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moods001

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Posted: Wed, 20th Dec 2006 06:20 Post subject: How powerful is the ATi X1600 512 MB Mobility Radeon ?	Quick Quote Quote

I'm going to buy a new laptop soon , the (LG - W1 Pro dual Series)... and it comes equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor ~ T5600 (1.83GHz), 667MHz FSB, 2MB L2 Cache , 2048 DDR2 667MHz, Dual Channel Support Memory , and an ATI® Mobility Radeon X1600 with a 512MB of video memory. My question is : will this laptop run powerfull games like Doom 3 , Half Life 2 , Far Cry and whatever at maximum settings ? is it capable of running these games at full "max" ? , and future games too ? or should i order more RAM with it ? becuase the X1600 512MB is the last video upgrade i can get... I've been a desktop PC gamer for years , but now i work and live away from home... in the middle east , so please don't suggest getting a powerful desktop , or any other gaming laptops , because i have to stay mobile a lot these days , and because i'm an ATi guy , i'm not a big fan of Nvidia , and really the LG - W1 17" laptop is the best choice available here , so please tell me what do you all think... Thanks in advance moods001 Last edited by moods001 on Mon, 25th Dec 2006 09:13; edited 1 time in total

Mortibus

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Posted: Wed, 20th Dec 2006 06:52 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

that laptop is more than powerfull enough to run those games not sure about future games on full "max" tho,medium yes,depends on the game realy,pc games this days is piss poor optimized

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Ankh

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Posted: Wed, 20th Dec 2006 07:00 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Core 2 Duo rocks so you don't have to worry and it has lots of memory and a decent gfx card shitloads of new stuff in my pc. Cant keep track of it all.

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moods001

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Posted: Wed, 20th Dec 2006 11:04 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

well , i read the data/specification sheet for this laptop again , and it said something like : "ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 (128MB dedicated, 512MB HyperMemory)" what is that exactly ? i want the whole 512MB to be dedicted! please explain what this means to me.

sabalasa

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Posted: Wed, 20th Dec 2006 14:33 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Well I have an Asus V1J which has also Centrino Duo, 2GB RAM and ATI Mobility Radeon X1600. But laptops aren't ment for gaming anyway. Too much troubles with compatibility and portability. All games are designed for PCs and not laptops - although laptops look like small PCs and function like PCs but they have vendor specific omponents built-in which cannot be upgraded or swapped. That kind of architectual limits are the biggest cause for PC specific software failures. For example I'm playing StarTrek Bridge Commander at highest settings and effects but it crashes when I try to load a savegame for the second time, or when I exit the game. The first load suceeds but if I fail a mission, I have to restart the whole game in order to continue Yea, you can say that BC is too old etc but I also have installed some recent games and I have experienced same kind of strange behaviour. Forums, google and so on have no answers for my problems. One major trouble I have is that the ATI drivers are ASUS specific, meaning that I cannot download driver updates from ATI but only from ASUS. ATI's drivers tell me to bugger off if I try to install them ...and the ASUS drivers are from 28.03.2006... Smells like compatibility problems with future games for me The bottom line is that you should definately check if ATI provides the drivers for your platform. Check here rgds Sabalasa

sabalasa

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Posted: Wed, 20th Dec 2006 15:57 Post subject:

moods001 wrote:

well , i read the data/specification sheet for this laptop again , and it said something like :

"ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 (128MB dedicated, 512MB HyperMemory)"

what is that exactly ? i want the whole 512MB to be dedicted! please explain what this means to me.

It means that you have 128MB video memory on your graphics card and if you have 1GB or more RAM, then the video card reserves the additional memory from your RAM.

Welcome to the mobile world Wink

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Mortibus

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Posted: Wed, 20th Dec 2006 18:18 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

well with 2gigs memory u can sacrifice extra 400mb for vcard then again i that why i hate laptops

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