Well, it seems I will be getting my new notebook tomorrow, a Dell Inspiron 1764 with a Core i3 330M processor. Since I was able to get a huge discount on this particular model, another model with an NVIDIA / ATI video card wasn't an option. The thing is, I heard these processors have an integrated GPU which is more powerful than Intel previous GPUs but I wasn't able to find any detailed info about it or its gaming performance, and I would like to know what games can I expect to play with it. I'm not expecting to get an excellent performance in current games or anything, it just would be nice if I could put some lightweight games on it... Thanks in advance
Benchmarks I've seen say performance is lower than a baseline £30 Nvidia card. Expect to struggle with SFIV and above, apparently. I guess it depends where you put your definition of "lightweight".
The Onboard GPU is crap if you ask me. Its does about as well as a Intel 4500HD, which will work depending on your needs, great for office work but gaming and media creation are going to suffer big time.
This^^^ The intel onboard GPU is good enough for blu-ray. GOOD ENOUGH. Having said that, games like HL2 (CSS, and TF2) should perform good enough on that gpu. Newer games, like Dawn of War 2, or SC2 will suffer at playable settings.
I know it won't handle nothing too new, that wasn't the idea since like I said in the first post, getting a laptop with a decent graphics card wasn't an option (I'm getting this laptop for 645 dollars because of a huge discount I got from an importer I work with, normally you can't get a laptop like this here for less than 1100 or 1200 dollars). But I could find some benchmarks and it seems I'll be able to stick most of the games I could play when I had a Geforce 7200GS on my desktop computer. I don't need much more either, for more recent games I have my desktop computer anyway...
Your paying $645 for this? Is that in USD? If so your getting ripped off. You can get a brand new laptop with Core i5-450M and a Geforce 310M video card from dell for that much. http://outlet.us.dell.com/ARBOnline...Search.aspx?rn=1107&SC=&c=us&cs=28&l=en&s=dfb My Dad picked up one last week, its a fantastic little device.
Yeh it's ridiculous how much I've been quoted for a damn PS2 there. Load up a tanker with chipped PS2s and dvd-rs and you'd be a very rich man for some time. Probably have difficulty offloading them though.
You can bet it, normally you can easily sell a chipped, used PS2 for around 150 dollars. The thing is the customs put a 60% tax for all tech-related imports, so you end having horribly high prices. Just enter to MercadoLibre Uruguar for five minutes and you'll get an idea of what I'm talking about. BTW, Oblivion seems to be playable with high-detail graphics and an 800x600 resolution... Good enough for me, I must say I didn't expect that much from an Intel GPU.
How do these fair against ION chipsets? I assume give Intel's records on integrated graphics (Ie. GMAXXX), the ION will be much better?
ION is basically a modified Nforce chipset + Geforce 9400M using shared memory. It for the most part should spank any GMA graphics chip.
