No Atom for nVidia

[thilanliyan]

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20081223PD216.html

I don't really see the need anyway...how many people are going to try to game on their netbooks...it's a really small screen?

Moving to the SFF, Notebooks, Pre-Built/Barebones PCs subforum where the other netbook discussions are

- AmberClad (Video Mod)

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: thilan29
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20081223PD216.html

I don't really see the need anyway...how many people are going to try to game on their netbooks...it's a really small screen?

Laptop + gaming = joke

The games today just won't cut it. Far Cry 2, Crysis, Fallout 3...on a 15" screen with a 9600? No thanks.

 

[AndroidVageta]

I can see this being something good. I mean, yeah its a netbook and thus should be used for a net surfing appliance...but to people like me who would like to have a mini, ultra-portable multi-media PC that could as game is awesome news.
I currently have a MSI Wind, and I play games on it still...mainly just as a time waster, but thats just because the games that it can handle are older ones that Ive played and beat a million times before. I mean, the GMA950 can run pretty much any Unreal 2,Quake 3, and Source engine game from the past 5-6 years. Personally, I would love to have a GPU in my netbook that could handle the likes of F.E.A.R. or Oblivion. Granted you wouldn't be able to play at max settings or anything, but even a 9300/9400GT is still a mid-decent card. In either case, anything would be better than a Intel IGP.

And DON'T use the small screen as a negative...anyone here ever game on a Gameboy or PSP? Thought so.

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd

Originally posted by: thilan29
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20081223PD216.html

I don't really see the need anyway...how many people are going to try to game on their netbooks...it's a really small screen?

Laptop + gaming = joke

The games today just won't cut it. Far Cry 2, Crysis, Fallout 3...on a 15" screen with a 9600? No thanks.

My 2005 laptop runs all three of those titles better than most people's desktops do. I can't run at its native 1920x1200 obviously, but its 7800GTX Go will run all three of those titles . . .too bad they're not worth buying.

Laptop gaming lags desktop gaming because of cost only. A 15.4in laptop can boast a 9800GT(S)(X) and the whole gambit of dual core CPUs, with some models boasting quad core and SLI video.

People don't necessarily want to play the latest shooter on their netbook, but they do want to be able to play HD video and have some 3D capabilities.

I'm actually installing a few games on my eeePC right now. Older titles, mainly to see how the GMA945 handles them. NWN1, RTW, WC3, and I'm thinking of Civ3 or 4. I tried to install Diablo 2, but ran into difficulties with my install method so I'll have to find another way.

Edit - Intel should open the Atom up some by selling it without requiring the Intel chipset and IGP. The Atom may find its way into some of the lower end and smaller notebooks, but this is what their customers obviously want.

 

[nosfe]

Edit - Intel should open the Atom up some by selling it without requiring the Intel chipset and IGP. The Atom may find its way into some of the lower end and smaller notebooks, but this is what their customers obviously want.

but it's not what intel wants, the only reason why the atom was paired with that crappy chipset is because they had a ton of them in stock. Until they clear out their stock of crappy 945 chipsets we won't see anything decent paired up with the atom

 

[bamacre]

Intel needs to buy Nvidia.

 

[nismotigerwvu]

This isn't about gaming as much as it is about H.264 offloading.
The N270 (atom model going into the lion's share of atom based products) simply can't handle H.264 on it's own.
The GPU increases the possible uses for the device (baby HTPC, better external display (more than 1 resolution option!!!!), aero...ect) without pushing the power consumption any higher (current chipset is a DOG).
Win/win for us, egg on intel's face if it happens.
Pretty easy to tell why they wouldn't want it to work out that way.....

 

[AndroidVageta]

I've seen netbooks like the Asus N10Jc-A1 that have the 945 chipset with the included Intel GMA950 IGP that ALSO has an intergrated Nvidia 9300M GPU!

http://techreport.com/articles.x/15940

The reviewer says that it can run Far Cry, Doom 3, and UT2004 really well, only thing holding the system back is the Atom CPU which doesn't provide enough horsepower to play the CPU intensive games.

 

[IlllI]

Originally posted by: AndroidVageta
I've seen netbooks like the Asus N10Jc-A1 that have the 945 chipset with the included Intel GMA950 IGP that ALSO has an intergrated Nvidia 9300M GPU!

http://techreport.com/articles.x/15940

The reviewer says that it can run Far Cry, Doom 3, and UT2004 really well, only thing holding the system back is the Atom CPU which doesn't provide enough horsepower to play the CPU intensive games.

article says suggested price of $649. for that price you might as well buy a real laptop

 

[Brainonska511]

I think a lot of people are missing the point of what netbooks are supposed to do - just supposed to be small little machines you can browse the web with, type up short notes. and maybe listen to a little music with. They are not supposed to be a laptop/desktop replacement.

 

[IlllI]

hmm turns out that the original post was nothing but a rumor http://www.internetnews.com/bu...0Out%20From%20Atom.htm

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511
I think a lot of people are missing the point of what netbooks are supposed to do - just supposed to be small little machines you can browse the web with, type up short notes. and maybe listen to a little music with. They are not supposed to be a laptop/desktop replacement.

And with their relatively large screens and relatively small total size/weight, people want to be able to play some HD video or other computationally intensive tasks.

Its a fact of the industry, that customers will demand increased performance though.

I sincerely want to see more variation in the netbook market. Every netbook boasts a 1.6Ghz Atom, 1GB of RAM, and a GMA 950. The only variations are in the keyboard, a shiny vs matte finish on the case, the exact size of the display(8.9/9in vs 10/10.2in).

It'd be great to see some netbooks using the Via Nano chip, which seems to outperform the Atom while using only slightly more power, and comes with a more powerful IGP to boot, plus the option to use Nvidia's IGP.