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Author Topic: Advice for new gaming laptop?  (Read 41 times)
Vandeh
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« on: March 12, 2010, 04:01:20 PM »

Hey guys was hoping for some opinions and insights on what kind laptop i could get for around 600-800, ive been a radeon user for awhile and have never had much luck with geforce video cards, anyone have a laptop that runs one?

This is basically the ballpark of what im going for:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220640

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220694

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114802


Thanks for the input ^_^
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« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2010, 04:05:19 PM »

BY the way, my current laptop rig is a radeon 128 mb x300, with a 2.2ghz(oc'd) pentium M and 2 gigs of ddr. I figure i might as well go 600-800 range with a new one to save some money because anything besides this rig is gonna be a major upgrade.
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« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2010, 08:15:49 PM »

All my laptops either run nvidia or they're work machines and they have that shitty intel graphics media onboard crap. I've never had an issue aside from retail vendors dropping support after 4 years or so. Then I turn to sites like laptopvideo2go.com and get "hacked" drivers.

I've been "hacking" drivers since the 90's when I found out that the difference between a belkin network card and an expensive linksys can sometimes be a single digit in the vendor id. So you change one number in one text file and ding you have fancy drivers for an otherwise unsupported operating system. Point being, hacking drivers isn't really scary or going to break your computer, so the only issue I've had with nvidia drivers after years of abuse; isn't an issue at all. Smiley

I hear lately that ATI cards are "better" but I use laptops like desktop replacements usually, so things like battery life/power consumption and heat don't worry me. I plug it in and use this thing.

Back to your question though, you're gonna want to check out some of these to make your choice:
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/

The toshiba has video memory is shared with system memory, I have a personal stigma for doing it that way, IMO: dedicated memory > shared memory. The other two seem to have dedicated memory, but the nvidia one is not available currently at newegg. That leaves the asus K70AB-X2A. I've been an intel guy for the last 5 years, but heard only good things about AMD processors, I just like the intel. I have no valid argument as to why.

Since this is a retail system though, you can probably find it at local retailer and take it for a test drive. Bring a game disc of some quick and dirty FPS (crysis demo!) that doesn't take 45 minutes to install, and see if they'll let you install/play it. As long as you look really committed to buying it, you can talk a sales person into letting you toy with it outside of the rack especially if you act interested in their service plan or warranty.
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« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2010, 10:38:11 PM »

sweet thanks for that site and teh info ^_^
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