WHAT GRAPHIC CARD IS BETTER

[Vindekarr]

When he said "the one with bigger caps" he was making fun of you for writing the title of this thread all in capital letters, which is considered bad internet manners. Probably assuming you wouldnt get it due to assumed inexperience with english or some perception of stupidity due to inexperience on this faimly of websites.

 

Frankly I agree with Urbex for once, it's just a generaly better idea to go with a cheap, low quality netbook for working and a full desktop for gaming. Gaming laptops have two major drawbacks: size and heat. They have about as much power as a games console, being relatively small, and because of this size disadvantage, they cant mount powerful modern performance parts, and have to rely instead on low performance micro sized compontnets that arent optimised for performance and typicaly lack power to run even old games, let alone FONV.

 

They also produce massive heat from their batteries, which is poorly radiated and will probably set your genitals on fire should you ever attempt to game with it while it's resting on your lap. The high heat means that in some countries, they simply arent usable during the summer months, and wwill also be painful to use as a genuine lap-top machine.

 

Some machines exist that offer enough power to play games while being laptop sized, but they are typicaly around the 6-7,000 US dollar mark and offer performance equal to a 1-3,000 US dollar desktop. For less than a thousand dollars, you'll be getting the computing power of three particularly foolish houseflies, and would be better off saving 992 dollars of the 1000 and buying a pencil, eraser and notebook from your local News Agent. As your brain is more powerful than such an stuttering device and would prove faster and more practical.

 

My advice to your is to buy a desktop for gaming-it's very easy to buy a mighty desktop for under 1000 USD, certainly with FNV besting power, and you also gain the advantage of good cooling, a full keyboard, extra cable inputs, and the room to grow and add new parts. For portable and work use, just get a Blackberry or some other portable machine, they're effective, handheld, and will do email and writing tasks well enough. For more serious work use, for example student work, try a netbook or pygmi laptop.

Edited February 7, 2011 by Vindekarr

[CommanderCrazy]

What vin says is very true, though if you really MUST have a laptop, then i'd like to bolster on why you shouldn't get the second.

My gaming PC, has a quad core processor, at 2.4ghz (pretty bad, but still) and it stutters and lags badly. (not gpu related, it well exceeds the system requirements)

The second laptop has a 2.0 mobile processor, so it will probably catch fire and implode for FNV. I wouldn't risk it.

 

Also, dont go alienware. Overpriced garbage laptops.

Alienware desktops are great though.