Asus Laptops

[Extremerc12]

Hey guys.


I am looking for a new gaming laptop to bring with me when I go on the road for work (At night at my hotel/condo). Training courses and when I go to supervise jobs all over the country. Anyway, I am looking at two different laptops, and I am trying to figure out which would be better graphically for games such as Call of Duty and Wow.

Here are the two links.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834220641

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834220635

I havn't been able to get accurate information regarding which would be the best to game with. I want to stay in the 700-900 range, if there is another idea out there.

Thanks

[EzyStvy]

I would got down the Video Card info for both and head over to www.TomsHardware.com and look in the video card CHARTS to see which one has better scores.

[Extremerc12]

Thanks EZY, should've mentioned that I did do that but through the website Notebookcheck. Anyway, the scores of the Radeon Mobility is slightly higher than the Geforce, but I was just wondering if maybe someone has had experience with these types of mobility cards. Few years back, I got a Dell with a Mobility 1300 or something like that, and it was terrible. I don't venture into the laptop world that often.


Thanks Again.

Extreme

[David M]

For running games on a new laptop with a relatively new and reasonably fast CPU, your bottleneck is going to be at the GPU. Unless you are running games with very little graphics demand on the GPU, you are not going to get much of a gaming laptop in your price range. Don't expect to be able to play Crysis, COD-MW2, etc at decent frame rates at high game settings. Many simulation games, older RPG's and many older FPS games from a few generations ago will probably play quite well. It also depends on your tolerance for slower frame rates.

It all comes down to getting the most powerful GPU/graphics RAM (and sufficient RAM) that you want to pay for.

For on the road business travel, you may also want look at Lenovo laptops.

[Extremerc12]

David M, thanks for the response. While I do own those games that you mentioned, I don't really care if they are on full settings or not. Medium with 40-50ish fps would be perfectly fine. I am not looking to get a laptop that will be on par with my desktop. The Radeon Mobility X1300 in my current laptop plays world of warcraft at low settings at 10 fps sometimes lower. If I could play at low settings or even medium settings that reach the 40-50 fps range, I would be able to tolerate something to that effect. The actual video card in the Asus laptop I linked is a 4670, I verified that with Asus. I am certainly capable of buying a high end laptop as I am an engineer, but I don't see the value in it.


This is what Notebookcheck says for the Radeon Mobility 4670.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-ATI...0.13881.0.html

In regards to the Geforce 220M I linked, I have been reading that it is in fact a re-badged 9600GT which I actually had in a previous desktop. I know that version of card got around 50-60 fps on high settings in WoW and more than that at medium settings. Not quite sure if I can compare the two however as one is a mobile version and the other is a desktop version.

Again, thanks for all the help.

Chris

[jmr30183]

If you're still shopping, Newegg has the following on sale-

Toshiba Satellite A505-S6985
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Intel C2D T6600
4GB DDR3 RAM
1GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M (GDDR3)
LINK

The sale price would probably be useful....it's $699 at the moment!

[Iamjosh]

That Asus is a great choice and the fact that comes with HD 4670 makes it a great gaming laptop. I don't think you'll find a better deal for your money and better performance. The only other brand you might take a look is MSI's. Asus has been my top choice for the past year as far as laptops.

[jmr30183]

BEST BUY has a killer deal on the ASUS G60Vx-RBBX05 for $899.99-

Windows 7 Home Premium 64
2.13GHz Intel C2D P7450 (1066MHz FSB, 3mb L2 cache)
4GB DDR2 RAM
16" LED-backlit Glossy Display
1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M (GDDR3 VRAM)
320GB 7200rpm hard drive (dual HDD support)
DVD SuperMulti (DVD-RW)
HDMI, eSATA, 1394, 4-USB, VGA
6-cell battery (battery life sucks at just 1.5hrs, but that's the trade-off)

LINK

[Extremerc12]

At the moment I am still looking. I was looking at this particular laptop actually.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...0%2841865GU%29

Only chose tigerdirect cause its cheaper than newegg shipped. That Asus Laptop at Bestbuy doesn't seem like a bad deal to me either. Faster harddrive and better video card but it comes out to just about $980