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godbrother   10-14-2009 at 05:02:15 AM

Hi, I just dusted off my old laptop (Dell 9100) Gave it a good clean inside and out 100% dust free etc etc. How good is the Mobility Radeon 9700 for gaming? It's currently 128MB/128Bit dedicated.

I was hoping to play Call of Duty 4 on it. The specs are as follows:

CPU: Pentium 4 - 3.0Ghz 1MB Cache HT
RAM: 1GB DDR PC3200 (2x512MB)
GPU: Mobility Radeon 9700
LCD: 15.4 Widescreen 1280x900

How well will it play? Can it play on low-medium @ 1024x768? with decent frames?...

Thanks.

------------------------------ CPU: Pentium 4 641 - 3.2Ghz - Hyper Threading - 2MB Cache - 800Mhz FSB - 65nm
RAM: 2GB DDR2 Dell 800Mhz
GPU: 8600GTS 256MB GDDR3
HDD: 160GB Maxtor Sata II 7,200RPM
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godbrother   10-14-2009 at 03:59:27 PM
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Anyone?

------------------------------ CPU: Pentium 4 641 - 3.2Ghz - Hyper Threading - 2MB Cache - 800Mhz FSB - 65nm
RAM: 2GB DDR2 Dell 800Mhz
GPU: 8600GTS 256MB GDDR3
HDD: 160GB Maxtor Sata II 7,200RPM
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Bronze Laptops badge lostandwandering   10-14-2009 at 08:20:39 PM
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I'm not sure that COD4 will even run on the laptop. I looked up the minimum system requirements and they say that a Radeon 9800 Pro is the bare minimum for the game and that's a desktop card. Even if you could get the game to play, I don't think it would run all that smoothly.

 

You don't really have much to lose by just installing the game and giving it a shot. The worst that's going to happen is that you will waste 30 minutes of your time on a failed experiment. It's not like your laptop is going to explode, lol.


Message edited by lostandwandering on 10-14-2009 at 08:21:03 PM
------------------------------ LAPTOP: Sager NP5760|T7200|2gb DDR2-667| 100gb 7200rpm HDD| 512mb 7950GTX|17'' WUXGA

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Bronze Laptops badge frozenlead   10-14-2009 at 09:27:31 PM
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I agree with lostandwandering. Even if the game did play, it wouldn't well...but if you already have the game, why not try anyway?

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godbrother   10-16-2009 at 11:38:18 PM
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Well, I remember playing it on a 7200GS (which is worse then the 7200GT) so... The only problem is, I don't have it anymore and I need to go out and get another one. Just didn't want to waste the money.

------------------------------ CPU: Pentium 4 641 - 3.2Ghz - Hyper Threading - 2MB Cache - 800Mhz FSB - 65nm
RAM: 2GB DDR2 Dell 800Mhz
GPU: 8600GTS 256MB GDDR3
HDD: 160GB Maxtor Sata II 7,200RPM
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Bronze Laptops badge frozenlead   10-17-2009 at 06:18:31 AM
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The 9700 is much older than the 7200. If you don't have the game, I wouldn't bother getting it.

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