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Which is best for gaming in a laptop:
Mobility Radeon X1600 or GeForce Go 7400

I think Geforce is using turbo cache so that might not be so good...

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The X1600 is faster than the GF7400, but if you're interested in gaming you should look for a GFGO7600 or even GFGO6800 which would outperform both of those cards you listed.

Out of your two selections the X1600 is faster, and the one game it would be worth getting for instead of the other two options I mentioned would be Oblivion.

Now the other questions is what else are you going to use it for because the performance in certain areas swings a bit.

ALSO, be advise, without changing the driver settings the X1600 will throttle back alot when running off battery and will likely underperform the GF7400, so if you plan on gaming on battery and don't mind that being for like 60mins then change the driver settings to always run @ full speed.

Not quite head-head, but should give you an idea for graphics heavy tests;
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/m [...] jc_11.html

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Which is best for gaming in a laptop:
Mobility Radeon X1600 or GeForce Go 7400

I think Geforce is using turbo cache so that might not be so good...



The X1600 is abt twice as good.
But it also costs more.

Reply to Track

I thought I could buy one of these:

Asus W3J with 1,83GHz Core Duo + 1Gb ram etc.

Asus V6J with 1,83GHz Core Duo + 1Gb ram etc.

Would it be faster than my computer that I have right now? I have an Acer Ferrari 3400LMi:
Mobile AMD64 3000+, 2,0Ghz, 512Kb
1,25Gb DDR333
ATi Mobility Radeon 9700 128Mb

Reply to falsterbo

The GF7400 with that combo would be a little faster MR9700 is really just an overclocked R9600), the MRX1600 would probably be much faster. My MRX700 is faster than the MR9700, and the MRX1600 is faster than my MRX700.

Both would offer more features though (both for gaming and movie watching/editing, and would also consume less power (PCIe is great for that).

Of those two I'd go with the W3J, that Xbit review should give you a good feell for features and such, here's X1600 launch reviews (kinda old now but gives you an idea);
http://www.mobilityguru.com/2005/1 [...] eon_x1600/
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/v [...] ility.html

Look at the Tom's review and you see it beating the MRX700 in the Acer Ferrari by an average of 40% in games, and that graphics chip like I said is better than your current one.

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My current laptop is almost same as yours and the conroe will rock it.

Reply to will14

It's not conroe, it's Core Duo.

BTW, the laptop equivalent of Conroe, is Merom, and that's what I'm waiting for (not out yet);

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/08/02/ [...] enchmarks/

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BTW, the laptop equivalent of Conroe, is Merom, and that's what I'm waiting for (not out yet);


:cry:

Reply to Anoobis

Well it's supposed to hit retail the week I fly out to Toronto, so hopefully there'll be some early models there to look at (hopefully at least an MRX1650 too [but that's unlikely as it is just going to hit Desktop then]).

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