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For months I've been struggling with my crappy x3100 card, and crappy laptop overall.

 

The laptop's specs:

Monitor Size: 14"

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHZ

GPU: Intel Chipset Family GMA 965 x3100

RAM: 1024

Native Resolution: 1280 x 800

OS: XP Pro

HDD: 70 gigs

 

 

 

Upon cashing out ( $74, 149 JMD/jamaican dollars -- about $882 US/us dollars ) on a new desktop, actually very reasonable, this is what i got:

 

Monitor size: 20" LCD acer HD HDMI display blush.gif

CPU: Dual Core AMD athlon x64 2.0 GHZ ( wonder if I can overclock? ) icon13.gif

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8200 IGP DirectX 10 HD ( 882 mb ) blush.gif

RAM: 2 gigs icon13.gif

Native Resolution: 1600 x 900 icon14.gif

OS: Windows Vista Home Basic x64 service pack 1 icon14.gif

HDD: 320 gigs icon14.gif

 

Here go, I am looking forward to a happy christmas and a prosperous gaming season after school gives out......

Wish me well with GTA IV......

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For months I've been struggling with my crappy x3100 card, and crappy laptop overall.

 

The laptop's specs:

Monitor Size: 14"

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHZ

GPU: Intel Chipset Family GMA 965 x3100

RAM: 1024

Native Resolution: 1280 x 800

OS: XP Pro

HDD: 70 gigs

 

 

 

Upon cashing out ( $74, 149 JMD/jamaican dollars -- about $882 US/us dollars ) on a new desktop, actually very reasonable, this is what i got:

 

Monitor size: 20" LCD acer HD HDMI display

CPU: Dual Core AMD athlon x64 2.0 GHZ ( wonder if I can overclock? )

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8200 IGP DirectX 10 HD ( 882 mb )

RAM: 2 gigs

Native Resolution: 1600 x 900

OS: Windows Vista Home Basic x64 service pack 1

HDD: 320 gigs

 

Here go, I am looking forward to a happy christmas and a prosperous gaming season after school gives out......

Wish me well wih GTA IV......

Gta still wont run on that.

Well the computer is already bought, and as evidenced in the video, GTA IV will run smoothly, until I can upgrade to a 9800 GT future wards.

Well yeah on another note, 9800 is great but have you considured the CPU being a bottleneck?

Guess not, that 9800 which you plan to buy wont give its full potential.

I don't know about prices there, but 882$ was a terrible deal, IMO. Only a few days ago, I purchased for a friend of mine something like

 

C2D E5300 2.6GHz (a cheap CPU, we were on a tight budget, for 50$ more could have a much better CPU)

a cheap Gigabyte mobo

320GB SATA Samsung

2GB DDR RAM

HD 4670 512 MB - a very nice card for it's price, couldn't believe it 80$

some mediocre PSU

- total 500$ plus a cheaper screen for 300$ it would come to 800$ and still here everything is 30% more expensive.

 

It will run, but don't expect more than 10-15fps max. I have almost the exact same set up on my Hp laptop-AMD Athlon X2 64 Dual Core (2.10GHZ) 3GB RAM, Nvidia Geforce 8200M G (1407MB VRAM) and Vista Home Premium SP1, and that is what I get right now, but that is "playable". Funny thing is, my desktop has the exact same specs-but the video card is a ATI Radeon X1250 (1407MB VRAM) and the same OS and the exact same Processor and Speed and the exact same ram as the laptop, and it will not run IV, which leads me to believe that Nvidia cards are better the ATI Radeon cards for gaming?

 

$882 is a little high for that PC, since you have not very good specs-I only paid $488 for this laptop at Wal-Mart #1362, so you should have shopped around a little more before buying a new PC.-Just a heads up. smile.gif

Edited by radioman

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