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Oct 20^th, 2009 at 4:23pm

chris3090 Offline
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I'll be doing alot of traveling in the next year and wondered if this was a decent fs9 laptop and if it would deliver good fps and graphics, would like to go for an alienware but cant afford it. this laptop is about as good as i can go right now.

Specs

Dual Core AMD Athlon™ X2 at 2.1Ghz (will knock it up to 2.8)

4 gig ddr2 ram

5400 rpm 320 gig hard drive

Double-layer DVD±RW/CD-RW

ATI Radeon HD 3200

Windows 7 64-bit.

let me know ur expertise Cheesy

heres the link for the computer if theres any other specs you want to see

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9568611&type=product&id=1218125777...

Remember this is just for fs9 not interested in fsx becuase i can get my fs9 to look extremely close to fsx Cheesy

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Reply #1 - Oct 20^th, 2009 at 8:06pm

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I wouldn't overclock a laptop...

Click for Computer info overload!

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Reply #2 - Oct 20^th, 2009 at 9:32pm

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N. Chapman wrote on Oct 20^th, 2009 at 8:06pm:

I wouldn't overclock a laptop...

Thanks for the concern but ive OC'd quite a few laptops. without a hitch.

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Reply #3 - Oct 21^st, 2009 at 8:37am

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Hi.
Well I still agree with "ndude" about OC.Even if you have done it before, but as we know, its up to you. Wink

I read several things about this laptop.It sounds good, the processor well it could be faster (but ofcourse the budget its what dictates the rules).4gb of ram is good to work with.Specially, and after read some reviews, it might help the gpu you have on this laptop.The 3200 its not a very good gpu, even being compatible with dx10(which it doesnt do nothing for fs9) it uses shared memory, so the amount of ram memory its a + on the laptop.
I also read that Windows 7 makes fs9 run smoother ( but it also depend on the machine that runs it).Overall, for the budget you have its a good option.

If i was on your shoes, i would gather a bit more $ until you get close to your travels and search for something better.Why? Because then you want to add your favorite planes, scenery maybe some traffic.And then you realise that you could have waited and gatther some more $ and buy something that you want instead of something you had to buy because that waqs what you had in that moment.

I dont know if this was what you wanted to read, but....well its my opinion.
Keep us posted.
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Reply #4 - Oct 21^st, 2009 at 10:36am

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The processor is plenty for FS9. I haven't experienced AMD's new onboard gpu chips, so I can't comment on it's performance.

I had an old compaq with a 2.0 P4M that ran FS9 with above 40 FPS. It had a dedicated GPU chip with 32 megs of RAM.
That laptop, incidently, is the first taste of what Flight Simulation could really be. So smooth, it looked like a movie. I'd never experienced that before.

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Reply #5 - Oct 21^st, 2009 at 1:09pm

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I've got this 3 yr old Dell XPS laptop (see below) & it runs FS 9 very well with FlyTampa/Cloud9/UK2000 Extreme airports & WoAI cluttering them up with FRs locked at 26 Wink

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1) Intel I7 980X Extreme CPU Professionally overclocked to 4.2Ghz
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2) AWD-IT GPC36 E8600 Overclocked Intel E8600 Core 2 Duo @ 4.0Ghz 6MB Cache 1333FSB CPU / Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45 Crossfire DDR2 Motherboard / ATI 4870 512Mb / OCZ 4GB DDR2 PC8500 1066Mhz Memory / 500Gb SATA Hard Drive / 22x DVD-RW/Vista 64bi & 20" Dell widescreen.

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Reply #6 - Oct 21^st, 2009 at 2:35pm

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Ty all for your opinions and thoughts Cool

, think Ive made up my mind and will be purchasing this laptop. And 757200ba i would like to save up for a nicer one but i will be starting my travels in about a week so not much time to get anymore money to invest in this Embarrassed

. so i believe this will keep me entertained for another 8 months when im done traveling and ship off to Navy basic. I'm sure it will be satisfactory to me as ive been running an old hp with a Pentium 4 at 2.4 with 500 something of memory (not even a full gig) and a 512mb Ati X1650 Undecided

. And im pretty sure this laptop will give me much better performance then that did and i could squeeze an average of 30 fps out of fs9 with fly Tampa and other payware additions. As soon as i get this laptop i will begin posting some screenies. as time and internet connection allows. once again Ty all for the help Wink

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Reply #7 - Oct 24^th, 2009 at 5:33am

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Enjoy your travels, Chris. FS9 on my Compaq 6715 is my constant travelling companion!

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