I6000 - Ingame videos (Battlefield 1942) 1.6ghz/256mb/INTEGRATED GFX

1.) Your server only allows 2 DLs per time.

2.) God that laptop is sexy as hell

Nice. Thanks for sharing these Atrus. I just bought a 6000 and was wondering if it would be able to handle some basic gaming. Looks like it is handling BF 1942 just fine with only 256 mb of memory. Does the system allow you to assign a portion of the ram to the video performance?

allocating ram

How do you allocate more ram to the integrated graphics?

Thanks for posting that. I'm getting my 1.5 with 512megs today and was hoping that BF1942 would play OK with it. Thanks!

Oh and you should really hit F9 when you get in the cockpit. MUCH better view...

isn't the maximum memory allocated to video memory 64mb??
if it's 128 i'm gonna buy the one with gma 900!

ianz, I believe the GMA900 supports 128MB

Now that mine is here, I haven't found a way to control the amount of RAM that is allocated to the video. I think it might be handled automatically, using what it needs up to the max of 128mb. But I might be wrong

Can someone run the 3dmark03 test on this integrated machine? I think that would be helpful, this 6000 appears to be a sleeper when it comes to graphics performance.

Well I just ran the free 3DMark03 on mine with no tweaking, default settings and it got a 813. Something tells me that's not all that great but there you go.

Jon

But the test was with max texture filtering and vertex shaders on. The score would be higher with minimum settings.

I would like to see a 3dmark05 test using minimum settings. Or can you set the test up to use minimum settings ?

thats the best proformence ive ever seen on intergrated graphics

The i6000 integrated graphics can use 224 Meg DDR2 ram at 533MHz.

http://www6.tomshardware.com/mobile/...alviso-05.html

"The GMA900 brings DirectX9 support to the notebook, and can dynamically use up to a maximum of 224 MB of RAM for image-data processing by means of Dynamic Video Memory Technology 3.0 (DVMT). The maximum bandwidth of the graphics memory in a dual-channel DDR2 533 MHz notebook is an impressive 8.5 GB/s"

Vegimate, thanks for the test results!!! That does appear to be a very very good result for integrated graphics.

I can try 3DMark05. Does 05 have a setting you can select to use minimum settings? Looking at the requirements for 05, I am not sure whether the i6000 will support it or not. I can try it out and see.

As for 3dMark03, if you have specific settings you want me to set it up with, let me know and I can run it with those.

Jon

No worries. Bit of a newb at laptops, integrated graphics and 3dMark so when I checked the 3dMark site and saw scores of over 20k I figued 813 wasn't very good. I am not much of a gamer but have loaded up a few games which all seem to run very well on it - Colin McRae Rally 2, Rainbow 6, F1 2001/GTR mod and a Robin Hood game. Those are all pretty old games and not very cutting edge graphically but I was glad the i6000 had enough performance to run them all real well. It runs CMR2 much better than my old PC.

Last night I tried a demo of Winning Eleven 3 (a soccer game) but it struggled a bit (I am not sure if it was a graphics performance issue or something wrong with the demo because the menus at the beginning of the game were pretty sluggish also). I downloaded the new Winning Eleven 8 demo so I'll see if that performs any better.

Anyway, I'm sure the new model with the Radeon card offers better performance but I am happy with the integrated card as it handles everything I've needed so far. One review I read was talking about the integrated card not being suitable for Photoshop editing work but I am not sure what that was based on. It has handled photoshop CS just fine for me so far. I imagine CAD work or other 3d stuff might not be so great but as far as photo editing it works real good as far as I can tell and the WUXGA screen is amazing.

Jon

Thanks for the great info vegimite! 20k scores in 3dMark are acheived by the very latest and sometimes overclocked systems, an 813 with full settings for integrated graphics is very good. For a large majority of us we don't need 20k scores, we just want to play a few games every-now-and-then and your 813 shows that is possible even with the integrated graphics. I personally don't see spending between $500-1000 more than what it costs to get the i6000, just to get the latest and greatest video card, especially in a lappy. That kind of money could be best spent on a desktop GPU which should be faster yet.

If possible could you run the 3dmark03 test without any fancy options selected. Do run it at 1024x768 though if you don't mind.

Thanks!
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So the video card ram is actually the laptops normal ram?