Laptop Config

[bigsurya]

HI I'm looking to buy a new laptop mainly intended for extreme gaming. Now I have the following two models from Lenovo in mind, please tell me which of them is better suited to my purpose. I will be focussing on games like crysis, mafia 2, nfs shift, splinter cell, etc and would like to play them in high or medium settings at the least; complemented by a smooth performance.

1)Lenovo IdeaPad Y550p - 324164U
Intel® Core™ i7-720QM Processor ( 1.60GHz 1333MHz 6MB )
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64
NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M 1024MB
4 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1066MHz
15.6" HD Wide LED 1366x768
Industry Standard Touchpad
320GB 5400rpm
DVD Recordable (Dual Layer)
6 Cell Lithium-Ion
Intel Wireless Wi-Fi Link 5100
Bluetooth Version 2.1 + EDR

2)Lenovo IdeaPad Y550p - 324166U - Black
Intel® Core™ i5-430M Processor ( 2.26GHz 1066MHz 3MB )
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64
NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M 1024MB
4 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1066MHz
15.6" HD Wide LED 1366x768
Industry Standard Touchpad
500GB 5400 rpm
DVD Recordable (Dual Layer)
6 Cell Lithium-Ion
Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200
Bluetooth Version 2.1 + EDR

[LiNuX]

Well, the first CPU is the better one but the core speed is really low. I use the intel i7 920 on a server and the speed is almost double that one. Even though it's better I'm not sure how games would react to a 1.6ghz CPU, especially on a laptop.

The second one is similar but has a slightly weaker CPU but more speed. And both CPU's should be able to handle any game out there now, but again, I'm not sure how different games act to core speeds. It just comes down to the pricing I guess.

I also wouldn't recommend you play intense games on laptops. They tend to heat up very quickly unless it's very well ventilated and/or cooled and the parts inside could literally melt. I've had that happen with my old toshiba satellite laptop. And back then, the laptop could handle any and every game out there just like these two laptops can today.

[Charlotte]

Well both look likes have an amazing features.
But the thing that i seen before was that, Desktop is still better than laptop in gaming.
Well its depend on you buy I will still choose laptop although I know desktop is better for gaming but since the laptop is kinda new and the latest, all I know was that there should only little problem might occur if you played on the latest laptop available on the market.
Dont worry.

[Jokersvirus]

Some suggestion I would make are try to find a laptop that has Hyperthreading, get a quad core CPU,Graphics card well since you want high end gaming I would suggest the top of the line from NVIDIA since they do a kick ass job since Doom since its a laptop I would get a type 2, i believe ram upgrade the more ram the better you are.

That is just me thought.

[bigsurya]

the card tht i support is Nvidia GeForce 240-M & its specs are:

GPU Engine Specs:
Processor Cores 112
Graphics Clock (MHz) 675
Processor Clock (MHz) 1620
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 37.8
Memory Specs:
Memory Clock (MHz) 1100
Standard Memory Config 1 GB
Memory Interface Width 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 70.4
Feature Support:
NVIDIA SLI®-ready 2-way
NVIDIA PureVideo® Technology PVHD
NVIDIA PhysX™-ready
NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology
Microsoft DirectX Compute
OpenGL
Bus Support PCI-E 2.0 x16
Certified for Windows Vista

Display Support:
Maximum Digital Resolution 2560x1600
Maximum VGA Resolution 2048x1536
Standard Display Connectors Two Dual Link DVI, HDTV
Multi Monitor
HDCP
HDMI Via Adapter
Audio Input for HDMI SPDIF
Standard Graphics Card Dimensions:
Height 4.376 inches
Length 9 inches
Width Single-Slot
Thermal and Power Specs:
Maximum Graphics Card Power (W) 120
Minimum System Power Requirement (W) 450
Supplementary Power Connectors 6-pin


so u reckon its gud enuf ??...coz i can't afford the GTX-285 n likes

[LiNuX]

The card is good enough to handle any games now and probably for the next year until it starts becoming the minimum requirement settings rather than the recommended.

But the hardware capabilities of a laptop and desktop are very different. So even though the GPU is great now, it may burn out sooner than it would on a desktop.