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Lord Nikon · 08-07-2011, 09:06

The NVidia overheat was the 88xx series GPU which has been retired. The Acer's still have southbridge problems.
Yes intel is always the best choice in a laptop, they run cooler and have better hardware level thermal management. If they get too hot they throttle back to cool down.
Ram - don't worry too much about it when you buy the laptop, it's cheaper to buy the extra via Crucial etc than to specify it in the purchase spec. The main things to look at are the CPU and Optical drive. Those are the most awkward to upgrade. (Cost, accessibility in terms of the CPU, availability in terms of the Optical drive)

Let's assume he's going to be gaming on the laptop, try to get one with NVIdia graphics (This I will admit is a personal preference, and the problematic 88xx has been retired.) and dedicated graphics memory (This is essential)

Dedicated vs Shared - If you have dedicated graphics ram that's ALL that ram is doing, if you have shared you end up with a bottleneck. Think of the system bus to memory as a motorway, the more traffic you throw down it the slower it all moves.

08-07-2011, 09:06	#15
Lord Nikon Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: NW UK Posts: 3,546	Re: New laptop - advice needed The NVidia overheat was the 88xx series GPU which has been retired. The Acer's still have southbridge problems. Yes intel is always the best choice in a laptop, they run cooler and have better hardware level thermal management. If they get too hot they throttle back to cool down. Ram - don't worry too much about it when you buy the laptop, it's cheaper to buy the extra via Crucial etc than to specify it in the purchase spec. The main things to look at are the CPU and Optical drive. Those are the most awkward to upgrade. (Cost, accessibility in terms of the CPU, availability in terms of the Optical drive) Let's assume he's going to be gaming on the laptop, try to get one with NVIdia graphics (This I will admit is a personal preference, and the problematic 88xx has been retired.) and dedicated graphics memory (This is essential) Dedicated vs Shared - If you have dedicated graphics ram that's ALL that ram is doing, if you have shared you end up with a bottleneck. Think of the system bus to memory as a motorway, the more traffic you throw down it the slower it all moves.