best upgrade choice

[songokussm]

I am currently on a break for about a month (company is remodeling). And find myself playing world of warcraft a lot. My problem though is that my i9300 only gets 25-40 fps. Usually 25. I have tried many different driver sets from laptopvideo2go, but the performance is always the same. Even in lower resolutions, min or max detail. Nothing really seems to change my fps. is this a video card issue or something else?

I currently have the 730 P-M 1.6ghz, 1g 533 ddr2, and the 6800 go non-ultra.

In order to resolve that issue i am planning on doing the mod here -
http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=113866

Is that a correct assumption? Upgrading the video card?

Also keep in mind this system just has windows on it. Windows and drivers and World of warcraft. Nothing else.

 

[mickles]

I am surprised your FPS are so low to begin with...

 

[IlllI]

i'm surprised too. i'm using an ati 9800 and its very playable

 

[songokussm]

what should i be looking at to solve this issue?

 

[IlllI]

what res do you run it at? i run it at 1280x1024 and dont notice any slowdowns at all

 

[songokussm]

i run at 1400x900, if i run any lower first off i cant read anything and secondly it doesnt help my fps what so ever.

here are some pics of benchmarks-

3dmark03
http://img245.imageshack.us/my.php?image=3dmark034nv.jpg

3dmark05
http://img245.imageshack.us/my.php?image=3dmark054mm.jpg

 

[songokussm]

for those that dont want to look

3dmark03
9300

3dmark05
4027

 

[HermDogg]

Have you tried the automatic O/C? Go to advanced display settings, select the "GeForce go 6800", and then "Clock Frequencies." Choose manual o/c, and "detect optimal frequencies." That should help a bit.

 

[songokussm]

those benchmarks are with the overclock.

 

[songokussm]

after talking with a "dm" i found that their was a bug in the game introduced back with an earilier patch. When you have the game in windowed mode it cuts your fps in half.

If i upgraded to the new 7800 for my laptop would this improve my fps signifcally?

 

[songokussm]

any ideas or benchmarks for the 7800?

 

[alimoalem]

you're thinking of getting a 7800 for a laptop?? wouldn't that cost u like $500? just buy a pc for your gaming

 

[IlllI]

Originally posted by: songokussm
after talking with a "dm" i found that their was a bug in the game introduced back with an earilier patch. When you have the game in windowed mode it cuts your fps in half.

If i upgraded to the new 7800 for my laptop would this improve my fps signifcally?

dont play in windowed mode then. i use alt+tab if i want to switch back and forth to the desktop

 

[songokussm]

i already have a PC, but i prefer my laptop for two reasons. One i can take it anywheres and get constain proforance (lan parties, vactions, etc). Two its so small.

my the most important specs of my desktop -

AMD Athlon 64 3000+@ 2.34
Geil DDR500 Dual Channel 1GB @260
ATI Radeon x700 PRO PCI-E

My plan was when the x600 came out to upgrade to that, but it turns out that 2x x600xt are about the same proformance as 1x x700 PRO. So that doesnt work.