Tuesday, 18 October 2011

Video Cards for Laptops

A good  video card is a prerequisite if you plan to buy a large, high-resolution  LCD display for  your laptop  or if you  plan to attach an external  monitor. The main mobile 3D chips for 3D graphics and for using Windows  Vista are made by NVIDIA and ATI (a.k.a. AMD).

NVIDIA company offers several models for you  to choose from, but the best video cards for laptops are the GeForce 8000 series (which include 8700, 8400, etc.) and the  GeForce 7000 series. The first one is DirectX 10-compatible for the  recent games, while the second is DirectX 9-compatible. AMD/ATI’s Radeon  1000 series (1250 and 1100) are DirectX 9-compatible. Yet, at this  moment , most of the existing games require only DirectX 9, not to  mention that most people have lost the habit of doing too much intense  3D gaming on their laptops.



Graphics  will basically dictate whether you get 128-512 MB or more. Typically,   “Integrated” solutions use a large  part of your main memory, which  means that not only do you get junk graphics, but you lose a part of  your main memory. This  will not be seen  as a catastrophe if you are  getting 2 GB of memory for your laptop and you simply disregard  3D  games or you are operating on a big attached monitor when you are  working at your desk.

Bringing  up the subject of having a second monitor, the majority of laptops have   an external VGA or DVI port to plug right into that external screen,  and you can set Windows XP, Vista, or Linux to use your laptop screen  and the external monitor at the same time. That is a very useful thing and it is also a good idea to back up your small LCD screen with a large  24? LCD. ATI and  NVIDIA are companies which offer “workstation”-class graphics chips if  that is the thing that you need for your laptops. Of course, it goes  without saying that the more you are willing to pay, the better you will  receive. Just make sure that you actually need it, because it is  possible to spend an extra US$1,000 on graphics alone if you buy a  high-end workstation notebook.



The  spot light goes to the graphics card because it is the star of any PC  capable of gaming. Take into consideration that the options out there  are numerous and the graphics card of your desire is not easy to find  given the vast range of products advertised at the moment.  Now, the specialized websites are able to guide you through the latest discoveries and you  should be able to quickly distinguish between what is the hottest,  coolest and fastest GPUs available on the market, in order to get the best video cards for your laptops.

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