best gaming laptop - AKA is Geforce 6800 a dud?

tbel · 10-31-2005, 06:16 AM

Hey so,
The kid goes to college, and sure enough his old pc is dying. I gotta get a laptop, so..

Candidate #1 - ABS Mayhem [P4 processor] with 256mb dedicated graphics (Geforce Go 6800 Ultra). Is this card worth the [insane] price?

Candidate #2 - HP w/ Athlon 64 4000+ and 128MB ATI RADEON® XPRESS 200M w/Hypermemory [or is that just 'hyped' memory?]

#3 - Widow PC [don't know if the brand is to be trusted] w/ "Choice of nVidia 7800 GTX, ATI X850 XT Platinum Edition, or nVidia Quadro 1400 video cards with 256MB DDR3 memory and AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+ or FX57"

Thanks!!

Akherousin · 10-31-2005, 09:35 PM

No Quadro, no XPRESS 200 M.

#1 is cool, nice power.

#3 is good also. Both 7800 GTX and X850XT are raw power

depends on what you can afford.

Processor-wise, the FX57 is faster in gaming, the X2 4800+ is faster in dualcore applications (which aren't much around though)

tbel · 10-31-2005, 10:37 PM

Thanks

SprigganX · 11-01-2005, 08:06 PM

#3 i would pick, if there was a x1800xt in there i will tell you to go with that, but crappy nvidia 7800gtx can sometimes be ok >_>.

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10-31-2005, 06:16 AM	#1 (permalink)
tbel is on the 1st circle: Limbo Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 13 Hellbux: 781	Hey so, The kid goes to college, and sure enough his old pc is dying. I gotta get a laptop, so.. Candidate #1 - ABS Mayhem [P4 processor] with 256mb dedicated graphics (Geforce Go 6800 Ultra). Is this card worth the [insane] price? Candidate #2 - HP w/ Athlon 64 4000+ and 128MB ATI RADEON® XPRESS 200M w/Hypermemory [or is that just 'hyped' memory?] #3 - Widow PC [don't know if the brand is to be trusted] w/ "Choice of nVidia 7800 GTX, ATI X850 XT Platinum Edition, or nVidia Quadro 1400 video cards with 256MB DDR3 memory and AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+ or FX57" Thanks!!

10-31-2005, 10:37 PM	#3 (permalink)
tbel is on the 1st circle: Limbo Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 13 Hellbux: 781	Thanks