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shadowbreaker513

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I'm ordering a new laptop today for college. As I don't feel like lugging my 60+ pound desktop home on the weekends, I'm looking to get a laptop that has enough graphical performance to allow me to still play most of my games. It won't be my primary system obviously, so I won't need enough power to crank all the settings up. I know little to nothing about laptop video cards however, so I have no real frame of reference when comparing the systems.

These are the two systems I am primarily looking at
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220163

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220240

I can gauge the other stats of the systems fine, but I have no idea how the two video cards compare to each other and the performance capable given the screen sizes and other stats. The main games I would be playing would probably be WoW, the Orange Box games, and perhaps CoD4 if the laptop can handle it decently. Does anyone know the power of these cards and the kind of performance I could expect?
 
I would go with the 8600M. It should play all those games decently. Not sure about the ATI card though.
 
i'd look up the performance on the hd2600, 512mb is always sexy imho

the ATI one also has faster processor and wireless draft n capability.

+1 for the ATI from me
 
I change my vote! :p

I looked into it more and it seems that laptop has the 8600M GS (I thought it was the 8600M GT)

The 2600 is faster and better than the 8600M GS and only 5% slower than the 8600M GT.

+2 on ATI

EDIT: just found this little thread
 
Abu Som3a said:
8600m GT, and overclock it.
Click to expand...

I was just reading this (OPINION) piece:

"You cannot restore the voltage on the F3sv, therefore you cannot fully restore the memory clocks. It will still overclock very well, due to it's GDDR3 memory, however even fully overclocked it will barely be up to the performance level of a stock DDR2 HD2600."

Keep in mind this is an opinion and doesn't seem to be based on experience. But he has a ton of posts if that counts for anything ;)
 
Looks like I'll go with the ATI then. Does that card run hot enough to warrent getting a laptop cooler or should I be fine without one?
 
Not sure on temps but definitely OC that HD2600 memory. It is clocked crazy slow at stock. As long as you keep an eye on the temps it should be fine.

Coolers are nice but most of the time not really necessary IMHO. However I don't OC my notebooks all that frequently.
 
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