Build Your Own Gaming Notebook

What graphics card is better for gaming the Nvidia GT 540m or new Nvidia GT 640m? You may be thinking of course the Nvidia GT 640m will beat the 540m but I read from Nvidia's website that it had a slower graphics clock and memory clock speeds. But I also found out that it did quite well in the latest good games like Battlefield 3 and Skyrim (and so did the GT 540m). Another thing I found out was that the 640m got a higher 3DMark Vantage score (nearly 8000) while the GT 540m got nearly 5000. Even if there is a difference how much? Will it be noticeable? What does it compare to (e.g GT 640m = 555m or 520m)? How much more frames per second will I get when playing Battlefield 3 on high (without overclocking). Thanks for your answers in advance. (Nvidia GT 540m) http://www.geforce.com/hardware/notebook-gpus/geforce-gt-540m (Nvidia GT 640m) http://www.geforce.com/hardware/notebook-gpus/geforce-gt-640m

I installed windows 7 recently on my hp pavilion notebook, which had windows vista, and now when i try to open? windows games, such as solitaire, a window pops up saying "hardware acceleration is either disabled or not supported by your video card driver, which could slow game performance. Make sure you have the latest video card driver installed and that hardware accelertion is turned on." I have no idea what that means, so if anyone can help, please.

Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 with shaders? I've got an online game I want to run on a notebook with this card, there are its graphics requirements. "Graphic Display: For multi-core CPUs, you may need to adjust the Affinity to run the game on one CPU. Graphics card or chipset must support Pixel and Vertex Shaders 1.4 or later (hardware acceleration recommended), have 64MB of RAM " Chances of that on a low setting?

Does Acer Built Notebooks with Poor Hardware and Are they Easily be Damaged Later on ? Dear Friends, I'm thinking to buy Acer Aspire 4740G because it has a lot of nice Features and Hardware including even the Finger Print Security System. The Cost is also low and it's only : USD 700.00 Around. Good For Gaming As well with It's Nvidia Graphic Card. But I'm Wondering that Acer Laptops Hardware are easily be Damaged or Malfunction after 1 year ??? Considering Especially in Low Cost with a lot of Nice Functions and High Tech as well ! Because that sounds too good to be true for Long Term use. Am I right ? What Models of Acer Notebooks are good for Long Term Use Anyway ? Long Term use like : 3 Years at least ! Because Acer now become ranked as World No.2 PC Supplier which Impressed me a lot to buy it's Laptop. I'm also thinking HP DV Series as Alternative to buy and I think that HP Laptops are good For Long Term use ! But Don't have Many good Features like Acer Does ! Also Not so good for Gaming. I can also Consider in Dell Series as well for alternative than Acer. Awaiting for your kind Suggestions on the Long Term Use Brand also with Nice Useful Features Which Enable me for Good Gaming with Draft-N Wifi and must have the Webcam. Thanks Freddy High Quality and Low Cost Pc2phone Service http://118.global-phone-services.com

is Toshiba Satellite C640-1078U 14" Notebook good for playing the sims 2 and the sims 3? Toshiba Satellite C640-1078U Notebook Specifications Processor- Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core B960 Processor - 2.2GHz, 2M L3 Cache Operating System - DOS Chipset - Mobile Intel® HM65 Express Chipset System Memory - 2GB DDR3 1333MHz SDRAM expandable to 8192MB Display - 14.0" WXGA HD Clear SuperView LED Backlight TFT display (16:9), resolution 1,366 x 768 Graphics - Intel® HD Graphics, up to 805MB total available graphics memory Hard Disk - 500GB (SATA) with shock absorbers Minimum System Requirements for The Sims 2 If you have a T&L capable video card with at least 32 MB of video RAM then you need at least: 800 MHz processor or better 256 MB RAM if Windows Vista, XP, Windows ME, Windows 98 or Windows 2000 At least 3.5 GB of hard drive space If you have a non-T&L capable video card (an Intel Extreme Graphics or a Radeon 7000/VE Series) then you need at least: 2.0 GHz processor or better 256 MB RAM if Windows Vista, XP, Windows ME, Windows 98, or Windows 2000 At least 3.5 GB of hard drive space The Sims™ 3 Minimum Hardware Requirements FOR WINDOWS XP 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent 1 GB RAM 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 The latest version of DirectX 9.0c Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games FOR WINDOWS VISTA 2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent 1.5 GB RAM 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games For computers using built-in graphics chipsets under Windows, the game requires at least: Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA 3-Series or above 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent 0.5 GB additional RAM

assist me to upgrade my laptop hardware HP pavillion dv2003tu SERIES dv2000? hi, am using HP Pavillion dv2002TU Notebook PC, SERIES HP Pavillion dv2000 which i bought 4 years back. its configuration are as follows Processor Intel Core Solo Processor T1350 with Intel Centrino Mobile Technology (1.86GHz, 2MB L2 cache, 533MHz FSB) Operating system Genuine Windows XP Home Edition Standard memory 512MB Maximum memory Supports up to 2 GB DDR2 memory System memory 512MB (1 x 512MB) DDR2 SDRAM (533MHz), upgradeable to 2GB Cache Level 2 cache 2 MB Hard drive 80GB (5400 rpm) now i would like to upgrade to maximum that it supports .. i would like to change its processor and ram, hard disk... is it possible to put latest processor like core 2 duo or what ever the best it suits can you please state the item that helps to tune my lap as best it can... why i wish to change is i couldn't use any latest software's and games, system finds difficult to use multi application work... please assist me. to see full details about lap pls visit here.. https://h50203.www5.hp.com/HPISWeb/Customer/ChatUser.aspx?User=Balakumar%20N&caseID=3015079&callfrom=ispehomepage&region=AP&country=IN:India&origin=acc http://www.gadgetsguru.in/hp-pavillion-dv2002tu-notebook-pc-price-specification-buy-india-1346.aspx

Could you please help me to get rid of this? My situation I really need your suggestions, info, links, et cetera to get me break away from this computer addiction please. I have been living with computer since its advent, and I have been too long in this bit and byte world. I have almost no problem with my family and/or social matters (maybe), but certainly, I have problems with myself. I realize that my addiction to computer and internet has seized big values of my life. Please do not assume that I am addicted to the gaming, gambling, chatting, or sexual leisure online. I think I have really got the most of the computing and internet, I got answers for my quests in life: history, languages, hobbies, health, skill improvement, and other eye-openers, but I realized that at the end I just barely do not recognize myself. I knew that before the PC arrival, I was a simple human with a romantic and artistic mind inside, and then later I evolved to such a robot, to be precise: a slave of the technology. The internet had made me more tied to the PC, at first it delivered me the news of the world, marvelous things found there within the clicks and so on, but then made me deep drown into the pond of information. The cost and the lost Having knowledge to computer hardware made me always upgrade my gears. It made me spend big cost just to fulfill my lust over those times. My room is full with the old gears, gadgets, and things from online stores. My PCs and notebooks are full with MP3s, PDFs, and many things downloaded both free and paid. I also spent for many external/ portable harddisks for backing up and traveling. I do not mean to showoff, I just tell you how worse it was from time to time during about 20 years. I sometimes think about the lost time for repairing my gears, updating my softwares, browsing; and how many books that I have not read completely. There was a break One time, in two straight months last year, I spent my times with my son playing Tamiya, small racing cars in small tracks. It was wonderful that it made me totally forgot my computers. We have had most of the time together for racing, modifying, winding the wires for the tiny motors, etc. My wife was so amazed that the toys have made me away from the PC. It ended because of the coming rainy season that made us packed and boxed back the tracks and cars, and I simply switched back to the old routine. In search of healing I remember a precious phrase: Two kinds of those who lost; they are who looks for wealth and for knowledge. This phrase sometimes wakes me up but bad habit is addicting and I found myself always returned into that path. I think it is just similar to drug addiction. As the internet is an endless resource, I search through it for the cure, and I have found some articles about it and tried to implement them, but it always hard for me to liberate myself from my habit. I really hope that finally I find it in this forum, especially from you. Your helps, Please I know that some of you are familiar to manage some types of dependence, or maybe you have healed from the same situation. Whether you have some psychological, spiritual expertise, certain medication, or exercises, please share your advice, I need it badly. I do not want to clog the rest of my life in that digital world. There must be somebody else also in pain from the same thing, your kind suggestion will be very valuable and it will save some life. Thank you very much for sparing your time reading this lengthy note. God bless you. PS: I post this in Computing & Internet, Health, and Social Science with time interval, hoping to net more inputs. Please do not waste your time to put any unpleasant or unnecessary words, consider it will not only read by me but also by the other fellow readers. If you are not in the same situation with me, you perhaps still have the advantage of knowing the answers. Thank you, again.

Toshiba Satellite A105 Notebook wont start XP? When I shut it off, an error occured and in which lead to me holding the power button to get it to turn off while playing a game. I went to turn it on later while all was going good until the windows XP loading screen appeared and then disappeared. When a black screen popped up stating "We apoligize for the inconvenience, but windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this. If your computer stopped responding, restarted unexpectedly, or was auto. shut down to protect your files and folders, choose LAST KNOWN GOOD CONFIGURATION to revert to the most recent settings." A list of options including SAFE MODE, SAFE MODE W/ NETWORKING, SAFE MODE WITH COMMAND PROMPT, LAST KNOWN GOOD CONFIG., & START WINDOWS NORMALLY. When I select each option it restarts the PC and then it takes me to the same exact black page with the list of start up options. Anybody have any clue how to fix this? What to do to fix it? What has caused this? Thanks.

Would you help me to escape from my computer addiction please? My situation I really need your suggestions, info, links, et cetera to get me break away from this computer addiction please. I have been living with computer since its advent, and I have been too long in this bit and byte world. I have almost no problem with my family and/or social matters (maybe), but certainly, I have problems with myself. I realize that my addiction to computer and internet has seized big values of my life. Please do not assume that I am addicted to the gaming, gambling, chatting, or sexual leisure online. I think I have really got the most of the computing and internet, I got answers for my quests in life: history, languages, hobbies, health, skill improvement, and other eye-openers, but I realized that at the end I just barely do not recognize myself. I knew that before the PC arrival, I was a simple human with a romantic and artistic mind inside, and then later I evolved to such a robot, to be precise: a slave of the technology. The internet had made me more tied to the PC, at first it delivered me the news of the world, marvelous things found there within the clicks and so on, but then made me deep drown into the pond of information. The cost and the lost Having knowledge to computer hardware made me always upgrade my gears. It made me spend big cost just to fulfill my lust over those times. My room is full with the old gears, gadgets, and things from online stores. My PCs and notebooks are full with MP3s, PDFs, and many things downloaded both free and paid. I also spent for many external/ portable harddisks for backing up and traveling. I do not mean to showoff, I just tell you how worse it was from time to time during about 20 years. I sometimes think about the lost time for repairing my gears, updating my softwares, browsing; and how many books that I have not read completely. There was a break One time, in two straight months last year, I spent my times with my son playing Tamiya, small racing cars in small tracks. It was wonderful that it made me totally forgot my computers. We have had most of the time together for racing, modifying, winding the wires for the tiny motors, etc. My wife was so amazed that the toys have made me away from the PC. It ended because of the coming rainy season that made us packed and boxed back the tracks and cars, and I simply switched back to the old routine. In search of healing I remember a precious phrase: Two kinds of those who lost; they are who looks for wealth and for knowledge. This phrase sometimes wakes me up but bad habit is addicting and I found myself always returned into that path. I think it is just similar to drug addiction. As the internet is an endless resource, I search through it for the cure, and I have found some articles about it and tried to implement them, but it always hard for me to liberate myself from my habit. I really hope that finally I find it in this forum, especially from you. Your helps, Please I know that some of you are familiar to manage some types of dependence, or maybe you have healed from the same situation. Whether you have some psychological, spiritual expertise, certain medication, or exercises, please share your advice, I need it badly. I do not want to clog the rest of my life in that digital world. There must be somebody else also in pain from the same thing, your kind suggestion will be very valuable and it will save some life. Thank you very much for sparing your time reading this lengthy note. God bless you. PS: I post this in Computing & Internet, Health, and Social Science with time interval, hoping to net more inputs. Please do not waste your time to put any unpleasant or unnecessary words, consider it will not only read by me but also by the other fellow readers. If you are not in the same situation with me, you perhaps still have the advantage of knowing the answers. Thank you, again.

Can I play Rome: Total War on this laptop? I have a MX6448 Gateway Notebook and it’s Specifications are, Processor- AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50 Operates at 1.6 GHz | 256 KB ×2 L2 Cache HyperTransport™ technology at up to 1600 MHz And a ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 Graphics with up to 128 MB of Shared Video Memory The System Requirements to play this game are, Microsoft® Windows® 98SE/ME/2000/XP Pentium® III 1.0GHz (1000MHz) or Athlon™ 1.0GHz (1000MHz) processor or higher 256MB RAM DVD-ROM drive and latest drivers 2.9GB of uncompressed free hard disk space (plus 500MB for Windows® swap file) 100% DirectX® 9.0c-compatible 16-bit sound card and latest drivers 100% Windows® 98SE/ME/2000/XP-compatible mouse, keyboard and latest drivers DirectX® 9.0c (included) 1024x768 Monitor Resolution 3D hardware Accelerator Card Required - 100% DirectX® 9.0c compatible 64MB Hardware Accelerated video card and the latest drivers. Sorry, I'm not much of a computer guy. Will I be able to play this game on my lap-top? Thanks...

Which One Computer?!?!?!?!? Hi, im looking for a laptop for school and also for entertainment (games, videos....etc.) which one do you think is the best? :HP PAVILION ZD7000 LAPTOP NOTEBOOK - $150 :SONY VAIO 16" LAPTOP - $300 (NEGOTIABLE) Genuine Intel (R) CPU T2300@1.66 Ghz 2.00 GB Ram Built in Camera 802.11 wireless JR 45 Network connector :iBook G4 Laptop 14in Screen - Apple/Mac Computer - $200 Hardware: 14.1 inch display screen 60 GB hard Drive (I've never run out of space, and you will receive it with NO personal information/files, just like new :)) Mac OS X version 10.4 (see pic) CD Rom (plays DVDs too) USB ports Wireless Ethernet Cable Software includes: iWork 09 (the latest version) - Pages 09 - Keynote 09 - Numbers 09 iTunes iPhoto Microsoft Office -Word -Excel -Powerpoint iMovie HD iDVD GarageBand Mail Dashboard Spotlight iChat AV Safari QuickTime iSync iCal DVD Player (I NEED ANSWER FAST!!!!!) THANK YOU!

Command and Conquer : Generals:Zero Hour stopped working?!?!? I had the game and it worked perfectly on my laptop I had windows XP Professional. But when i upgraded my windows to a XP Home Edition i got with my desktop computer it stopped working and it tells me that there is a problem with directX (i already do) and that i should have the latest version and that i should have a video card equivalent to Nvidia but when i download Nvidia one of them says that i have an incompatible software the other one says that i have incompatible hardware oh an while ur at it "what's windows xp 24bit/64bit and does a notebook mean laptop

WHICH LAPTOP SHOULD I CHOSE?!?!? Hi, im looking for a laptop for school and also for entertainment (games, videos....etc.) which one do you think is the best? I NEED AS MANY OPINIONS AS I CAN GET!!!!! PLEASE!!!!! :HP PAVILION ZD7000 LAPTOP NOTEBOOK - $150 :SONY VAIO 16" LAPTOP - $300 (NEGOTIABLE) Genuine Intel (R) CPU T2300@1.66 Ghz 2.00 GB Ram Built in Camera 802.11 wireless JR 45 Network connector :iBook G4 Laptop 14in Screen - Apple/Mac Computer - $200 Hardware: 14.1 inch display screen 60 GB hard Drive (I've never run out of space, and you will receive it with NO personal information/files, just like new :)) Mac OS X version 10.4 (see pic) CD Rom (plays DVDs too) USB ports Wireless Ethernet Cable Software includes: iWork 09 (the latest version) - Pages 09 - Keynote 09 - Numbers 09 iTunes iPhoto Microsoft Office -Word -Excel -Powerpoint iMovie HD iDVD GarageBand Mail Dashboard Spotlight iChat AV Safari QuickTime iSync iCal DVD Player (I NEED ANSWER FAST!!!!!) THANK YOU!

Go for HP Laptop or wait for Sony Vaio.? I need help regarding laptop purchase hope anyone help me.I am very confuse and i don't know much abt latest laptops brand or hardware.following are my requirement. Budget: i am baying in installment so money is not a big issue.but i dont wanna wast my money either .. Usage: I am software eng. so I gonna install applications like ,dreamwaver,Visual studio,sql or java etc.. I am not game loving person but also i browse alot and watch movies and listen muzic. but the most important thing i want is a reliable laptap which i can use for 5,6 years without any hardware changes. I have finally these 3 choices HP Pro-Book 4530s Notebook HP Pavilion DV6-6113TX Notebook (Rs.86,000) HP Pavilion DV6-6107TX Notebook (My choice) Rs.96,000 specifications for all of them are almost similar. so my problem is which one i buy..I like Sony Vaio brand (but installment comp not offering that).Please tell me Is any of them worth its prize or i should wait for Sony Vaio ??