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Offline Dash Jones

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Video Cards for Laptops
« on: July 29, 2006, 02:39:30 am »
Thinking about getting a laptop soon, but I don't want to spend a fortune on it.

It seems the intel 950 graphics media card (integrated I believe) is a big one on laptops now, but I'm wondering if it can handle pixel shader 2 (at least) as well as a T&L and to what degree.

I also think if it can't I'll upgrade to a Nvidia Go 7300, but I'm not certain what that does either.  Is it part of the 7000 series (as to the Nvidia as it seems to indicate) and what abilities does it have.  How does it compare to the rest of the series?  It seems it's a cheaper integrated type, but how good is it really.  Is it even better than a 6100 integrated?

I suppose my other option would be an ATI x200, but I'd rather not go with that if I don't have to (have a hard enough time with their drivers with a normal Ati card, I can imagine the nightmare it would be with an integrated one.  Plus half the time, even with current drivers, they don't work with the new releases and I have to wait a week or two till the drivers catch up...or they patch the game...infamous games with these problems have all been the KoToR games).
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Re: Video Cards for Laptops
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2006, 12:15:43 am »
Okay, ummm, hopefully somebody here knows something about these cards???

Or am I left to do my best choice?
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Re: Video Cards for Laptops
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2006, 01:23:27 am »
Nvidia would likely be your better bet.  Many times, the Intel native card, when it says 128 MB of video ram, it's stealing it from the system.

There is a reason the Nvidia costs extra.
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Re: Video Cards for Laptops
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2006, 01:30:50 pm »
I've tried gaming on Intel Buitl in Video.   It can handle SFC:OP but that is about it :)

I have  Geforce 6600 in my laptop and it can sort of Handle Doom 3, Star Wars Battle Front 2 played well on it, Quake 3 based games look great.   The one you are considering is better so it should play okay.
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Re: Video Cards for Laptops
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2006, 08:02:37 pm »
One of the things I looked for was a good seperate vid card for my recent purchase. I did not want a card that had to "share" system memory. I'd go with the upgrade. you"ll thank yourself in the long run>
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Re: Video Cards for Laptops
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2006, 08:07:29 pm »
Go with the highest video option that is offered by the manufacturer...check and see if it shares memory with the rest of the machine.
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