Whats a Mobility X1400 equvilent too?

Whats a Mobility X1400 equvilent too? In desktop GPU levels of course. (like its equal to a GF 7300?)

Probably just like an X1300 SE.

sorry, I'm not as well versed in ATI tech. A X1300se is the lowest level X1*** right? So it would be great for older games(Homeworld 2 MODs, Dawn of War) OK for resonably new games(Half Life 2, Civ 4) and poor for stuff like Prey and a slideshow for Crysis...

really? What about stuff like Civ 4? I know Supreme Commander would have to be at extra low, and Company of Heroes at what, mid-low?

By the way, what are ways I can reduce bottlenecks(without changing hardware---this is a laptop). My dad's laptop has a 2.0ghz Core 2, and 1 gig of ram, but only a X1400. Obviously, its GPU bottlenecked.(and maybe a bit RAM) I obviously cant overclock. Anyways I can increase perfromance at all?

so where does the GPU start to get more of the bottleneck? I'll guess that at 1080 720 its about even. 800 600 its CPU, and 1280 1024 on its GPU. Correct?

There is no clear point of when bottlenecks shift; it depends on your settings, the game, and even the kind of scene in the game. My favorite example would be in Oblivion; in a city, even a Core 2 extreme might bottleneck, say, a Radeon X800GTO; almost whatever you do, in cities in Oblivion, your CPU is determining your performance. However, on the flip side, if you go for a FPS title like Prey, you can go with a weak CPU and still get good performance with a solid graphics card.

Core2 won't take the graphics burden from the video card, but at lower resolutions where the graphics card isn't struggling as much the Core2 will finish it's own tasks faster.

Bottom line, faster CPU = faster FPS at lower resolutions.

Yeah, I was worried about that... My dad *needs* a light laptop(he likes the IBM lenovo thinkpads)... If I could have convinced him into getting a normal sized laptop I could have gotten a much higher level card... Still, ANYTHING is better than the old Radeon 7500 his old laptop used...

yeah, thats true. Its just stinks thats its the same laptop I use for gaming on trips...

So it can run Vista with all the goodies? Even though its low level DX9? Or will there be 1 or 2 DX 10 only feautres of Vista?

From what I see on the ATI site, this X1400 is actually a X1300 core (I concluded this from the number of transistors).

X1400 specs
http://ati.amd.com/products/mobili [...] specs.html

X1300 specs
http://ati.amd.com/products/RadeonX1300/specs.html

Unfortunately, there is no information on the frequencies (on both).

I was checking with a friend for laptops with something else than Intel graphics, but the difference in price from the GMA950 to the X1400 is to big IMO. And I don't think that X1400 can handle recent games, so it's really no difference from the Intel chip.

Just for curiosity, how would it fare against a Geforce AGP 6600GT? Thats my desktop GPU...