T43's X300 mobility INFERIOR to the 9600?

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T43's X300 mobility INFERIOR to the 9600?

#1 Post by Marines920 » Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:27 am

Hey everyone, my first post here :D

I'm off to college next year and the school I'm going to requires a T43 laptop.. and I'm a gamer and the x300 mobility looks blah to me. Would I be able to run Counter-Strike Source and Half Life 2 on it lol? Can the x300 mobility be upgraded?

Thanks in advance

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#2 Post by JohnDrake » Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:36 am

Then get a T43p with its ATI® MOBILITY™ FireGL™ V3200


Specs on T43p...I think they start on page 37 of 73, but I may be off by a page or two.
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pcinstitu ... tabook.pdf

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#3 Post by JohnDrake » Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:38 am

also, many of the T43p's have 7200RPM drives...for some very nice performance...

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#4 Post by Marines920 » Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:38 am

I don't get to pick out which one I want :-(.

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#5 Post by etherealtml » Thu Jan 27, 2005 1:05 am

well, be careful, some T43's use SHARED video memory!!!!! (nooooooooooo!)
T42 2378-FVU

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#6 Post by scillyisles » Thu Jan 27, 2005 2:29 am

Counterstrike Source and Half Life 2 run fine on a T42 with 512Mb, 1.7Ghz P4M and ATI9600 with 64mb.
2373-Q1U T42p 2.1Ghz P4M 2GB RAM, ATI Firegl , 320Gb,15" LCD,Win 7 Ult
6457-BQG T61p 2.6GHz C2 Duo 4GB RAM, 320GB 15.4in LCD,FX 570M, Win 7 Ult
2758 W700 QX9300 2.53GHz 4GB ram, 200GBx2 BDWriter, 1GB FX3700m,17" Win 7 Pro
4319-4NG W510 i7820QM,8GB,320gb,15.6 FHD,FX880M,Win 7 Pro

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#7 Post by rjm1135 » Thu Jan 27, 2005 3:02 am

This may be of interest -

http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?lo ... 172&var2=0

Although not Thinkpads, one of the test systems has the Mobility Radeon 9700 and another has the x300.

Cheers,
Rob.

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#8 Post by ehd » Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:41 pm

wait i read the results.. the x300 is really actually slower? [censored] i want a t42 now.

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