Graphics Card Reccomendation Please

Fri Jun 04, 2004 1:27 pm by Huffer

I haven't had a chance to come here in ages, my life has been insanely busy for the past few months. It's good to see eveyone again though.
As usual, when I have a computer problem, I thought of you guys first.
My girlfriend got a new laptop last Christmas, a Dell Inspiriron 1100. (Yes, I know Dells suck, but she didn't pick it out.) Lately the graphics card has been lacking in the power department, and I was wondering what we should get as a replacement. The one it has is an Intel 64mb that came with the computer.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Fri Jun 04, 2004 1:43 pm by Balthazar Furious

I'm not the best person to tell you what you should get, but I can tell you what to avoid getting, and that is the Nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4200. Avoid it like the plague, and you will be happier for it.

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Fri Jun 04, 2004 3:18 pm by H.Q. Victor

I wouldn't get one too powerful due to heat concerns in the enclosed area. And unless you run games, 128mb should be enough, personal oppinion of course, any price range? Taw and Esq will have some specific ideas probally.

Fri Jun 04, 2004 4:49 pm by Huffer

The reason we need a new card is to get Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic to run well. All the other specs are met except for the graphics card. For price, we are looking at something between $100 and $200.

Fri Jun 04, 2004 4:52 pm by H.Q. Victor

That game wants between 128mb graphics and 256mb. my card, nividia 420 is 64 and barely runs it, no hang ups, but the patch says it won't pass. Taw may know of a good ATI card, if he's around.

Fri Jun 04, 2004 5:19 pm by mustang

You're sh*t out of luck, you can't change over display adapters on laptops. Sound and video are all on board to save on space, even if you could you'd void the warranty as soon as you opened the case. Is everyone listening to me here? If you want to play games don't buy a laptop. What you buy is what you're stuck with until you buy a new laptop.

Sat Jun 05, 2004 1:06 am by Tawakalna

I didn't take part in this conv cos I was waiting for Esq or Mustie or someone else to make that very point.

all onboard crap in craptops, you're stuck with it. hence don't get craptops for gaming.

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Sat Jun 05, 2004 3:56 am by Esquilax

Aye 'tis true. You can't even fit a PCI graphics card in a laptop (I'd like to see someone try however

). I should probably mention that they don't come in PCMCIA either

.

Sat Jun 05, 2004 4:37 am by H.Q. Victor

What about increasing on-board ram and increasing the sharing. Not for games, but to increase the available ram for video. Mine, be fore it was stollen, was 512 ram with 32 for video, only had it 30 days so no experimentation was possible.

Sat Jun 05, 2004 4:48 am by Tawakalna

not even worth bothering, might make some video run a bit better but games performance will be marginal at best.

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Sat Jun 05, 2004 5:22 pm by Esquilax

True, and you won't get decent effects in games due to the lack of, or reduced number of, pixel pipelines and vertex shaders.

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