Laptop GPUs, whats the best??

[jonj320]

hi, im looking for a gaming laptop for my next 4 years of college. my budget is $1500 ish and im looking for a 15 or 17 inch screen. I'll be honest, i know nothing about laptops. i made my desktop and that seemed ok but the laptops is see have 6 or 8 gigs of ram. my desktop has 4 gigs and i never used all of it. and im looking at a 2.8 ghz cpu.

My major problem is the video card. i see 8600 8700 9600 9800 and than i see quatros and ati 3470, 3470 x2

im just looking for the best video card as of now. i heard about asus making a 4870x2 laptop but i cannot afford that. so if anyone can enlighten me please help. thank you

 

[frozenlead]

The 9800mGTX is currently the leader in notebook GPUs.

The Quadro cards will beat it in CAD and other engineering utilities, however. But, for games, go with the 9800.

 

[mactronix]

Compare them here http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerator-X3100.2176.0.html

Mactronix

 

[michaelmk86]

Laptops are not for gaming. Why do you need Laptop if you are gamer? Why you do not buy a desktop pc will be cheaper and mach faster.

 

[hsetir]

For $1500, best you'll get 9800gs/9800gts equipped laptops. The latter performs about 15% more. Here are a few options :

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152095
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220483
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101166

Remember the more you spend, the less efficient it becomes.

 

[geotech]

For school?

I suggest a nice $1000 desktop, and a Netbook.

Just my 2c

 

[Nik_I]

For school?

I suggest a nice $1000 desktop, and a Netbook.

Just my 2c

i very strongly agree. i briefly considered getting a powerful laptop for school, but i quickly gave up on that idea. now i'm going to just get a core i7 desktop and a nice netbook for college. The problem with a gaming laptop is that it would be incredibly heavy, and have extremely bad battery life, if it has any. (didn't one of the dell gaming laptops actually shut off the video cards as soon as you unplugged it?) you'll also end up paying a lot more for older hardware that's still not going to give you enjoyable performance. also, with so little space, heat can be quite a problem.

 

[jgonz007]

You should get the dell studio 13 laptop. It is portable(under 5lb), has a good processor (2.4ghz), ok video card(9400 gsm) It has everything a new student needs and more. It comes in at 1100$ use the rest of the money to buy word and powerpoint.

 

[meodowla]

Dell Studio 13 can be customised to use 9600GT(256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 9500M-GE with Hybrid SLI® Technology--->by enabling Hybrid Boost it works as 9600GT). Plus take 4GB (2 X 2GB) Dual Channel 1067MHz DDR3 SDRAM and Core2Duo 8600 processor.

 

[L1qu1d]

9600M does nothing, and hybrid sli is very minimal gains for low end cards...you'll prob get the performance of a 8600 GT Desktop.

I would suggest a 9700M GTS, stronger than a 8800M GTS, runs cooler and less power hungry and is 10-15% slower than the 9800M GTX.

Laptops with 9800M GTS or GT have been known to be found for around 1000$.

 

[geotech]

The new eee pc 1000he or acer aspire 103 would be great if you bought now. If you can wait until the summer, the ion platform netbooks are supposed to be incredibly powerful.

A $1000 tower can handle most thing you can throw at it now anyways. Grab an i7 and a 4870/gtx260.

 

[meodowla]

I would like to go for 'L1qu1d''s opinion. I opted Hybrid SLi because, they are best in switching GPU while in 2D mode(turns Off 9500GT and works with 9300 so as to save power). Its a laptop and need power on the run(Except if you intend to carry spare batteries).

 

[L1qu1d]

yes but you didn't say it was for that You were talking about performance.
To be honest it should give you about a half an hour more at most, witht he hybrid in most cases.

 

[gyptian]

The 9800mGTX is currently the leader in notebook GPUs.

The Quadro cards will beat it in CAD and other engineering utilities, however. But, for games, go with the 9800.

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