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Old 12-16-2006, 06:38 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Question Which video card is better for a gaming laptop?

Keep in mind both laptops will have no less than 1 gig of ram. One even up to 4 gigs ram.

One of the video cards:

ATI Mobility Radeon, 64-bit video graphics with 32-MB DDR SDRAM for increased color depth and graphics performance

Or:

ATI Mobility Radeon X600 with 64mb(I think)

Looking to find out which would be better and why. Currently, on one of my laptops I have the top vidoe card. It can play games like age of empires3, dark age of camelot, and some others.

Any information will be greatly appreciated.
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Old 12-17-2006, 10:18 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Actually the second laptop has this video card:
ATI Mobility Radeon X700 video card.
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Uh well considering the first one doesn't really give a card name, I'm going to have to say the one with the x700.
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They are both ATI radeons
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Old 12-18-2006, 03:48 AM   #5 (permalink)
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indeed they are. however they are different models and the x700 is most likely better.
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x700 is definitely better. ATI hasn't made a laptop card with 32mb of video ram for years.
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