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Gashman

Gashman

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simple question, which of these two is superior (and by how much %) NVIDIA 9600M GT or ATI Mobility Radeon HD3650, the NVIDIA paired with C2D running at 2Ghz and the ATI with AMD Turion X2 running at 2Ghz, thanks a lot :)
 
Get the 9600GT/Core 2 Duo laptop, hands down. The Radeon 3650 isn't bad, but it's not as fast as the 9600 and paired with a Turion X2 makes it even slower.
 
thanks for replies, another question! :) what sort of difference is there between 9600M GS and 9600M GT, its only clock speed right?
 
Yup just clock speed. The shader clock is on a different ratio as well so the 9600 GS has slower shader power clock for clock unless you unlink.
 
Rroff said:
Yup just clock speed. The shader clock is on a different ratio as well so the 9600 GS has slower shader power clock for clock unless you unlink.
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thats what i thought, so one could turn a 9600GS into a 9600GT with a bit of fiddling? how decent are laptop cooling solutions, enough to handle the increased clock speed of the GS? and also can one opt to chance the GPU cooler in a laptop?
 
Not easily, if you can afford it I'd say go for the 9600GT model. Heat tends to be a recurring issue for laptop overclocking, especially on the smaller laptops as they often use a combined CPU/GPU heatsink array which aren't necessarily the most effective when laptop CPUs are often running the best part of 80 degrees! IIRC I think the 9600GS and 3650 DDR3 mobile chips are similar, both being a decent percent under performance of the 9600 (where the c2d will help again)
 
what sort of games can one play on a 9600M GT, obviously not stuff like crysis, etc. what about vanilla supreme commander, medium settings without AA?
 
i played supreme commander on everything high no trouble at all. i think

ill install it again and tell u how it performs as it been a while as i played it. stay tuned
 
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dx 10 all high 2 AA on 15~18 fps resolution 1680x1050

dx 10 all medium No AA 20~28 fps rez 1680x1050

did not experience any lag on any settings how ever did not participate in any big battles.

graphics card not overclocked all stock

hope it helps
 
psychas said:
dx 10 all high 2 AA on 15~18 fps resolution 1680x1050

dx 10 all medium No AA 20~28 fps rez 1680x1050

did not experience any lag on any settings how ever did not participate in any big battles.

graphics card not overclocked all stock

hope it helps
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supreme commander is DX9 isn't it? :confused:
 
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