Wait you're confusing me. Are you saying you would buy an asus with a 9500M GS over the HP with a 9600M GT??? Isn't the 9600 GT better than a 9500 GS???? Really confused :S PS- If I didn't clarify which laptop had which, then my bad
No worries I wasn't being clear What kind of graphics performance could I expect from a P8400 2.26 GHz, 3GB Ram, 9600M GT at resolutions of 1280x800 or 1074x760 in games like dirt, grid, crysis, bioshock, and assasins creed PS- How much better is the 9600GT
Admirable. I'm not entirely sure of the answer to your second question, but playing all those games on mostly high settings at 1280x800 shouldn't be a problem.
Wicked Thanks alot man I am definitely going to buy the HP laptop now, with the 9600M GT and also invest in the extended 3 year warranty just to be on the same side. Thanks again PS- Do you own any laptops that you game on??
Afraid not, I just can't justify the cost of one when I spent so much on my PC. My housemate Nick owns one though, a Dell XPS M1710, a couple of years old now, but still a powerful gaming machine. He's already had his graphics card replaced under warranty though.
Was his graphics card faulty?? PS- Lucky him, always wanted to get a 17" gaming powerhouse, but don't have the cash. Hopefully when I'm at uni and get a job
hehe yeah, back in 2006 it cost him about £1300 with the 3 year warranty. His GPU was indeed faulty, this spring the screen went white with random smears all over it, a guy came round to our house and popped a new GPU in there, right as rain...
I'm getting an extended warranty for sure NOW lol PS - What do you think of ROCK laptops, I saw some awesome ones when I was in the UK for a holiday in july BUT sadly no warranty here so the were out of the question.
They seem pretty good and I'm sure they offer decent warranties. I take it you're not from the UK like me then? Where are you from and where did you visit on your holiday here?
I'm from Pakistan but never lived there. Used to live in UK for bout 7 years but now I'm in Saudi Arabia, was born here too. I went to a lot of places but mostly stayed in b/ham and london (hounslow to be exact)
Ah right I see, get around then! Hounslow's about 35 miles from me direct, about 60 if you go round the outside using the M25. At least it is when I'm at home, I'm off in a month's time to study at York.
Cool, what are you studying by the way. Got my IGCSE results a while back, and have to decide what and where to study before my A levels
Studying Environmental Science BSc. I actually finished my A-Levels in 2006, but have spent the last two years studying other things, didn't go so well... oh well.
I see Good luck with the environmental sciences bachelors, hope it goes better than your last one I'll update when I purchase the HP laptop which will be tommorow, and maybe even upload some benchmarks for it
Just an update. After posting at a laptop specific forum, they told me that the Acer 9600 has GDDR3 memory while the HP 9600 has DDR2. I will check this tomorrow at the store and if this is the case I will probably go with the ACER. Here are some benchmarks of both: Is this difference realistic??
So in that case it would be better to go with the acer if it has GDDR3, even if it is more expensive as it will give better performance, and probably last a little longer PS - Will the program GPU-Z tell me the type of graphics memory the GPU has??? thanks
It should do. I'm torn between the HP and Acer, because although the Acer will be faster, I trust HP more as a brand, even with the issues their laptops have had in the past.
I was thinking along the same lines, but after calling up the store and asking about the warranties, I have found out that both laptops are covered by the store selling them (jarir bookstore), not manufacturer's and I have had no problems with them in the past. In light of this don't you think I should go with acer due to better performance even thought its pricier???? PS - They replaced 3 external hard drives for me under the warranty, beacuse the mobos were faulty. I dropped the first one, but didn't tell them still got replacement
