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Doombringer
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Laptop,

Post by Doombringer »

Hi i'm getting a laptop from my dad because we're not going on holidays
in the May vacation, to Tunisia.

I have 2 questions about it, I have found a good laptop but two things
bother me.

1- Is1024mb good memory?
2- Is 128mb graphics card good?
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Post by Doombringer »

Stop watching and please post :P
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Machiosabre
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Post by Machiosabre »

do you mean a video card with 128mb memory and 1064 mb ram?

a 1064 mb graphics card seems unlikely :P
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Post by Michilus_nimbus »

I suspect you mixed up your stats there :-)
Anyway, post every spec you can think of when asking that kind of question. This is way too little information.
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Post by Doombringer »

I changed it. But is this good further i have radion x1350 card, 150GB.
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Post by mehere101 »

Watch that card... ATI Laptop GPUs have done trippy things to me... It might work, but don't expect it to be equivalent to a desktop for performance on advanced effects...
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Post by Muzic »

For a laptop, 1 gig of ram is fine.

I wouldnt concentrate on looking at the memory for a graphics card. Unless ofcourse you had a huge laptop moniter. Concentrate more on what graphics chip/card your getting and how reliable it is.

Dont buy stuff based on how much RAM there is. The 512mb 1600XT is obivously nothing compared to a 256 7900GS.
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Post by Doombringer »

Thanks, but is this good? I mean for games like TA spring.
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Post by rattle »

Doombringer wrote:Stop watching and please post :P
a) USE ball shaped object attached to neck
b) USE google WITH stupid question
Bernard: "10Q, sir!"
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CompWiz
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Post by CompWiz »

NVIDIA graphics are best

1024mb ram = great
128mb video ram = good

get an 80+ Gb hard drive if its a laptop
if its a desktop get 160+ Gb
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Muzic
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Post by Muzic »

Doombringer wrote:Thanks, but is this good? I mean for games like TA spring.
For TAspring? Hell yeah. My dads dell laptop ran TA perfectly.
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Post by AF »

a 486 16MB SD RAM can run OTA perfectly.
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CompWiz
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Post by CompWiz »

i have a laptop with a 32mb ati card that spring great
and i have comp with an intel card that runs spring even better

but nvidia runs it best
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Post by Dragon45 »

Basically, max out everything you can with your budget. For gaming, I'd max out

Video Card
RAM
Processor
Hard Drive Space

in that order. keep a good balance, but IMHO that should more or less be the priority of your shit.

Normally i'd recommend a gorgeous monitor as well, but this seems to be a laptop, so its not really an issue :P

Although if you can get a fancy widescreen one, go for it.
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Muzic
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Post by Muzic »

Yeah.. Like... 17 inches <3
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rattle
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Post by rattle »

AF wrote:a 486 16MB SD RAM can run OTA perfectly.
...on the smallest maps with little units.
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Post by KDR_11k »

128MB graphics card means nothing, even Intel chips can come with that much. If it doesn't say what chip it uses in the ad you can be damn sure it's Intel or even worse.
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Post by DemO »

The laptop i'm on just now runs spring at 20fps when you join a game. It quickly drops to around 8 by the 10-15 minute mark, and thats with all settings on min (except for unit view distance or something because it gives units some sort of retarded tags on my intel when i zoom out more than a little at min view distance, then you cant see what the units are)

And its a 128mb chip...integrated. Basically, NEVER get an integrated GPU.
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Post by rattle »

Don't Intels integrated always use system memory? Funny enough I get more FPS on my super old system with a GF2, even in late game. Does Intel support any DX8/9 features by the way?
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Post by Peet »

rattle wrote:Don't Intels integrated always use system memory?
Yep.
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