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Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States98 Posts
July 31 2010 19:59 GMT
#1
I have a ASUS Laptop with a graphic card of GeForce 9600 M GS /w 1 GB and I'm getting a new laptop with ATI Radeon HD 4250...is the ATI going to perform better in games such as CS Source, NBA 2k11? My ASUS laptop keeps making my games lag 10 minutes into the game...I cleaned up the fan but still lags.

ASUS Specs
On the sticker it says my processor is Intel Centrino 2, but on the computer properties it says its Intel Core Duo 2.26 GHz
4 GB of Ram
x64 Bit Vista

The new laptop
AMD Athlon II 2.3 GHz
4 GB of Ram DDR3
x64 Windows 7


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hoborg
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States430 Posts
July 31 2010 20:38 GMT
#2
According the 3dmark scores from this website, the 4250 is actually a lot worse:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Radeon-HD-4250.29664.0.html

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-9600M-GS.9450.0.html

I'd think either should be capable to run CS:S without much lag, though, you might want to look at other causes like background running processes.
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viscral
Profile Joined February 2010
United States45 Posts
July 31 2010 20:38 GMT
#3
newer cards are usually better than old cards
cgrinker
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States3824 Posts
July 31 2010 21:01 GMT
#4
My laptop has no GPU and it runs CS:S
decafchicken
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
United States20019 Posts
July 31 2010 21:04 GMT
#5
Erm are you downgrading your laptop or something?
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QuothTheRaven
Profile Joined December 2008
United States5524 Posts
July 31 2010 22:55 GMT
#6
If the game starts lagging 10 minutes in, the problem is that you're trying to play games on a laptop, not that you don't have a powerful enough graphics card. Your computer is overheating and throttling itself to prevent hardware burnout, which in turn results in massive slowdowns.

Try getting a cooling station for your laptop, or (cheaper) prop it up to get some airflow underneath the laptop and put a floor fan by it while you play.

If I were you, I'd keep your current laptop and instead use the money to buy a cheap desktop for gaming, since the new laptop will probably have similar problems (if not now, then eventually).
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FiRe)
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States98 Posts
August 01 2010 23:46 GMT
#7
I see but I like laptop 'cause of the portability and I get uncomfortable when sitting on a chair with a desktop...I do have a desktop at home with ATI HD 3200 and runs CS:S smoothly. I don't know the 9600M hasn't been performing like one. But laptop sucks for gaming .

Lol I'm not degrading it but this laptop is washed up now 'cause it's been treated badly where the battery life ended up being 15 minutes or so, so I'm getting a new one...the ASUS one was 1200 dollars, a huge rip off if you ask me, I only got it 'cause the graphic card but sucks now lol.

So a cooling fan will stop lag during games aka overheating problems...
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