Best videocard in laptop for gaming

[fatboy]

I am looking at buying a new laptop. I pretty much am going to be studying on it but would like to be able to play my game, Day of Defeat. I really want this to replace my desktop which only has a radeion 9000 in it. Which video card will play it decently?


256MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1400 HyperMemory

256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

I have read reviews but would like to have some reviews from anyone that has played games with either of these cards. Thanks

 

[HomeyFoos]

I have the 7900GS in my e1705. I only got 1 gig of Ram and I think this prohibits some performance in-game (BF2). I can play without AA at 1024x768 at medium settings and no lag. I have not yet messed with the clocks on the card as I hear Dell underclocks them. The stuttering I'm experience with AAx2 I think would go away with another gig of ram, but if not, I'll mess w/ the clocks and see what I can do.

 

[Aimster]

Originally posted by: HomeyFoos
I have the 7900GS in my e1705. I only got 1 gig of Ram and I think this prohibits some performance in-game (BF2). I can play without AA at 1024x768 at medium settings and no lag. I have not yet messed with the clocks on the card as I hear Dell underclocks them. The stuttering I'm experience with AAx2 I think would go away with another gig of ram, but if not, I'll mess w/ the clocks and see what I can do.

you need to overclock it.
your settings right now are severely underclocked.

I overclocked mine by a good 40-50% the factory settings. Dell sets the speeds lower than what the manf. says!

 

[HomeyFoos]

Wow...that's incredible. I knew they did some but I had no idea it wsa THAT much. I'll look at it today. Did you use CoolBits or RivaTuner? Also, do you have 1 gig or 2? And is your Ram 533 or 667?

What type of performance do you get in games (if you play BF2 I would love to hear what you did you set your system up)

Thanks for the info (even though it's not my post )

 

[Aimster]

Originally posted by: HomeyFoos
Wow...that's incredible. I knew they did some but I had no idea it wsa THAT much. I'll look at it today. Did you use CoolBits or RivaTuner? Also, do you have 1 gig or 2? And is your Ram 533 or 667?

What type of performance do you get in games (if you play BF2 I would love to hear what you did you set your system up)

Thanks for the info (even though it's not my post )

I have 1GB 533Mhz Ram with 1.83Ghz CPU. Games run perfect for me at high resolutions.

Go to Display - Settings - Advanced - GeForce Go 7900 - Clock Frequency Settings.

Then go under performance and click on detect optiimal frequences. I don't go with those settings, I usually bring the core/memory down by 20-50Mhz just to be safe.

Also make sure you have the settings set for maximum performance otherwise the games will lag.

I also downloaded notebook hardware control and set the CPU speed to maximum settings as I found without doing this the OS would leave it at 1.0GhZ.

 

[cheesehead]

7900GS is far more powerful than the x1400, or even the x1600.

It's a sweet video card, and should run almost anything fine.