things like that , he needs it for cad and microsoft project and office, he uses them all at the same time so I thought he may aswell get something decent, pretty cheap too!
 
CAD? What type, what graphics has he been used to before? Just the GMAs are crap, but Im guessing its some basic 2d cad? And that hes only had crap graphics cards before
 
Windows (and I'm sure Linux) do have options for changing default font and text size, and there is always the DPI setting to mess around with. Some of my relatives find even 1280x1024 too small so I've had to increase the size of... pretty much everything :)
 
Sorry if this topic is dead but I just bought a Vostro 1500 with 2gb ram, 2.1ghz c2d, 8400GS gfx card any good games that my laptop can run?


First post btw just joined the forum sorry if I sound noobish :(
 
theres zillions of good games itll run......

Theres only a handful it wont.
Obviously a lot will need to have effects turned down/off etc, but older games will run spot on etc.
 
peetee said:
theres zillions of good games itll run......

Theres only a handful it wont.
Obviously a lot will need to have effects turned down/off etc, but older games will run spot on etc.
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Erm could it run need for speed pro street what settings would I need to put on it?


Thanks :D can't wait till my laptop comes it going to be my first ever laptop.
 
how new is that? if its pretty new it wont be running very high at all, id take a guess at lowish settings tbh......
NFS games always were full of eye candy, and the 8400 is quite a lowish end card(though good for a laptop)
 
peetee said:
how new is that? if its pretty new it wont be running very high at all, id take a guess at lowish settings tbh......
NFS games always were full of eye candy, and the 8400 is quite a lowish end card(though good for a laptop)
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Oh cool thanks I just found some awesome video nfs pro street running on a 8400gs with nice fps look here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQGqH-VWS2U
 
thanks for that link, i just stumbled upon this little gem..

"Hi there guys.. i have a onboard card nvidia geforce 7100, and when i will buy a nvidia geforce 8400 GS what will happen? better?
my system: Intel dual core quad Q6600.
2,4 GHZ ,1,93 of RAM."

looool
 
Gilbretto said:
Remember that the 8400m gs (laptop) is a downsized, down-clocked version compared to its desktop counterpart.

Same goes for the 8600m GT ect...
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True but look at his specs:

intell 1.6ghz Dual core (mines 2.1ghz core 2 duo)
Nvidia 8400GS 256mb DX10 card (running with XP not vista so i don't have DX10) --- (mines vista so its DX10 and I think mines 256mb not sure though)
2 gigs of 333mhz DDR2 ram (2GB 667 MHz DDR2)

So basiclly my specs are better its just I think his 8400gs is better than my 8400gs.
 
dx10 is a gimmick on current games tbh, plus a 8400GS isnt exactly going to excel at the fancy features DX10 is supposed to help with.
The processor wont matter, since a 1.6 is perfectly adequate for running NFS really, especially when the bottleneck is the card.

Your specs are better(assuming its one of the games that isnt a dog on vista) BUT
your card is the crippling factor, especially since i think infact the 8400GS on vostros only have 128mb, and its most likely clocked slower than desktop counterpart.
Iv got the 8600m GT and its only got ddr2 :(
 
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