Joel_Zimmerman
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Hi there, thanks for reading.
Just over a year ago, my friend bought a custom desktop PC with specifications which were up to a very high standard at the time. His main specifications are as followed:
CPU: Intel Core Q8200
GFX: ATI Radeon 4870
RAM: 4GB DDR2
PSU: 750W Dual Rail
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium (64-bit)
I forget what the make of the motherboard was, but it was overall a pretty awesome machine. He was able to play games like Crysis, Half-Life 2, Far Cry 2 and Call of Duty 4 with their video settings all set to maximum. Crysis' fps suffered, but didn't go down below 30fps.
I have an Acer Aspire 5942G and my main specifications are as followed:
CPU: Intel Core i7 740QM
GFX: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650
RAM: 4GB DDR3
PSU: Unknown
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
I am only able to play Half-Life 2 and Call of Duty 2 at about 60fps at the maximum with not many processes happening i.e. just walking around the map. When I look at fire on Half-Life 2, my fps drops to between 12-20fps which is appauling. I'm not sure whether this is true, but apparently a notebook with the same specifications as a desktop PC aren't equivalent in performance at all, the desktop PC will always be better in most cases.
Also, I have been experiencing an irritating problem while playing games and even doing normal tasks such as inernet browsing. Whenever I do something which requires a kick of processing power such as a barrel exploding on Half-Life 2, it crashes with the sound looping over and over again, then the game continues. When I play online and this happens, my Ping suddenly soars to around 100+ and then drops back down to where it used to be, usually around 20.
Is there something I'm missing or doing wrong with my notebook? As soon as I bought it, I got rid of all of Acer's 'bloatware', configured the ATI Control Center. Almost all of my running processes are essential and I regularly use CCleaner and Defrag.
Cheers!
Just over a year ago, my friend bought a custom desktop PC with specifications which were up to a very high standard at the time. His main specifications are as followed:
CPU: Intel Core Q8200
GFX: ATI Radeon 4870
RAM: 4GB DDR2
PSU: 750W Dual Rail
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium (64-bit)
I forget what the make of the motherboard was, but it was overall a pretty awesome machine. He was able to play games like Crysis, Half-Life 2, Far Cry 2 and Call of Duty 4 with their video settings all set to maximum. Crysis' fps suffered, but didn't go down below 30fps.
I have an Acer Aspire 5942G and my main specifications are as followed:
CPU: Intel Core i7 740QM
GFX: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650
RAM: 4GB DDR3
PSU: Unknown
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
I am only able to play Half-Life 2 and Call of Duty 2 at about 60fps at the maximum with not many processes happening i.e. just walking around the map. When I look at fire on Half-Life 2, my fps drops to between 12-20fps which is appauling. I'm not sure whether this is true, but apparently a notebook with the same specifications as a desktop PC aren't equivalent in performance at all, the desktop PC will always be better in most cases.
Also, I have been experiencing an irritating problem while playing games and even doing normal tasks such as inernet browsing. Whenever I do something which requires a kick of processing power such as a barrel exploding on Half-Life 2, it crashes with the sound looping over and over again, then the game continues. When I play online and this happens, my Ping suddenly soars to around 100+ and then drops back down to where it used to be, usually around 20.
Is there something I'm missing or doing wrong with my notebook? As soon as I bought it, I got rid of all of Acer's 'bloatware', configured the ATI Control Center. Almost all of my running processes are essential and I regularly use CCleaner and Defrag.
Cheers!
