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#3139892 - 11/18/10 04:34 PM How does my laptop rate?  
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I'm a little curious because I have completely lost track of hardware and stuff. I'm running this:

I'm assuming this is more mid-high hardware?

Dell Studio XPS 1650
Win7 x64
Intel i7 1.60 ghz
6gb ram
300mb HD
ATI Mobility Radeon 4670

Just curious how it SHOULD be performing, at points with some games it seemed to be doing sub-par (SC2, parts of FC2.0, Arma2 demo) I usually keep the settings around medium

However, I did have to recently reinstall windows, and it seems to be performing much better due to the lack of random crap on the HD


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#3140085 - 11/18/10 09:22 PM Re: How does my laptop rate? [Re: FlandersRevenge]  
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That sounds about right, the processor isn't that fast, and the video card is so-so, all things being relative. Of course, only having 300 megabytes of HDD might also be a problem wink


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#3140129 - 11/18/10 10:25 PM Re: How does my laptop rate? [Re: FlandersRevenge]  
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300 mb drive might be an issue :p


Also, CPUs and GPUs for laptops are NOT as fast or powerful as the Desktop counterparts.

CPUs in laptops have things removed to lower power consumption as well as heat, in fact the Processors in laptops have a entirely different model number even though they share the same family name. Laptop/Mobile Processors are designed to run on lower power.

Same thing for the GPU. Mobility Radeon 46xx Series are nowhere near the same level of Performance as the desktop HD46xx Series. same chip, but the mobile chips are deisgned to operate on lower power.

And the Harddisk, Mobile drives run lower RPM and lower speeds, so if a game is constantly caching the drive its gonna be slow.

laptops and mobile hardware are not meant for gaming.

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#3140709 - 11/19/10 07:41 PM Re: How does my laptop rate? [Re: FlandersRevenge]  
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I have found mid and high end Dell laptops to be much slower than you'd reasonably expect for the spec. The overall bandwidth of the boards they use seem to be utterly crippled in some way.

Spend some time optimising Windows, there are tons of guides online. In fact Nick Needham's guide has some excellent tips, but you'll find more if you google around.
http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1208959973

Skatezilla is right though, laptop processors and GPUs are in general poor for gaming unless you pay big big bucks.

#3140830 - 11/19/10 10:50 PM Re: How does my laptop rate? [Re: SkateZilla]  
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Originally Posted By: SkateZilla


laptops and mobile hardware are not meant for gaming.


Aah, I would amend that to say that "laptops and mobile hardware are not meant for gaming, at least not for the latest and greatest games."

But, some reasonably priced laptops are perfectly capable of running most games at a reasonable frames.

With my almost 2 year old laptop (
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26GHz
Windows Vista OS Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit with SP1
Hard Drive 320GB (7200RPM)
Screen Size 15.6" HD (1366x768)
RAM 4GB DDR2 667Mhz
Optical Drive DVD SuperMulti with Light Scribe
Direct Disc Labeling Yes
Graphics Card NVIDIA 9800M GS with 512MB GDDR3 VRAM)

I run FSX, among others, at playable frames.

This machine only cost me around $1000 almost 2 years ago.


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#3141226 - 11/20/10 05:24 PM Re: How does my laptop rate? [Re: FlandersRevenge]  
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Household laptops:

My wife's: Acer i5/4gb/500gig/ATI5650m-runs all games (L4D2, RoF, Dirt2) that I have tried on it smoothly at high settings. Course, she made me remove them right after, lol. 3DMark06 @ 8000

My daughter's MSI i5/4gb/300gig/Intel GMA-HD video - runs L4D2, RoF surprisingly well at medium settings. I didnt think an integrated GPU would work well but it does. 3Dmark06 @ 4000

My laptop: ASUS ROG i7/500gb/ATI5870m - Everything smooth, and I mean everything. Course this is a gaming laptop and well it should. I purchased it for work as I game in the simpit or on the desktop but the potential is there. 3DMark06 13500.

Laptops certainly will do the job, and the one you have should be nearly to the level that my wife's is so download the demo for Rise of Flight and test it out.


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