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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: TheZohan on September 23, 2009, 09:59:19 PM
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2353214,00.asp
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The only exciting thing about this... Manufacturers seem to be making a little room for personal upgrades.
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I was surprised to see that one of my classmates built a gaming laptop for his senior project. I didn't realize all the components were around for that yet.
(Still pretty lame to build a computer for a senior project, I think, but...)
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Laptop and gaming shouldn't be used in the same sentance.
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Laptop and gaming shouldn't be used in the same sentance.
i respectfully disagree.
(http://www.kinc.se/W90/w90.jpg)
(http://www.theinquirer.net/img/11531/w90.jpg?1241332203)
(http://www.kinc.se/W90/20k2.png)
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=218157 (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=218157)
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1051085/asus-intros-mobility-radeon-hd-4870-x2 (http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1051085/asus-intros-mobility-radeon-hd-4870-x2)
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Laptop and gaming shouldn't be used in the same sentance.
Yeah, laptops are starting to be competitive for a price...I still prefer a desktop, myself. They'll always be faster since they don't need to bother with "mobile technology."
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Not to mention running cooler.
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I was surprised to see that one of my classmates built a gaming laptop for his senior project. I didn't realize all the components were around for that yet.
(Still pretty lame to build a computer for a senior project, I think, but...)
where do you buy the shell for the laptop i have never been able to find an empty shell
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i respectfully disagree.
(http://www.kinc.se/W90/w90.jpg)
(http://www.theinquirer.net/img/11531/w90.jpg?1241332203)
(http://www.kinc.se/W90/20k2.png)
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=218157 (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=218157)
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1051085/asus-intros-mobility-radeon-hd-4870-x2 (http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1051085/asus-intros-mobility-radeon-hd-4870-x2)
How many equivalent speed desktops could you buy with the price of that? Two? More? ;)
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where do you buy the shell for the laptop i have never been able to find an empty shell
I have no idea. Heck, it may have been a lie. He always was good at that.
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I have no idea. Heck, it may have been a lie. He always was good at that.
While not empty shell, Asus among some others has provided 'barebone' laptops that contain a casing, motherboard and such but which you have to compile yourself using off the shelf components. CPU, memory etc. Some laptop computers even support add-on graphics cards afaik - even though I've never seen one for sale anywhere. And since they're so rare they must cost. A lot.
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FWIW, IMO, YMMV, and of course there are exceptions etc. - but another "truism" is that often even a laptop that's equivalent in every way to an "identical" desktop is inferior for gaming, because the BIOS is generally optimized for power conservation. This often means odd slow downs and other quirks that don't happen in the "exactly matching" desktop system.
Of course, I'd like to believe that a gaming oriented laptop is different, but...
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http://laptoping.com/category/barebone-laptops/
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where do you buy the shell for the laptop i have never been able to find an empty shell
These "shells" are actually called "White Books". There are many manufactures that offer the Whitebook base. ASUS makes an excellent dedicated to gaming laptop but this is an expensive rig. If you look at the one posted by skribetm this looks like one to me. You can see its advantage with the 3dMark score. His score rivals most desktop systems. He does have it overclocked pretty well. My only concern would be cooling at those clock speed. But very impressive Skibetm :salute
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thats a i7 laptop, i7 vs Core 2 Quad? it only has 4650 mobile but i am sure they can get a mobil 4800 series with a i7 laptop out soon.
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These "shells" are actually called "White Books". There are many manufactures that offer the Whitebook base. ASUS makes an excellent dedicated to gaming laptop but this is an expensive rig. If you look at the one posted by skribetm this looks like one to me. You can see its advantage with the 3dMark score. His score rivals most desktop systems. He does have it overclocked pretty well. My only concern would be cooling at those clock speed. But very impressive Skibetm :salute
thank you never knew they where called white books
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Laptops are overrated.
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how is this graphics card for a laptop? 1600x1200 Hi-Res Nvidia Gforce FX Go 5600 128MB
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These "shells" are actually called "White Books". There are many manufactures that offer the Whitebook base. ASUS makes an excellent dedicated to gaming laptop but this is an expensive rig. If you look at the one posted by skribetm this looks like one to me. You can see its advantage with the 3dMark score. His score rivals most desktop systems. He does have it overclocked pretty well. My only concern would be cooling at those clock speed. But very impressive Skibetm :salute
i apologize sir but i DO NOT own one, lolz! it's too expensive and unless one prioritizes some mobility out of their systems i wouldn't advise getting one. the more recent models that come with a nehalem chip has underpowered ati radeon mobility discrete graphics cards(4650, 4350..etc.) and wont be as good as this C2Quad based system from ASUS(when benching it, this has the 4870X2!) however, this laptop i posted prolly wont have power on batteries for even 30 minutes when gaming. i would imagine the power drain of the mobile 4870X2 to still be around 200W since its still the same 55nm process gpu.
true, desktops will still be better for gamers. :aok <S!>