Scared0o0Rabbit
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So right now I've got a HP ze5185 laptop (p4 2.4 ghz, 512 ram, radeon M6 graphics (supposedly 32MB dedicated ram)), I'm looking at potentially replacing a hard drive on a vaio pcg-k15 (p4 2.8 ghz, 512 ram, radeon 345M (supposedly 64MB shared)).
Which one do you think would be better as far as running newer games? I'm going to expand the ram in whichever one I end up sticking with, but I can't really find a lot of information comparing the 2. From what I do know, it seems like the hp has a much higher resolution screen than the vaio, and as far as repairs, all it really needs is some new fans inside. The vaio has a problem where it BSOD's intermittently, and re-installs of windows have about a 30% success rate as far as completing. On the vaio I ran memtest86 overnight and it didn't find any issues, so I assume it's either the motherboard or the hdd. In any case, anyone have any suggestions as to which one would work better for some simple older games.
Edit:Actually it looks like the M6 may only be 16MB dedicated even, though I'm not sure. It seems like if it was only 16MB dedicated it would have a hard time pushing the resolutions of sxga
Which one do you think would be better as far as running newer games? I'm going to expand the ram in whichever one I end up sticking with, but I can't really find a lot of information comparing the 2. From what I do know, it seems like the hp has a much higher resolution screen than the vaio, and as far as repairs, all it really needs is some new fans inside. The vaio has a problem where it BSOD's intermittently, and re-installs of windows have about a 30% success rate as far as completing. On the vaio I ran memtest86 overnight and it didn't find any issues, so I assume it's either the motherboard or the hdd. In any case, anyone have any suggestions as to which one would work better for some simple older games.
Edit:Actually it looks like the M6 may only be 16MB dedicated even, though I'm not sure. It seems like if it was only 16MB dedicated it would have a hard time pushing the resolutions of sxga