trident cards

[danielhamekasi]

Hey guys.

looking to purchase a Toshiba R100 laptop. The only thing stopping me right now is that I don't know for sure how the graphic card (Trident XP4 32MB DDR) will hold up in games... obviously, it's not as good as a Geforce FX go, but will I still be able to play some games on it?

benchmarks and so on would be great.

thanks.
Daniel

email me @: dhamekas@art.ca

 

[Schadenfroh]

trident has been around for a long time. suposidly the xp4 on the desktop side was about 80% the power of a geforce4. but i dont know if i believe that. pleased consider a radeon mobility of a geforce go

 

[merlocka]

Seems like it works fine unless you rename the .exe's

"optimized" driver

 

[Corporate Thug]

i wouldnt go with Trident if you wanna game...find one of those dells with the 4200 go

 

[danielhamekasi]

the whole point was to get that specific model laptop... go check it out... it's sweet.

the Toshiba R100. The CEO where I work has one (I work in IT) and I got to handle it a little... man!

I wonder if she'll mind if I install a few games on her laptop to check the graphics?!?!

take it easy,
Dan

 

[Peter]

The trident part has quite good performance - and EXTREMELY low power consumption. GeForce 4 Go parts are quite some power mongers. Battery life will be much better with the Trident part, while performance is in the same ballpark. Trident XP4 is a DirectX 8.1 part btw.

Whatever your choice, make sure your notebook supplier is good and steady at driver support. Neither NVidia nor ATi nor Trident supply generic drivers for their notebook graphics devices - you'll depend on the notebook maker.

 

[modedepe]

Originally posted by: danielhamekasi
the whole point was to get that specific model laptop... go check it out... it's sweet.

the Toshiba R100. The CEO where I work has one (I work in IT) and I got to handle it a little... man!

I wonder if she'll mind if I install a few games on her laptop to check the graphics?!?!

take it easy,
Dan

Yes, install some games 😀
I'm sure you'll be far from amazed by the performance of the trident. I'd personally stay away from it..

 

[Peter]

Now since that particular Toshiba laptop series is the first and ONLY application out there that uses the XP4 chip already, I seriously doubt you can put any proof to your claim.