Posts by Woody87

There are several options for fully featured notebooks at most retailers for around $600. You should take her to the store and let her look at them and try them out. If you want it to be a surprise go yourself and look at them and try...

Yeah COD WaW looks fantastic and plays well even on slower machines.

Make sure the video cable isn't touching the AC power cable also.

You could buy something second hand but I've found most people aren't willing to part with their old laptops for a reasonable price until they've listed them for a long time and realize how much they're devalued. Do you want a...

I'm on my second Sager. The company has been around a long time and uses Clevo components. These are the same components that Alienware used to use before they became part of Dell. Generally you can buy Sagers from several different...

NVidia recommend at least GeForce v180.84 to play this game. You should install the latest driver to see if that fixes these issues.

Quote: Originally Posted by evan.yeung Was trying to figure out a config for a good gaming laptop... saw an Alienware 17" at costco for $2500 with ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3870 CrossfireX. Was comparing it with the...

If you're set on a 15" design this is a good notebook. If you want to save a little money go for the slightly slower CPU. 17" notebooks can come equipped with faster graphics cards that will play games better. I've never...

What else have you tried? Have you updated the graphics drivers? Have you tried a new install of Windows? You will have to do both to rule rule out software problems. WOW or Doom3 is not a very stressful game compared to the others...

"Certain tasks" would be CUDA applications or PhysX. PhysX on the integrated GPU while running graphics on the SLI setup would be a great way to take advantage of the third GPU simultaneously. It's pure speculation at this...