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Monday, September 13, 2010

Five Considerations About Gaming Laptops

By Paul Davis

As the technology continues to provide increasing benchmarks and new technology gaming laptops are becoming more powerful. Although a gaming desktop might still have somewhat of an advantage a gaming laptop, they now offer a feasible alternative to the desktop gaming computer.

There are five features that you should consider when buying laptop. These five features include the display, the hard drive, the RAM, the processor, and the graphics card.

Graphics Card

One primary part of a gaming laptop is the Graphics Card or Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). You need dedicated RAM with the best Graphics Card in order to handle all the latest video games. Most of the best gaming laptops now have at leads two Graphics Cards working together with an SLI to give the laptop the best handling power. You also need a minimum of 250MB of video memory to help your games run smooth.

Processor

Most of the best gaming laptops are currently available with a minimum of Dual core CPUs and some now have quad processors. The CPU determines how fast the gaming laptop will process data so it is element that is vital to the gaming laptop. You need the fastest processor speed that you can afford.

RAM

One of the most important features of the gaming laptop is the RAM because it also determines how fast the gaming laptop will run. You need a minimum of 1GB of RAM to play most games. However, many gaming laptops are currently available with at least 2 GBs of RAM. Of the various types of RAM that are available, DDRAM3 is the fastest.

Hard Drive

The 7200rpm hard drives are the fastest and most desirable. Many gamers also choose the Serial ATA Hard Drives which provides them which a much higher performance, particularly for high bandwidth applications like multiplayer gaming. Also, gaming laptops currently have two or more hard drives which can provide as much as a Terabyte of storage.

The future gaming laptops will all have Solid State Drives but at the moment they are very expensive. SSDs are considered more reliable that ordinary hard drives because they have no moving parts.

Visuals and Display

Gaming laptops are all about the entertainment features and visuals. Therefore, you need the best sound and display quality. The best of the gaming laptops now come with Blu ray DVD drives and full 1080p displays.

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