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1. monkeygourmet
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   My girlfriend has just purchased a new laptop. It has a Sandy Bridge i7, 6gb ram and the Nvidia Geforce 540m Graphics card with 1Gb of ram.

   Full specs here:

   http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/product/Satellite-P750-114/1107187/toshibaShop/true/

   Just wanted an opinion of what games could look like on this thing? I know that a laptop is never going to be as fast as a desktop but was intrigued to know what this thing could run and what level of details we might be able to expect?

   We mainly game on the 360 / PS3 so are we looking at similar graphics quality to those consoles?

   Finally, what games should we test on it?

   Any help would be much appriciated,

   thanks

   Posted 1 year ago #

2. Erthazus
   Member

   I don't know why your GF purchased a i7 Sandy Bridge notebook with 6GB of ram because if she is just going to surf on the net or do some simple stuff on it she won't use even 30-40% of it's processing and memory power.

   Games:

   While processor and Ram is great, videocard is not so much.
   540m GeForce is similar to 260 Geforce in terms of GfLOPS.

   you can expect graphics quality much better then on console games by Far with this videocard and especially processor and memory.
   But it's not for the long term and videocard is very slow.

   test your notebook on Metro 2033.

   Posted 1 year ago #

3. monkeygourmet
   Member

   She's going to be editing video and things like that for her gaming blog and wanted something portable which would also last a few years.

   Also wanted to game and use STEAM a bit as a side feature.

   Thanks for the info, i thought the graphics card would let it down a bit but was just interested to know how it compared to a 360 / PS3 as it has a HDMI out so we should be able to hook it up through our HDTV for some gaming.

   Would it run something like Crysis 2 better than the 360 for example? (framerate and resolution etc...?)

   Posted 1 year ago #

4. Erthazus
   Member

   "Would it run something like Crysis 2 better than the 360 for example? (framerate and resolution etc...?) "

   Absolutely. You can run Crysis 2 on high (with the highest resolution possible) but it's going to be a bit slow because of the videocard.
   On medium it's going to have solid 45+ fps and you can expect much better picture quality than on 360 or PS3 by Far.

   your notebook is more powerfull then your 360 for like 5-6 times. Lol.

   Posted 1 year ago #

5. monkeygourmet
   Member

   Ha! Thats funny!

   The 360 is getting very long in the tooth now! :)

   We don't intend to get into PC gaming full-on (buying dual graphics cards etc...) but it should be nice to see how things stack up!

   I always used to hate having games running on medium on my old PC (im talking MDK 2 and Sacrifice to give you an idea of how long i've been out of the PC gaming scene!) But what you you say medium settings equates to compared to 360 game graphics now?

   Are 360 games really running on the equivalant of low PC settings?

   Posted 1 year ago #

6. Erthazus
   Member

   "But what you you say medium settings equates to compared to 360 game graphics now?

   Are 360 games really running on the equivalant of low PC settings? "

   It depends on the development.

   for example Metro 2033 runs on the 360 with low settings and with the lowest resolution. It's day and night in terms of performance and visuals with 360 vs PC

   while Assassins Creed 2 on the medium settings and 720p (PC) have exactly the same quality like on the 360 but 1080p and high settings is another story for the PC but still not a huge leap.

   you can test it yourself and you will see a huge difference in everything.

   Posted 1 year ago #

7. monkeygourmet
   Member

   Cool, thanks for the heads-up!

   Posted 1 year ago #

8. freedoms_stain
   Moderator

   Just be careful in buying games because most developers won't support mobile versions of gpu so it might be worth your while googling a bit to see if anyone had had success/failure running a particular title on your particular card in the past.

   Posted 1 year ago #

9. Crab of Thunder
   Member

   Download TF2, it's free (On steam) and a good way to see how fast your laptop will run it, which will be absolutey fine by the sounds of it. Otherwise there are numerous demos and such on the steam store.

   Posted 1 year ago #

10. lobbyesiqa
    Member

    Try Following games
    1. Obsession
    2. Xenon 2
    3. Chaos Strikes Back
    4. Dungeon Master
    5. Colonial Conquest
    6. Super Sprint
    7. Defender of the Crown
    8. Civilization
    9. Elite
    10. Mouse Trap
    http://www.free-bike-games.com

    Posted 1 year ago #

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