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Simple question... does an ATI X1400 Radeon have enough muscle to play WoW at a decent resolution/frame rate. That's all my Dell laptop has to work with... I know it'll run fine on my desktop, but I don't believe I'd play it very often being confined to my desk.

The laptops other specs... 1.66 Core Duo and 1 GB of RAM... it's mainly the video I'm worried about. Anyone with first hand experience with WoW and a similar setup?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

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I'm going to bump this one since I have the exact same question. I am really wondering whether the X1400 will be capable of running it or if you really have to upgrade to the geforce 7800 GS for like $200.
Yeah, so if anyone either have first hand knowledge or just knows (psychic or something)... please help both of us :)

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Update: I downloaded the free 10 day trial and it runs absolutely great on my laptop... better than anything I ever imagined possible. Yes, I know it's a dated game with limited graphics... but I still wasn't expecting it to run like this. Maybe that X1400 was worth the cost of the upgrade.

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Just for info:

I played WoW for about a year on my old system thats got a AGP ATI8500

And the thing that made the most difference....upgrating from 512mb ram to 1gig was like....... erm, robin reliant to porsche.

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Well, my laptop had 1 GB all along so I can't really relate.

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For MMOs you really need alot of ram. The video card that you have should be good enough, since WoW dont look so great anyways. You just need a good amount of ram cuz when there's 200+ ppl on screen its gonna be a memory hog.

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Well, I've never seen the application take up over 300 MB in the task manager... but I haven't paid it too much attention either. If I didn't have enough memory, I'd be punished twice because laptops generally have slower HDs than desktops. I got a 5400 RPM drive in this laptop that can't compare to the 10k Raptor in my desktop.


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