Mobility™ Radeon® X1600 with HyperMemory™

[spike66]

Is this any good. I do not know much about gfx cards anymore.

Thanks in advance

 

[Minstadave]

If you're gaming then no.

Whats your budget?

 

[spike66]

If you're gaming then no.

Whats your budget?

It is what I have fitted to my replacement laptop. Just needed to know if it was any good. Can they be changed?

 

[tripitaka]

Surely for a laptop an x1600 isn't terrible.
It should run the latest games, although the eye candy would have to be turned down.
But it can't be a shabby as a lot of integrated chips?

 

[spike66]

Surely for a laptop an x1600 isn't terrible.
It should run the latest games, although the eye candy would have to be turned down.
But it can't be a shabby as a lot of integrated chips?

Thanks for that. I may only ever play need for speed, quake, and such like whilst on holiday

 

[GingaNinja]

Here is a thread I found that summarizes mobile GPUs in terms of performance. Hope that helps,

Ginga

 

[Minstadave]

Thanks for that. I may only ever play need for speed, quake, and such like whilst on holiday

It'll be fine for light weight games like that, I thought you were thinking about it for a desktop pc (missed the mobility bit earlier). The X1600 was a pretty dire card even before it was crippled and brought out in a Hypermemory variant, but for a laptop it'll do

 

[Deep]

i have a X1400 mobility one, on my laptop and it plays the games i want.

Played Need For Speed and Dawn of War fine, so yours will be better

 

[VaderDSL]

i have a x1600 mobility in my macbook pro, it plays counterstrike source, day of defeat source fine at 1440X900 at low settings.

 

[spike66]

Here is a thread I found that summarizes mobile GPUs in terms of performance. Hope that helps,

Ginga

Thanks for that. It should play solitare no sweat

 

[spike66]

It'll be fine for light weight games like that, I thought you were thinking about it for a desktop pc (missed the mobility bit earlier). The X1600 was a pretty dire card even before it was crippled and brought out in a Hypermemory variant, but for a laptop it'll do

Thanks.
It is normally me who jumps in without reading fully.lol

 

[Duke]

It should play games okay - not highest detail but medium, as long as the laptop has a decent cpu and memory to help it.

 

[Bones]

i use a x700 mobility and i've had supcom running, all quake3 engine games run smooth, CoH and wow aswell.

 

[spike66]

It should play games okay - not highest detail but medium, as long as the laptop has a decent cpu and memory to help it.

It has a core2duo 1.6ghz T5500 in it, which I am told is not too bad

 

[Duke]

It has a core2duo 1.6ghz T5500 in it, which I am told is not too bad

That will fit in nicely

 

[BeelzebubUK]

I've been using a laptop recently with a Core2Duo T2400 1.83Ghz, 2GB DDR2 and a X1600 with 256Mb onboard + 256Mb Hypermemory.

Have been using it primarily to play Dungeons & Dragons online which is quite hefty graphically and it runs that at 1280x800 with medium-high settings quite reasonably. No AA, shadows or special lighting features.

You have to make sure you get as much onbaord memory on the X1600 as possible as thats what makes a big difference and it was also the reason I put 2GB RAM in mine so the 256MB Hypermemory that it borrows wouldn't make too much impact on the rest of the system.

There are 4 flavours of X1600 :

* Mobility™ Radeon® X1600 64MB HyperMemory™
* Mobility™ Radeon® X1600 128MB HyperMemory™
* Mobility™ Radeon® X1600 256MB HyperMemory™
* Mobility™ Radeon® X1600 512MB HyperMemory™ - This is the one I have