what should i get for gaming

What would be better for a gaming laptop

amd fx-60
nvidea go 7900 gtx 512mb
2gb ram

or

intel 3.8GHz Intel Pentium® 4 670 Processor HT w/2,048k L2 Cache - 800MHz FSB
nvidea go 7900 gtx 512mb
3gb ram

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I dont think its even a close contest.

3gb is total overkill on a laptop
GFX is the most important for games and both have the same chip.

The biggest difference is fx-60 v P4 and for gaming the FX wins easy plus the fx is dual core and the p4 is only single.

The P4 will bang out some massive heat as well.

Are they the same price?

Reply to sleepdeprived82

Think more "portable desktop" and you'll be closer to the truth - these laptops need mains power and get very hot. Both the FX-60 and the P4 were never designed for laptops - they're desktop processors shoehorned into the cramped confines of a laptop - hence the heat problem.

If I wanted a "laptop" with gaming capabilities I'd go for something like this:

http://www.rockdirect.co.uk/notebo [...] x_cons.htm

It runs the Core Duo processor (lower power rating - less heat - longer battery life) with the Go7900GTX graphics.

Reply to Ford_Prefect

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What would be better for a gaming laptop

amd fx-60
nvidea go 7900 gtx 512mb
2gb ram

or

intel 3.8GHz Intel Pentium® 4 670 Processor HT w/2,048k L2 Cache - 800MHz FSB
nvidea go 7900 gtx 512mb
3gb ram

8O no battery life what so ever .....................................

Reply to uber_g

The Pentium M would best...

Reply to RichPLS

Quote :

Think more "portable desktop" and you'll be closer to the truth - these laptops need mains power and get very hot. Both the FX-60 and the P4 were never designed for laptops - they're desktop processors shoehorned into the cramped confines of a laptop - hence the heat problem.

If I wanted a "laptop" with gaming capabilities I'd go for something like this:

http://www.rockdirect.co.uk/notebo [...] x_cons.htm

It runs the Core Duo processor (lower power rating - less heat - longer battery life) with the Go7900GTX graphics.

You're right, way too much heat for a laptop. Pentium M, or wait for Merom.

Reply to 1Tanker

I dont care about battery life and sager test for heat problems. I looked for around a month for people who had the fx-60 in a laptop and ran both cores at 100% for a month and never went over 60 degrees C with stock cooling. They are both close in price as well. I was thinking I wanted the fx-60 so I did more research on it, But when i found out i could get 3 gb of ram i wondered how that woud alter performance. I wasnt sure about dual core vs single core for gaming either even though i have read alot and seen muliple benchmarks they all seem to be biased towards intel or amd.

Reply to quakemarine20

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I dont care about battery life and sager test for heat problems. I looked for around a month for people who had the fx-60 in a laptop and ran both cores at 100% for a month and never went over 60 degrees C with stock cooling. They are both close in price as well. I was thinking I wanted the fx-60 so I did more research on it, But when i found out i could get 3 gb of ram i wondered how that woud alter performance. I wasnt sure about dual core vs single core for gaming either even though i have read alot and seen muliple benchmarks they all seem to be biased towards intel or amd.

2GB of RAM is plenty.

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