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Quick question on i6000 graphic performance

post #1 of 10
2/18/05 at 3:50pm
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As most of you know, Dell is offering fantastic savings on their i6000 this weekend and I am almost set to take them up on it.

I wanted some input on the Intel Media Accelerator 900 Integrated graphics. I currently have a desktop with PIII 800 mhz and a Geforce 2 64 mb and I am presuming the Intel card will offer much better performance than that? I know it's not on par with the non-integrated ATI and nVidia cards but I am not a big time gamer so I don't think it will bother me too much. I would like it to be able to run some basic 3d games ok though. Will this be suitable for me?

Also, how does a widescreen laptop handle games? Do they all get stretched to fit and look weird?

Any insight appreciated.
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post #2 of 10
2/18/05 at 3:51pm
I dont know but I have been told that pretty much ANY dedicated GPU will produce better results than ANY intergrated graphics card. This is just what they tell me tho...
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post #3 of 10
2/18/05 at 4:01pm
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My understanding is that the Integrated card can be allocated memory from RAM to help improve performance. Is that a correct understanding and if so, does it help much?
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post #4 of 10
2/18/05 at 5:15pm
You should be able to play older games with the integrated video card. I just wouldn't expect to play the new games with it.
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post #5 of 10
2/18/05 at 5:52pm
You might be able to allocate more system memory, but integrated video cards still tie up significant cpu cycles and bus bandwidth accessing that memory. This is not to say that they can't do somethings well, just that 3d intesive apps/games aren't one of those things.

I'm not sure how or if PCI-E will affect this though, it may be a bit better. I'd be interested in seeing some 3dmark scores for the i6000.
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post #6 of 10
2/18/05 at 8:02pm
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Well I took the plunge so once I get it I can run some numbers and see how it does...
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post #7 of 10
2/18/05 at 9:44pm
Integrated GPU's are notorious for being slower than stand along GPU's. However am am sure it will smoke the 8 MB Rage in the Dino-Machine mentioned above. LOL!

Let us know how well it handles newer games. I think a lot of people will be curious as to how well Intel's latest and greatest intergrated laptop GPU performes.
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post #8 of 10
2/18/05 at 9:54pm
perhaps you should list the kind of games you'd like to play. game requirements very greatly. i just play battlefield, and my 6000 rocks it.

- Dave
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post #9 of 10
2/19/05 at 2:02am
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Dave, Saw your video clips of BF in the other forum and I think that is more game than I will be needing. At this point, the only games I have that I would like to be able to run are F1 2002 racing game with the GTR 2002 mod and the original Rogue Spear. Both of those run in a playable fashion on my 6 year old desktop I currently have so I am guessing the i6000 would be able to run those just fine.
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post #10 of 10
10/12/05 at 1:10pm
I have an i6000 with: 1.73GHz, 1GB RAM, 35GB+ free out of ~60GB, Intel Media Accelerator, and pagefile settings at 1.5GB initial, 3.0GB max.

When trying to run GTR (by Simbin), it stops during 3D configuration with an error: "Insufficient swap file / virtual memory" and that "minimum swap file / virtual memory size is 150MB." Mine is at 1.5GB!

I've been trying to find out if anyone has gotten it to work. I think they're the same company that put out F1 2002.
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