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Proin Drakenzol:

--- Quote from: narcusyetra on April 02, 2010, 12:00:56 AM ---actually im starting coll so i need to have a laptop with decent game support but id be using it watch stuff mostly so a good large screen is a necessity....
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Buy an Asus


--- Quote ---also shud i consider mac?
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Not if you're interested in gaming. Granted, you can dual-boot, but if your primary use is Windows based anyway you shouldn't pay the hardware premium the Mac entails.


--- Quote ---btw one of my desktops is going to physical dump of memory 'internet suggests formatting' but that isnt helping will a better ram help (xp 1gb ram only used for torrent downloading and music)
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It's possible that your RAM is going bad, but without knowing the exact error code and portion of memory the dump triggers on it's difficult to say.

Also, please learn how to spell. It's a necessary skill in college.

lapa321:
Asus G15J 3D

$1,700.00
Core i7-720
4Gig DDR3
GTX 260M 1GB DDR3
640Gig Harddrive
Blueray Drive



Includes the 3D vision kit. That's the 3D glasses he's wearing.

Will5757:
32 bit versions of window's are limited to 4gb of memory (not 3) the issue comes from that this is all physical memory (any roms like your bios on the mobo, as well as memory on videocard, maybe soundcard, not sure how creative's new stuff works)

technically they don't have to be limited, but it's much more stable if it is (they used to create something similar to a pagefile, but on the excess memory, drivers didn't like this and often crashed)

for testing your xp box you can use memtest (a bootable cd) does a good job of testing, or you can start pulling sticks out until you find which one is the problem, if either are or both

you might want to mention what sort of games your planning to play on it, i don't know a lot about laptops, but that's going to be a key factor in what kind of machine you need.

i'll agree with the others in saying though your better off with a desktop if you don't absolutely have to game or photoshop on your laptop. heck if you don't have to do to much with the laptop you might even be able to get a cheap used one and put more into your desktop

Stsin:

--- Quote from: xShadow on April 01, 2010, 04:40:03 PM ---I'm saying this as a person that got one of the better/best gaming laptops of one of the last generations, when I was entering college (has a 9600M in it and a good Core 2 duo). Mine cost ~1500$, and I'm telling you right now that if they didn't give me the option to let it be covered by scholarships and whatnot (my college required a laptop), I definitely would have been better off with just buying a desktop for 1k$ and then spending 500$ on a laptop. I don't see how anyone in their right mind could make the decision to shell out more money of something that has much crappier specs... just because you can take it places.
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It's not much crappier specs.  This is pretty close to the top, compared to your gaming laptop to desktops back then.  And yes, my friend is having school to help pay for it.  He's already got a good desktop, but this laptop gives him a big hard on.  So I told him to go for it.  Nice 1080p LCD screen and the power to push it in gaming.  It's not going to be outdated for a long while.


--- Quote ---As for the RAM issue, I'd maybe go as high as 6 gigs, but haven't been having any problem with 4 gigs on my desktop, as far as gaming goes.
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Ignoring Superfetch to take advantage of unused ram, this reminds me of the debate some years ago about 512MB vs 1 GB.  Biggest reason was that games won't use all the ram...which was untrue back then, when games like WoW already did.  Well, since I use DDR2, the choice was 4 or 8.  I definitely needed more than 4.  And yes, it's for gaming:
(click to show/hide)Ever heard of the flash game called My Brute?
 I posted about it on this forum but it got deleted.  Well, though I started late, I became the top of the English server in matter of months.  Rank 1 and 2.  By using automation scripts in separate Virtual XPs, each constantly switching proxies.  That wasn't enough as I also took over the Spanish server.  Though my intention was never for the money, I recently sold that Spanish brute for an offer I couldn't refuse in hundreds of USD.  I could sell enough brutes to get that laptop ;)  While it's botting 24/7, I also like to clean up the data by using SQuirreL to export and import.  Since current version of Open Office can't have more than 65,536 rows, I end up using multiple sheets at once for my hundreds of thousands of pupils.  So with extra memory, I no longer feel restricted on how many simultaneous tasks I can run, like I'm even able to play Dragon's Age.  Hell, I stopped worrying about how much resources apps take up as I also run tons of gadgets including animations that are always on that dances and syncs with the music I'm playing.  It's the first time since I've been using Windows that I feel that my system is truly multitasking.

--- Quote ---Even if we take the ram issue out though, I'd still say it's a waste.
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Don't forget that nice 1080p LCD screen and the fastest GPU of any laptop to push it ;)


--- Quote from: fohfoh ---I concur... basic use for laptop... you don't need much. If you want performance, don't bother. Heating issues kills laptops. Mine idles at like 40-60 celcius. That's fucked up. And the biggest part I can't deal with... the APi idles high and even a laptop fan can't always deal with it. So either the build has to be good, or you'll run into problems fast when you overheat your laptop.
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Another great thing about this laptop is it's dual exhaust port.  Keeping this beast quite cool.  Also the benefits of using the mobility versions of the CPU and GPU instead of the desktop versions requiring monster cooling.  Definitely worth the slight performance hit for a laptop.  CPU also uses Intel's Turbo Boost so it doesn't overclock the CPU unless it's needed.  With the GPU also downclocking, never a heating issue nor much power usage at idle.  Plus it doesn't get too hot when running benchmarks like Prime95 or Crysis endlessly.

Newegg reviewers are often the most critical.  The posted reviews on this laptop are pretty good.

Seriously, if tight on money, then you shouldn't get it.  Get a netbook and have built in internet access everywhere.  But I still think this is a bargain for what it's capable of.  I don't see people bashing those buying an i7 with DDR3 with dual GPUs...and a 37in 1080p LCD.  They obviously won't get the most out of it and should settle with much less ;)

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