Is this a good laptop from dell?

[reynolddog]

if you want to build your own, i spent 1200 on mine, and its ranked 97% on 3dmark06.
haha

Lucky spoiled 14 year old. kidding. yah If you were to Buy say, A dell with SRGTcollins specs, it'd cost you 4.5k. Not 1.2k. Big diffrence eh?

[Eagle101]

imo i think getting a mobile GTX is a total waste of money even though u plan to game on a lappy for the rest of ur life there all worth 5K 4K USD btw, i dont know know but if i were u i would just build a PC i am in Uni my self and am using a custom made lappy with an 86GT 512MB and to say the truth it maxed out everythng i threw at it no BS, but heres the thing i am gong to build uknow one of them lan party comps for my doorm room with the min atx case and fit a mid range card in there then thats it thats my in Uni gaming rig and the one in my sig is my actual HQ XD!

[Trevortt]

Garcia2100, If your from the UK goto this site, they do custom built computers to your spec also sell pre-built ones too.

If you not in the UK i am not sure which is the best shop to goto. Sorry.

[Hellsent 2.0]

Eagle101 hd3850 i reccomend for your mini atx project...

[Death Merchant]

A mobile 8800gtx will still not play DX10, especially not on a laptop.

It will, its only 25% slower than an a desktop 8800gt you should really do some reaserch


1600x1200 - Performance in New Titles
World In Conflict "High" 28fps
Unreal Tournament 3 "High" 72.94fps
Crysis "Medium" 57.53fps
Crysis "High" 20.25fps

source http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=3196&p=5

Thats some DX10 titles for you on the 8800m gtx and thats on 1600x1200, which you dont really need on a laptop because of the smaller screen size

[=98=]

I mean playing in DX10 mode, in DX9 mode i'm sure its' fine. Maybe if the resolution is relatively low, you could bang out a reasonable frame rate on DX10.

For DirectX 10 on Crysis, all options must be "very High".

So the framerates taken in that test don't depict DX10 on any of those games.

Maybe you should do some research as to the difference between DX9 and DX10 in the same titles

[Minicoop503]

I mean playing in DX10 mode, in DX9 mode i'm sure its' fine. Maybe if the resolution is relatively low, you could bang out a reasonable frame rate on DX10.

For DirectX 10 on Crysis, all options must be "very High".

So the framerates taken in that test don't depict DX10 on any of those games.

Maybe you should do some research as to the difference between DX9 and DX10 in the same titles

Ok, well I'm pretty sure that no graphics card, mobile or not, can play Crysis in DX10 at all high settings anyways..

[Trevortt]

Ok, well I'm pretty sure that no graphics card, mobile or not, can play Crysis in DX10 at all high settings anyways..

They can, it just looks like a slideshow :P

[=98=]

Ok, well I'm pretty sure that no graphics card, mobile or not, can play Crysis in DX10 at all high settings anyways..

Exactly my point

[Garcia2100]

i dont know how to build my own, so i wanna buy it off somewhere. Thats why ive been looking at dell, and HP.

[=98=]

I wouldn't look at those places. CCOnline, Cube 247 and the other more "gamer" aimed companies would do you better. You'll see adverts for loads of them in magazines in Custom PC magazine etc...

[Garcia2100]

i live in new york right now. So i dont think i really wanna order something from europe. Unless shipping is free.

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i live in new york right now. So i dont think i really wanna order something from europe. Unless shipping is free.

Garcia if you wanted to save a boat load of $ try building your own,You have alot of realy smart folks on these forums im sure would help you with any question you may have while doing the build.

If you have no idea what flows smooth with what,give a budget and maybe some one here(time permiting) could give you a list of hardware that works smooth with each other.

Its just a thought but IMHO i would trust alot of the guys from TGN be for i would trust any one from Dell/Alien ware.

Good luck :salute:

[Death Merchant]

I mean playing in DX10 mode, in DX9 mode i'm sure its' fine. Maybe if the resolution is relatively low, you could bang out a reasonable frame rate on DX10.

For DirectX 10 on Crysis, all options must be "very High".

So the framerates taken in that test don't depict DX10 on any of those games.

Maybe you should do some research as to the difference between DX9 and DX10 in the same titles

the point im trying to make is that there are good graphics cards for laptops you just have to lose an arm and a leg to be able to afford one

I mean the desktop 8800gtx cant run crysis on very high without it being a slideshow

[=98=]

I mean the desktop 8800gtx cant run crysis on very high without it being a slideshow

Nope. An Ultra struggles on Very high (which means DX10) above 1280x1024. So, no.