Need help with graphics


Alter666

 

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Hello

I'm asking for a alienware laptop for Christmas/ my birthday this year... I was wondering if the 1GB ATI Radeon™ Mobility HD 5730 would play ultra mode or recommended settings. So all my techy heroes and villains help a fellow out.

All so I chose the i7 but if I the 5730 won't work I'll need to downgrade so if I mus should I get the i3 or i5.

That is the lowest they offer the next is: 1GB ATI Radeon™ Mobility HD 5850
and the gaming one the offer is this: 1GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 260M


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I'm not totally up on all the details of the current generation of graphics cards, but considering that yours is basically the mobile equivalent of my 5750 you should probably be able to run at least at recommended smoothly. Now, I can run full Ultra Mode (although I have to choose between FSAA and Ambient Occlusion because they don't play nice with each other on ATI cards) but when teaming I do run into some lag issues here and there and have to drop the settings down. You'll probably be in the same boat.

That said, if you want a definitive answer, you might want to ask on the Tech section of the forums. There's folks lurking there that are better equipped to fully answer your question, heh. By the way, are you looking at an Alienware m11x or so?


 

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I'm looking at the m15x but yeah


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Alter a question like this will get a more enthusiastic response if you post in the Tech Issues & Bugs forum (<-linky).

This forum's more for in-game questions like "at what level can I get a cape", while more of the real hard-core tech heads lurk in the other forum.


 

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Christmas is a quite a few months away. I wouldn't make any decisions until it was closer as specs along with prices will change.


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