I want to buy a notebook for gaming. what graphic card should I buy? (max 2000$)?
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Hi,\nMake sure that you buy a laptop that comes with either:\n1.ATI X1400 (pretty good video card for laptop)\n2.ATI X1600 (better than x1400 recommended for gaming)\n3.ATI x1800 (ATI's best video card for laptop)\n4.Nvidia Geforce GO 7900GTX (this is the best video card!,This is the king of all the video cards for laptop)\n5.Geforce Go 7600 (Pretty good video card for laptop gaming)\n\nWell here is my list, I also need to let you know that the better the video card is the more power it needs so by buying the best video card you will get fewer hours/min of battery life. For battery life and gaming together I would recommend ATI X1400 or Nvidia Go 7600
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Is that... US dollars?  Anyway, what he said is correct, you can't change the graphics card on a laptop.  New ones will have either the Radeon X1400 or X1600 Mobility, Geforce 7400 or Geforce 7600 variants in them, on the mainstream end.  But you won't find any of them for less than $1000, more likely around $1300.  I don't know if you were only willing to spend $750 on a graphics card or $750 on a laptop with dedicated graphics, whatever the case, $750 for a graphics card is unheard of (unless you are planning to buy to Geforce 7900GTXs) and $750 for a laptop is too little to get a dedicated graphics card in it.  And as I said, you can't upgrade the graphics... in any laptop with the exceptions being from Dell and Alienware but only on the XPS line and a top of the line Alienware and you have to send it back to them for the upgrade.\n\nI agree, nVidia is the way to go but at $750 you aren't going to find one with a dedicated graphics card.  It's just not possible.  HP uses the Geforce 7400 Go in two of their laptop lines, however the lowest price I could get on that was $950 and it's not a very powerful machine.  To make it a machine worth owning you'll have to spend at least $1180 on it.  http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/compare_category.do;jsessionid=EzDMWYNTvmBgFd7wxkjFuFsDEFXtwJDWoOnsCNtWvRoGsThVNriv!1231286070?storeName=computer_store&category=notebooks/hp_pavilion&catLevel=1
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I got gaming laptop from cyberpower 2 years ago ^__^ it was a good laptop, but the cooling was inadequate. so i bought an extra fan.\n\nanyways, here's a deal from ibuypower:\n\nhttp://www.ibuypower.com/ibp/store/configurator.aspx?mid=173\n\nit features the centrino core duo and an ati radeon mobility x1600 starting at $1200. The only problem i can think of is that the screen has a maximum resolution of 1280x800. if it were 1400/1650x1050, that would be perfect for gaming and movies.\n\nHere's another good website with dual core laptops with graphics cards:\n\nhttp://www.powernotebooks.com/category.php?catId=102
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Seems liek your buying aPc instead of a laptop....well u defintly need at least 1 Gb of Ram in  it...other than that i would personally advice you to go for an intel dual core processor they are the latest processors and the most effective. if you store or download a lot of media files you would need at least 160 gb of memory . Dell computers are one of the best  i think. they have reallygud monitors too.. if you get a dell it will mostly come with a monitor so that shouldnt be a problem. other than that  windows media centre home edition is a gud operating system,  if you are  gamer u SHOULD give very much importance to graphiv card. i would advice you to get a Nvidia Geforce card they come in different prices  depends on how much you would really use them. i have listed below the site to dell & a few other brands. how this would help you. Best of Luck..!!! :D
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I agree that you won't find anything that can game for under $1000, let alone game well.  If you are playing older games you can probably get away with it, but anything new and you'll be forced to play on low settings with a very bad resolution, if you can even get the game to play at all.\n\nThese are the bare minimum graphics cards you should look for to be able to game on ok settings, you won't be able to max everything out, but everything will play well. In order of performance, lowest to highest.\nNvidia GeForce Go6400\nATI Mobility Radeon X600\nNvidia GeForce Go7400\nATI Mobility Radeon X1400 \nIf you want better performance, where you can turn the settings on high, listed lowest to highest\nNvidia GeForce Go6600\nATI Mobility Radeon X700\nNvidia GeForce Go7600\nATI Mobility Radeon X1600\nNvidia GeForce Go7700\nNvidia GeForce Go7600GT \n\nand now for the best of the best, monsters, you won't find these in anything that is close to mobile though.  These are only in desktop replacement notebooks that need constant power because they are so power hungry.\nIn order lowest to highest\nNvidia GeForce Go7800\nATI Mobility Radeon X1800\nNvidia GeForce Go7900GS\nNvidia GeForce Go7800GTX\nATI Mobility Radeon X1800XT\nNvidia GeForce Go7900GTX\nNvidia GeForce Go7950GTX \nThe next gen of mobile graphic is just around the corner though,  with the latest direct X 10, and support for everything in vista.  You'll just have to wait a few months for these.\nA better budget for a mobile gaming system is more around $1500 on the very low end.  It's very much worth it to save up, instead of dropping a grand on something that doesn't do what you want it to.
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I know the dell gaming laptop is good it's called like the x factor or something/ or try ibuypower.com/ i just bought my gaming computer from them/ they are almost a good as alienware, but ibuypower has top of the line gaming stuff. For games you want to get at least a 256 MB video card and try to at least get a good dual core proccesor-3.0 ghz or up... but other than those companies i know/ i cant give you ten!
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I think it all depends on the specification of the notebooks. If you are going for the game... I suggest Alienware notebook, XPS for Dell, and for me I thought Toshiba was pretty good overall.
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Depends on YOUR budget!  Avoid boutique brands such as Alienware, Falcon, and Voodoo.  You can get the same without paying the exorbitant costs.  These are just starters.  Check out this website for good tips.  http://www.notebookforums.com/forums
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Asus and DFI are two brands that are highly recommended by gamers.\n\nRead for expert and user ratings on websites like Tom's Hardware Guide (THG) and CNet.com for the specific one you might choose.\n\nI own an ASUS a8N SLi Premium, and it is really good. Go for Asus.
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first check that you have a agp slot or not, then if you have get the g force or n vedia but that must be more than 6000 rs or it will be no good. and then check that the card has more than256 mb of vedio ram or not. and if you don't have the agp slot then you can buy some pci graphics cards, not so good but better than the onboard one.
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check and compare specs and prices. know what you want your card to do. i picked up a nvidia geforce 6600gt for around your price and it works fine for me. i also understand if i want to play some of the newer games coming out i might need to get a better card. but for now this one does great for me. keeps up with multiplayer games and works great when i play games offline. \n\n   look at whatever games you have or are going to get and see what they recommend, and get a card a little better then what they recommend so it isn't obsolete to soon.\n \n   P.S. check out  www.newegg.com  there prices are good and ships fairly fast. also you can compare and read others views on the items you are looking at.
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for the best value/performance ratio, i suggest you try checking out aldi or lidl... i know it sounds crazy, but they actually use good quality components from well-known manufacturers such as pioneer and samsung... you don't end up spending money on a brand name.\n\ni got my laptop from lidl about 18 months ago and it was as good a spec as anything out there - and it's still up there, no problems whatsoever.\n\nit also has a three year guarantee, which dell will charge several hundred quid for...\n\notherwise,  toshiba machines are generally regarded as being very reliable. \n\nof course, if you're not doing a lot of gaming, pretty much any laptop will do the trick nowadays. i would advise against a laptop with shared graphics memory however...\n\ntry and get one that has its own dedicated graphics card and video memory...
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Well, it all depends on how much money you are willing to spend. \n\nA good, gaming, reasonably-priced graphics card is an Nvidia GeForce 6600. =)\n\nThat will last you a decent time I think.\n\nOh, and it depends also what kind of slots you have on your computer. Be sure to buy a AGP graphics card if you have a slot in your motherboard for that, or buy a PCIe card if your computer is a bit newer and has a slot for it. =)
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It depends on what your motherboard can take. I would recommend the following card:\n\nnVIDIA 7600GT\n\nYou can buy this online from £90-£120 and is a fantastic high end mid-range card. I personally have the PCI Express version which is much faster then it's AGP counterpart.\n\nDont just look at how much memory the card comes with. As some of the better cards come with less, but the memory technology is more modern and much faster - therefore the card performs better.
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It has a Nvidia GeForce Go 6150 (up to 128MB shared). if you choose the one with Intel CPU (Core [2] Duo) you can have a better graphics card, the GeForce Go 7200 with dedicated ram. Go to the HP website and configure it yourself.\nhttp://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/computer_can_series.do?storeName=computer_store&category=notebooks&a1=Usage&v1=Entertainment&series_name=dv2000t_series
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the best and most exspensive on the market right now is NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8828136606&category=3762 ...go to http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_attrib.php/page_id=5/form_keyword=video%20card/rd=1/popup1[]=15:387 and explore different memory amounts, brands, and compare prices
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Depends on what you call economical!!!\nyou can try the HP nx 6325, this notebook is a wonderful piece!! and it has a DVCD+/- RW Writer and a dual core processor!! ie the blazing fast AMD Turion 64 X2, and 512 MB of DDR2 533 MHz RAM which you can ( or possibly SHOULD) upgrade to 1 GB of DDR2 800 MHz RAM!!