matt5
join:2001-10-06
Lagrangeville, NY | reply to pulp46
Re: Kid says our "laptop sucks for FPS". Why so? AMD, is like, known for driver issues. Everyone has them (before the amd fan boys come) but amd has more issues than the others as far as drivers go.
Ya it is a common thing with AMD to look at the drivers. |
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| Good to know. Guess I'll go with GeForce next time, tx!  |
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 C0deZer0Oc'D To Rhythm And PolicePremium
join:2001-10-03
Davenport, FL | reply to pulp46
If anything, load times now can be pretty much remedied on a laptop by going with an SSD; the best thing would be if you had a laptop that can support two hard drives at once... install the OS and your basic apps on an SSD... ideally if you can afford it, get one big enough to have at least the OS and your apps on; the put all your data on the hard drive.
Can't do much about the graphics chips on laptops... simply because notebook manufacturers by design do everything they can to screw people from being able to really do anything with them like one can on a desktop.
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Because, f*ck Sony |
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matt5
join:2001-10-06
Lagrangeville, NY | Eh I would not go that far, you would need the GPU to look the same, you would need to make sure the laptop could handle the thermals... you would need to build in extra PSU support... all in all you would need to make the thing cost so much... it would make no sense... Who is going to make 50 different vid cards to allow upgrades to laptops, looks like just a money losing thing TBH.
Unless you can post some proof, IMHO it is more just to costly to allow GPU upgrades, not so much they want to screw you.
Unless you can come up with ways around it. I had a laptop with a swappable vid card, big options... 32 or 64mb nvidia / comparable AMD. lol
I don't think it is *all* screw the consumer. If the demand for upgradeable laptops was so high, someone would be making them. |
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C0deZer0Oc'D To Rhythm And PolicePremium
join:2001-10-03
Davenport, FL | NVIDIA and ATI (or now AMD) have each had their own proposals to enable switchable, user-upgradeable graphics for years, for each respective bus technology... PCI, AGP, and even now PCI-E... the latest being MXM from NVIDIA, and Axiom from ATI/AMD.
Not one major manufacturer has ever touched it... and every single platform that even thought to allow you to change the graphics instead of having a purely fixed model in a given notebook would cost at least $4000... and that is before figuring in the cost of upgrading from whatever they deem you to start with.
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A MOBILE 6770 does not equal the performance of a desktop 5770. Any mobile GPU is a couple steps below any desktop same name counterpart. I had a mobile 5870 in my G73JH and my desktop 5770 is like 2X the performance at higher resolutions. |
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