X3100

[eusKAi]

I´m buying a laptop with a Intel X3100 and i have some questions:

-I´m not trying modern games, but will it run older ones like Diablo2 , Baldur´s gate 2 or starcraft? It would be nice if i had something to do when i´m on a trip to places where i don´t know anyone, and i have a lot of them.

-For gaming what would be the better i could run well (not 20FPS please)? (how old games)

-What about Divx and HD video? How good will they run?

BTW, is there any reason to use Vista instead of XP in a Laptop? Most of the ones i´ve seen come with Viista, but i still don´t see any reason to use it yet. Incompatibilities, crappy drivers, programs not Vista-ready yet, etc...

Thanks for the help

 

[jonesthewine]

Originally posted by: eusKAi
... but i still don´t see any reason to use it (Vista) yet. Incompatibilities, crappy drivers, programs not Vista-ready yet, etc...

Thanks for the help

I don't know what year you're living in or what you've read...I have Vista on a laptop and two desktops and have experienced no incompatibilities or driver issues.

 

[Piuc2020]

Yeah to be honest, the only thing I don't like about Vista is the small overhead when playing games but it's also the only platform that supports DX10 and tri-sli and crossfireX and so on and so forth so in my opinion the only ones struggling between Vista and XP should be serious gamers (I refuse to use the word hardcore).

A common user and a light gamer should go with Vista, it's more complete, it's faster, it's more productive and is more secure. I don't understand why everyone whines about Vista, it was kinda of flaky back in 2006 with a Pentium 4 but on 2008 with SP1 and a Core 2 Duo, I couldn't be loving Vista any more.

 

[taltamir]

i honestly like vista better. XP64bit has horrible driver support. And the overhead increase in vista is compensated by the speedup of 64bit computing. The thing is, nobody sells you 64bit vista, they all sell you 32bit vista for some reason...

but if you want it to play really old games then XP might be a better idea, since those games might have issues with vista. And either one will give you more then enough performance on games as ancient as starcraft and diablo2.

DivX and HD video are all CPU. any C2D machine will handle it fine.

 

[eusKAi]

Originally posted by: taltamir

but if you want it to play really old games then XP might be a better idea, since those games might have issues with vista. And either one will give you more then enough performance on games as ancient as starcraft and diablo2.

DivX and HD video are all CPU. any C2D machine will handle it fine.

Thanks, that´s all i needed to know. I´ll just use it to work, see some movies and series, ebooks,music , internet surfing and some gaming. It´s very boring when you are working in a city where you don´t know anything, and you don´t have time to know them cause you will return home in 3-4 days.

But i have more than enough playing classics like red alert 2 or baldur´s gate 2. For serious gaming i´m getting a new PC when my favorite cheap shop get the Penryns, it´s about time, they´re everywhere but there.

Thanks for the help