My brother is thinking about getting a second HD4850 512mb for his computer - will he see a large enough FPS increase to warrant forking out the cash? His specs are similar to mine (same amount of ram/same cpu)
What's your budget? I ask because you'll definitely want a discreet graphics solution with the work you do. Lenovo makes a good laptop, but they very rarely put a discrete solution in; it's usually that Intel HD4500 crap. I know the IdeaPad Y450 (and Y650) can come with an nVidia GT105m (some sources say that you can get it with a GT130M in Asia, don't know how accurate that is), but other than that, most of them suck.
As for Dell, I'd definitely keep looking into their Studio (XPS or otherwise) line, they seem to have done good with that one.
E: Timo, a second 4850 will create very noticeable gains in frames. Crossfire scales better than SLI, so it's worth it.
Last edited by Warsaw; August 3rd, 2009 at 12:12 PM.
It's a rebadged 9600M GT.
GT120M = 9500M GT
GT130M = 9600M GT
GTX 260M is pretty much an overclocked 9800M GTX.
GTX 280M is pretty much an underclocked desktop 8800GTS.
Yeah, nVidia pulled that asshat renaming scheme again, misleading consumers into thinking that the new high-end mobile cards had something in common with the GT200 architecture. They don't, they are just G92 cores again. ATi, on the other hand, has mobile cards that are identical to the desktop ones in architecture, just with lower clocks (and in the case of the Mobility HD4870, it has GDDR3 instead of GDDR5, putting it roughly closer in performance with a desktop HD4850).
Yeah, I think I'm going Dell. I found a great deal on the dell website,
Dell Studio 15
1080p display
500gig hdd
512MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570
4gigs of ram
IntelĀ® Core™ 2 Duo T9600 (2.8GHz/1066Mhz FSB/6MB cache)
Intel 5300 Ultimate-N Half Mini Card (3x3) with MyWiFi
Backlit keyboard
3 Year warranty
With student discount etc
$1288 (worth $1800-something, weird though because yesterday I could've sworn it was $1228..hmm)
Last edited by Reaper Man; August 4th, 2009 at 12:56 AM.
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