06-10-06, 18:01 | #1 |
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Intel 950
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My parents bouth a portable pc and as a graphic card they puted the Intel 950. I'm no expert so I ask you is this a good card, and will it run Legend. Tnks in advanced |
06-10-06, 18:33 | #2 |
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Onboard Intel chip will run Legend normal version, not Next Gen.
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06-10-06, 19:10 | #3 |
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Damit tnks for the help anyway
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07-10-06, 03:53 | #4 |
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wait! do those cards have vertex shader and shader pixel on those cards?
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The best thing to to is actually try it and see if Legend plays on it, but I wouldn't have thought it would play well if it did. Jamie. |
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Here's the link: http://www.intel.com/products/chipse...950/gma950.pdf The guy in the store sayd the card was the best for games, I dought it since he sayd a ATI Radeon (my old one) coud run every game with no problem. Wicth of course it can't Last edited by only Croft; 07-10-06 at 16:04. |
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07-10-06, 17:15 | #7 |
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Yes, the chip uses shader model 2.0, but Legend next Generation requires shader model 3.0.
Apart from this, the onboard chip is intended for Office application and normal internet use. It is absolutely insufficient for gaming which is one of the most demanding tasks of a PC. Gaming requires a real graphic card. You may see a graphic card as a PC in itself, the GPU (graphic processor unit) and the GRAM (graphic random access memory) are completely dedicated to this enormous complex and extremely heavy task. Oh, and learn to never believe sales promotion fairytales from manufacturers themselves: read test-reviews about graphic cards capabilities -or ask on this forum, we know all about it- before you buy one. Last edited by Joseph; 07-10-06 at 17:17. |
07-10-06, 18:38 | #8 |
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That thing does not have vertex shader at all (or any vertex processing facality, for that matter). It emulates all this in the main CPU, which is very bad for performance.
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07-10-06, 18:45 | #9 |
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Damm, I soooo am gonna kill my parents...something Ishoud have done a long time ago but.... Thanks for the help anyway
[EDIT]From what it says here it has a Centrino Dual Core 1.86G. Will that do any good??? Last edited by only Croft; 07-10-06 at 19:02. |
07-10-06, 19:33 | #10 |
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It is a very fine CPU for the laptop. But the graphics part should be done by a dedicated graphics card. Many (gaming & media prepared) laptops have a 'mobile' version of a real graphics card. Of course, they are more expensive than the ones with "onboard graphix". <---that is the common term for a chipset-integrated graphics.
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