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64mb radeon 9600 vs 128mb radeon 9600

post #1 of 6
11/23/03 at 8:33am
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I have spent countless hours researching what the difference is between these two cards on the internet. I have come up with no comparison. Do the MBs in the cards make a huge difference or is the architecture of the cards more important? Do the MBs come into play when you put features like antialiasing etc etc on in games? I ask you this because i am trying to buy a centrino notebook with the added ability in it to play games. I don't do any graphics work, the only thing i do is use MS Office and game. All the centrinos i have seen so far come with the 64mb version of the Ati Radeon 9600. My question is, would i be able to play games like CS, C&C Generals, MOHAA, Battlefield with ease on 1280 x 1024. I'm planning on buying a machine like the Gateway M505XL. Its a centrino, has a 64mb M10, great multimedia capabilites. I'm not looking for a desktop replacement notebook, since size is important to me. The Gateway is also coming with a Toshiba 5400 RPM drive with 16mb cache. (12ms seek). Please let me know about the difference in the GPUs, also recommend any other centrino machines with the M10.

Appreciate much.

Rao.
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post #2 of 6
11/23/03 at 9:06am
new games like half-life 2 and doom 3 use upto 80mb of textures, so unless you want to slow your machine down by having it swap textures in and out of memory try to get a 128 mb version of the card.
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post #3 of 6
11/23/03 at 2:44pm
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Thanks!

But would i be able to play these games with lower settings? I'm assuming i won't turn antialiasing and anistropic (or however you spell that) filtering on anyways since the games won't require it. Would i be able to play these games on 1280 x 7xx settings?

Rao.
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post #4 of 6
11/24/03 at 1:57am
architecture is WAY more important. You will DEFINITELY be able to play those games on lower settings.

If you dont run AA, you'll be fine.

I played Max Payne 2 on my roommates computer (64MB video card) and then on my Voodoo M-600 and turned on full effects at 1600x1200, full AA, and it was awesome, I noticed things I never would have before, but it was still a great gaming experience on his machine.

You'll definitely be OK with the 64 meg version
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post #5 of 6
11/25/03 at 6:23am
Will the 64Meg card be able to play Half-Life 2 very well?
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post #6 of 6
11/25/03 at 7:14am
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Correct me if i'm wrong, but from what i understand is that it will be able to play the new direct x 9 games, but not with full textures and antialiasing turned on. Most of the new games coming out need about 80megs just for textures as mentioned above, if your card can only support upto 64megs, you're not doing the game any favors. However, it will run, just not like it would on a 128mb. To me it doesn't really matter, i need it to run games that are going to be coming out for one more year, and then i'll upgrade to another laptop. Thinking of the Gateway m505XL. Anyone got any comments about it?

Rao.
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