which is better.thinking of getting a dell lappy either a 1.8c2d or a 2.0ghz with a 256mb 8600m gt... but theres a 128mb 8600m gs... surely being 128mb its not as good?
also is the 8400m they put on new dells better than the above 2?
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which is better.thinking of getting a dell lappy either a 1.8c2d or a 2.0ghz with a 256mb 8600m gt... but theres a 128mb 8600m gs... surely being 128mb its not as good?
also is the 8400m they put on new dells better than the above 2?
nope, the bigger the numbers and the more/higher letters, the better...
s'what I thought:)
Not always 8800gt/x/s > 9600gt even though 9600 > 8800...
But yeh, get the 8600, it will cope with medium detail at low res... the 8400 wont :)
256mb would be good if the res is above 1280x800, but I doubt there will be a huge difference at this res or lower unless you use AA/AF (unlikely that you would want to with this card...)
edit: Actually, I have never heard of a 8600gs... but the usually the gt is a fair bit better than the gs... faster clocks and more pixel shaders iirc... probably about 10-15% faster...
The 8600GT is certainly a very capable card but my 8400gs is a little trooper. Plays everything I've cared to try one way or another :)
If you are shooting for the best though the 8600GT is it.
I was at PC world earlier and noticed they are selling older Asus G1's for around £600.
Thats a DDR3 GT ( I think) and 2.0GHz C2D. Didn't think that was too shabby actually.
nice sounds like im going to get some tasty mobile gaming.and also have a wired 360 controller so:P no mouse needed.nice nice:D
cheers guys
But that was nvidia being retarded. All those newer 8800 should have been made a 9000 series.Quote:
Originally Posted by SiM
8800gt should have been something like 9800gt
8800gts 512 ---> 9800gts 512
You might want to hold off for a bit, nvidia said last night some crazyness of failingness has been happening to some of their mobile gpus... crap and i have a 8400m gs in my hp dv6510... o shi-
i am dreading the incoming list of affect products....
mine's been going strong for nearly a year now so I guess I'm ok :)
I'd love this laptop to fail though.. hopefully get upgraded to penryn or centrino 2 when it's out lol