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Old March 9th, 2008   #11
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I'm trying to customize a good laptop on the dell site, one that can smoothly,maybe not perfectly, run the latest games. I'm not sure about the best gfx card I can get with it though, the nVidia GeForce 8600GT. I couldn't find it on that list of graphics cards and how they stand in correlation to each other, so... where does it stand? Good? Medium? Bad?
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I'm really not looking to spend more than £600
Not much to work with, I know.
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like i said, the 8600 is alright, ive seen it do bioshock on high, and crysis on medium.
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Not much to work with, I know.
Yeah, thats quite true. But I did see that PC world was selling a laptop for £550 which had a good video card. I'll check later, abit busy right now.
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like i said, the 8600 is alright, ive seen it do bioshock on high, and crysis on medium.
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Oh thanks, and I'll try and find that deal.
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