Asus S101 and gaming

[mrgoblin]

Since the new Asus S101 will be sporting a video card in it, to my knowledge a netbook first, will this be able to support gaming on netbooks now? It will have the Nvidia 9300gs in it along with the atom 1.6ghz and a gig of ram. I can't seem to find any reviews mentioning this nor specs on what that card can do with a comparable processor so I'm reaching out to you guys. I just want to make the right purchasing decision, thanks!

 

[mrgoblin]

bump

 

[CurseTheSky]

I doubt it'll be a great gaming machine.

With that said, it'll probably be leaps and bounds ahead of the other netbooks there, but leaps and bounds ahead of "horribly slow" is still "slow," in terms of gaming performance.

Even with a better GPU, I'd be willing to bet it'll end up being CPU-bound at the lower resolutions you'll need to run this thing at, but we'll have to wait and see. I'm in the market as well, so I'd be thrilled if I was wrong.

 

[IlllI]

9300gs = a small step above intel integrated graphics

 

[Denithor]

Could probably handle WoW at low/medium resolution (no higher than 12x10 I'd guess) but I doubt it will handle real games very well at all.

 

[mrgoblin]

I mean all I wanna play on that thing would be WOW or HL2. I dont think it would run source at a constant 60 fps though.