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alan

alan

alan

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Im off to uni at the end of this month and am looking at buying a laptop. My parents have offered to cover the cost of this, but arent willing to splash out at a really expensive one.

I am looking to use this laptop for uni stuff and also i may do some gaming (cod2, aoe3 mainly) on it. My question is what kinda graphics card would i need in a laptop to get reasonable performance in these games. Prefferably one that wont cost a fortune too. I have no idea about laptop graphic cards so any help would be useful.

Thanks in advance
 
Well, unfortunately, laptops arent designed for games as a general rule - getting one with decent performance in the games you mentioned will cost a lot more than a tower would have similar spec. Can you give us an idea of the budget?

Dell XPS ones are ok for a bit of gaming but not great - but they are probably the cheapest option imo
 
First off what's your budget? tbh I wouldn't buy a gaming laptop, battery life is poor. And you're unlikely to want to spend time gaming and just have a social life. You can do plenty of gaming after you've finished uni and working.

Look for a "office" laptop around £400-£500
 
You can pick up a laptop for £400 with Intel xpress graphics 200 in it and that will play cod2 but I dont think it will be very good graphics

Ive seen some HP ones with radeon x1600 pros in them for around £800
 
i got a asus (specs below) for 762 ill email you the linkage if you want

---specs--

centrino core duo
1 gm ddr 2 ram
80 gb hdd
15.4 screen
7300 go gcard
dvd-rw
in built web cam
wireless
blue tooth
 
My dads being tough, ive asked him about a budget and he keeps coming back with 'find one for wotcha need and ill see if its an acceptable price.' But he doesnt know i wana game on it :P hes never really been happy with me gaming as it is.

Anyway if i was to guess a budget i'd say around £800 mark.

Ive found a dell with X1400 256mb hypermemory card for aroudn £770, is this card any good ?

knowlesy yer i would be interested, my email/msn is [email protected]

Is that card any good ? Better than the X1400 ?

Thx guys
 
alan said:
My dads being tough, ive asked him about a budget and he keeps coming back with 'find one for wotcha need and ill see if its an acceptable price.' But he doesnt know i wana game on it :P hes never really been happy with me gaming as it is.

Anyway if i was to guess a budget i'd say around £800 mark.

Ive found a dell with X1400 256mb hypermemory card for aroudn £770, is this card any good ?

knowlesy yer i would be interested, my email/msn is [email protected]

Is that card any good ? Better than the X1400 ?

Thx guys
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Its not too bad, about as quick as a 9600pro, afaik.
Similar speed to the 7400 go in the pc fastwunz linked to.
 
Found an asus laptop with nvidia 7300 go graphics card. Are asus laptops any good?
what kind of performance would i expect from such a card? (other specs: 1.8 ghz,1gb ram, 80gb hd)

Dad has said that budget is £500 max :| guess ill be going for one of those 'office' laptops :(
 
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Ok, one more quick question, what is best card (in order plz) of this selection:

Nvidia 7300 Go 256mb
Intel GMA 900
ATI express 200
Any others?

Which could cope with cod2? and how well?
 
alan said:
Found an asus laptop with nvidia 7300 go graphics card. Are asus laptops any good?
what kind of performance would i expect from such a card? (other specs: 1.8 ghz,1gb ram, 80gb hd)

Dad has said that budget is £500 max :| guess ill be going for one of those 'office' laptops :(
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Good on him! You're going to uni to study, not play computer games. You can get a decent office laptop for that

£500 inc vat.

Acer Aspire 3102WLMi - LX.ABK05.116
AMD Sempron 64 3200+ 1.6GHz
1024 MB DDRII-533MHz SDRAM - Low cost double memory offer – call for details!
100 GB Hard Drive
DVD Dual Layer Drive - To read DVDs and CDs and write CDs, DVD+, DVD- and large Dual Layer DVD
15.4" WXGA Widescreen TFT Screen
Built in 0.3 Megapixel Webcam
Integrated gigabit LAN
Integrated wireless 802.11 b/g LAN - Call for advice on Wireless networking
Integrated 5-in-1 card reader
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Pre Loaded
1 year warranty - upgradeable to 3 years
 
To squiffy, i was asking for advice, not your opinion on whether i should play games, thanks.

And there is a thing called 'spare time'.
 
I don't know if HP does the same thing here in the UK but I configured a university laptop for my friend from HP and he got a great deal because of a student discount.

It was a DV5000T.....Core Duo 2.0 ghz, 2gb ram, Geforce go7400 128mb....not the best laptop video card but it's alright.
 
sempron lol might as well get a celeron lololololololol



...nahh there good on batterylife like not to shabby the mobile versions like all is good
 
Asus laptops are generally very good. Have 2 mates with them, and both are pleased. I have a HP, 14" WS .. graphics are pants ... but I don't game. Nice, though.

don't get confused with Acer though, like some shops do ... don't buy Acer, whatever you do, if it goes wrong it's a nightmare.
 
That is a great price, although I would pay a bit extra and get it upgraded to 1GB, ideally at time of purchase (all slots could be used that means buying 1GB and selling 512MB)
 
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