[zebrahead090]

Is the NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 6150 video card a suitable card for gaming? I am buying a toshiba laptop with this video card and was wondering if it will provide good performance for most pc games. Thanx for any suggestions.

[zebrahead090]

256MB ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON® X1400 HyperMemory™...is this a good one? or 128MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 7200? better?

[Schnauzer]

stay way from Hypermemory or turbocaching.... the card will use ur main RAM

What games you want to play?.... CS:S (Counter-Strike: Source) will suck with both those cards....

Nvidia is at 8 gen now, so 6 is going out of sytle, and teh 6150 is low end 6

look for somthing higher in the 6's

The 7200 is the best so far, that you have posted

[Eugene]

Definitely an IMS TwinTurbo M8 or Number Nine Imagine 128.

[Koodari]

Originally Posted by Schnauzer stay way from Hypermemory or turbocaching.... the card will use ur main RAM

That is not the whole truth. Both Hypermemory and Turbocache chips have dedicated memory. When they can't fit everything in their dedicated memory, they turn to main memory for more space. These, especially the models that have 64MB dedicated RAM, are preferred chips in their price class, and far better than any solution that has no dedicated RAM - such as the abysmal Intel integrated. They are also better than similar chips that have the same amount of dedicated memory, but no way to also use main memory.

That said, in zebrahead's shoes I wouldn't go with anything less than a X1600. Does the machine really have to be a laptop?

[Luca]

The other thing is that the HyperMemory and TurboCache GPUs are based around ATI and nVidia chipsets, respectively. They will be compatible with all kinds of games. Games won't necessarily run really fast, but they will run. On an Intel graphics chipset, a lot of games won't even launch at all.

In fact, these "hybrid" shared memory graphics cards (they use both dedicated and shared VRAM) were specifically designed for gaming, albeit low end gaming. They were designed to cut costs in some areas in order to allow the money used to manufacture the card to be spent on a better core GPU. Modern HM/TC cards have all the same features as the high end ones, they're just much slower. Older low-end cards, such as the Radeon 9200, had far fewer rendering features compared to its bigger brothers the Radeon 9600 and Radeon 9800, both of which had DirectX 9 compatibility. They don't even share system memory in the same way as old shared memory systems do.

I'm not saying that either of these would be very fast. Especially the 6150 - it was low end a while ago, and now it's pretty obsolete. But the X1400 and 7200 are somewhat modern. You won't be able to crank up the detail settings too high, and don't expect flawlessly smooth gameplay if you use a newer game, but they should be able to play pretty much any recent game. You'll have far more success than if you try it with an Intel GMA or something.

[chucker]

Originally Posted by Eugene Definitely an IMS TwinTurbo M8 or Number Nine Imagine 128.

Mach64 all the way!

[spikeh]

Originally Posted by chucker Voodoo 2 all the way!

UR DOING IT WRONG.

[rasmits]

ATi Rage Pro

It says pro... It must be good.

[PB PM]

Yes, go with a card that nobody sells anymore, other than on ebay... thats the way to do it!

[chucker]

Originally Posted by spikeh UR DOING IT WRONG.

No, you just didn't get the obscure reference.