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Light-Moderate Gaming, Budget end (~$700)
For those of you who are afraid to buy integrated graphics, because you'll miss games you've grown to love this year, or the past years....but don't want to shell out more than 1000...or more than 800...I found a solid build for 703.99. Dedicated graphics, nice size hard drive, only 1 gig of ram, but its cheaper to upgrade later though NewEgg (duh). Definitly a solid buy, no matter what you're doing...for the light to moderate gamer. I'm planning on getting one. I've read good reviews, and found that this config is the cheapest (and easiest to upgrade later) for the price. Its the cheapest you can get with dual core, and dedicated graphics.
HP Pavilion dv6000t customizable Notebook PC
RX942AV
– Genuine Windows Vista Home Basic (32-bit)
– Intel(R) Pentium(R) dual core processor T2130 (1.86 GHz, 1MB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB)
– 15.4" WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800)
– FREE Upgrade from 512MB DDR2 System Memory (1 Dimm) to 1GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
– 256MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 7400
– HP Imprint Finish + Microphone
– Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
– FREE Upgrade from 80GB 5400RPM to 120GB 5400RPM!!
– FREE Upgrade from DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive to SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support!!
– No TV Tuner w/remote control
– 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
– Microsoft(R) Works 8.0
– HP Home & Home Office Store in-box envelope
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Re: Light-Moderate Gaming, Budget end (~$700)
you can't upgrade the graphics on this one I think
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he doesn't say anything about upgrading the graphics.
for $700 it looks alright. kind of old tech, but should run alright.
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Re: Light-Moderate Gaming, Budget end (~$700)
I like the idea of nabbing a Vostro 1500 with XP and going real light on the RAM more. Or the route I went - accept that you're just not going to get newer stuff to run and grab an AMD notebook with an Nvidia IGP. That way you can run older stuff pretty well (and the GeForce 6150 is surprisingly potent.
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Re: Light-Moderate Gaming, Budget end (~$700)
You end up spending another 80 for the ram, you need 2gb for vista, and you have 2x512mb. :O
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he could just buy a memory stick and use ready boost. yeha its not the same as dedicated ram, but its a quick and cheap solution. and yes it does help performance. maybe not in games but how fast the overall system will run other apps.
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Re: Light-Moderate Gaming, Budget end (~$700)
For those of you who are afraid to buy integrated graphics, because you'll miss games you've grown to love this year, or the past years....but don't want to shell out more than 1000...or more than 800...I found a solid build for 703.99. Dedicated graphics, nice size hard drive, only 1 gig of ram, but its cheaper to upgrade later though NewEgg (duh). Definitly a solid buy, no matter what you're doing...for the light to moderate gamer. I'm planning on getting one. I've read good reviews, and found that this config is the cheapest (and easiest to upgrade later) for the price. Its the cheapest you can get with dual core, and dedicated graphics.
HP Pavilion dv6000t customizable Notebook PC
RX942AV
– Genuine Windows Vista Home Basic (32-bit)
– Intel(R) Pentium(R) dual core processor T2130 (1.86 GHz, 1MB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB)
– 15.4" WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800)
– FREE Upgrade from 512MB DDR2 System Memory (1 Dimm) to 1GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
– 256MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 7400
– HP Imprint Finish + Microphone
– Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
– FREE Upgrade from 80GB 5400RPM to 120GB 5400RPM!!
– FREE Upgrade from DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive to SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support!!
– No TV Tuner w/remote control
– 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
– Microsoft(R) Works 8.0
– HP Home & Home Office Store in-box envelope
actually for less this price, the Vostros from Dell were better(price increased recently)
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Re: Light-Moderate Gaming, Budget end (~$700)
he could just buy a memory stick and use ready boost. yeha its not the same as dedicated ram, but its a quick and cheap solution. and yes it does help performance. maybe not in games but how fast the overall system will run other apps.
LoL, I can Ready Boost with my External HD!!! Im running 301 gigs of RAM right now baby!!!! (but a hell of a lot slower than my one that is in there now)
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Re: Light-Moderate Gaming, Budget end (~$700)
LoL, I can Ready Boost with my External HD!!! Im running 301 gigs of RAM right now baby!!!! (but a hell of a lot slower than my one that is in there now)
-The maximum amount of memory you can currently dedicate to readyboost is 4GB.
-Readyboosting with a hard drive is essentially pointless, as the point of readyboost is to use a flash drive in addition to your hard drive for virtual memory when your RAM is overworked, because though flash drives have slower read and write speeds, their response times are so much faster that they can handle tiny I/Os much faster than a hard drive (although the hard drive still handles the larger ones), thus significantly increasing performance in situations where you have to use virtual memory. Odds are the response time on your external hard drive is similar to or lower than your internal hard drive, meaning it won't improve performance at all.
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Re: Light-Moderate Gaming, Budget end (~$700)
I was wondering, does that make a difference, the 301 gb of ram? Better than 2 gb?