The last time Tweakers.net a series of gaming laptops looked dates back to late 2007, early 2008. The CPUs were when Core 2 Duos from T-series, the graphics cards were Nvidia's GeForce 8600 - and 8700 models. At the time, suggested many diehard gamers that gaming laptops simply was not taking seriously the desktop PCs were too much for the latest games and could not be turned on playable frame rates on laptops. The benchmarks largely confirmed this, though it did not help that was recently released as part of the Crysis benchmark suite.
We are now two years later and has the powerful Intel Nehalem architecture for mobile CPUs brought in October 2009 brought the manufacturer three Core i7 quad cores with Hyper-Threading and Turbo off. In addition, AMD in January produced on 40nm ATI Mobility 5000 series with support for DirectX 11 and Eyefinity and Nvidia launched its mobile GeForce series given some updates.
Time to take a number of current gaming laptops under the microscope to see if it is possible to smoothly play now. We begin the series with the MSI GT640.
We are now two years later and has the powerful Intel Nehalem architecture for mobile CPUs brought in October 2009 brought the manufacturer three Core i7 quad cores with Hyper-Threading and Turbo off. In addition, AMD in January produced on 40nm ATI Mobility 5000 series with support for DirectX 11 and Eyefinity and Nvidia launched its mobile GeForce series given some updates.
Time to take a number of current gaming laptops under the microscope to see if it is possible to smoothly play now. We begin the series with the MSI GT640.
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