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12-03-2005, 04:39 PM
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| GMA 900 ok for laptop??? I am looking at a laptop that has an Intel Graphics Media Accellerator 900 in it and i was wondering 1) How good is the linux driver support? 2) What is the most graphically intense game it would play? 3) is it shared or dedicated VRam?
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12-03-2005, 04:41 PM
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| most likely shared and not very good. i have shared intel graphics and i can't even run HL1 decently |
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12-03-2005, 04:43 PM
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| is it Extreme 1, 2 or GMA 900? I am only interested in say, Call Of Duty which ran fine on my 8500, so i am hoping it might run on this. Which chipset do you have?
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12-03-2005, 04:44 PM
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2) You are looking on the lines of Half-Life (Not at maxed settings) 3) Shared VRAM Not a good choice, ATI Xpress 200 Chipset or nVidia 6600GT is the way to go.
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12-03-2005, 04:49 PM
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| well this laptop is around $1300 Canadian, with $300 off instantly at bestbuy, and while i would vastly prefer an XPress 200 or 6600GT its around a $600 price jump. Is the linux support through an official driver, or is it a high quality OSS driver? Linux is a must on this setup, allthough i can deal with not having wireless in linux if it isnt super easy to setup
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12-03-2005, 05:04 PM
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| not even sure what i have, but it is the more basic one 5xxxx series, not extreme. either way, shared gfx sucks big time |
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12-03-2005, 05:54 PM
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| My toshiba has the intel 900 in it, upto 128mb shared. i have a 1.73ghz cpu with 1gb of ram. ill run 3dmark03 to see what kind of score it gets.
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12-03-2005, 06:17 PM
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| 3dmark03 (865) i dont think it will be play much of anything.
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12-03-2005, 09:54 PM
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| Thanks for testing it for me! bahumbug! i guess it will have to be for work only  Have you tried linux on it?
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12-03-2005, 09:55 PM
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12-04-2005, 12:28 AM
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| well i was able to load linux on my laptop, but driver support isnt that good and i dont know any linux commands so i wasnt able to load any drivers.
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