Gaming CPUs

D.A.Lewis · Post by **D.A.Lewis** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 12:07 pm

I'm getting ready to leave town for a couple of months and need a gaming laptop. Being a lifelong intel guy I found that the AMD processors are more affordable for the power and I was wondering if this chart is accurate. I want to be able to play Spellforce, The Roots, Sudeki, Space Rangers and possiibly Oblivion.

3.4 GHz Pentium 4=Athlon 64 3700 (2.4 GHz)
Extreme Edition

3.2 GHz Pentium 4=Athlon 64 3500+ (2.2 GHz)
Extreme Edition

3.4 GHz Pentium 4=Athlon 64 3400+ (2.2 GHz)

3.2 GHz Pentium 4=Athlon 64 3200+(2.0 GHz) .

3.0 GHz Pentium 4=Athlon 3000+ (2.17 GHz)

WYBaugh · Post by **WYBaugh** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 12:20 pm

Here's a very lengthy article comparing AMD64's vs Pentium Extreme:

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTI0

Bill

D.A.Lewis · Post by **D.A.Lewis** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 12:44 pm

Yeah, I read a couple of those and thanks for that one but I was wondering about the gaming. I know what some of them say on paper. But what is the gaming like with an amd cpu (notebook) in reality?

The Preacher · Post by **The Preacher** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 12:56 pm

You should also consider the Pentium M's, which are much more efficient than the P4's (at least last I knew they were) -- efficiency being especially critical with laptops.

The following is a matchup on desktops but it stands to reason that the relative performance should remain unchanged:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/sh ... i=2382&p=7

I imagine the more crucial items in the laptop will be the video card and the RAM, but you probably knew that.

KiloOhm · Post by **KiloOhm** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 1:16 pm

My work laptop is a 1.3Ghz Pentium M Dell 600 series and it runs space rangers just fine. I can't comment on the others.

D.A.Lewis · Post by **D.A.Lewis** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 7:50 pm

Great link Preacher, very useful. And Kilo thanks for the heads up on Space Rangers.

I think I found the perfect cheap gaming laptop

A Gateway 7510 with:
athlon 3700
ati X600 - 125 ram
100 gig hd
1 gig mem
DVD burner
all for around 1400

that price even beats the online guys (Ibuypower and cyberpower)

One guy at Notebook review said he was even running Doom 3 albeit with some features turned down. And while I have no desire tp play Doom, during this 2 month assignment I will be able to finish, Spellforce, Dungeon Lords, Space Rangers and NOLF 2. And if The Roots and The Movies make it out in Oct - Nov, those lonely nights might not be so lonely.