(11-12-2012, 12:02 AM)ndizihiwek Wrote: [ -> ]I'm looking for a laptop that could run pcsx2 games smoothly (kingdom hearts 2, dothack GU3, naruto accel 2) at around 30-40fps. I currently have my eye on this hp
the specs:
Intel Core i5-3210M
8GB DDR3
2.5Ghz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M switchable graphics
Hi, and welcome!
Emulating is not like native-PC games--
It will not run right at 30 or 40 FPS.
PS2 games were made to run at a specific framerate,
and they get ugly fast when you start to go below it.
That laptop with the i5-3210M and GT 630M will do
waaaay better than your old Athlon. Even without it's Turbo, it will still perform twice as well at the same clockrate.
Very acceptable for PCSX2 in general,
and especially coming from a laptop.
(11-16-2012, 06:58 AM)thegameksk Wrote: [ -> ]How will it work with this http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-of...otebook-PC?
Id upgrade the HD and maybe the graphic card. The base card is Nvidia Geforece GT 630 (1 gb memory). You can upgrade to Geforec gt 630M (2 GB memory) or Nvidia Geforce GT 650m (2 gb MEMORY). I would like to play rpgs like kingdom hearts, final fantasy, some action like resident evil, and also psx 1 games. Which card/configuration would be best?
Well, as you might have suspected,
the most expensive combination would certainly "be best".
If you're looking to spend as little as possible,
getting the cheapest options isn't really gonna be much slower.
You're probably going to have some over-head performance in most cases with any of those i7, so the 200Mhz difference may not be missed at all. That means the 100Mhz difference from the 3720QM to the 3820QM is even less significant, and really wouldn't justify the additional price I'd assume they'd have attached to it.
Upgrading to the GT 650M would basically be to ensure higher resolution. Not that the GT 630M couldn't handle any ever, but some heavier games/scenes may encounter some slowed play when over native resolution.
I'd also like to point out that the GDDR5 data rate is why the GT 650M is that much better, not the dediccated V-RAM. And likewise, the extra V-RAM isn't going to make one GT 630M better than the other. I do believe the 2GB GT 630M is GDDR5, but it would provide about equal bandwidth because it has half the bus width. The GDDR5 variant may clock higher, but the gain per-clock is less than the 1GB would have with it's 128-bit bus.
I hope this gives you the insight you need.