Pushing the limit of gaming on a netbook

[dud]

My wife has been busy working on a design project using AC on my main machine so I decided to "push the limit" of my netbook to see how far I could take it. Ny netbook is a 10" Asus with 1.6 GHZ Atom, 1 GB RAM and a 160 GB HD.

Back in the day I used to be quite a good CoD player so I pulled out my external DVD drive and installed CoD and updated it to the latest and greatest version. Testing indicated that it played well in single player. I then decided to push a little further and play multiplayer ... wirelessly, with its inherent lag.

After an hour of testing I can honestly report that CoD plays on-line (with a lag) and that I am still competitive (50-50 kill/be killed ratio) with this hardware ... but I wouldn't recommend it. It works but is frustrating slow at critical times ... giving your opponents an unfair advantage.

Anyone else push their netbooks farther?

 

[Tristicus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_ZuriEHYtc

 

[SonicIce]

im sure u could play any game from 2000 or earlier just fine

 

[Elcs]

Posting from my Dual Core Atom w/HT and ION platform (mini-ITX system built for basic browsing and stuff), I have seen movies on YouTube of people playing Fallout 3 @ 720p medium settings on this processor. Suggest throwing the word ASUS AT3N7A-I and Gaming into Youtube to behold some of the overclocking and gaming the Atoms can actually handle.

The Atom is as weak as a kitten when compared to most desktop processors but it is still significant enough to play some games. I quite frankly love my system for being a dedicated surfing/office/email/IM and 1080p video/YouTube HD machine plugged into my 47" LCD Full HDTV. Though being a gamer, it always thrills me to turn on my X2 6000+/HD4870 and play in 1080p'ed goodness.

 

[inspiron]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_ZuriEHYtc

nice.

 

[zebano]

All I use mine for is wikipedia, email and chess. I tried getting Kings Bounty to run (Asus refurb w/ same specs as yours) but couldn't get around the fact that they wanted a DVD (and Daemon tools didn't work).

 

[WildW]

For those not lucky enough to have ION there's a program called GMABooster that will overclock the Intel GPUs in some netbooks - these chipsets are typically clocked at 166MHz in a netbook, but the same chip runs at 400MHz on desktop motherboards. My MSI Wind will happily run the GPU at 400, and it does make a nice difference. UT2004 is playable.

 

[2dt Drifter]

I push my laptop to play CS:S.. have to force DX8 and every option set to brutally low and off. Extreme Gamer Laptop is in sig below.. I have XPSP3 on it.