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Best 3D Gaming Laptops 2012
Jan. 2012 update: This article was originally published a few months ago, in the middle of 2011, and surprisingly little has changed considering the usually rapid development in the tech industry. As of CES 2012, we have seen some progress from Toshiba in the way of glasses-free 3D gaming, but Nvidia’s 3D Vision solution is [...]
Top 10 Gaming Laptops – February 2012
Top 10 Gaming Laptops – February 2012 This list is based on actual or estimated gaming performance, factoring in the hardware specification (particularly the graphics card) relative to the laptop’s size. Feb Update: Although AMD has released very promising 28nm products for the desktop, all of the dedicated laptop graphics cards are still using the [...]
Skyrim Laptop Requirements – Is it Playable on Your Laptop?
If you have a laptop with integrated Intel graphics, you can pretty much forget about playing Skyrim on it with decent quality settings. It will start (we’ve tried), but no amount of tweaking will get it past very low settings – even with the latest Sandy Bridge IGP (HD Graphics 3000). On the other hand, [...]
Laptop Graphics Card Top 10 (December 2011)
It’s difficult to get a comprehensive overview of the mobile GPU market, and the manufacturers (as in: AMD and NVIDIA) are not making it any easier by frequently updating the names whether or not there are any relevant changes compared to the predecessor. It is also important to remember that laptop graphics cards are not [...]
GTX 560M Overclocking (128-bit Version)
It’s not that it’s necessary to overclock the GTX 560M–it will run any current game at reasonable quality settings at its regular clock speed. On the other hand overclocking is fun. That said, we will put in the usual disclaimer here that what you do to your own computer is at your own risk. This [...]
Alienware M14x: Overclocking the GT 555M
How much extra performance you can squeeze out of a laptop GPU differs a great deal between laptops–from none at all (locked BIOS) to an impressive amount of extra frames per second, suddenly making some games playable at higher detail settings and resolutions. Laptops specifically designed for gaming usually have better cooling and the Alienware [...]
HP dv6z with AMD Fusion: Good Enough Gaming Performance?
HP recently rolled out the brand new AMD Llano APUs in the AMD version of the HP Pavilion laptop, the dv6z. It is a considerably more affordable alternative to the dv6t, which also use AMD graphics but Intel on the processor side.
Making the Case for the Affordable Gaming Laptop
Unless you happen to be a dedicated geek who stays constantly up to date with the latest hardware updates, any laptop purchase can turn into a chaotic state of affairs. You have to check up on a lot of things before settling on a computer if you want it to be perfect. This becomes even [...]
The Solid State Drive Laptop Upgrade – Is it Worth it?
In any recent laptop (or desktop), the mechanical hard drive is the component with the most detrimental effect on overall performance. This shouldn’t be surprising, as hard drive technology has remained more or less the same for decades. Sure, some significant breakthroughs have been made and in regards to storage space and to an extent, [...]
Dell XPS 15z Vs. MacBook Pro 15: Gaming Performance
A comparison is inevitable; there’s no doubt that what Dell is offering with the slim XPS 15z is a replacement of Windows users looking for a PC equivalent of the 15-inch MacBook Pro. On the other hand you can run Windows 7 natively on any Mac these days via Bootcamp. The main question therefore is [...]
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