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Which would be better for strictly playing games and not running programs like maya or autocad?

Since both are 128mb, would the nvs be better suited for gaming, or would the 570m be better b/c it is a more powerful garphics card, even though it is meant more for graphical progarms, not necessarily gaming)?

I realize neither graphics card is "ideal" for gaming, but the games I want to run are 1+ year old games anyhow (microsoft flight simulatorX and Stalker: Chernobyl)

Right now I have T61wxga+. T7700 processors, 4gb ram, nvs140m 128 mb--will this setup be sufficient to run those two games at high settings/frame rate, or am i kidding myself?

jonnylaw wrote:Which would be better for strictly playing games and not running programs like maya or autocad?

Since both are 128mb, would the nvs be better suited for gaming, or would the 570m be better b/c it is a more powerful garphics card, even though it is meant more for graphical progarms, not necessarily gaming)?

The 570m is clearly the better choice for games. Despite what some peopel think, Quadro and Geforce cards are the same exact hardware. They differ only in drivers.

With that in mind, a 140m is equivilent to a Geforce 8400m while the 570m is equivalent or slightly better than an 8600m GT. Now, if you are goign to be gaming, I'd recomend you ditch the Lenovo provided drivers and gets drivers from: http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/

jonnylaw wrote: I realize neither graphics card is "ideal" for gaming, but the games I want to run are 1+ year old games anyhow (microsoft flight simulatorX and Stalker: Chernobyl)

Right now I have T61wxga+. T7700 processors, 4gb ram, nvs140m 128 mb--will this setup be sufficient to run those two games at high settings/frame rate, or am i kidding myself?

I tend to think you are kidding yourself thinking that either those will run particularly well on the 140m (which again, is an 8400m). The 8400m is really a horribly slow card for anyone that wants to play newer games. Stalker could easily push my desktop system (3.0GHz C2D + 8800GTS) beyond its limits at high settings. I would get no less than an 8600m gt/570m if you want to play that game.

What are you guys talking about... No competition here... 570M FTW!