Graphic Cards Advice needed

[liquidsuite]

Hi there I am comparing my desktop old graphics card which is 4 years old to a laptop I am thinking of getting which has a newer card. But will it be as good as my desktop card. My desktop has a Nvidia geforce 6600 128meg card. The laptop I am looking at has a Nvidia Geforce Go 7400 which I am not sure how much meg is it is. It says total available graphics memory is 335???? not sure though. Can someone tell me if they know more on which is better one. I just want my laptop to be as good as my desktop and maybe better graphics wise. So can play games on it and use graphic design progs on it.

[Mac70]

That should be an ample card unless you plan to use super-intensive games and graphic programs. Its an improvement on your old card, for sure.

[liquidsuite]

If I installed a game on it like a latest one in the shops will it work well. I never really seen people play games on thier laptops. Only really see them play on desktops. But I play games on my desktop and if my new laptop will be better then my desktop I will play them on there as well. Be great when your out and about and bored can play it on laptop

[Mac70]

It really depends on the game, and the RAM and cpu. My desktop has the 7300 GS and manges fine with The Sims and Command and Conquer.

[liquidsuite]

this laptop has core2 duo 1.66 and 2x1024 mb ram. Does that sound good enough for games?

[Mac70]

Yes

[khana]

I'm afraid that the graphics card is not really suitable for gaming. You could probably get away with some light gaming on it e.g. lower the resolution and turn off most of the effects.

My laptop uses a Nvidia 7600 graphics chipset and to be honest even though it's better then the 7400, it still struggles and I am shortly looking to upgrade to one of the newer ones based on the 8800 range that is shortly to be announced for laptops.

The trouble really is that high powered graphics use lots of power and really heat up, they therefore tend to be available in the 17"+ screen models as they have more room inside to keep things cool.

Keep in mind the maximum screen resolution of any laptop you buy as it's no good paying a fortune for a machine with a whizzy graphics card if your max screen resolution is low as you are paying for something you will get no benefit from.