ATI IGP 340M? Good Mobile Card?

CompGeekKid

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Hi all, sort of new here ....anyways I've been looking around for laptops that have gaming capabilities. I'm curious if the ATI 340M on this Compaq Laptop at Tiger is any good. I'm not looking to upgrade, but just in comparison how would the ATI card compare to the Nvidia GeForce 420 Go (16MB ram) that I have in a toshiba s-173?

Any feedback apprieciated!
 

Technocrat

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it's just a integrated video card that uses system memory for the ram instead of having dedicated video ram. it's okay but I wouldn't say it was great for gaming!
 

Jeff7

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For one, I'm aware that no one here seems to recommend Tiger Direct; they earned a bad reputation some years back for some shady practices if I remember right. Someone else might be able to provide more info. (Put the word "Tiger Direct" in your title, and you'll probably get a slew of replies about that.)

The IGP 340M, even with access to 64MB of my 512MB PC2100 cache in the laptop, it still didn't perform quite as well as a Geforce2 Go 16MB (dedicated RAM) did in a similarly configured Dell laptop. Modern GPU's (Geforce and above) really thrive on fast RAM, and a shared-RAM solution, like the IGP 340M, just can't seem to provide enough bandwidth to give the GPU the fast stream of data that it needs.
That said, it probably won't perform horribly - games like Half Life will do fine on it at the laptop's native resolution. Just don't look for anything like anisotrophic filtering or antialiasing, unless you want a really nice slideshow - those things ratchet up the memory usage, FSAA especially, and that's already limited as is.
 

CompGeekKid

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Thank you all - very helpful posts.

I guess it would be safe to say that both that gfx chip and tiger direct have become obsolete in my mind.
 

CompGeekKid

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The mobile 9600 and Nvidia 5600 Go are both modular, right? You can upgrade them when newer mobile cards come out?
 

Schadenfroh

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Originally posted by: CompGeekKid
The mobile 9600 and Nvidia 5600 Go are both modular, right? You can upgrade them when newer mobile cards come out?

uhh, i dont think so
 

BlvdKing

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alienware = sager = clevo. Check out sager for some notebooks that are equivalent in performance to the alienware, but cheaper.
 

hans007

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igp 340m

is an intergrated radeon 7000. with 64bit bus. not t&l.

it is basically a terrible card for gaming. the 7000 standalone isnt even that great but integrated with 266mhz ddr ram, is pretty bad for 3d.
 
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