Gaming while on the road

[Gamer91]

Would this be a good system to game while on the road or would something else be better? I know I won't beable to go online but thats no problem. I know I could but internet access may be pretty expensive if I want high speed internet wireless like that.

Gaming while on the road


P.S. no I am not talking as while I am driving I am talking about like on airplane, train, etc.

 

[essasin]

its expenisve but if money is not a problem i would say yes. Its a monster gaming machine except you would need 2 gbs of ram

 

[Gamer91]

Originally posted by: essasin
its expenisve but if money is not a problem i would say yes. Its a monster gaming machine except you would need 2 gbs of ram

Why would 2 gb of ram be better than 1 gb of ram ? Also if I am going to need to go to 2 gb of ram is there any systems that support 4 gigs of ram? I might as well go to 4 gigs.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Gamer91

Originally posted by: essasin
its expenisve but if money is not a problem i would say yes. Its a monster gaming machine except you would need 2 gbs of ram

Why would 2 gb of ram be better than 1 gb of ram ? Also if I am going to need to go to 2 gb of ram is there any systems that support 4 gigs of ram? I might as well go to 4 gigs.

1GB is fine for the vast majority of games as long as you don't run tons of extraneous crap. A few games (like Battlefield 2) can come close to 1GB of memory usage themselves. And if you like to run things in the background (more useful on a desktop system with multiple cores and multiple monitors), extra RAM helps a lot.

4GB is WAY overkill for right now. And I haven't seen many laptops that can take 4GB of RAM anyway.

 

[Gamer91]

Originally posted by: Matthias99

Originally posted by: Gamer91

Originally posted by: essasin
its expenisve but if money is not a problem i would say yes. Its a monster gaming machine except you would need 2 gbs of ram

Why would 2 gb of ram be better than 1 gb of ram ? Also if I am going to need to go to 2 gb of ram is there any systems that support 4 gigs of ram? I might as well go to 4 gigs.

1GB is fine for the vast majority of games as long as you don't run tons of extraneous crap. A few games (like Battlefield 2) can come close to 1GB of memory usage themselves. And if you like to run things in the background (more useful on a desktop system with multiple cores and multiple monitors), extra RAM helps a lot.

4GB is WAY overkill for right now. And I haven't seen many laptops that can take 4GB of RAM anyway.

True but won't it be ready for the future games then?

We all know games will soon need at least 2 gigs of ram for them to run ok.

4 gigs of ram will give you room to grow or if you like to run some programs in the background like virus scanner, firewall, and other useful programs then 4 gigs would help a whole lot. Would give room just in case these alone took a lot.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Gamer91
True but won't it be ready for the future games then?

We all know games will soon need at least 2 gigs of ram for them to run ok.

32-bit programs in Windows can't use more than 2GB of RAM (well, sometimes you can use 3GB if the OS is set up right, but you couldn't count on that writing a game). So until people have converted pretty much entirely to a 64-bit OS running on 64-bit hardware, 2GB will probably cut it.

4 gigs of ram will give you room to grow or if you like to run some programs in the background like virus scanner, firewall, and other useful programs then 4 gigs would help a whole lot. Would give room just in case these alone took a lot.

2GB of RAM already gives you plenty of room for running AV/firewall/whatever while playing a game. 4GB will just leave you with 2-3GB of free RAM most of the time. But hey, it's your money.

I am assuming here that on a laptop you are unlikely to be doing any kind of 'real' work in the background (media encoding, etc.) while running a game. As opposed to a multi-core desktop where having >2GB of RAM might actually make sense if you plan on multitasking RAM-heavy applications.

 

[Gamer91]

Originally posted by: Matthias99

Originally posted by: Gamer91
True but won't it be ready for the future games then?

We all know games will soon need at least 2 gigs of ram for them to run ok.

32-bit programs in Windows can't use more than 2GB of RAM (well, sometimes you can use 3GB if the OS is set up right, but you couldn't count on that writing a game). So until people have converted pretty much entirely to a 64-bit OS running on 64-bit hardware, 2GB will probably cut it.

4 gigs of ram will give you room to grow or if you like to run some programs in the background like virus scanner, firewall, and other useful programs then 4 gigs would help a whole lot. Would give room just in case these alone took a lot.

2GB of RAM already gives you plenty of room for running AV/firewall/whatever while playing a game. 4GB will just leave you with 2-3GB of free RAM most of the time. But hey, it's your money.

I am assuming here that on a laptop you are unlikely to be doing any kind of 'real' work in the background (media encoding, etc.) while running a game. As opposed to a multi-core desktop where having >2GB of RAM might actually make sense if you plan on multitasking RAM-heavy applications.

Are you saying with 4 gigs of ram you could encode a video file and play BF2 at the same time with no lag in the game and hardly any slowdown of loading?

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Gamer91
Are you saying with 4 gigs of ram you could encode a video file and play BF2 at the same time with no lag in the game

With multiple CPUs, sure. Or if you're running at horribly GPU-limited settings such that your CPU is sitting idle half the time anyway.

and hardly any slowdown of loading?

Assuming your encoding process is at a lower priority, it wouldn't slow it down too much.

 

[Gamer91]

Originally posted by: Matthias99

Originally posted by: Gamer91
Are you saying with 4 gigs of ram you could encode a video file and play BF2 at the same time with no lag in the game

With multiple CPUs, sure. Or if you're running at horribly GPU-limited settings such that your CPU is sitting idle half the time anyway.

and hardly any slowdown of loading?

Assuming your encoding process is at a lower priority, it wouldn't slow it down too much.

Cool but I bet it would be better to have two systems for this. One for just encoding video and one for gaming hehe.