Posts by sharpie

Quote: The amount of memory in a video card has absolutely nothing to do with performance unless more memory than that is needed to fit textures, the Z buffer, etc. Geometry can (depending on how the game was written)...

Quote: hey Dragserb you might want to check out Hypersonic, they are still the Clevo/Sager brand, with the same cases - the equivelant model to what you were looking at is Called the AX6 and comes with the 9600 pro W/ 64 ram...

Quote: Since you appear to be very knowledgableI would love to hear your opinion on what gaming laptop on the market you would choose, if gaming, battery life, and construction quality were your only 3 criterias. To...

Quote: And considering that the screen is fairly low-res to support a fast response time, that extra 64MB isn't going to do much of anything in most games. That's probably true on many games from the pre-DX9 class...

Quote: For that price, honestly, I would rather get a Voodoo M:855 with an Athlon64 and 3 hrs battery life. Maybe, but that thing maxes out at 1GB of RAM and its Radeon 9600 only has 64MB RAM. Both of these things are...

I'm in the same boat. I am also concerned about the screen lid of the R50. It has a lip tha I don't love.. But beyond that I may go for it..

I've ready many places (can't recall where) that you *can* swap the drivers and that it performs just as nicely with games.

sorry you're right, i mean the sister machine to the 4080, what is it, the 4780? anyway, you get my point. is this just the same thingy? single channel memory with the sis chipset? not dual channel? what if anything does this have...

This look slike PCTorque's 4080, or is it something else? http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/rl/pr...descreen.html#

Quote: 1) The GPU (e.g., ATi 9600) has far more impact on game performance than does the CPU. In ways that's true however not always. I develop games and 3D engines and there are portions of the codebase that are...