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post #1461 of 1493
1/18/05 at 2:29am
Frocer, sonystyle Japan does not ship internationally. I checked last summer when I was in Japan and was thinking about ordering an s-170 right before I left.
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post #1462 of 1493
1/18/05 at 3:48pm
One thing I really want to know is, can the sony S260/270 with the 32mb radeon 9200 handle world of warcraft?? this is a key factor for me in figuring out whether to get one with the radeon 9700
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post #1463 of 1493
1/18/05 at 4:28pm
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Originally Posted by critterslayer
One thing I really want to know is, can the sony S260/270 with the 32mb radeon 9200 handle world of warcraft?? this is a key factor for me in figuring out whether to get one with the radeon 9700
Considering my GeForce 3 classic can handle WoW perfectly fine, I think 9200 should not have any problem. Though I would go with a 9700 anyway.
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post #1464 of 1493
2/1/05 at 7:47pm
When you say fine, you mean with the settings to really low right? Would i have to do something similar on my 32 mb 9200?
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post #1465 of 1493
2/2/05 at 7:21pm
How does this Play Counter strike 1.6
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post #1466 of 1493
2/4/05 at 8:23pm
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Originally Posted by vinny77
How does this Play Counter strike 1.6
Plays it flawlessly, at the max fps (of the the game) of 100.0 fps
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post #1467 of 1493
2/7/05 at 5:04pm
How would Half Life 2 play on the S with the 9700 graphics card?
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post #1468 of 1493
2/7/05 at 7:00pm
Sort of playable, but not great. 1 gig of RAM would probably help a lot, as would 5400 or 7200 rpm drive, for load times.
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post #1469 of 1493
2/8/05 at 10:19pm
But if I get the S360, its got 512 of RAM. I'm not a giant computer expert, but how would games play on that? Thanks
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post #1470 of 1493
2/9/05 at 8:48am
Games would play fairly well, as long as you don't have too many other things running. You can add another 512 to it for around $100. The bigger bottleneck will be the speed of the hard drive.
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post #1471 of 1493
2/9/05 at 5:07pm
My s260 with the 9200 plays Half Life 2 fine, I even play the DM with it at times. Of course I don't turn it all max settings, but at a high resolution, I get good enough frame rates that don't distract me. I just got WoW installed, but I haven't given it a run yet. I agree.. the bottle neck is mostly the hard drive, but that's doesn't affect the gameplay much.. only your patience.
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post #1472 of 1493
2/9/05 at 10:46pm
Really? That's great since I was planning on playing Half Life 2.
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post #1473 of 1493
2/11/05 at 11:41pm
Is it possible to switch the Ati 9700 mobile with a Ati 9800 mobile
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post #1474 of 1493
2/12/05 at 3:51pm
no
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post #1475 of 1493
2/12/05 at 8:58pm
To be more detailed, absolutely not. Other than the fact that the card is soldered in, the S series isn't designed to be used with a card that powerful that runs so hot. Even if you could ge it to fit into the case properly, you would probably suffer rather severe heat damage.
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post #1476 of 1493
2/13/05 at 4:21pm
Lol i can see the blue screen of death.

How does Doom 3 run on it?

Does it do well in medium, high or dare i say it ultra? (i wish)
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post #1477 of 1493
2/13/05 at 5:04pm
You'll be seeing a smokey screen of death.
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post #1478 of 1493
2/13/05 at 5:29pm
I haven't tried Doom 3. Vampire: Bloodlines (based on a very un-optimizd version of the Half Life 2 engine) runs very well on it with all of the settings maxed out. Strangely enough, it runs better than it did on my last laptop with a 128 mb MR9700 and a faster hard drive.
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post #1479 of 1493
2/14/05 at 12:50am
Argh i gotta wait til summer to get one


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post #1480 of 1493
2/14/05 at 9:48am
In which case you'll get a more powerful machine for less money!
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