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7w3ak   11-21-2007 at 07:19:33 PM

I have looked around for awhile trying to fine a definitive answer on how to guage System Requirements for games on my Laptop. Most games I have looked at seem to only have PC requirements and more often than not it always has a asteric by the specs saying "All laptop modules not tested" by the video card. I understand that laptop components are slightly less powerful than their bigger PC brothers(example Video Cards) So my question is Is there a way to I guess convert specs...Or what should I be looking for when I am picking out a game for my laptop... Oh and one last thing...How do you compair a single core to a duel or quad core...I know that multi core processors just utilize multi cores, where one can be running at 2.4g and the other may be running less as with a duel core 2.4g but what I am asking is that Most games just list single core processor requirements... and they are like "Intel Pen4 2.8g or Faster" how does that translate to a multi core, Will I have to have a duel core duo 2.8g?
Soory for the legnth...But this has been pestering me for ever since multi core processors came out and I built one

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theworminator   11-22-2007 at 01:49:40 AM
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Hm...thing you have to remember is, the architecture of the new Core 2 Duos are /much/ more powerful than that of the Pentium 4s. So a Core 2 Duo at even 1.8 Ghz can outperform a 2.8 Ghz Pentium 4 in rendering situations. Remember also that many of the older games can't take advantage of the multi core processors, they'll only use one core. The more recent games can use both. You have to take these factors into account too.

The easiest way to tell how powerful video cards are relative to each other is to compare benchmarks, such as those on Tom's Hardware's VGA guides. However, these only have the values for desktop cards, so you'll have to find the notebook values on something like NotebookCheck.com (like http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDI [...] 1.0.html).

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7w3ak   11-22-2007 at 03:47:29 AM
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Awesome...thanks man

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