How do "integrated graphics" these days compare with, say a geforce 2mx?

So - I'm thinking of getting a laptop. Whilst it will be mainly used
for wireless net access, it would be nice if I could use it for a few
odler games and demos - (games being "mame" roms, which only really
need about 500mhz, and some of the older egames titles)

Will integrated graphics be suitable for the egames titles (for
reference - they work fine under a geforce 2mx)?

"" wrote:
So - I'm thinking of getting a laptop. Whilst it will be
mainly used
for wireless net access, it would be nice if I could use it
for a few
odler games and demos - (games being "mame" roms, which only
really
need about 500mhz, and some of the older egames titles)

Will integrated graphics be suitable for the egames titles
(for
reference - they work fine under a geforce 2mx)?

the should be fine if they go back long enough, most intergrated chips
in laptops supply 32mb’s on the gaming chip and alot fo the old games
only needed like 8mb’s on the graphics

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*Most* of them shipping nowadays are comparable with a Voodoo3 at least.

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So - I'm thinking of getting a laptop. Whilst it will be mainly used
for wireless net access, it would be nice if I could use it for a few
odler games and demos - (games being "mame" roms, which only really
need about 500mhz, and some of the older egames titles)

Will integrated graphics be suitable for the egames titles (for
reference - they work fine under a geforce 2mx)?

It all depends on what integrated graphics you are talking about. The
Nforce integrated actually was GF2mx using system memory. If you had dual
channel ram it was almost as good as a real GF2mx card. The Radeon
integrated was about that good too. The Intel "Extreme Graphics", on the
other hand, sucked ass rather badly.

DaveL


"Dan" wrote in message
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So - I'm thinking of getting a laptop. Whilst it will be mainly used
for wireless net access, it would be nice if I could use it for a few
odler games and demos - (games being "mame" roms, which only really
need about 500mhz, and some of the older egames titles)

Will integrated graphics be suitable for the egames titles (for
reference - they work fine under a geforce 2mx)?

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So - I'm thinking of getting a laptop. Whilst it will be mainly used
for wireless net access, it would be nice if I could use it for a few
odler games and demos - (games being "mame" roms, which only really
need about 500mhz, and some of the older egames titles)


Yes laptop graphics are fine for Mame rom.

BTW, some laptops come with pretty powerful video cards too - you can get a
low-end GeForce 5xxx class card on most mid-range laptops.

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Intel's integrated graphics isn't the dead slug it once was, thanks to
half-decent clockspeeds on the northbridge. About a year ago I was able to
play Quake3 on a few whitebox Pentium4 machines at school. They all had 2.4
GHz CPUs and 512 MB RAM. 800x600x16-bit ran very smoothly, meaning the
system was as capable as a Voodoo3.

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The Intel "Extreme Graphics", on the other hand, sucked ass rather badly.

DaveL