Aren't Pentium II's better than celerons? lol. Maybe I should try that.
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Aren't Pentium II's better than celerons? lol. Maybe I should try that.
A Pentium 3 would be better than a similarly clocked celeron. I'm not sure about a 1GHZ P III being better than a 2.4GHZ celeron. :confused:
Yeah, figures, P3's were pretty good chips. I have no idea, but if a P3-M 1.13GHz is close to a 2.4GHz celeron it'd probably serve my purposes. I wonder if I could find a laptop with like a P3-M in the MHz? Like 800MHz P3-M laptop with built-in gfx or a low end GF4 Go?
I'm thinking a graphics card like that would be highly bottlenecked by an 800MHZ PIII :(
Edit: I didn't notice you said integrated also, that obviously wouldn't be
It could bottleneck a GF4 Go? Are there any lower cards?
Are GF4 Gos Ti 4200s or MX 440s? If MX 440 then it probably wouldn't bottleneck.
Yeah, I meant an MX 440. But hey I think I might be able to get a laptop with these specs off eBay:
14" or 15" screen XGA
800Mhz, possibly 1GHz P3
8MB Radeon or Xi gfx
128MB/256MB or possibly 192MB or 512MB of SDRAM
DVD-ROM
6-12GB HDD
possible zip or floppy drive
XP Home/2000/98se
for $500 or so. Maybe $600-$700. How does that look? I mean could it play CS? And are those 8MB gfx cards better than integrated?
I'm not sure about the video cards, I'd think they'd be better than integrated. That should be able to handle CS for sure.
Yeah, I think I am gona try for one. the ideal system would be:
P3 1GHz(1.13GHz is my fav. though;))
15" XGA screen(probably 14 sinc emost are)
8MB(or higher) 2x AGP Radeon card
256MB(512MB would be nice) of SDRAM
DVD-ROM(I wonder if I could add a CD burner/DVD combo drive? myself?)
XP Home
for $400-$500. And it couldn't hurt to be relatively thin;) I'll trick it out with some cool stickers and stuff to spice it up too;) It'll be pretty cool to find and get one:) Something about these older laptops intrigues me. I get a whopping 8MB of VC RAM:eek: lol. Well if it can play CS and get a wireless card, some are built in:) Then I'm good. Wouldn't it be awesome if it could play CS:CZ? Even if I had to turn down the settings a lot. Maybe if I cna find a 16MB or 32MB gfx card;)
That's like something I'd buy if I had a main rig.
You don't have a main rig? What are you using to post then? Anyway, it should serve my purposes until the next gen of laptops comes around and Ihave enough to get one:)
Well, my computer is pathetic.
700MHZ celeron
64MB SDRAM
30GB HD
Just about everything else integrated.
I used to be able to run CS on that but not anymore, I guess it's the updated graphics or my PC's declined. But I fudged up while installing slackware and forgot to delete the previous bootloader so I can't boot to my Windows partition. :o Now I'm posting from my mom's PIII 1.1GHZ, 512MBRAM, everything integrated :(, overheating laptop.
I hate to be the one who points this out, but if you don't have a sweet rig you cna fall back on, why a laptop? I can understand in my case where I have a rig which can play games, but man! You know what kind of rig you cna get for $2000? Heck for $1000? If you got a 1.1GHz P3-M and a M9 card laptop then you could build a nice rig for $1000! Somehow that seem the better idea in your case.
I found out the requirments for CS:CZ and even with a low end lappy like this I can probably play it:)
Well I'm moving in a couple months, and I may be living in an RV for a couple of months so I need the portability. I was thinking of getting a SFF PC like the Shuttles. I figured I'd only save around $500 by building a SFF PC, and I'd have to run it from power and there's no 4 hour battery life. I'd do exactly what you're doing if I was sure I'd be in a house :(